English wowed by Games set-up Scamander ace rules Marrawah
ENGLAND’S Commonwealth Games hierarchy wants to thank Australia for topnotch amenities and support that it believes will give its nation the edge over the hosts at next month’s Games.
England’s chef de mission Sarah Winckless says the Poms are planning to use the Australian vibe for their own benefit. “Our athletes are very experienced at competing home and abroad,” she said.
“And I’m sure they’ll use the energy that the Aussie crowds create as much as possible to support their performances.”
Winckless and her team are about to arrive for a preGames training camp in Brisbane and the Gold Coast.
“You have such amazing sporting facilities,” Winckless said. “And we have worked really closely with a range of institutions and some of your private schools and arranged to be able to use these facilities for our athletes to train,” said Winckless, herself an Olympic rowing bronze medallist.
“From a chef’s perspective, I couldn’t have asked for more.
“The organising committee have put together not only brilliant competition venues, they have really thought about the training venues.” AAP COMPETITORS and spectators sported everything from bikinis to puffer jackets for the 43rd West Coast Surfing Classic at Marrawah.
After Gold Coast conditions on Saturday, the weather turned nasty for Sunday and yesterday.
But the tough conditions still produced a first-time winner in the open men’s and a junior triumph in the open women’s.
Scamander’s Ned Bramich claimed his first West Coast Classic, holding off Clifton Beach duo Kelly Nordstrom and Rudy Davis.
In the women’s open, Bella Goward won from Park Beach’s Hahnee Chalkowksi and Marrawah local Sarah Prior.
While Goward was good enough to win the women’s open, she was pipped for two titles across the long weekend with Luca Brodribb edging her out in the under-18 event while Hobart’s Stella Gibson took third spot.
Clifton Beach’s Toby Lawrence won the under-18 men’s crown from Ulverstone’s Robbie Green and Penguin’s Liam Viney, while in the over-30s Adam Hendricks (King Island) was first from Hobart’s Zeb Critchlow and Marrawah’s Nigel Prior.