Queen's Birthday Long Weekend 3-day. An amazing 62 members of Garingal participated in at least one of the events this long weekend. Fantastic! Congratulations go to the 15 Garingalites who were over-all place-getters when the times for the 3 days were added up.
1st Place: W35A Nikolett Halmai; W70A Carol Jacobson; W21AS Clare Jessup; M65AS Dennis Sparling; W65AS Barbara Junghans; MJuniorB Ben McConaghy; WOpenB Wendy McConaghy
2nd Place: M21A Toby Wilson; W40A Brook Martin; M65A Warwick Selby; M35AS Adam Horley
3rdPlace: M14A Cooper Horley; M50A Jamie Kennedy; M70A Jim Merchant; M75A Ron Junghans
The NSW Middle Distance Championships were held on the shores of Wyangala Dam near Cowra. Stunning weather, very open great granite country (see photo with place-getters Wendy McConaghy left and Natalie Grainger right). For some the terrain was steep, and the boulders that littered the hillsides stumped them. Congratulations to the following place getters:
W12A 1st Lena Baracsi; W16A 1st Iida Lehtonen; W35A 1st Nikolett Halmai; M75A 1st Ron Junghans; M50A 1st Peter Annetts; W21AS 1st Joanna Hill; W65AS 1st Barbara Junghans; M45AS 1st Arpad Kocsik; M55AS 1st Ian Jessup; W Open B 1st Wendy McConaghy.
W12A 2nd Lilja Lehtonen; M35A 2nd Istvan Kertesz; W70A 2nd Carol Jacobson; W Open B 2nd Natalie Grainger; Open Easy 2nd Kirsten Horley.
W40A 3rd Andrea Lux; M65AS 3rd Dennis Sparling; W70A 3rd Bryony Cox; M70A 3rd Ross Barr.
The NSW Long Distance Championships were held not far away in Roseberg State Forest. Very different terrain. Not so many boulders, but a lot more forest with fallen timber. Very nice to see our juniors starting to star! Also, some repeat offenders getting placed in both championships.
W12A 1st Lena Baracsi; W Open B 1st Wendy McConaghy; Open Easy 1st Kirsten Horley; M75A 1st Ron Junghans; M45AS 1st Arpad Kocsik; W65AS 1st Barbara Junghans
M35A 2nd Istvan Kertesz; W21AS 2nd Melissa Annetts; M60A 2nd James Lithgow; W70A 2nd Carol Jacobson
W12A 3rd Lilja Lehtonen; M12A 3rd Ben McConaghy; M14A 3rd Cooper Horley; W16A 3rd Iida Lehtonen; W35A 3rd Nikolett Halmai; W40A 3rd Andrea Lux; W50A 3rd Barbara Hill; M65AS 3rd Dennis Sparling
Aniko and Peter welcomed their daughter into the world this weekend: Hanna Fozo becomes Garingal's youngest member, 3.4Kg and 52cm long. Both Aniko and Hanna are well. We look forward to meeting Hanna very soon!
