Team 5th at Marathon Nationals

Banbury entered a big team at the National Marathon Championships at the weekend.  With entries in two-thirds of the race categories over the weekend, BDCC were hopeful of a good team result, which was achieved with an overall 5th place – out of 61 teams.  There...

Joe Makes a Final at Worlds

Joe Petersen and his partner, Finn Cadell from Linlithgow CC, are through to the B Final of the 1000m K2 at the Junior World Championships.  A 5th in their heat put them into the semi-finals, and another 5th in the semi saw them comfortably through to the B Final. ...

Fantastic 4th Place

Banbury paddlers, Angela Hannah and Iain Weir raced at the European Sprint Championships at Plovdiv, Bulgaria at the weekend.  Iain and Jonny Jones (Fladbury CC) raced a great heat, coming 4th.  Sadly they weren’t quite quick enough to progress from the...

Southampton in the Sun

Around 50 paddlers made the long journey to Southampton at the weekend, and were rewarded with sun, sea-spray and an overall second place, which secures the club’s qualification for the Hasler Finals.  Although there were a few hiccups along the way …....

World Sprint Squads Named

British Canoeing have announced the teams for the World and European Sprint Champions, and there are a record 4 Banbury paddlers listed. Double Olympian, Angela Hannah, now self-funding and training has been selected with new partner Hannah Brown (Wiltshire Youth CC0...