News from FRA AGM 2020

Following the recent AGM it has been decided that it will not be possible to hold a 2020/2021 Winter Series. All the clubs involved in hosting the races each feel that the difficulties of staging a race under the current conditions are just too challenging. The committee will be meeting again in February to consider whether a Sprint Series will be possible over the summer months.

The FRA committee is also acutely aware that having called off the final race of last series due to Storm Ciara, and no racing occurring since due to the pandemic, there has been no opportunity to get your trophies to you from last season. It has been decided that we will not give out the perpetual trophies this year, but instead we will have all the trophies engraved at the FRA's expense (where engraving applies). We are sorry for any disappointment this causes. If you would like to have a photo of the trophy sent to you, we can arrange this.

We will however be distributing the commemorative glasses to all those who came first, second or third in their class. We are making arrangements to pass these to the participating clubs so that they can pass them on to their members. Independent paddlers are being contacted separately to work out how we can best get them to you.

The class winners for the 2019-2020 series were:
Sen K2 - Matthew Johnson & Leah Falltrick (CLM)
Ladies K2 - Amanda Clarke & Tracy Avery (CLM)
u16 K2 - Jamie McAdam & Jamie Gaulton (BSF)
Sen M K1 - Lewis Duffield (CLM)
Vet M K1 - Mike Martin (LBZ)
Vet F K1 - Caroline Banson (NOR)
u18 M K1 - David Gurney (CLM)
u16 M K1 - Sebastian Tideswell (LBZ)
u16 F K1 - Hannah Gallagher (WEY)
u14 M K1  - Ali Kaber (WOK)
u14 F K1 - Sienna Payne (CLM)
u12 M K1  - Cassian Payne (CLM)
u12 F K1 - May Perrin (CLM)
TC2 - Andy Porter & Blaise Green (CLM)
Adv C1 - Ross Pearton (HEM)
F GP - Mo Moule (CLM)

The complete list of award winners can be found on the WS results page.