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NOR’WEST NEWS Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
Tuesday <strong>August</strong> 1 2<strong>01</strong>7 11<br />
SPORTS<br />
Lopas helps<br />
national<br />
age group<br />
crew row<br />
to gold<br />
SOLID SHOT: Jade Taylor gets a clean shot in during her bout<br />
at the national karate championships in Wellington.<br />
WINNERS: Jade Taylor (left) and<br />
Britney Aldridge show off their<br />
impressive haul of medals.<br />
Papanui teens karate success<br />
• By Andrew King<br />
PAPANUI HIGH students<br />
Britney Aldridge, Jade Taylor<br />
and Aidan Batt all had<br />
success at the national karate<br />
championships in Wellington.<br />
Aldridge, 18, won gold in the<br />
female 18 and over, under-55kg<br />
kumite, and the female under-21,<br />
under-65kg kumite categories,<br />
as well as bronze in the under-21<br />
kata.<br />
She said the victories were an<br />
incentive, especially now that she<br />
is ranked No 1 in her grades, to<br />
keep working and getting better<br />
at her craft.<br />
“For me to be labelled and<br />
QUICK: Britney Aldridge ducks a kick during one of her bouts.<br />
ranked as a national champ is<br />
awesome . . . and it just makes<br />
me train even harder to make<br />
sure I stay on top,” she said.<br />
“Ever since I was a kid, the<br />
Olympics had always been a<br />
dream of mine. And now that<br />
our sport is in the games, I hope<br />
that 2024 will give me a chance<br />
to make my dream a reality.”<br />
Taylor, 16, won gold in the female<br />
14-17 team kata and female<br />
14-17 team kumite categories, as<br />
well as silver in the female 16-17,<br />
58kg-plus kumite category.<br />
“Being a tomboy and having<br />
two left feet meant ballet wasn’t<br />
an option,” Taylor said. “It feels<br />
good to achieve when you have<br />
put a lot of time and training<br />
into it.”<br />
Batt, 14, received a silver medal<br />
for his efforts in the male 14-17<br />
team kata category. He said it<br />
was all about the team getting a<br />
result.<br />
“Knowing my team and<br />
I trained hours upon hours<br />
perfecting our routine to end up<br />
second in New Zealand is a great<br />
success,” he said.<br />
The event was held from July<br />
15-16 and involved more than<br />
700 competitors across 150<br />
categories.<br />
•Oisin Roberts takes gold in<br />
judo, page 13<br />
FORMER Christchurch Boys’<br />
High rower Jack Lopas has<br />
helped his crew power their way<br />
to gold in the under-23 world<br />
championships in Plovdiv,<br />
Bulgaria.<br />
He was a<br />
member of the<br />
men’s coxless<br />
quad which won<br />
an exciting and<br />
nail biting final.<br />
The crew of<br />
Lopas, Jack<br />
O’Leary, of Central,<br />
Ollie Ma-<br />
Jack Lopas<br />
clean, of Auckland, and Jordan<br />
Parry, of Waikato, fought back<br />
through the field to take victory<br />
over Russia by 0.22sec.<br />
At the 500m mark, the crew<br />
was sitting in fifth position,<br />
but then powered over the next<br />
1000m to push into second<br />
place at the 1500m mark.<br />
The late burst of strength saw<br />
them push into first place with a<br />
time of 5min 41.85sec<br />
Russia were second with a<br />
time of 5min 42.07sec, and Italy<br />
took bronze with a time of 5min<br />
44sec.<br />
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