Top Female and Juniors
The winners of our Top Female , Top Junior Male and Top Junior Female mileage all went to participants in this year ’ s 100 Mile Canoe Test . This four-day event is open to all affiliates of the National Association of Boys and Girls Clubs . The event was made even tougher than usual this year by high winds .
Top Junior Male winner William Beard
Top Organisations A special mention has to also go to Want To Canoe ? in Herefordshire .
As an organisation they really threw themselves into the week and their efforts saw participants , from their Racquety Farm base , paddle a huge 5,550 miles during National Go Canoeing Week .
Told us that the 40mph gusts slowed them down , but did not make them stop and was proud that their adventure made it into the local paper .
Top Female mileage winner , Katie Churchill ,
Praised the amazing water safety team as well as the organisers , Paddle Plus . Top Junior Female , Imogen Watson , completed the first three days of the test ; covering an impressive 70 miles . Her team found the weather a test too far on day four and , along with many other participants , were forced to withdraw . Imogen still found the experience exciting and said that her team could not have done it without their captain , Dave Priestley .
All three of these winners received Go Canoeing medals and trophies as well as a £ 25 voucher from Pyranha .
National Go Canoeing Week 2017 runs from May 27th to June 4th
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