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British Rollerski Champs & Aviemore Hillclimb reports By Peter Thorn British Rollerski Championships 2007 ThThe weekend of the 15/16th Sept saw the two largest British rollerski races of the 2007 British Rollerski Series. On Saturday the Huntly Nordic Ski Club hosted the British Rollerski Championships 2007 at the Huntly Nordic & Outdoor Centre. Despite the heavy rain 69 skiers from all parts of the UK and of all standards and ages competed over 1.8 to 7.1km courses. The senior men's and ladies 7.1km races were both won by 17 year old skiers racing up an age category: Andrew Musgrave (Huntly Nordic SC) and Fiona Hughes (Yorkshire Dales CCSC). Both skiers set new course records of 18min 55sec and 23mins 05secs, these times were even more remarkable considering the wet conditions which saw the majority of skiers skiing far slower than usual. The Bob Lacy Memorial Trophy for first male veteran (and second overall) was awarded to Peter Kuznetzov, a Russian skiing for London Region Nordic SC. The U18 5.1km mens race was won by Cammy Dudgeon (Cairngorm Biathlon & Nordic SC) who just beat Calum Smith of Huntly NSC by 1 second. While in the U18 ladies race Deborah May of Huntly won by just 2 seconds from Marsha Dixon of Cairngorm. The U14 2.1km boys race was won by Ruaridh Newman (Huntly) and the girls U14 by Katy Homyer of Cairngorm. A competitive Novice race over a 1.8km flat course had a field ten skiers from the age of eight up to adult. The first boy was eight year old Oliver Newman who came 4th overall and first girl was nine year old Lynne Gray, who came 8th overall; both Huntly NSC. At prize giving Evgeny Gorbenko, on behalf of the Russian contingent of skiers praised the standard of competition and warm welcome they had received in Huntly. He presented a certificate and calendar of Russian cross country skiers as a momento to the Huntly club.
Scottish Rollerski Championships On the Sunday skiers moved over to an equally wet Cairngorm for the Scottish Championships hosted by Cairngorm Biathlon & Nordic Ski Club. These races took the form of a hill climb up the Ski Road with seniors skiing 5.4km and gaining 287m of height, the U18 3.1km and 224m of height and the U14 2.25km and 147m of height. Once again Andrew Musgrave and Fiona Hughes won the senior races in new course records of 18min 39secs and 23min 47secs. In the U18 men's race Calum Smith reversed the previous days race order coming in ahead of Cammy Dudgeon. Alison Duncan of Cairngorm won the U18 ladies hill climb. The U14 boys & girls races were won once again by Ruaridh Newman and Katy Homyer. These two races formed races 6 and 7 of the British Rollerski Series. The final race of the series is at Lancaster on the 29th September. Rollerski race calendar 2007 and results
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