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Friday, 03 Feb 2012
Hard work and dedicated training has paid off as the Harrow Ski Team returned with a coveted Gold medal won at the British Schoolboys’ International Ski Championships held at Meiringen-Hasliberg from 29 January to 1 February. The Harrow skiers won top position for the best combined performance for a non-registered British-based ski team. Each team has four members who ski two runs in both the Slalom and Giant Slalom events and the fastest three skiers’ times count.
The competition awards medals for non-registered and registered teams because many of the registered competitors in the event train throughout the year and ski for Team GB as well as a number of other clubs that compete throughout the winter all over Europe. Splitting the prizes gives boys who do not ski as regularly something to aim for in the Championships. Competition amongst the 39 teams and 166 racers was keen, but there was a good atmosphere throughout the event.
For Harrow, the races did not begin and end last weekend. A squad of boys has been training every week at the Hemel Hempstead Snowdome since the beginning of the Autumn term. At the start of the Christmas holidays, thirty-one Harrovians headed out to the Marmot Basin in Canada for nine days of skiing. A squad of ten boys took advantage of intensive race training provided by an ex-national Canadian team member and the trip culminated in the inaugural ski competition for the Canada Cup between Eton College, Surbiton High and Harrow School. The 34 racers competed in both the Slalom and Giant Slalom disciplines. Harrow won both categories in the Canada Cup as well as the combined result.
Source: Harrow School