FANS News

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George Duggan - Athletics

George has followed on with his successes in 2011 with winning the Silver Award, which is for individuals under 21 who have represented their County or Region and exceeded expectations in their sporting achievement, at the Maidstone Youth Sports Achievements Awards on Friday 27 January 2012 .

He followed this on Saturday 28 January 2012 with winning the U15 Southern Cross Country Championships at Stanmer Park, Brighton. He was up against 211 other runners from across the South of England so again a great achievement and an exciting start for an equally successful 2012.

George has also been awarded a small training grant from the Rotary Club.

31/01/12

 

 

Harry Sloan - Rugby

Harry has had a very successful 2010/11 season. His achievements have included selection for the England U18 School and Clubs teams, London and South East U18 team and the Kent U18 team.
Harry is currently a member of the Harlequins Academy where he hopes to continue to progress and develop his Rugby.

29/07/11

Christine Bordean, Jack Cutler, Adam Axford, Elle Osborne, Samantha Riddell, Katie Simpson & Chris Simpson - Karate

Seven FANS members who all belong to the Kimura Shukokai Karate club have recently returned from the KSI European Karate Championships 2011. In the cadet events, Christine Bordean won bronze medals in the girls' fighting and kata events. Elle Osborne and Samantha Riddell both performed well and narrowly missed out on medals. Jack Cutler and Adam Axford faced each other in the boys' final with Jack proving to be the strongest on the day and taking the gold medal. Jack also took silver in the boy's kata competition.

In the ladies team events, Katie Simpson led the ladies fighting and Kata teams to silver and bronze medals respectively. Katie beat the current world individual champion on her way to helping the team to silver. In the individual events, Katie took bronze in the ladies fighting and silver in the kata event.

In the veterans lightweight fighting division, Chris Simpson fought well to reach his first international final. At the end of normal time the scores were all square but Chris lost out in the sudden death extra time period and had to settle for the silver medal.

29/07/11

 

Mary Jenkins - Athletics

Mary has recently returned from the World Transplant Games in Sweden with four medals. This was the first time that she has competed at the World Games, achieving a gold medal in the 200m, silver in the 400m and bronze in the 800m and mini marathon (60-69 age group). She also participated in the 3k road walk.

Mary has also recently returned from the 2011 British Transplant Games in Belfast with five gold medals in the Super Vet Class.

22/09/11

 

Jemima Yeats-Brown - Judo

Jemima recently won the European Championships in Malta to become the European Cadet Champion at Under 63kgs. She won all four fights in convincing fashion to take Britain’s first gold medal at the event since 2005 beating opponents from Croatia, Poland and France before defeating Slovenian Patricija Brolih in the final. She did not have a single point scored against her in the whole tournament, and sealed the most significant win of her career in style as she claimed the European crown by Ippon.

27/06/11

Hollie Harrington - Lacrosse

Hollie has just been selected to play Lacrosse for the Under 19 England squad. She will be travelling to Hannover, Germany from August 3 - 13 to compete against 12 other teams in the World Cup.

England are currently bronze medal holders and they will be hoping to better this performance in the summer. They are in Pool A which means they will face the toughest opposition of America, Australia, Canada and Japan.

Hollie has been training every day individually and has team training sessions both days of the weekend. It’s hard work but Hollie cannot wait to put the England shirt on her back and stand in front of spectators singing the national anthem with people that are not only her team mates but her friends.

So far the World Cup build up has been a great experience for Hollie and she cannot wait to see what the future has in store for her in terms of her Lacrosse career.

19/04/11

 

Michael Rowlands and Madison Rowlands - Freestyle Skiing

The Rowlands family went to the Brits in Laax, Switzerland from 20-27 March 2011 and FANS members Michael and Madison came home with a clutch of medals.

Michael was very pleased to win a silver medal in the Halfpipe, a bronze medal in the Protest Slopestyle and a bronze medal in the Giro Big Air being the youngest in his category.
Madison won four gold medals in her age category in the Halfpipe, Protest Slopestyle, Trespass Skiercross and Giro Big Air but also placed well in the overall results where she was competing against girls up to 18 years older than her.

Overall they had a great time in Switzerland and apart from winning medals enjoyed a fun time at the freestyle academy.

04/04/11

Graham and Julie Williams - Triathlon

FANS members travel to Kenya to teach Swimming and water awareness to under privileged children.

Graham and Julie have been members of the Kent FANS scheme for over six years. In addition to being a GB age group Triathlon team member, Graham is a British Triathlon coach and also an ASA Swimming teacher. Julie is a current member of the GB age group team and was also Bronze medallist at the 2008 European Triathlon Championships.

Graham had read that the accident rate was high in Kenya around the coast because there were very few Swimming instructors and even less public Swimming pools, especially in the poorest areas of Kenya. They decided that they would both like to give something back to the sport and use their knowledge to help others, so they chose to travel to Mombasa in Kenya to teach Swimming and water awareness to children at a local primary school.

For more information about their trip please visit their website

19/02/11

  Max Moss – Skier

Max is a member of the British Children’s Ski Team and Team Evolution. He has won numerous national Skiing championships and his most recent success was at the Anglo Scottish Championships in Les Houches, France.

Commercial Program Director for Team Evolution, Yannick Green, said “Max has managed to show incredible amounts of tenacity and professionalism in his approach to alpine racing. He out performed all of his competitors by finishing on the podium at the Anglo Scottish championships in Les Houches, France. He is already showing a lot of potential for the future, this year being his last year of the children’s category. Max will be making a huge leap into the junior men’s category next winter.“

“Max has what it takes to compete in next year's Junior men’s category as he has been training hard and forerun in some junior men’s races this year, putting in respectable times. He is not the most physical of skiers but this will come as he develops over the years and in the gym with his strength and conditioning programme. Furthermore, Skiing intelligently is another ball game; Max understands the terrain and patterns of the course which makes him a cut above the rest, as most rely on their natural strength for their age. Skiing with intellect at this age really is a gift and bodes well for the future when the courses get harder and the races get faster.“

Nov/Dec 10

 

Ken Treadwell - Triathlon

Ken is a member of 7Oaks Tri Club and along with other members of the club achieved great success at the National Triathlon Sprint Championships held at Milton Keynes.

In the Men's 65-69 age group, Ken won beating the next athlete by 15 seconds.  Ken explained: "I came out of the water at the same time as the other competitor who eventually came second.  He passed me on the bike and had built up a lead of just over a minute by the start of the run, but I put my head down and ran hard.  With about 500 metres to go, I realised that I could catch him and with about 300 metres to go I passed him.  It was a great race, but I was more tired after this than other sprint races I have done.

Further to Ken's recent success at the National Sprint Championships, he has also competed as a member of the GB Team in the European Triathlon Olympic Distance Championship in Athlone, Ireland (Olympic distance of 1500m swim; 40k bike; 10k run). On a wet and gale-force windy day, Ken managed to come second in his age group and was really pleased with his silver medal.

To cap it all, Ken also competed in the British Triathlon Olympic Distance Triathlon Championship, held at Bedford, and managed to win his event; so he is now the current British Champion, in the 60-65 age group, for both the Sprint and Olympic Distance events – something he had only ever dreamed about achieving.

 

John Allen - Modern Pentathlon

John is a member of North Kent Modern Pentathlon Club. The modern pentathlon consists of five events - swimming, running, fencing, shooting and horse riding. He has been a swimmer with Gravesend and Northfleet Swimming Club since he was 9 years old and took up Pentathlon just over a year ago. John has recently been selected for the Pentathlon GB World Class Talent Programme.

This follows John's successes last year when he won the Latvian National Youth Tetrathlon (no riding) in Riga and came 4th in the British Youth Pentathlon Championships in his age group.
John has recently been selected for the GB Team to compete in an international competition against athletes from Germany, Latvia, Canada, Spain and Singapore.

25/03/10

 

 

Xander Alari-Williams - Swimmer

Xander trains in Sevenoaks and at the end of July at the nationals he won two bronze medals for the 100m and 200m breaststroke. In the semifinals of the 100m breaststroke he achieved a time of 1m04.70s which places him top on the national ranking.

Xander also competed at the UK school games in Wales and took the gold and a new championship record in the 100m breaststroke, the silver medal in the medley relay for East England and a bronze medal in the 200m breaststroke.

17-09-09

Mary Jenkins - Participant in British Transplant Games

Mary Jenkins won 3 gold medals in the 800m, 400m & 200m at the 2010 British Transplant Games in Bath. She also won a silver medal in the 3km walk and was awarded the overall cup for the best Female Super Veteran category. Mary was a recipient of two ground breaking transplants of Insulin cells into her liver in 2003/2004.

26-08-10

 

Dean Terry- Flatwater Kayaker

Dean competed in the Bochum International Regatta in Germany back in June and finished 1st in the 500metres and 1st in the 1000metres

Next Dean was off to Poznan, Poland for the Junior European Championships where he came 6th in both the 500 and the 1000metres where there was over 30 countries competing.

Next after two weeks hard training Dean was off to Moscow where he was to compete in the World Junior Championships against over sixty countries, a big task for the Lyminge teenager who does most of his training on his own, 8th in the World at 1000m and 11th in the 500m is a pretty good result. Now he is having a bit of a rest before he tries to get selected for the Kayak Marathon World Championships in August.

11-08-09

Peter Sizer - Parachuting

Peter, having been a member of the Fans scheme for the last couple of years, previously came second at the British Nationals, this year he went one better and won the Senior Accuracy Competition at the British Parachute Championships, which were held in Germany!

11-08-09

Gemma Collins - British Female Elite Mountain Bike Racer

Gemma began her early sporting career involved in athletics and kick boxing. In 2002, a fractured meta-tarsal led to a change of sport as she decided to take up mountain biking.

Her first mountain-bike race was a National Points Sport race at Catton Park Hall – in muddy conditions, requiring a lot of running. Gemma won this by nearly 20 minutes and has been hooked on mountain-bike racing ever since.

In 2006 she entered into Elite level racing with consistent top 10 finishes. In 2007 she achieved a top 5 British ranking (women) and participated in her first World Cup. In 2008 she progressed to 3rd placed British woman in National Points Races.

Gemma has recently decided to reduce her working hours to focus on her cycling career. Her future aim is to wear the GB kit and ride with pride!

Her commitment to the sport extends beyond the bike, she is an ambassador for Sustrans and supports their ‘Bike it’ and ‘Beauty and the Bike’ schemes which promote cycling to young people.

02-10-08

 

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