All England Championships

Another excellent effort on behalf of the Aldershot club in that 19 Aldershot racers competed in this year's All England Championship. The weekend consists of the All England race itself on the Saturday and the Inter Club Dual Slalom race on the Sunday. For the Saturday race just qualifying is an achievement so it is only right that we recognise everyone who took part. In the minis race Aldershot were represented by Harry Deighton and Toby Deighton while in the main race we were represented by Hannah Bozier, George Bradford-Smith, Jack Bradford-Smith, Peter Calvert, Euan Chapman, Jenny Davies, Peter Davies, Oliver Deighton, Chris Evans, Chelsea Hardaway, Bella Hathway, Ellen Hathway, Chris Reader, Will Reader, Ella Slater, George Weller and Will Wheeler.

Congratulations to the medal winners in the race namely Will Wheeler who was second in the Children 1 males race, Ellen Hathway who was second in the Junior 1 females race and Harry Deighton who finished third in the minis race.

14 racers stayed on to race in the team events on the Sunday. In the Inter-Club competition the Aldershot team (Peter Davies, Ellen Hathway, George Weller and Peter Calvert) had one of the tougher groups and skiied superbly to win 3 of their 4 races and thereby qualify for the quarter finals. Unfortunately, as last year they were then drawn against the eventual winners (in this case Pendle A) so their run came to an end. The two Aldershot teams competing in the open competition also managed to qualify for the quarter finals and unfortunately were both drawn against eventual winners and medallists. Congratulations to all those in the Open A team (Hannah Bozier, Ella Slater, Chelsea Hardaway and Will Wheeler), to those in the Open B team (Chris Evans, Jenny Davies, Bella Hathway and Will Reader) and also to Euan Chapman and Chris Reader for upholding Aldershot honour in their respective teams.

In all a really enjoyable couple of days racing so thanks to the racers for their efforts over the two days and to their parents for slogging up the motorway to Sunderland and back.