Congratulations to club members Tadhg de Barra and Eamon Quigley who completed the Devises Westminster ultra Marathon over the Easter weekend. Tadhg finished in 16th place in Senior K1 in a time of 20:15:42 and Eamon finished in 30th place in a time of 22:48:27, good going for 125 miles and 77 portages! Well done, lads.

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Well done to Eoin and Eamon Rheinisch on claiming 1st and 2nd places respectively. See results

A full time coach position is available for the months June, July and August. See notice.

Salmon Leap again took the majority of prizes at the Newbridge Junior Series race today.
Over 15 K2: 1st Matthew Burke & Lorcan Feely
Over 15 K1: 1st Liam Banks
2nd Iomhar Mac Giollaphadraig
3rd Danny O'Reilly
Over 15 Open Singles: 2nd Daniel Grimes
3rd Eoin Byrne
Under 15 K1: 1st Sean Mccarthy
2nd Cian Burke
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The following paddlers have been selected to represent Ireland in the Junior World Championships in 2009 in Buochs, Switzerland.
Junior Men's Kayak: Liam Banks SLCC (selected to race classic only)
Tom Brennan SLCC (selected to race both classic and sprint)
Tom Burke WWKC (selected to race both classic and sprint)
Lorcan Feely SLCC (selected to race both classic and sprint)
Adam Sweeney SLCC (selected to race sprint only)
Junior Women's Kayak: Aisling Conlan WWKC (selected to race in both classic and sprint)
Junior C1: Conor Healy WWKC (selected to race in both classic and sprint)

Salmon Leap had a great start to the marathon season at the 1st ranking race held in Donegal yesterday. The small group that travelled to Lifford were rewarded with great results and valuable points. Most notable was Joe Murphy's result. Racing in Division 2, Joe used his finishing speed to win the overall race ahead of Malcolm and Digger. It is a long time, if ever, that a 16 year old has been first home on the long course in a National Ranking Race.
Thanks to Paul Reed, Frank Roche and all of Donegal Canoe Club forrunning a great race and for the great food spread afterwards.

Results
Our Juniors took all 6 places in their event, while Liam McCarthy took 3rd spot in Mens Division 1.

The Junnior Ranking race will take place next Saturday 21 February at 12.00 in the Celbridge Canal (Celbridge Paddlers Club). Every junnior to attend, specially Group B. Group B will meet on Friday at 5.00 at the Salmon Leap Club to sort out the boats, so please do the most to attend.

Success in the training weekend with many people assisting all the training sessions. All the paddlelers have showed a great level for this time of the season. Please note that children are starting to beat parents, specially in the short distances, and that during the sprint trials there were many spectators. Thanks a lot to all the organisers.
- Saturday´s time trial results