WILTSHIRE paddlers were out in force at the weekend for the annual National Age Group Sprint Regatta at Nottingham’s National Watersports Centre.

Bradford’s Hannah Brown was in the gold-winning crews in senior women’s K2 200 and K4 500 and also won silver in K2 500.

Brown is now awaiting the outcome of the international selectors meeting choosing the squad for August’s World Championships in Milan.

It was Wiltshire Youth’s Calum Gingell, Devizes’ Spencer Armstrong and Bradford on Avon’s Ed Nightingale who were the golden boys of the weekend, bagging three national titles between them.

Gingell and Armstrong won both U16 200m K2 and 1000m K4 events and were runners-up in the U16 K2 500m event.

Armstrong also went on to bag K1 bronze medals in the 200m and 500m races.

Nightingale, racing in the U14 age group, was part of a mixed team who secured victory in the U14 K4 1000m and also went on to win three bronze medals in U14 K2 200m, 500m and 100m races.

In the girls’ events it was Wiltshire Youth’s Flossie Ball who was on medal-winning form with Welsh partner Elise Churchill, also coached by Kevin Bowerbank at Wiltshire Youth, in the K2 200m event, bagging a bronze on the first day’s racing.

Ball went on to win a silver in the U14 K2 500m and a further two bronze medals in the U14 K2 1000m and 500m K4 events.

Wiltshire Youth U16 paddlers Harriet Quigley, Freddie Brown, Jodie Ball, Lucy Brown and Natalie Day and U23 Connor Henley, Milly Webb, Emily Thomson, Claire Brown and Eve Wright all completed a full programme of racing alongside Bradford on Avon’s Connor Withers.

Quigley and Freddie Brown both showed promising form making the B finals and Ball and Lucy Brown finished 5th in the K2 1000m event and a creditable first in the K2 500m B final.