The 2008 European Ski Racing Championships is off to a great start this season with strong sponsorship backing from Thanet District Council and a champagne launch at the London Boat Show … as featured on BBC news.

Check out the British Water Ski site for Youtube video of this news feed.

More details of the European Championships are here

If you would like to get involved with Roger Lincoln in making movies at the British water ski races this year, email him at roger@linc69.orangehome.co.uk. Both sponsorship and technical involvement is welcome.

Thanks to Roger Lincoln

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On the weekend, former World Champions Kim Lumley and Rob Manchett announced their engagement to be married. No date has been set but Rob (who did ask Tom’s permission) said; “it will be after the 2009 worlds – it has taken us eight years to get this far.”

Austria’s Gunter Schmutz yesterday proudly announced the birth of his & Eva-Maria’s first child - Kilian.

Patrick Donovan (Executive Officer of British Waterski) has provided the PDFs containing the report I submitted to British Waterskier magazine just after the Worlds and kindly allowed me to publish them here.

Karen, Martin, Kurt & Scott Brooks would like to thank everyone for attending the Golf Day on Saturday.

Courtesy of Martine Ciroux, the results of the European Cup in Harderwijk, Holland along with the final results of the 2007 European Cup are published below.

The golf day in aid of the Karl Brooks Memorial Fund, has been moved to September 22nd. The venue is still the South Essex Golf Course situated 5 miles from Junction 29 M25.

EAME Racing Chairman Mike Waterman recently invited Kim Lumley to be the EAME Athletes’ Representative and to front up an EAME Coaching initiative.

Thanks to Sue Flemming, the results (inc. Seniors) from the 5th round of the British national championships are now available here:

Courtesy of Martine Ciroux – President KBWSF/TC-1, below are the results of the European Cup in Geel along with the overall European Cup points after two rounds.

On 19 July, Belgium submitted its bid to the IWSF to host the 2009 World Water Ski Racing Championships. This meets the deadline date that was set by the IWSF Racing Council in May in New Zealand.

Thea Klarenbeek has just published the info pack for the European Cup Race at Dronten (near Harderwijk) in the Netherlands this September.

Thanks to Sue Flemming, the results from the 4th round of the British national championships are now available here:

Thanks to Sue Flemming, the results from the 3rd round of the British national championships (including guests) are now available here:

On 27,28,29 July, the City of Geel, in the Province of Antwerp, Belgium will host the 2nd Round of the 2007 European Cup.

Karen, Martin, Kurt & Scott Brooks write ..

Karen Brooks has provided full details for Karl’s funeral in the UK:

The Diamond Race is without a doubt the most gruelling race in the world.  I have just received the following unofficial results from Kim and Kelly Lumley:

Thanks to Sue Flemming, the results from the 2nd round of the British national championships are now available here:

Thanks to Sue Flemming, the results from the 1st round of the British national championships are now available here:

Marc Avella is looking for a boat to tow him in the Juniors at the Diamond Race. Perhaps the same boat would go on to tow him in the other European Cup races.

Contact Manel Avella at: mavella@netactive.co.za

Former British water ski team members (and nephews of former World Champion Steve Moore) Jamie and Dan Cramphorn are taking part in a boat rally called the Blade Run. See www.bladerun.com.

Download the official results here

 

To the left is a shot of just one of the teams that have arrived at Rotorua just days before the first race of the worlds. The British Team gathered for a briefing by captain Tony Williams this evening at the Novotel (team hotel) just 100m from the water’s edge.

For those not in NZ, the weather is not at all wintery as most people went about their preparations in shorts and t-shirts today. With very little wind in the air, the water is almost miror-like and unless things change in the next few days, we’re in for some exceptionally fast racing, at least here in the first round on Rotorua. There has been an extended period of very little wind in the area lately.

British media reports:  Howard Smith of Cardiff, UK has been selected as Chief Judge for the bi-annual 15th World Water Ski Racing Championships which are being held at Rotorua, New Zealand between May 10th and 20th 2007. Howard will be the first Welshman and only the 3rd British Official to have been selected in 30 years of World Championship racing.

It has been one year now that Filip had his crash during the Marathon race at Lake Elsinore. Some weeks ago, he had surgery, but we are still waiting for the real impact.

Kalender  Waterski  Koersen 2007
Versie  :22/03/07
(All events are in Belgium, unless otherwise stated)
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The following EAME Racing Calendar has been updated from the previous version and provided by the EAME Racing Council 24 March 2007.

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British Team Captain Tony Williams has announced that the British team for the 2007 World Championships is:

Howard Smith writes; Due to circumstances beyond my control I have had to change the date of the Cardiff European Invitation race from August 25 & 26 to September  8 & 9.

The following team will represent Spain in New Zealand:

1) Due to unforeseen circumstances one of the Belgian skiers is unable to go to the Worlds. This means that there is a Belgian F2 boat available that will be in NZ for either a Junior or Women’s F2 skier. For further info please contact Frederik Bastin at fre.team69@gmail.com

Derek Blackmore wrote; “As you know there is a race scheduled for Guernsey with ORDA on weekend of 26/27 May.  The organisers have advised that one of the sponsors has pulled out so the cost for shipping a boat across with 4 people will be £350.00.

British Team Captain, Tony Williams made an appeal today in a bid to form a full British Team at the fortcoming World Championships in New Zealand. Below is his message to the ski racing world.

Thea Klarenbeek has just announced the DutchTeam for the Worlds in May.

Please help remove the 10 mph speed limit on Lake Windermere. Since the introduction in March 2005 lake users have no where to go to water ski. Lots of families are losing out on enjoying  the fun. All the local businesses are losing out and even the Lake District National park is now having to review funding options for the lake due to the restriction.

Courtesy of Günter Schmutz, below is the team that will represent Austria at the World Championships in May.

Courtesy of Vera Van den Bossche, below is the Belgian National Team for the 2007 World Championships.

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