{"id":1051,"date":"2021-02-05T05:42:13","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T05:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruataniwha.co.nz\/?p=1051"},"modified":"2021-03-01T15:07:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T02:07:40","slug":"clean-sweep-for-rangi-ruru-at-meridian-south-island-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ruataniwha.co.nz\/index.php\/2021\/02\/05\/clean-sweep-for-rangi-ruru-at-meridian-south-island-champs\/","title":{"rendered":"Clean sweep for Rangi Ruru at Meridian South Island Champs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Mackenzie turned on a stellar weekend for this years&#8217; Meridian South Island Championships where 1,281 competitors from 41 clubs and schools enjoyed beautiful conditions for the weekend of racing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Standout performers Rangi Ruru Girls&#8217; School took home gold in all of the girls age group sweep events. The U16 8+ combination (G Bethell, N Vance, C Muir, P Cross, Z Frost, G Beckett, A Hawkesby, A Acland and coxswain B Pye) put in a particularly impressive performance, winning their final in a time of 7:09.69 with a 15 second margin back to second place getters St Margarets College. While there was no age group event for the pairs, the Columba College crew of Siena Snow and Caitlin O&#8217;Brien were the winners of the Womens Club 2- race with a 20 second margin over the remainder of their field. The Womens Senior 2- race was also dominated by school crews, with Christchurch Girls&#8217; High combination Emily Bowden and Orla Fitzgerald taking line honours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regatta officials found a few safety concerns over the two days, with non-compliance around the heel restraint requirements and a few medallists were caught out with underweight boats. As the temperatures climbed there were a few young ones feeling the heat &#8211; a timely reminder for all athletes, coaches and support teams about the importance of being sun smart and diligent with post-race recovery. Otherwise, there were no accidents and all involved enjoyed seeing out the full programme of racing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A number of new volunteers tried out different roles which was a great help.&nbsp;SI Rowing still need more volunteers and it would be great to see anyone wanting to become a licensed official jump on board (see our <a href=\"https:\/\/ruataniwha.co.nz\/index.php\/resources\/volunteers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Volunteers page<\/a>). As always, a big thank you to all of those that helped out &#8211; the regatta cannot be run without you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-tiled-gallery aligncenter is-style-rectangular\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__gallery\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__row\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:66.85350903392956%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"799\" data-id=\"1062\" data-link=\"https:\/\/ruataniwha.co.nz\/mcarthurpf-16\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/ruataniwha.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/McArthurPF-16.jpg\" data-width=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/ruataniwha.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/McArthurPF-16.jpg\" layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:33.14649096607044%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"800\" data-id=\"1058\" data-link=\"https:\/\/ruataniwha.co.nz\/siclubchamps-6\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/ruataniwha.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/210131_SIClubChamps_00636.jpg\" data-width=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ruataniwha.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/210131_SIClubChamps_00636.jpg\" layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/figure><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"800\" data-id=\"1055\" data-link=\"https:\/\/ruataniwha.co.nz\/siclubchamps-3\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/ruataniwha.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/210130_SIClubChamps_00199.jpg\" data-width=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ruataniwha.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/210130_SIClubChamps_00199.jpg\" layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/figure><\/div><\/div><div class=\"tiled-gallery__row\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"800\" data-id=\"1054\" data-link=\"https:\/\/ruataniwha.co.nz\/siclubchamps-2\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/ruataniwha.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/210130_SIClubChamps_00024.jpg\" data-width=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/ruataniwha.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/210130_SIClubChamps_00024.jpg\" layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"800\" data-id=\"1053\" data-link=\"https:\/\/ruataniwha.co.nz\/siclubchamps\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/ruataniwha.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/210130_SIClubChamps_00005.jpg\" data-width=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/ruataniwha.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/210130_SIClubChamps_00005.jpg\" layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Photos courtesy of Steve McArthur <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rowingcelebration.com\/index\/all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.rowingcelebration.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mackenzie turned on a stellar weekend for this years&#8217; Meridian South Island Championships where 1,281 competitors from 41 clubs and schools enjoyed beautiful conditions for the weekend of racing.&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ruataniwha.co.nz\/index.php\/2021\/02\/05\/clean-sweep-for-rangi-ruru-at-meridian-south-island-champs\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Clean sweep for Rangi Ruru at Meridian South Island Champs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruataniwha.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruataniwha.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruataniwha.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruataniwha.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruataniwha.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ruataniwha.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1083,"href":"https:\/\/ruataniwha.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions\/1083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruataniwha.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruataniwha.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruataniwha.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}