Monday Slalom
Day three of The Sharks at Shepperton triple challenge.
Bank Holiday Monday
Division 3 K1 Men
The winner was Anand Jones (J16) from Lee Valley Paddle Club, was the winner, followed by Gregory Grant (J14) of Salisbury Canoe Club. Protues Canoe Club‘s Kai Dhamari (J14) was third.
Shark Sam Press (J18) moved up to fourth place, earning 167 points. Sam is now ranked 34th in Nations Division 3 with a total of 209 points.
Junior 12, Adam Stephens from Viking Kayak Club came 5th. Finn Darby-Dowman (J12) of Shepperton came next, followed by Richard Aplin (M) from Poole Harbour Canoe Club. In 8th place was Fane Dhamari (J10) of Protues . Lee Valley‘s J10 Adam Bialek coming 9th.
Division 3 K1 Women
This event was an exact rematch of yesterday’s competition with Julia Farrell (J12), of Lee Valley’, taking first place and Susan Templeton of The Itchen Valley Sharks the runner up.
Division 3 C1 Men
Gregory Grant from Salisbury took the honours on Monday.
Division 3 C1 Women
Ellie Grant from Salisbury repeated her victory from the day before.
Division 4 K1 Women
Shepperton’s J10, Isabelle Boyle, again took first spot, with newly Shark paddler Rosalind Sawyer-Edward (J12), taking second. Bronze position went to Elizabeth Bates (J10), followed by her sister Josephine Bates (J8), both from Viking. Another first time Shark Paddler Charlotte Cemble (J12) was sixth. Charlotte attends St. Mary’s Primary School in Southall and comes via the After School Club we run with them.
Division 4 K1 Men
Liubomyr Shvets of Lee Valley won the event, which would have given him second place in Division 3!
Second place went to another paddler new to Slalom, David Edwards of The Sharks, we will be suggesting he races in Division 3 from now on.
Junior 10, Jacob Brown was in third place, he races for Lee Valley.
Mohammed Bouhassane was fourth, the J14 is fast moving up the rankings, having only started Slalom in May. A product with our partnership with Harlesden Primary School.
Gregory Boyle (J10) from Shepperton was fifth, followed by another J10, The Sharks’s Ezikiel Maqbool. Ezikiel is one from our partnership with St. Mary’s Primary School in Southall.
Viking’s J12 Mathew Tagwell 7th followed by two Shark Paddlers, Maximilian Arbuzov (J14) and first time slalom paddler Jonathan Cemble, who like his twin sister has joined us through our St. Mary’s Primary School partnership.
Women’s Division 4 C1
Was won by Rebecca Brown of Lee Valley.
Division 4 C1 Men
This ws a family affair with Junior 12 Kai Dhamari winning and J10 Fane Dhamari was runner up, both paddle for Proteus Canoe Club.
K1 Veteran Men
Shepperton‘s Antony Cowderoy was sandwiched between two Lee Valley Paddlers with Arkadiusz Bialek winning and coming third.
K1 Veteran Women
The honours fell to Ellie Grant from Salisbury.
Canoe doubles
The J14 crew of Rebecca Brown & Julia Farrell from Viking Kayak Club were the winners and top all women’s crew.
First Mixed crew, and second over all was Charlotte Kemble & Grant Underwood from The Sharks.
The first men’s crew was brothers Kai Dhamari and Fane Dhamari, racing as under 14, from Proteus Canoe Club.
The Shark crew of Maximilian Arbuzov and Grant Underwood were 4th and fifth was an all female crew from Viking of Annabel Bates & Davinia Bates.
Officials Race
At each event there is an officials’ race, this is an excellent opportunity to get experience of competition, when it is not your division. Officials are crucial to the sport and the event, without them we do not have competitions. Officials’ events are free to enter.
Paul Mew won the event paddling in a C1, with Richard Moore taking second place and Ivijah Campbell-Bryan taking third.
Thank you for your help and support during the event.
Pan Galactic End Cockpit C2 event
This took place during between first and second runs, it was great fun for both participants and spectators, full report is available here.
Thank You
As always there are a lot of people and organisations that make these events possible so we need to extend our thanks to …
Shepperton Slalom Canoe Club, for lending us their great facilities, for supporting The Sharks to host events and for their fantastic contribution to Slalom Canoeing.
Nauticalia for allowing us access to their carpark.
The Staff and Officials who ran the event, to coaches across the Country who support paddlers and our sport. The Slalom Committee for the work they do in the background that keeps our sport going. To parents for supporting the paddlers (and sometimes racing) and to the competitors, without whom there is no sport.
The Slalom Starts Programme which was run in the build up to this event.
The Sharks are proud to be affiliated to Paddle UK
Published 5th June 2026