{"id":4294,"date":"2021-10-14T18:20:43","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T00:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.canoeracing.org.nz\/?p=4294"},"modified":"2021-10-14T18:23:47","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T00:23:47","slug":"heat-turned-on-at-south-island-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uptest.co.nz\/canoeracing\/heat-turned-on-at-south-island-champs\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat turned on at South Island Champs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>The snow-covered Southern Alps looked down over the hot racing at the 7<sup>th<\/sup> annual South Island Champs at held on Lake Ruataniwha in Twizel on the first weekend of October. The south certainly turned on its charm for us, with the event\u00a0 raced in pristine conditions and not a breath of wind.<\/h4>\n<p>The event was raced as a divisional regatta which\u00a0means paddlers were placed with others of like ability rather than age groups. And in this case that also meant mixing up the male and female competitors. This made for some very close racing. \u00a0It also changes the focus of the racing to achieving more personal goals, beating times, improving aspects of the race and so on, rather than completely focusing on winning an age division.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4295 size-large alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uptest.co.nz\/canoeracing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ben-McCallum4712-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uptest.co.nz\/canoeracing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ben-McCallum4712-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.uptest.co.nz\/canoeracing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ben-McCallum4712-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uptest.co.nz\/canoeracing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ben-McCallum4712-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.uptest.co.nz\/canoeracing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ben-McCallum4712-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.uptest.co.nz\/canoeracing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ben-McCallum4712.jpg 1728w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Having said that, Division 1 was, as expected, dominated by the big boys with Ben McCallum, Tim Waller and Jonty Laver coming down from the North Island to join in the fun.<\/p>\n<p>The South Island Secondary Schools Champs is also part of this regatta and a number of schools were represented with Cobham winning overall primary\/intermediate cup, Christ\u2019s College the high school cup and both Canterbury University and Otago were first equal for the Uni trophy. \u00a0Arawa Canoe Club won the overall club trophy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uptest.co.nz\/canoeracing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Results-SI-Champs4622.pdf\">See full results<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The snow-covered Southern Alps looked down over the hot racing at the 7th annual South Island Champs at held on Lake Ruataniwha in Twizel on the first weekend of October. The south certainly turned on its charm for us, with the event\u00a0 raced in pristine conditions and not a breath of wind. The event was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uptest.co.nz\/canoeracing\/heat-turned-on-at-south-island-champs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heat turned on at South Island Champs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":4296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Heat turned on at South Island Champs - CRNZ - Sprint, Surf Ski &amp; Marathon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Canoe Sprint, Surf Ski &amp; Marathon. 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