London Youth Games kayaking

Some great news, Maddox won a Bronze medal for Hillingdon at the Under 14s 50 metre sprint this term at the London Youth Games kayaking event yesterday. It was held at Fairlop Activity Centre, Ilford on a lake across the other side of London, and it was a very long day. Maddox came 1st in his heats in the run up to the sprint final, and in the final race he held 2nd place and just got taken over at the last minute. He did well to give the Kingston and Richmond competitors who won the majority of these races, as did the rest of Maddox's Ealing team who also won medals!

All the contenders did amazing, it was so windy and the water so choppy! In one of Maddox races it took nearly 15 minutes to start as the wind was so strong that they couldn't get the boys lined up for being blown all over the place!

When he was called up to receive the medal the award givers made a point that it was the 1st Hillingdon winner in the kayaking event which he was very pleased with.