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British Water Ski showed there is yet more depth to the successes of
their Open squad by dominating the European Under 21 Water Ski
Championships in Agrinio, Greece this weekend.
Proving the confidence
shown in them by both the UK Sport and Sport England Lottery backed
programmes the skiers won the gold in the team event and backed this up
with four silvers and a gold in the individual competition, Will Asher
taking the men's Overall title, a silver in the slalom and a bronze in
the jump.
"The gold medal from this squad is 2 years ahead of expectation", said
Performance Director John Wood, "as all but one of the skiers still has
at least two years in this age category".
Amongst the silver medals
was one for 16 year old Chris Sumner in the tricks and Scotland's Nicole
Arthur in the slalom. Arthur is still only 15 years of age and this
event was in her programme as part of the build up to the World Junior
Championships in Chile in January.
British Water Ski's Disabled squad were also in action this weekend
following up their European Championship title in August by also winning
the European Cup in Sweden.
Results:
European Under 21 Water Ski Championships, Agrinio, Greece
1st Great Britain 5728 points
2nd France 5669 points
3rd Greece 4648 points
4th Austria 4218 points
5th Denmark 3982 points
report by John Wood
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