Bay Sports Festival
Results, photos and comments coming back from the Bay Sports Festival Canoe events have been very positive.
The Bay Sports Festival is well known in South Australia as one of the states premiere sports festivals and includes the nationally famous Bay Sheffield sprint race. However the festival is more than just a foot race with swimming, cycling, beach running, beach volleyball and canoeing all forming part of a wider sports festival.
It is the fifth year that the Holdfast Canoe Club has hosted the canoe, kayak and surf ski event as part of the Bay Sports Festival under the guidance of experienced Competition Director – Martin Finn.
This year there were events at Holdfast on the Patawalonga for single & double kayaks / canoe, outrigger canoes, surf skis, over distances of 200 metres, 500 metres and also a 6km LD distance. Olympic Paddler Ð Hannah Davis, World Master Champion Ð Bennett Maxwell, and many of the top kayaking juniors from around the state participated.
Congratulations to Glenelg Surf Club and Holdfast Bay Canoe Club who supported the event heavily and after being unchallenged for the last four years ran away with the $500.00 prize money yet again.
For those of you who are interested official photographer Carolyn Cooper has already got some great photos up on her website at –
