Biathlon / Biathle competitions and training events 2010
The Dorset Biathlon has an extended closing date to 7th March and the Biathle at Millfield at the end of March you can usually book in up to a week late (contact Howard Jones direct).
Dorset Biathlon 14th March 2010 Entries Entry form Swimmers
Come and Try It March /April /June CATI Information
World Tour (& 2010 GB Race Series) Weymouth 26th June 2010 Weymouth Entry form
Millfield Saturday 27th March 2010 Millfield Information
Portland 2nd May 2010 Entry form
Running Training Running training
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The World Biathle Championships took place on Sunday, 30th September at Larvotto Beach in Monaco. 12 athletes from the Dorset Pentathlete club squad qualified to represent Great Britain following their performances at the British Biathle held during the beginning of August. The Dorset Pentathletes Club is made of up athletes from Poole Swimming Club, Tornadoes South Dorset Swimming Club, West Dorset Warriors Swimming Club and Weymouth Swimming Club. Three Poole Swimming club members Melissa Courtney (Youth C Girls – U15 British Champion), Grace Howie & Kathleen Rafferty (Youth D Girls – U13) all qualified to represent Great Britain.
Melissa was the only athlete from Dorset Pentathlete team to win a Gold medal and become World Champion in the Youth C Girls event. She had tough opposition from South Africa athletes who finished 2nd 3rd, & 4th the race consisted of 500m run/100m swim/500m run, in the first run Melissa was also brought down by one of the South Africans on a sharp bend just before the sea swim, but pulled herself up, and managed to pull away in the sea, with a good transition she gave herself a good lead to finish first 10 seconds ahead to win in 5mins 08, next British girl home was Joanne Puckett (Tornadoes) 6th place in 5mins 38. There were 33 athletes competing in her race from among the following countries GB, South Africa, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Egypt, Spain, Austria to name a few.
Grace Howie finished 6th in 4mins 41 in her debut at the World Championships and Kathleen Rafferty 12th in 4mins 59 she will be in the same age group again next year (Youth D Girls – their race consisted of 500m run/50m swim/500m run). British competitor Ellie Walton won gold in this age group with a winning time of 4mins 26.
In total Great Britain won 9 gold medals full results can be seen on the MPAGB webpage.
Melissa & Grace also won a medal for the World Series competition after both winning their races at Weymouth earlier in the summer, Melissa won Silver and Grace won bronze which were presented at the closing ceremony on Sunday evening at the Stars ‘n Bars restaurant at Monaco harbour.