The Great Duck Race Fundraiser

Aspiring Amateur Athletes NZ Charitable Trust

Great Duck Race Fundraiser

Judea Wetlands Tauranga

Sunday 18th April 2010 10am- new date
Duck Race Kopurerua Stream


organised jointly by

Aspiring Amateur Athletes NZ Charitable Trust
&
Tauranga athletes


Supporting Tauranga athletes achieve their goals

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Mike Dawson wins BOP sportman of the year

The extreme world champion team of Sam Sutton, Mike Dawson and Jared Meehan were finalists in the team event at the prestigious BOP Sports Awards on Friday with Mike Dawson taking the Individual sportsman of the year title after his outstanding wins in Europe this year

Mike Dawson’s entry focused on the results in two canoeing disciplines slalom and extreme kayaking. Winning extreme races in USA and Europe with a silver and gold podium finish at the Extreme Worlds teams and individual title only narrowly beaten .68hths by Olympic Gold medallist Alex Grimm GER , Oceania title in slalom combining with his rise through the slalom rankings within top 9% of athletes in the world gave him the Sportsman of the Year title. Among the other finalists in his category were All Black Tanerau Latimer and Black Cap Daniel Flynn his win was a great personal achievement cementing an outstanding year.

BOP Time News article Read more

Dawson Finalist in Sport BOP Awards

Sport Bay of Plenty in conjunction with the Bay of Plenty Polytechnic is proud to announce the finalists for the Bay of Plenty Polytechnic 2009 Bay of Plenty Sports Awards which is being held on Friday 27th November at Baypark, Mount Maunganui from 6.00 pm.

Over 150 nominations from a wide range of sporting organizations and Secondary Schools were received from throughout the region. The judges found it very challenging to identify the finalists for the awards as they were all of a very high calibre. Congratulations to all those nominated and good luck to the finalists.

Michael Dawson-Finalist Sportsman of the Year

Michael Dawson, Sam Sutton, Jared Meehan-Finalist Team of the Year

Bay of Plenty Times article

Dawson takes Silver at the Extreme World Champs Austria

By adidas Sickline

In a tight and thrilling final on the legendary Wellerbrücke course German kayaker Alexander Grimm 2008 Olympic Champion in Beijing, adds another gold to his collection today at the adidas Sickline Extreme Kayak World Championship in Austria’s beautiful Ötztal. Grimm finished 68 hundredths of a second ahead of New Zealand’s Mike Dawson and 78 hundredths ahead ofJakobus Stenglein from Germany. Over 100 top kayakers from twenty-two countries, among them Olympic Champions and World Champions in canoe slalom, had travelled to Austria to compete for world championship honours on one of the most difficult whitewater sections on the planet.

Full coverage http://www.adidas-sickline.com/

Tracey Steens finishes 6th AG 20-24

2009 Dextro Energy Triathlon - ITU World Championship

3049 athletes from across the world descended on Australia’s Gold Coast for the 2009 ITU Triathlon World Championships as the top age group competitors went head to head over both the sprint and standard distances alongside their paratriathlon counterparts.

The host nation submitted the largest team with 989 triathletes taking to the course, with Great Britain in second, fielding a massive squad of 408 who made the journey to the other side of the world. The USA took the bronze medal in the participant number, just 16 athletes less than Great Britain with 392. 378 triathletes from neighbouring New Zealand also made the trip.

2009 Dextro Energy Triathlon - ITU World Championship Grand Final Gold Coast : 20-24 Female AG : Results

Tracey Steens outstanding work and training ethic and demanding schedule fueled her to 6th place in a field of 69 at the Age World Championships, Gold Coast. Tracey was just 7 mins off the winner Gilfillan AUS. Steens who had a very competitive swim just 33 /100th s off the winner's time also finished well up in the bike times but found the run with the heat more taxing than expected and lost some time in this section. An excellent effort. Well done Tracey

1 Courtney Gilfillan AUS 02:09:13
2 Sarah Bryant NZL 02:13:29
3 MadeleineOldfield AUS 02:13:41
4 MirandaTomeson CAN 02:15:28
5 Krista Meares AUS 02:16:02
6 Tracey Steens NZL 02:16:17

Full official results

Some athletes made their way from as far afield as Venezuela, Oman, Norway, Morocco, Liechtenstein, Guatemala, Mauritius and Kazakhstan, ensuring that the strong turnouts from the larger countries were matched with passion and enthusiasm from the smaller triathlon nations.

Australia were the big winners in the standard distance competition taking ten gold medals, ahead of the USA on eight. There were also gold medals heading back to Great Britain, Canada, France and Spain.

Day Three Canoe Slalom World Champs Spain

Photograph:Balint Vekassy

La Seu D’Urgell, Spain – While Slovakia won two of the four team events at today’s International Canoe Federation Canoe Slalom World Championships, perhaps the happier news here today was Spain winning its first-ever medals in a World Championship.

Gold medalists in today’s team competitions were Slovakia in C2 and C1 men, Great Britain in K1 Women and Czech Republic in K1 men.

Spanish fans erupted in cheers, applause and even tears as Team Spain’s first bronze medalists realized they had earned Spain’s first-ever medal in a World Championship. The C1 team, comprised of Jordi Domenjo, Jon Erguin and Ander Elosegi was mobbed by fans as they took their boats out at the finish line. A similar scene erupted when in K1 team action, top-seeded France incurred a 50 point penalty moving that country into ninth place and Spain up to third. The K1 team was comprised of Joan Crespo, Guillermo Diez Canedo and Carles Juanmarti.

Finals are slated to start at Noon. For up-to-the-minute schedules and results visit http://www.worldseu09.parcolimpic.com/

Day Two Canoe Slalom World Championships

The kiwi team were all on the course racing, on day two of the World Champs in Seu, with only the C1 women advancing to the semis in their demonstration event. In the 98 strong K1 men's field, Peter Kauser 84.74s SLO, continued his outstanding form and took top honours by 1.99 seconds, showing his consistent form this year.

Top performing New Zealander Mike Dawson, who had spent the week off the water due to a mystery illness needed to be helped from his boat after second runs, finished a disappointing 54th, after a touch on the last gate. The fastest Kiwi with a raw run of 91.51s, the touch blew his semi hopes, while Aaron Osborne's 92.16s clean second run left him in 45th. Team mate Johann Roozenburg 102.58s was 69th. Alex Grimm Olympic Champion Beijing failed to make the semis on this course, which tested the athletes.

Youngster Brent Bastin 112.40s in his first world champs experience finished 52nd in the C1 event, fielding 67 paddlers. Jon Eurguin ESP to the home crowd's delight, took out the heats in 91.74s.

At the top of the table in the women's C1 demonstration event was 16 year old Chinese athlete Qianqian Teng, 120.84 s with NZL'ers Louise Jull 149.26s in 8th, and Luuka Jones 190.99s in 16th, both advancing to semis on Sunday.

The ICF is working towards having C1W in the 2016 Olympics and while the fields are currently small a number of nations are actively preparing their athletes for the 2016 Olympics.
Day three is teams events, with the only NZ team being in K1 mens.

Canoe Slalom World Championships 9-13th September

Mike Dawson after months of training unfortunately contracted swine flu a week out from the World Championships. A decision will be made as to his fitness to compete after his illness. He is slowly recovering but far from the peak of his goal to make top 10. We wish Mike a speedy recovery and all the best if he is capable of racing.

For full event information Click here

Tri Worlds Australia

Competing Age World Standard Distance Triathlon Championships, September 2009 Australia

Tracey Steens begins an intense week as the Tri Worlds start Tuesday 8th. All the best to Tracey for her competition.

Follow her competition Event Schedule

Another great performance Pre World Championships Tacen SLO

Pre World Championships Tacen SLO

Mike Dawson set his sights high after an impressive result in Bratislava the week before. In Tacen qualifications he nailed the course heading into his second run in fourth place out of a field of 114 K1M a sure start for the semi finals the following day. Unfortunately the calibre of the competitors says it all when Dawson missed out on a top 20 semis spot by 100th/s going into 22nd place overall after second runs. With such a strong field the racing is tight and errors are costly. Dawson had the 2nd fastest split time on the course but slightly off line in the second half of the course caused the time lapse which took him out of the semis. Dawson while disappointed not making the semis also realised with the top 15-25 competitors within one second of each other the game is highly competitive.

Check out the full results

Dawson now heads to Seu , Spain in preparation for the World Championships

All the best for the World Championships

Mike Dawson bags a top ten finish ICF Slovak Open

What a fantastic weekend of racing for Tauranga paddler Michael Dawson in the Slovak Open, an ICF ranking race at Bratislava.
He qualified 2nd (from a field of over 100) - only 1.12 seconds behind Slovenian Peter Kauzer who has just won the World Cup Series '09.
With the field reducing to 20 for semis it was pretty cut throat but he produced a good run to make it through in 6th place. The top 10 go through to the finals, where Mike picked up a touch at the bottom pushing him into 9th overall. A great result!

Mike, 2009 Oceania Champion, World Champion Team Extreme Kayaking and NZL's top ranked international paddler says "I was stoked to put down some solid paddling... clean! "

The New Zealand team heads to Tacen in Slovenia for a pre world champs race next weekend as part of their build up to the World Champs in La Seu D'Urgell, Spain home of the 1992 , Barcelona Olympics early next month.

Slovak Open full results at http://www.mates.sk/


Thanks to Pub Charity for their donation to help purchase this boat

Mike Dawson sends a blistering challenge Slovak Open

Mike Dawson NZL's top internationally ranked athlete threw down the gauntlet to the slalom world where as the only athletes not coached , supported or funded by their nation raced into the semi finals in second place ( Mike Dawson 98.33) behind world champion and Olympic medalist Peter Kauzer SLO 97.64 and ahead of Olympic Medallist Matausze Palaczyk POL 98.50 . Mike currently ranked 21st in the world and 2009 Oceania Champion and Extreme Kayaking team World Champion was quietly pleased with his qualification result and is looking forward to the racing Sunday.

http://www.mates.sk/

NZL V Argentina Well fought

Argentina and New Zealand had a heated match that almost matched the temperature on Monday afternoon. Argentina was on the attack right away and in the 10th minute, Captain Victoria Zuloaga scored on a penalty corner. After some great saves by the New Zealand goalkeeper, Argentina got through again when Luciana Soracco scored a field goal. New Zealand retaliated four minutes later when Katie Glynn scored on a penalty corner. Before they had finished celebrating #8, Martina Cavallero had made it down the field and scored right through the goalie’s legs. In the second half both teams were back and forth, but New Zealand’s Katie Glynn scored their second goal with a beautiful tip off her stick into the net. Minutes later, Argentina’s Delfina Merino dribbled down the field and scored again. In the 53rd minute, Captain Victoria Zuloaga scored the final goal of the game off a penalty corner. It was a fast-paced match and New Zealand never made it easy for Argentina.

NZL Junior Blacksticks an awesome effort and for many their first overseas competition. Best of luck for the next round just out of medal contention

Medal Round Results

NZL Junior Blacksticks draw with Germany

On day five of the BDO Junior Women’s World Cup the junior blacksticks of New Zealand played Germany. In the opening minutes, New Zealand’s #13 Katie Glynn had a breakaway, but Germany’s keeper came through for the save. Soon after in the 5th minute, Glynn was able to get past the keeper to put New Zealand up 1-0. Germany had a series of shot opportunities be stopped by New Zealand’s keeper and defense; but New Zealand also had runs of their own into their attacking circle. The match kept up at a face-pace throughout the first half. Germany had the first penalty corner of the game around the 26th minute, but New Zealand’s defense prevented the score and maintained their lead over Germany to end the half 1-0. The second half continued to be a back and forth battle in the midfield. Germany, however, took control of the attack for a bit and executed a series of penalty corners in a short span of time. Thus, in the 51st minute, Germany tied the game 1-1 off a penalty corner goal by #8 Pia Grambusch. In the final minute, Germany was awarded a penalty corner, but failed to capitalize; with the match between New Zealand and Germany ending in a draw.

Well done to Kate and the Kiwi Junior Black sticks

NZL fight hard against China

In the second Pool C match on day four, China and New Zealand played a hard fought match. China had attacking opportunities in the beginning of the first half, including a penalty corner in the first minutes, but strong saves by the New Zealand goalie kept the match scoreless. Finally, China broke through in the 22nd minute off a field goal from #10 Yudiao Zhao. New Zealand had some great shots on goal, but could not score. China continued to control the pace of the game to end the half up 1-0 over New Zealand. The second half began where the first half left off with China fast on the attack, and New Zealand goalkeeper staving off China’s shots. Midway through the second half, Zhao broke through again to put China up 2-0 over New Zealand. New Zealand tried to get a goal in the last part of the half but China was too good on the day and went up 3-0 on a field goal by #14 Yang Sun in the 59th minute to pull away for the win.

A hard game but well fought. A fine effort

Junior Black Sticks win against Spain

New Zealand’s girls were able to take control of the first half of today’s game, keeping the ball mostly in the Spanish end. What appeared to be the first goal of the game was not counted as a point. The ball rolled off the stick of a Spanish player into their own goal, but without touching the stick of a New Zealand player first. New Zealand was able to secure a goal just minutes later when Petrea Webster (#21) scored on a corner.

Early in the second half, Spain’s Carlota Petchame (#7) was awarded a penalty stroke but missed the shot and the opportunity to tie the game. New Zealand continued to keep the ball deep in the Spanish end throughout the second half. In the 30th minute, New Zealand’s Katie Glynn scored to bring the team up 2-0. Shortly after, Glynn maintained her fire and put New Zealand up 3-0. In the final minutes, #1 Gemma Flynn for New Zealand scored off a penalty corner to end the game with her team up 4-0 over Spain.

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Congratulations to Kate and Junior Blacksticks

News Junior Black Sticks

The Netherlands has been a strong competitor in past Junior Women's World Cups, but the unexpected happened today when New Zealand won the 5th match 3-1. The first half of the game was dominated by the Netherlands women as they made smooth and well paced passes down the field. In the 19th minute, #4, Kitty Van Male of the Netherlands scored the first goal.
The second goal was scored by New Zealand's #6 Cathryn Finlayson in an exciting breakaway. Netherlands came out on top with patience and control in the second half while New Zealand struggled to gain possession. The opportunity was there for the Netherlands but it was New Zealand who scored the next goal on a corner with a smooth flick into the net by #13 Katie Glynn. The frustration in the Netherlands players was apparent as they continued to dominate and make shots with no results. In yet another breakaway for New Zealand, the Netherlands' goalkeeper came forward leaving the goal open for #13 Katie Glynn to dribble in and score again.
Although the Netherlands had possession for the majority of the match, New Zealand's speed and accuracy kept them in the lead. This is only their second time competing in this tournament.

Kate Savory Junior Black Sticks Boston Update

Success for the JBS first game at the Juniors World Cup winning 3-1 vs Netherlands ( the number one woman's side in the world).

After the win an estastic Kate said "The Netherlands have been strutting around all week so feels amazing to win against them as the hot favourites at the World Cup."

The JBS played South Africa in a warm up game and won 5-1.

The JBS now challenge Spain and China (the next two match games)

With the weather a warm 30 degrees NZL winter seems a long way away

Congratulations to Kate and JBS on their first match win.

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Kate Savory heads to Boston

After an excellent build up in NZL Kate Savory has winged her way to Boston for the U23 World Championships. The NZL Junior Black Sticks have started well winning their warm-up matches before the competition begins in earnest later this week

All the best to Kate and her Junior Black Stick team

Follow the match schedule

Mike Dawson finishes well up ICF Slalom CZ

ICF Wave Slalom- Ceske Vrbne, CZ August 2nd 09

In a field of 90+ international paddlers top Kiwi slalom athlete Mike Dawson ranked 21st in the world finished on form with a top ten finish in 6th place and just out of medal contention. With less than 4 seconds separating the top 8 places racing was tight and technical.

Congratualtions to Mike on his top performance

ICF Wave Slalom CZ Results

Triathlon Age World Championships Australia

All the best to Tracey as she continues to train hard in preparation for the World Championship

Follow Tracey's competition World Championship Triathlon Gold Coast Australia

Kate Savory-Hockey

Kate Savory has held two successful fundraisers to help get her to Boston for the U23 Hockey World Championships. Her North Harbour team also successfully won the NZL national hockey competition. Congratulations Kate

Boston World Championship Match Schedule

Canoe Slalom World Cup Results

Thanks to the coaching support of NZCT NZL athletes continue to advance in the world rankings. Mike Dawson finished 0.08 100th/ sec outside of a top twenty finish. Other NZL athletes finished within the anticipated top 30 finish.

Mike Dawson wins Teams Extreme World Championship

NZ team win World Championships-Italy


Mike Dawson leading Sam Sutton and Jared Meehan to the Extreme World Champion titleMike Dawson races to 2nd individual extreme kayak


Extreme Kayak Team World Championships- Ivrea, Italy 1st
Extreme Kayak Individual-Ivrea, Italy 2nd
Extreme Kayak top 20 athletes-Ivrea, Italy 2nd
Extreme Kayak Boatercross- Vail USA-1st
Extreme Kayak Boatercross-Bovec, Slovenia 1st

BOP Times article

Tracey Steens- Triathlete

Competing Age World Standard Distance Triathlon Championships, September 2009 Australia

NZ Triathlon Representative

2009 results
1st Women- Erin Baker Award Triathlon Championships
3rd NZ Triathlon Championships 20-24 age group
2008
2nd 18-19 Age group Triathlon World Championships Vancouver

Michael Dawson-Canoe Slalom

Michael Dawson -Senior World Championships Seu Spain 2009

NZ Canoe Slalom Representative

NZ Freestyle Representative

NZ Rafting Representative

NZ Extreme Kayak Representative

2009 Results

Oceania Championship Canoe Slalom 1st

Bovec Extreme 1st

Slovakian senior selection race 8th

Kate Savory-Junior Women Blacksticks

Kate Savory competing U 23 Hockey World Championships Boston USA 2009

NZ Hockey Representative

2009 Athletes Supported To Date

Kate Savory-Hockey Junior World Championships U23 Boston USA
Tracey Steens-Triathlete Age World Standard Championships , Gold Coast Australia
Michael Dawson-Canoe Slalom World Championships Spain

2009 Avepro Holdings Ltd

Sincere thanks to the directors of Avepro Holding Ltd for their on-going support of local athletes and Aspiring Amateur Athletes NZ Charitable Trust.

2009 Phillips Garage Tauranga

Sincere thanks to Phillips Garage- Fraser Street, Tauranga especially to Sandra and staff for their support of Aspiring Amateur Athletes NZ Charitable Trust. Once again through their donation the trust will be able to support a local athlete. Pleae support their business where possible so they can continue to support local athletes.

2009 LB Dawson & Associates Ltd

Long time supporters of Tauranga athletes, Canoe Slalom NZ, NZ Cancer Society and the local breast cancer society. It is with pleasure Aspiring Amateur Athletes NZ Charitable Trust once again acknowledges their financial support 2009

2008 Rotorua Energy Charitable Trust

Many thanks for the support to upgrade and extend the slalom gates on the Kaituna River. The work is completed and looks fabulous. Already there have been two training camps and daily and evening coaching using the new gates.A number of gates requiring repair have been replaced. With the summer season for training well under away the new gates are very much appreciated.