This year the world surf kayak championships were held in Santa Cruz, Portugal. Team Scotland was led by Ian Sherrington, one of Glenmore Lodge's senior instructors.Here is his report:

After 8 days of intense competition, between 157 athletes, from 15 countries in 12 teams; the results were in.Over the last few events, Scotland has repeatedly produced world beating individual performances. Of our stars, Neil Baxter has been consistently in finals and has won the Masters, and of course Tracy Sherrington is a 2 Times World Champion. However our pool of surfers is small, and this year again we would be missing juniors from our team, meaning we would start with a points disadvantage. Due to the team make up, also containing a number of very enthusiastic worlds rookies, it was decided early that we were there to do our best and enjoy it!

The odds were stacked against team Scotland but they battled it out to finish 6th overall. John Ingles achieved the teams highest position, finished 2nd overall in the Grand Masters long boat category.Look out for the full report in Scottish Paddler.

Photos by Matt Speke.

posted by glenmore @ 9:48 am