The British Land Junior & Childrens Championships. DAY 2
6th April 2004Fighting the elements mild spring temperatures, occasional mist, rain never far away and a challenging hill the giant slalom bbtitles were hard earned today at The British Land Childrens Ski Championships in Meribel.
Once again it was also a triumph for the local piste management team who worked long hours with their substantial manpower and resources to ensure the twin courses for the girls and boys giant slalom courses were in suitable shape for the 120 boys racing and 70 girls.
Equal opportunities to excel were afforded to all thanks to the continued use of the random draw for the starting order, which has found universal favour with coaches and athletes alike. With big ruts forming on the steeps it was a day which rewarded the technically fluent and the stronger skiers.
Harry Brown, 12, who is based in Chatel, Switzerland in the winters has established himself as probably Britain¹s brightest young prospect in international races this year with a standout 10th at Toppolino. Training with his Austrian personal coach Alex Hoss and with the British Childrens Team, Brown has made significant progress this season. He not only won the Children 1 (Year of Birth 1991-1992) British Giant Slalom title today, but beat all of the older Children 2 (YoB 1989-90) in the Boys race.
³It is nice to win but I did not ski all that well in the first run, getting a bit out of control and late in the line towards the bottom but I skied well on the ridge section and that was important.² Said Brown who skied a combined aggregate time of 2 minutes 01.26 seconds.
Aaron Tipping (Sidcup) won the Boys Children 2 giant slalom title while in the girls race it was Amanda Alldridge (Hampton Park, Middx) and Kim Bruce (Edinburgh) who composed the best two runs to win the Children 1 and Children 2 titles.
British Land Junior and Children National Ski Championships Meribel, France. Day 2, Childrens Giant Slalom.
Overall Championships Children 1 (Year of Birth 1991-92)
Girls:
1 A Alldridge (Hampton Park/Sandown Park SC) 2-13.52,
2 A McMahon (Faverges, France) 2-17.37,
3 E Palfrey (Ipswich/British Ski Academy) 2-20.89,
Children 1 (Year of Birth 1991-92)
Boys:
1 H Brown (Prez du Lac, France/British Ski Academy) 2-01.26,
2 J Breton (Chichester/British Ski Academy) 2-03.60,
3 B Giezendanner (les Houches, France/Kandahar) 2-07.06.
Children 2 (Year of Birth 1989-90)
Girls:
1 K Bruce (Edinburgh/Scottish Ski Club)
2-14.63, 2 E Norton (Carrbridge/Scottish Ski Club) 2-15.14,
3 A Emerton (Thames Ditton/Sandown Park SC) 2-15.78.
Children 2(Year of Birth 1989-90)
Boys:
1 A Tipping (Sidcup/British Ski Academy) 2-03.69,
2 H Long (Thoiry/DHO) 2-08.50,
3 F Paton (Ratho, Edinburgh/Scottish Ski Club) 2-08.68.
Giant Slalom Race 1, Children 1:
1 A Alldridge 1-05.09,
2 L Russell-Henry (Les Houches) 1-05.95,
3 A McMahon 1-08.48,
Children 1 Boys:
1 H Brown 59.77,
2 J Breton (British Ski Academy) 1-01.18,
3 J Filsell (British Ski Academy) 1-01.38,
Children 2 Girls:
1 A Emerton 1-05.72,
2 K Bruce 1-06.15,
3 S Fairweather (Swadlingcote/Dragons) 1-06.24,
Children 2 Boys:
1 A Tipping1-00.37,
2 A MacFie (Edinburgh/Aberdeen Ski Club) 1-00.99,
3 J Kane (Bradford/DHO) 1-01.66,
Giant Slalom Race 2:
1 A Rennie (Edinburgh/Aberdeen SC) 1-05.97,
2 H Garwood (Bourg St Maurice/DHO) 1-07.11,
3 A Alldridge (Sandown Park SC) 1-08.43,
Children 1 Boys:1
H Brown1-01.49,
2 J Breton 1-02.42,
3 B Giezendanner 1-04.24,
Children 2 Girls:
1 K Bruce1-08.48,
2 E Norton 1-08.75,
3 H Wright (Harpenden/British Ski Academy) 1-08.75.
Children 2 Boys:
1 A Tipping 1-03.32,
2 P Bruton (Sawbridgeworth/Sandown Park Ski Club) 1-04.20,
3 TJ Baldwin (Norwich/British Ski Academy) 1-04.28.