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The Richmond Kajaks Track and Field Club is both a recreational and high
performance level club based in Richmond, BC, Canada with over 200 members—ranging from elementary school
athletes to masters (35+ years) athletes. Click
here to read our Vision Statement.
Our club hosts a number of
quality meets and races throughout the year, giving all athletes
the opportunity to test themselves in competition, while raising
the funds necessary to maintain the high level of coaching and
support Kajaks is known for.
We look forward to meeting you—find out how
you can become a member today!
| Club News |
updated July 03, 2009 |
July 3/09: Two Kajaks athletes have been selected to the Canadian
Team for the IAAF World Youth Championships (Italy, July
8-12). Athletics Canada has named Shai-anne Davis for the
200m sprint and Joanne Franke-Kuhn for Hammer. Shai is
coached by Mike Murray and Joanne by Richard Collier.
Congratulations and good luck, Shai and Joanne.
Our athletes were in excellent form at the Canadian
Championships in Toronto (June 25-28th). Jennifer Joyce won
the hammer event with an
outstanding throw of 69.05m, exceeding the World B standard for
this event. Congratulations to Jennifer and to all our athletes:
Jennifer Joyce 1st HT 69.05m
Christabel Nettey 5th LJ 6.03m
Lara ter Laak 6th Discus 44.73m
Shai Davis 8th 100m 11.88, 8th 200m 24.33
Trey Henderson 7th HT 56.68m
David Skermer 8th Discus 46.53m
Angus Taylor 9th HT 55.70m
Kevin Lim 11th 400m 48.93, 21st 200m 22.56
Congratulations also to Heather Warwick and Evan
Dunfee, who both came in 1st place in their Junior Racewalk
events:
Junior Racewalk
Heather Warwick 1st 10000mRW 56:09.0
Evan Dunfee 1st 10000mRW 41.55.0
Complete results are on the Athletics
Canada website.
June 30/09: Kajaks Performances at Canadian National Track
& Field Championships
- Jennifer Joyce wins gold in Women's Hammer
competition with a throw of 69.05m her season best for 2009.
- Evan Dunfee wins gold in men's Junior 10k Race Walk
with a time of 41:55, Evan also set a Canadian Junior Race
Walk record by 42 seconds.
- Heather Warwick also a gold medallist in Junior Women
10k Rack Walk with a time of 56:09
- Chantel Spies second club member finished second in
Women's Discus with a throw of 48.38m.
- All of our young Kajaks athletes were strong competitors
finishing in the Top Ten at the Canadian National
Championships
- Trey Henderson 7th in men's hammer
- Angus Taylor 9th in men's hammer
- Christabel Nettey 5th in women's long jump
- Shai Davis 8th in 100m & 200m
- Lara TerLaak 6th women's discus
- David Skermer 8th men's discus
June 23/09: BC Athletics have announced the 2009 BC Senior
Team for the Canadian Nationals (June 25-28th in Toronto), and
five Kajaks athletes have been selected! Trey Henderson, Angus
Taylor and former Canadian record-holder Jennifer Joyce
are on the team for throws; sprinter and long jumper Christabel
Nettey is also selected, as is 16-year-old jumper Hayley
Stewart.
Two of our coaches are also travelling with the team. Kajaks
Head Coach, Richard Collier, is appointed the team Throws
and Head Coach, and Mike Murray is the Sprints/Hurdles
coach.
Also competing at the Senior Games will be sprinter Shai
Davis, and travelling with the Senior team will be racewalker Evan
Dunfee, who will be competing in Toronto.
June 22/09: Kajaks Scholarship Award: deadline has been
extended to June 23, 2009. Information
(PDF)
June 18/09: Team
Scores (PDF file) are now available for the BC
Elementary T&F Championships held May 22-24
Kajaks Athletes in the News - The Province:
June 16/09: Meet reports:
Harry Jerome Classic 2009 (June 14th, Burnaby)
Kajaks had four athletes competing in the Invitational events
at the Harry Jerome Classic. Commonwealth silver medallist Jennifer
Joyce threw 67.55m to finish 2nd in the Hammer, and
middle-distance runner Graeme Wells finished 9th in the
800m in a time of 1:53.14. Junior athlete Emma Kimoto was
competing once again in High Jump, and finished 4th, clearing
1.66m. Shai Davis (still aged 15) finished 7th in the 100m
in a time of 12.02.
Competing in the High School division was Gurjot Bal,
who ran the 1500m in 4:33.62.
Review Kajaks International Meet (June 12th at Minoru)
Many of our athletes took advantage of the International
competition at the Kajaks International meet in front of a small
but enthusiastic crowd.
It was great to see Angus Taylor in action, now back
from University in the US. He easily out-threw the high school
hammer champion to win Hammer with a throw of 61.48m. He also
narrowly won discus by 5cm from fellow-Kajaks Junior Gurinder
Dosanjh with a throw of 47.55m (1.75kg).
Kajaks had two medalists in the Senior Discus events, with David
Skermer finishing 2nd with a throw of 44.98m (2kg), and Lara
ter Laak 3rd with a throw of 41.83m (1kg).
Long-time Kajaks athlete and former Canadian record holder Jennifer
Joyce won the hammer event with a throw of 67.22m. Maureen
Watson finished 4th in the same event, throwing 47.66m.
Other Senior athletes in action were Kevin Lim, who ran
the 400m in 49.05 to finish in 5th place, and Kajaks record-holder
Mark Ramos in the Long Jump, finishing 3rd with a jump of
7.15m in his first competition for over a year.
Our Junior-aged racewalkers were also in good form, with Evan
Dunfee finishing 2nd in the mixed 5000mRW in a time of
21:12.20, and Heather Warwick was the 2nd female finisher
in 26:59.60.
Among the younger athletes taking part were two long jumpers, Hayley
Stewart and Olivia McNair. Hayley finished 2nd with a
fine jump of 5.16m, and Olivia finished 3rd with a jump of 4.94m.
Last but not least was sprinter Shai Davis, running a
spectacular time of 11.82 to finish 5th in the 100m, and then
running the 200m in 24.25, also finishing 5th.
June 13/09: RESULTS
from Review Kajaks
International Track Classic
June 11/09: Final start list posted for Review
Kajaks International Track Classic. There will be no further
updates to this list posted on the website.
June 11/09: Report on the 2009 BC High School Championships,
June 5-6th, Burnaby
Kajaks high school athletes were in great form at the BC High
School Championships June 5-6th in Burnaby.
Thrower Lauren Smith put in a stellar performance,
winning the prestigious "Outstanding Female Performer"
award for her triple gold medal performance in Hammer, Shot Put
and Discus. The last athlete to achieve this feat was also a
Kajaks athlete, Garrett Collier.
Our girls swept the Hammer event, taking all the top four
spots. Besides Lauren in 1st place, Joanna Franke-Kuhn (who
throws with Kajaks as a second club) took 2nd place, Jessica
Padrinao came in 3rd, winning her first high school medal, and
4th place was Sam Kennedy who is only in Grade 10. Sam also
finished 10th in Javelin, while Jessica and Joanna finished 5th
and 10th in Discus respectively.
Other outstanding performances were also by two Grade 10
athletes: sprinting sensation Shai Davis won both the 100m
and 200m Sprints, while jumper Hayley Stewart won Triple
Jump and missed the gold in Long Jump by only 1cm! Former gold
medalist Emma Kimoto finished 3rd in High Jump.
The boys also put in outstanding performances. Two of our
athletes competed in Triple Jump. Kevin Lian won gold, and Christopher
Adams finished in 7th spot. Kevin and Hayley gave Kajaks a
sweep of the Triple Jump gold medals this year.
Our male throwers were also in excellent form. James Lee
took silver in Hammer and 7th place in Discus, and Alex Dumont
silver in Discus and 7th in Hammer. Imrose Baga (who throws
with Kajaks as a second club) finished in 5th place in Discus.
Top 10 performances:
Lauren Stuart 1st Hammer 48.80m, 1st Discus 38.38m, 1st
Shot Put 11.21m
Shai Davis 1st 100m 12.03, 1st 200m 24.70
Hayley Stewart 1st Triple Jump 11.07m, 2nd Long Jump 5.69m
Joanna Franke-Kuhn 2nd Hammer 46.13m, 10th Discus 27.08m
Emma Kimoto 3rd High Jump 1.65m
Jessica Padrinao 3rd Hammer 44.22m, 5th Discus 31.20m
Sam Kennedy 4th Hammer 39.70m, 10th Javelin 30.02m
Kevin Lian 1st Triple Jump 13.62m, 9th Long Jump 6.08m
James Lee 2nd Hammer 51.17m, 7th Discus 42.61m
Alex Dumont 2nd Discus 49.59m, 7th Hammer 44.10m
Imrose Baga 5th Discus 44.20m
Christopher Adams 7th TJ 12.85m
Many of our younger High School athletes competed at the Grade
8-9 All-Comers Meet held in conjunction with the High School
Championships. Our medalists were Pauljit Bhandal (1st
Discus), Nick Fyffe (2nd Long Jump) and Petri Daviel
(3rd Discus). Full report is on the JD page.
June 10/09: Latest JD results
from BC JD Championships and BC High School Gr.8-9 meet
June 9/09: Four Kajaks Masters athletes won their age
categories at the Ambleside Masters' Mile in West Vancouver
on June 6th. They were:
Steve Hosford M55 1st 5:16
Gihan Wickremasuriya M35 1st 5:26
Avril Douglas F60 1st 6:24
Emma Adams F40 1st 5:37
Congratulations on a great run!
June 6/09: BC
Teen sprint star goes with the "Flo" (Vancouver Sun
story on Shai-Anne Davis)
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