Sisters are doing it for themselves, and for others, as well.
In a competition featuring 17 clubs and 294 athletes, the Burnaby Canoe and Kayak Club emerged triumphant, led by two sets of sisters.
With siblings Katrina and Samantha Loutet and Georgia and Ula Langdon accounting for six gold medals, the Burnaby club accumulated 419 overall points at the Pacific Cup last week – sweeping the men’s and women’s under-15 division in the process – to place first in the international event at Whonnock Lake.
The Loutets paired together for wins in the women’s 14-15 canoe pairs in 200-metres, with a winning time of 1:00.27, and the 500m event, in 3:00.22. Samantha finished first in the u15 single paddle 200m canoe, edging out Georgia Langdon with a sub-minute time of :54.79 seconds.
The Langdons teammed up to capture the novice women’s canoe duo 200m race, in 1:04.63, and the novice 500m event with a finish time of 3:02.68.
In the u14-15 women’s canoe-four 500m, the team of Mika Asano, Georgia Langdon, Katrina Loutet and Samantha Loutet prevailed in 3:06.07.
On the men’s side, Quinn Thomson tallied a pair of wins in the u14 kayak and canoe 200m events, with winning times of 58.54 and 1:01.23, respectively. He would also join forces with Sebastian Rangel Ortega, Edward Colhoun and Ivan Strashenko for the u14-15 men’s canoe 500m title, finishing the race in 2:50.62.
Also picking up gold for Burnaby were Asano, in novice women’s single kayak 200m, in 53.87, and the men’s u14-15 kayak duo of Edward Colhoun and Ivan Strashenko, in 41.55 seconds.
Among those in the competition included clubs from as far away as Alberta, the Yukon and Washington State.
In second place was the False Creek Racing Canoe Club, with 393 points, while the Bellingham Youth Paddle Sports club tallied 325 points.
Here are more BCKC results: MENS, novice - C2 200m, 3rd Quinn Thomson/Ivan Strashenko; C2 500m, 3rd Quinn Thomson/Ivan Strashenko. U11 - C1 200m, 4th Lucas Fong. C2 200m, 3rd Thomas Colhoun/Lucas Fong; 4th Andrew Thom/Carson Ko; K4 200m, 2nd Thomas Colhoun/Lucas Fong/Andrew Thom/Carson Ko; C4 500m, 3rd Nikkos Wang/Carson Ko/Andew Thom/Divyesh Chalia. U12 - K1 200m, 4th Harry Colhoun. U12-13 - C2 500m, 4th Lucas Fong/Sebastian Rangel Ortega. U13 - C1 200m, 1st Quinn Thomson; 4th Sebastian Rangel Ortega. U14 - C1 200m, 1st Quinn Thomson. U14-15 - K2 200m, 1st Ivan Strashenko/Edward Colhoun.; C4 500m, 1st Quinn Thomson/Sebastian Rangel Ortega/Edward Colhoun/Ivan Strashenko; C2 500m, 4th Quinn Thomson/Edward Colhoun; K2 500m, 4th Ivan Strashenko/Edward Colhoun. U15 - K1 200m, 3rd Ivan Strashenko.
WOMEN’S, novice - C2 200m, 1st Georgia Langdon/Ula Langdon; C1 200m, 4th Katrina Loutet; K1 200m, 1st Mika Asano; K2 200m, 2nd Mika Asano/Ula Langdon; K2 500m, 4th Samantha Loutet/Paisley McKenzie; C2 500m, 1st Georgia Langdon/Ula Langdon. U11 - C1 200m, 3rd Vanessa Galindo; U14 - C1 200m, 2nd Georgia Langdon; K1 200m, 3rd Mika Asano. U14-15 - C2 200m, 1st Samantha Loutet/Katrina Loutet; K2 200m, 3rd Mika Asano/Katrina Loutet; K4 500m, 2nd Mika Asano/Kira Kishimoto/Georgia Langdon/Katrina Loutet; 4th Shayla Thom/Teona Holdan/Briana Haidac; Crystal Yip; C2 500m, 1st Samantha Loutet/Katrina Loutet; C4 500m, 1st Mika Asano/Georgia Langdon/Katrina Loutet/Samantha Loutet; K2 500m, 2nd Mika Asano/Katrina Loutet. U15 - C1 200m, 1st Samantha Loutet; 2nd Georgia Landon; K1 200m, 4th Katrina Loutet.
