New Zealand Extreme White Water

The final event in the 2013 NZ Extreme Race series was wrapped up on the 1st of March, at the Bullerfest Boater X in Murchison. The series was wide open at this point with several paddlers each with a chance of grabbing the National title.

Congratulations to Kenny Mutton (Rotorua), Louise Urwin (Rotorua), and Sean Curtis (Te Awamutu) for taking out the National competition in their respective divisions.

A huge thanks to all event organisers for your co-operation and hard work in providing awesome professional events this year, we look forward to working with you again next year.  Thanks also to Bliss-stick Kayaks for your continual support and sponsorship of the series.

2014 promises to be bigger and better, an here’s hoping we can get more Northies south and more Southies north.

See you next year,

the NZEWW team.

2013 NZ Extreme Race series – Overall Standings.

Men’s division:

Women’s division:

Juniors Men’s division:

For summary of points standings from all the events click on the link below:

2013 Xrace series Individual points standings

2013 NZ Extreme Race series winners Sean Curtis (junior champion) and Louise Urwin (women’s champion). Absent: Kenny Mutton.

Here’s some results from the Bullerfest BoaterX, held in Murchison on the 1st March.

Open Men

1. Rob Hervey
2. Kenny Mutton
3. Jamie Sutton

Open Women

1. Sophia Mulder
2. Louise Urwin
3. Louise Jull

Junior Men

1. Zak Mutton
2. Ben Hume
3. Alex Stuart-Forbes

Contact Energy NZ Freestyle Kayak Championships 2013

Under 15 Boys
1st – Otis Rayner, Alexandra
2nd – Jack Paulin, Alexandra
3rd – Jeremy Norbury, Alexandra
Under 18 Boys
1st – Max Rayner, Alexandra
2nd – Stephen Bartlett, Queenstown
3rd – Hank Bilous, Wanaka
U15 Girls
1st Place – Lotte Rayner, Alexandra
Under 18 Girls
1st Place – Emily McGimpsey, Alexandra
2nd Place – Jessica Bailey, Wanaka
3rd Place – Robin Pieper, Alexandra
Veteren Mens
1st Place – Pete Simpson, Hawea Flat
2nd Place – Aidan Haig, Oamaru
3rd Place – Gordon Rayner, Alexandra
Open Men
1st Place – Robert Hervey, Murchison/Alexandra
2nd Place – Brendan Bayly, Rotorua
3rd Place – Dylan Thomson, Wanaka
Open Women
Overall 1st Place – Claire O’Hara, Great Britain
2nd Place – Courtney Kerin (and 1st NZer)
3rd Place – Polly Green, Rotorua (2nd NZer)
4th Place – Marnie Fornasek, Auckland (3rd NZer)

Contact Energy NZ Freestyle Kayak Team Trials.

The * means they have qualified for the NZ team to compete at the ICF Freestyle World Championships in the USA in September.

Junior Women
1st Place – Jessica Bailey, Wanaka *
2nd Place – Robin Pieper, Alexandra *
3rd Place – Emily McGimpsey, Alexandra
Junior Men
1st Place – Stephen Bartlett, Queenstown *
2nd Place – Max Rayner, Alexandra *
3rd Place – Hank Bilous, Wanaka *
Open Women
1st Place – Claire O’Hara, Great Britain
2nd Place – Courtney Kerin, Oamaru (First NZer) *
3rd Place – Polly Green, Rotorua (2nd NZer) *
4th Place – Beth Morgan, Great Britain
Open Men
1st Place – Jason Searle, Cromwell *
2nd Place – Robert Hervey, Murchison/Alexandra *
3rd Place – Mike Hoffman, Gore *
4th Place – Aidan Haig, Oamaru *
5th Place – Matt Burton, Turangi *

After the first two events of the series here’s how it looks in the title race with 2 events to go. Both the Men’s and Women’s fields are still wide open, and its anyone’s game going into Citroen and Buller fest races, especially as only the best 3 results count towards the National title race.

Click the links below for the points standings after round 2.

Men’s Division:

2013 mens Xrace series points after round2

Women’s Division:

2013 NZ Xrace Womens series points after round2

Junior Division:

2013 NZ XRace Junior series points after round2

Last Saturday we saw the first event in the NZ extreme race series, the Kaituna Timetrial. This is a tough race, especially at low flows, with each sprint taking the top competitors just over 7 minutes. Competitors have 2 timed runs which are then added together for total time to find the fastest paddler down the Kaituna. The last race of the day was a 3 person teams beach ball race. A super fun race where pretty much anything goes, and teams worked together to be the first to get their ball from the top down to the bottom hole, and thwart other teams efforts along the way. It was a great day out on the water and we look forward to next year.

Congratulations to Vavra Hradilek, Luuka Jones and Zak Mutton for taking our their respective categories!

OPEN MENS:
1st Vavra Hradilek
2nd Jamie Sutton
3rd Kenny Mutton

OPEN WOMENS:
1st Lukka Jones
2nd Louise Jull
3rd Louise Urwin

JUNIOR:
1st Zack Mutton
2nd Sean Curtis
3rd Cullum Parker

Full Results and times below:

There were some epic battles on display at the  2013 Wairoa Extreme Race on Sunday. Thanks to our sponsors Paddle-power.com, Frig, Rotorua Rafting and Bliss-stick kayaks for helping make it such a successful event. With exciting racing throughout the day, here’s how the Head to head races panned out…

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2013 Wairoa Extreme Race Time Trial Results

Here is a link to the Bay of Plenty Times write up of the event:

http://www.bayofplentytimes.co.nz/news/kayaking-mutton-rules-on-wairoa/1751955/

A photo gallery of the day from Dscribe Journalism can be found here:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.581927805168133.142505.199358573425060&type=1

Well the 1^st 2 races of the 2013 extreme race series are about to get underway this weekend. Here’s a few more technical points on how the series will work.

Points from each race will be gathered for 3 out of the 4 races in the series, and will be awarded in the following amounts for each placing.

Points:
1st place – 50 points
2nd place – 45 points
3rd place – 41 points
4th place – 39 points
5th place – 38 points
6th place – 37 points
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38th place – 5 points
39th place – 4 points
40th place – 3 points

41^st place – 2 points

42^nd place – 1 point

any other  place – 1point

Paddlers can go in all four extreme races, but for the national title only the best 3 results will be counted – you can throw away your worst result.

For Time-trial events (kaituna) this system is straightforward.  The info below details how this will work in the other events in the series.

In Boater X events exact placing’s are not possible to find (apart from the top 4 in 4 person boater x and the top 2 in 2 person head to heads, unless you have a play off for the losers in each round. So in situations where those play-offs are not held (almost always the case) equal placing’s and points will be given to the losers in their respective round.

We will try and arrange play-offs for all placings up to 8^th position in both the south island events which have 4 person boater X.

For Bullerfest and Citroen Boater X events, from the quarter final round racers knocked out will get 9^th place, losers in the round of 32 will get 17^th place, and losers in the round 64 of will get 33^rd place and so on.

For the Wairoa race (2 person head to head) there is a play-off for 3^rd and 4^th. But down from that, the quarter final losers will be given a placing between 5^th and 8^th according to their Wairoa time-trial, losers in the round of 16 will be given placings between 9^th and 16^th according to their TT result, and losers in the round of 32 will be given positions 17^th and onwards etc etc

Results from each event in the series will be posted here on NZEWW website and NZEWW’s facebook page.

NZEWW Membership: to be eligible to race in the National series and receive a National ranking paddlers need to be members of the national body for extreme racing. Membership is only $10 and can be paid at registration on race day at any of the four events. An NZEWW member will be there at each registration to sign you up. Membership is welcomed but not required if just entering a one-off south island event (not organised by NZEWW) and not competing towards the series.  But please support our sport anyway!

See you on the water!

cheers,

Brendan Bayly.