French rescue build-up
Top British Lifesavers ship out to spoil French Rescue party.
This weekend in Dinard France, all the best lifesavers from around Europe will be competing at the French Rescue.
Athletes will be testing out how much early work they have put in this winter in the first international lifesaving competition of the year.
Lifesavers from France, UK, Germany and many more countries will be there to test out the pool, ocean, and beach.
Competition will start on Friday 26th May in the pool, followed by another pool day on Saturday.
Come Sunday and Monday the competitors will move to the ocean and beach events, where the British athletes hope to spoil themselves.
Ellie McCloy, Bob Whittaker, Piran Phillips, Evie Wong, Kiran Gammon, Mat Rowlands and Grace Young will all be competing as team United Kingdom.
The Brits won’t be found on poolside, as they will only be competing in the beach and ocean events.
A hot and sunny forecast with no swell, the event is set to be a pre-cursor for Europeans later this year in Belgium.
Each athlete will be asking questions and look to put things right from the first whistle.
McCloy was the top European ironwomen at last years World championships and won the Red Bull Ocean Rescue in February, can she still reign supreme?
Whittaker proved to mix it in with the nutri-grain boys at the Worlds and Summer of Surf, but with Frenchman Santo Etcheverry coming hot of a winter in Aus, who’s going to be the ironman?
Phillips showed he is one of the best on the ski right now in Italy last year, but still yet to win an international medal, can he beat World championship runner up Nordin Sparmann from Germany in the ski?
Wong was brilliant at the Worlds last year, winning medals on the ski and on the beach at youth, but she now goes up into the open category, does she have what it takes to step up?
Gammon brought home silverware at last years worlds in the youth and remains a youth for another year, a natural born swimmer, a first winter of ski paddling, can the young Gammon shoutout his name to the rest of Europe?
Rowlands showed he can still do it on a ski at the master’s world championships and caps for Wales, the Welshman loves to spoil a party and will be gunning to be the first Brit.
Young is fresh over from Australia, living and training at the City of Perth, the British turned Aussie youngster made finals at this years Aussies in u19, can she write a name for herself in the colder water from the get go?
With a week to go until the Great Britain trials for selection to go Europeans, these athletes will be getting valuable competition time early on, and could in good condition leading into a busy race season.
