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Freshwater Master's - L to R: Nick Carroll, Kevin Flood and Grahame Tate
Freshwater Masters representative team
Competition News
Newport wins 3 categories in the inaugural Narrathon held on 10 April
10km ski, 1km swim, 2.5km board, 2km run http://www.narrathon.com.au/
Congratulations to our winners:
Under 19s
Peter Euers
Super Veterans (50+ years)
Kevin Flood
Female Team
Newport MaJiKK (Margaret Pearson - ski , Jan Proudfoot - board, Kathy Euers - swim, Katie Edwards - run)
Course Description
The ski leg starts from Berry Reserve on Narrabeen lake and is a 10km paddle which finishes at the reserve by the Ocean Street bridge. Competitors run across the sand dunes to commence the ocean swim leg. The swim is 1 km and takes competitors to a point 500m north of Narrabeen Beach SLSC where they change to boards and paddle south for 2.5km to Collaroy. At Collaroy competitors start the final 2km run home to the finish line in front of Narrabeen Beach SLSC clubhouse.
All competitors enjoyed the event - it was well run and a great way to end the competition season. Keep it in mind for next year and we'll try and enter more categories and/or teams!
Extract from the Narrathon website...
Congratulations to the winner and home favourite, Michael Moran, who went round in a time of 1:40:08. Sam Hart came in second at 1:42:34 by romping past David Chidgey on the sand and beating him by 9 seconds - an outstanding effort from a non-surf lifesaver. Special mention also goes to Peter Euers as the only Under 19 competitor who finished in a time of 1:47:16 and Melinda Pelly the only female individual competitor who stormed home in a time of 1:45:29 consequently bruising a number of male egos. In the teams, it was the last minute male team entry 2101 who proved too good and posted a very impressive time of 1:36:47. Mixed team Mona Vale Surf Club 1, which included local MP Rob Stokes, were the second fastest at 1:44:13 while the top female team was Newport MaJiKK in a time of 1:52:51.
The Australian Championships 2010:
Team Manager summary by Martin Lynch
The Masters
Congratulations the Australian Masters medallists:
GOLD
Ted Smithies - beach sprint
Jan Proudfoot - surf race
Jan Proudfoot- board race
Sukie Southern - beach sprint
Margaret Pearson - 2km beach run
Jason Chapman - beach flags
SILVER
Kevin Flood - iron man
Martin Lynch - beach flags
Martin Lynch - beach sprint
Jason Chapman - beach sprint
200yrs Beach Relay - Marty, Jason, Ted and Brett Budd
BRONZE
Kevin Flood, Alan Channells - double ski race
Ted Smithies - beach flags
200yrs boat crew:
Rob Emerson (sweep), Otty Nouak, Paul Quin, Jack Holland, Craig Holland
Newport finished in 7th overall in the masters carnivals and 2nd in NSW behind Queenscliff.
The Australian Open surf life saving titles...
took place at Kurrawa on the gold coast from the 17th-21st of March.
In the Water, Newport achieved an outstanding result with the u/15 men’s surf teams, scoring their first Australian medal with a spectacular silver medal performance. The team consisted of Max Brooks, Peter Euers, Fletcher Davies and Cooper Halligan. Congratulations to these guys and I am sure we will be seeing more great results from these fine young athletes in the years to come.
On the Beach Newport were represented by 6 beach competitors. Newport had two competitors qualifying for the finals of the beach sprint, Jake Lynch in the u/19’s and Ben Ambrose in the u/17’s with Jake finishing 4th, just off the medals by a few one hundredths of a second and Ben coming in 8th in his first year of u/17’s. The u/19 men beach relay team of Luke Tyler, Rob Barkley, Ben Ambrose and Jake Lynch qualified for the final with a reasonable chance of a top 3 finish but unfortunately dropped the baton in the final. The open men’s relay team also made it to the semi finals, just missing out on qualifying for the final, and young Josh Tyler also made the semi finals of the u/15 men’s beach sprint. Well done to all competitors on their efforts at the Aussies and though out the season.
Also, a big thank you to our Carnival officials at the Aussies: Garry Cook, Mark Stanton and Bev Barnes and our Water Safety representative , "Legend " Bernie Howard.
Saxon Bird
In the Open Carnival many of the events were cancelled after the tragic loss of Saxon Bird at the Australian Championships at Kurrawa on the Friday. The thoughts of everyone in the Surf Life Saving family are with the family, friends, fellow athletes and club members of Saxon. Saxon was a talented, successful and popular member of the Queenscliff club as well as representative and high performance teams. Throughout his involvement with surf life saving and will be dearly missed.
2010 NSW Surf Life Saving Championships (Swansea/Belmont)
2010 NSW Age Surf Life Saving Championships – Overall Results
Under 10 girls relay: Kristie Edwards, Eve Parker, Isabella Alvarez, Mia Marr & Ashlie (Kristie's little sister) celebrating gold at the 2010 NSW Surf Life Saving Age Championships
Kristie Edwards - 1st u/10 Flags, 1st u/10 Sprint, 1st u/10 relay
Charlie Brooks - 2nd u/12's Ironman
Jasmine Brooks - 3rd u/9's swim
U/10 girls relay team
Kristie Edwards, Eve Parker, Isabella Alvarez, Mia Marr
Allphones Masters NSW Surf Life Saving Championships
Sydney Northern Beaches clubs dominated the pointscore at the Allphones Masters NSW Surf Life Saving Championships held on 25 February at Blacksmiths Beach in the Hunter. Queenscliff SLSC convincingly topped the pointscore table on 204 points, Manly second 154, 3rd to Swansea Belmont 145 and Newport 4th on 144 points.
Fifteen hundred Masters ranging in age from 30 up to the oldest competitor, 76 year old Arthur Salaris from the host club, Swansea Belmont Surf Life Saving Club, took to the beach and water areas for the Masters, the precursor to the Open competition which began on 26 February.
Results from 2010 Allphones Masters Surf Life Saving Championships 25 February 2010
Click here to see results from the 2010 Allphones NSW Surf Life Saving Open Championships
Sydney Northern Beaches Branch Results, January/February at Queenscliff/Nth Steyne Beaches
Branch MASTERS (to be completed on 27 March 2010)
Freshwater Carnival Results, 26 January 2010
Open mens relay- 2nd
Steve Hatch - 3rd open mens sprint
Jake Lynch - 2nd 19's sprint and flags
Rob Barkley - 19's sprint final
Ben Ambrose - 4th 17's sprint and flags
Tatum Ansiewicz - 17's flags final
Josh Tyler - 1st 15's sprint
Interstate Championships - 24 & 25 January 2010
The interstate championships were held over Sunday and Monday and included the best athletes in the country - Shannon Eckstein, Ky Hurst, Naomi Flood, Krystal Smith.
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Newport's Jake Lynch and Max Brooks represented Sydney Northern Beaches in the NSW Interbranch Championships held at Cape Hawke (near Forster) last weekend. Both produced outstanding results. Max Brooks narrowly missed the NSW team and was drafted into the Northern Territory squad.
Jake was 1st in the u19 Sprint, 1st in the u19 flags as well as part of the Senior Beach Relay which finished 1st. Max was 2nd in the u15 Ironman, 2nd in the Board Rescue and 1st in Board teams. Congratulations to both of them.
Northern Territory won the handicap trophy and NSW were the overall winners.
Manly Carnival Results, 23 January 2010
Open mens relay - final
Jake Lynch - 2nd 19's sprint, 3rd open flags
Rob Barkley - 19's flags final
Ben Ambrose - 3rd 17's sprint
Jason Chapman - open flags final
Josh Tyler- 4th 15's sprint
Fastest Man on Sand
Round 3 was held at Kirra beach on the 19th of December with just two Newport sprinters, Jake Lynch and Ben Ambrose (both current Australian medallists) heading up to Queensland to compete against some of the best competitors in Australia.
After hours of waiting they were finally able to get the open competition underway with Ben starting out in the U/17 men beach sprint qualifying for the final and finishing 6th in the final. Jake finished 3rd in the U/19 beach flags finishing behind his two main rivals. Jake also finished a very close 2nd in the U/19’s beach sprint. Ben and Jake both backed up for the open beach sprint going through 3 rounds with Jake coming in at 3rd and Ben in 4th in the final. An outstanding result from both our competitors.
Our next Open carnival will be Queenscliff on 9th Jan., where we will have our full Beach Team competing along with our Water, R&R and Surfboat competitors.
Our Masters Team competes on 10th Jan. in the East Coast Masters at Collaroy.
Any carnival enquires contact Beach Event coach and Club Competition contact Martin Lynch 0418268425 / mlynch@pip.com.au
Interbranch Championships
Newport's Jake Lynch and Max Brooks represented Sydney Northern Beaches in the NSW Interbranch Championships held at Cape Hawke (near Forster) last weekend.
Long Reef Boat Carnival
The 3rd round of the Sydney Northern Beaches Surf boat premiership was held on November 7th at Long Reef in relatively small choppy surf as a result of the strengthening northeaster.
NEWPORT Competitors at The East Coast Surf Life Saving Festival
From the Central Coast
The east coast surf life saving festival is a 3 round
competition new to surf life saving offering up a total of $75, 000 worth of
prizes to be won in the final. The first round was held at Dixon
park, and the 2nd round and the final
on the 21st and 22nd November at Shelly beach.
Newport had all 8 beach competitors qualifying for the finals on the 22nd.
The open men’s beach sprint had Jake Lynch and Steve Hatch in the final with
Jake taking 3rd place. An all age relay was another category on
the beach area consisting of an open, u/19, u/17 and a u/15 runner, Steve
Hatch, Jake Lynch, Ben Ambrose and Josh Tyler were apart of that team that
won the relay as well as taking the $1250 prize money.
In the u/19’s competition Jake Lynch took out the double in the beach flags
and beach sprint and Robert Barkley finishing 2nd in the 19’s
beach sprint. The u/17’s featured Mitch Rosic, Ben Ambrose and Luke Vescio
in the final of the beach sprint with Ben finishing 2nd.
Josh Tyler was the only u/15’s beach competitor. Showing good form, Josh
came in 3rd in the final of the beach sprint. The
u/15’s were also well represented in the water
with a good number of competitors qualifying for the finals.
In the WATER Max Brooks finished in 3rd in the u/15’s swim and later joined Fletcher Davies and Josh Tyler to win the Cameron relay.
Results:
Beach
Jake Lynch:
1st 19’s sprint and flags
3rd open sprint
Rob Barkley
2nd 19’s sprint
Ben Ambrose
2nd 17s sprint
Mitch Rosic
4th 17’s sprint
Josh Tyler
3rd 15’s sprint
All Age Relay
Newport 1st (Hatch, Lynch, Ambrose, Tyler)
Water
Max Brooks
3rd 15’s swim
Cameron Relay
Newport 1st (Tyler, Brooks, Davies)
Kracka Carnival - 14 November 2009
Max, Cooper, Peter, Cody, Fletcher, Jake
Newport Surfboat Carnival
The Newport Junior Rowers Development Programme was on display on 31 October at the annual Newport surfboat carnival. Newport had four junior boat crews in the last heat of the u19s event and made up almost a third of the entire competitive field in the junior division. As well as a junior (u23) women’s crew racing, with another junior (u23) women’s crew waiting to get into competition as soon as bronze medallions are awarded. In just its second year, the JRDP has increased competitors and members in the boat arena and has become a drawcard for new members as the word has spread of the fun and camaraderie within the group. This influx has swollen the ranks of competitors to the extent that a new tent was needed just to sit everyone under shade at each carnival. Thanks to Sheldon Office Fitouts that was made possible as I am sure everyone who visited the carnival would have noticed.
See the slide show and a report from Michael King on the Boats page.
Grandparents Day
Another initiative of the JRDP that proved a huge success for the club and the rowers was the inaugural Grandparents Day. The JDRP took the opportunity of a home carnival, a viewing vists from inside the clubhouse with protection from the sun and sand to invite the juniors grandparents to watch them row. This was an opportunity of which most junior rowers grandparents took advantage. The club house was crowded with grandparents enjoying morning tea and watching their grandchildren compete, with some of the mothers of rowers explaining to them to procedures of the day, something which is rarely available to them. A lot of positive feedback was received from the grandparents and they are all looking forward to coming again next year. The photograph below shows just some of the juniors and grandparents on the veranda.
Sydney World Masters Games
Beach
Gold |
5 |
Silver |
5 |
Bronze |
5 |
Boats
Gold |
1 |
Water
Gold |
2 |
Silver |
4 |
Bronze |
3 |
A few of our many gold medallists (180+ years Womens Surf Boats)
L to R: Jane Steinert, Michael King, Elizabeth McLoughlin,
Kerry McEwan and Leanne Budd.
Photo: courtesy Sue Spring
Results from Saturday, 10 October 2009
Results from Sunday, 11 October 2009
NSW Endurance Championships,
Cronulla, 19 September 2009
Newport picked up 7 medals
50+ Years Male Ski - 8 km
(1) Clifford, Greg (Bronte) (2) Chapman, Robert (Elouera) (3) hancock, garry (Cronulla) (4) Flood, Kevin (Newport) (5) LEWIS, Max (North Cronulla) (6) LANG, Gordon (Palm Beach NSW)
40-49 Years Female Ski - 8 km
(1) RAE, Fiona (Palm Beach NSW) (2) Pearson, Margaret (3) Perretta, Kerry (Shellharbour) (4) Cowan, Grace (North Cronulla)
40‐49 Years Female Beach Run - 5 km
(1) Pearson, Margaret (Newport)
50+ Years Male Board - 5 km
(1) Chris, McGuckin (Avalon Beach) (2) Flood, Kevin (Newport) (3) Williams, Allen (Towradgi) (4) SPENCER, NEALE (North Avoca Beach) (5) HUDSON, STEVE (North Avoca Beach) (6) Nicholas, Wood (Avalon Beach)
30‐39 Years Female Surf Race - 1.5 km
(1) ROBINSON, JACQUI (South Maroubra) (2) Zikarsky, Kylie (Elouera) (3) Euers, Kathy (Newport)
40‐49 Years Female Surf Race - 1.5 km
(1) HARRISON, COLLEEN (North Avoca Beach) (2) Proudfoot, Jan (Newport)
50+ Years Ironman (500m swim, 1.5 km board, 2 km ski)
(1) Chapman, Robert (Elouera) (2) Flood, Kevin (Newport) (3) CRABB, GORDON (North Avoca Beach)
(4) HUDSON, STEVE (North Avoca Beach)
40‐49 Years Ironwoman (500m swim, 1.5 km board, 2 km ski)
(1) RAE, Fiona (Palm Beach NSW) (2) Perretta, Kerry (Shellharbour) (3) Proudfoot, Jan (Newport)
Newport SLSC- The Masters
The first officially accredited Australian Masters Championships was held in 1991 at Cottesloe (Perth). Newport Surf life saving Club was represented in that carnival by Martin Lynch (beach events)and Lionel Fargher (water Events). Martin won Newport’s first Australian masters championships gold medal at that carnival in winning the 35 years beach sprint event.
Prior to that championship, a number of Newport competitors competed in the “All States Masters” carnivals held in Wollongong in 1990, Pacific beach (Queensland) in 1989 and Bondi in 1988. These included Col MacLean, Bob Clarke, Richard McEvoy, Dave Oatley, Phil Longworth as well as Martin and Lionel.
Over the next two decades the Newport masters team grew in strength to a point where by the 2008 Australian masters championship in Scarborough (Perth), they finished as the number one NSW masters club in the overall point score, with an impressive 6 gold medals in events ranging from the Men’s Surf Team (James Brooks, Ben Davies and Stewart Mears) to the Women’s (Robbie Cummins, Maragret Pearson, Mikke Foley and Sukie Southern) and Men’s Beach Relay (Ted Smithies, Rob Emerson , Brett Budd and Martin Lynch). Newport competitors also won 3 individual gold medals in Beach events (with Ted and Brett in the Sprints and Martin in the Flags).
Throughout the 90’s, Newport Surf Club was represented with success at every Australian Masters championship, with Martin Lynch winning numerous Sprint and Flags events and was later joined by Grant Currie who won the 35 years Beach Flags in 1998.
After 2000, the influx of “nipper parents” joining the club and becoming patrolling members began to impact on the numbers and quality of masters competitors. Ted Smithies, Brett Budd, Rob Emerson and Anthony Daube joined Martin Lynch in becoming the dominant Male Masters Beach Team in the Country, winning numerous individual titles as well as combining to become the most successful relay team in masters competition. Ted Smtihies commenced his run of nine successive sprint titles with a win in the 50years sprint in 2001.
In the Women, Margaret Pearson, Mike Foley, Sukie Southern, Robbie Cummins, Eva Daube and Elke Harman had great success in the Women’s Beach Relay and Mikke becoming an individual Australian master’s champion in the sprint.
A few years later our master’s water competitors began to emerge and were successful in 2007 with Ben Davies winning Newport’s first gold medal in a water event in any category. Ben won the 30 years Rescue Tube. The following year Ben was joined by James Brooks and Stuart Mears in winning the masters Surf Teams event.
The first 19 years (1991 - 2009) of Australian Masters competition has been a successful period with Newport competeing in a variety of disciplines ranging from Beach Events to Surf Boats to all the Water disciplines. Over that period our competitors have won a total of 40 gold medals. 33 individual, 7 in Team Events.
Our masters Australian Gold medallists (as of 2009)
Martin Lynch 25
Ted Smithies 14
Brett Budd 6
Rob Emerson 5
Mikke Foley 2
Ben Davies 2
Anthony Daube, Grant Currie, James Brooks, Stuart Mears, Margaret Pearson, Robyn Cummins, Sukie Southern- 1
World Masters Championships
The first world masters championships were held in Red Beach (Auckland N.Z) in 1991. Martin Lynch picked up Newport’s first World championship with a gold medal in the 35 years Beach Sprint. Newport competitors have competed in and have been successful in every world master’s championships held in Countries such as Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, USA, Italy and Germany.
Our World champions: (as of 2008)
Martin Lynch 11
Ted Smithies 6
Margret Pearson 3
Brett Budd, Eva Daube, and Robbie Cummins 1