A VILLAGE canoeing club from the Central
Province has won two gold, two silver and two bronze medals in their first
international event held last weekend in Cairns, Australia.
Kemper Leva Club (KLC) from Kalo village
in the Rigo district, brought home the medals in Round Five of the Full Zone
FNQ Regatta in Cairns which ran from July 27-28.
Photo: KLC Women’s Team in the 24km Marathon
Race. They won the bronze medal. Below: KLC Men's Team. - Pictures by NELLIE TETAGA
Team official Nellie Tetaga said: “Big
congratulations to the Kemper Club for these outstanding results – bringing
home six medals at their first international race.”
The top medals came from the Open
Women’s 500m sprint and Open Mixed 500m sprint.
The silver medals came from Open Women’s
9km marathon and Open Men 24km marathon while the third-placed medals came from
the Open Women’s 24km marathon and Open Men’s 500m sprint.
Tetaga also thanked Pole Kassman and her
family for hosting the club members in Port Moresby for four months so that
they could train and attend regattas in the city.
All seven members of KLC women’s team
who attended the Cairns regatta will be travelling as members of the Papua New
Guinea Va’a (canoeing) team to the 2013 IX Pacific Mini Games in Wallis &
Futuna in September.
“On behalf of the PNG Canoeing Association,
I would like to congratulate the Kemper Club and their management for doing us
proud,” PNG Canoeing Association president, Willard Stephen, said.
“This only shows that our efforts with
the help of our government for taking the sport to the rest of the PNG paddling
community last year was worth it.”
- The National, July 31, 2013
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