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South Island Secondary Schools Champs 2024 race results

Published Sat 30 Mar 2024

Aoraki Development team (including our Events and Equipment teams) finished off the Schools 2024 Dragon Boat season with a busy day of racing at Lake Rua (part of the Lake Roto Kohatu group), off Sawyers Arms Rd, Harewood.

The event brought together students for a day of racing over 250m sprints, a 500m Turns Race, and a 1,000m “Chase-race". To break the day, teams were invited to bring their best chant/ waiata/ haka to challenge their fellow students.

You can re-live the racing from the Drone footage of the day's racing and see the results on Season information > Regatta Results.

In summary, the major results:

Mixed, Small Boat

1,000 m. Three-Turn Race	time	place
Oxford Dragons	05:22.70	1
Darfield Tawera Dragons	06:00.87	2
Papanui High School	06:05.25	3

Girls, Standard Boat

1,000 m. Three-Turn Race	time	place
Rangiora HS Gold	05:13.22	1
Rangi Ruru	05:20.59	2
Kaiapoi High	06:07.08	3

500 m. One-Turn Race	time	place
Oxford Dragons	02:27.03	1
Oxford Phoenix	02:28.59	2
Darfield Tawera Taniwha	02:46.45	3

500 m. One-Turn Race	time	place
Rangi Ruru	02:18.44	1
Rangiora HS Gold	02:19.10	2
Kaiapoi High	02:30.25	3

250 m Sprint	time	place
Oxford Dragons	01:24.61	1
Oxford Phoenix	01:32.91	2
Papanui High School	01:37.35	3

250 m Sprint	time	place
Rangiora HS Gold	01:16.29	1
Rangi Ruru	01:21.88	2
Kaiapoi High	01:26.69	3

Winners of the Mixed Small Boat Sprints Cup: Oxford Dragons
Overall awards:
Winners of the Junior Champions Cup (Standard Boat - All divisions): Rangiora High School Gold
Winners of the Schools Challenge Trophy (Small Boat - All divisions): Oxford Dragons