Competitions
17 September 2024
ENGLAND OUTSHINED AT FREESTYLE FEEDER CHAMPS
Hopes of a medal for the Angling Trust Ringerbaits England team in the FIPS-ed Freestyle Feeder World Champs were dashed in pretty brutal fashion, as they failed to make any impression on the leaderboard over the two days to trail home a disappointing fourteenth.
Scoring 29 points on day one to sit in fifteenth, the team returned the same score for a 58-point final tally on Bulgaria’s Plovdiv rowing course, leaving team captain Phil Ringer to openly admit that the side are a million miles away from competing, let alone winning a medal.
Romania’s B team got the tactics dead right on the day, winning gold with 18 points and also having the top individual and new World Champion in Bogdan Vuculescu who scored a perfect two section wins. Silver went Hungary’s A team with 29 points, Slovakia’s A team picking up bronze with 33 points.
Carp and carassio were the main targets, but England never quite got to grips with catching the carassio despite a couple of good results across the team. It’s all left Phil deflated after a reasonable week of practice.
“We’re not good enough at the moment and certainly not good enough to think we should be winning medals,” he admitted. “We need to sit down and take a good look at where the team goes in the coming years. There aren’t any excuses to be made – we weren’t at the races, pure and simple.”
Top performer for England was Alex Dockerty with nine points (a fourth and fifth in section), Wayne Bartholomew notching 10 points with an eighth and a fine second in section on day two. Phil totalled 20 points with a seventh and thirteenth, Nick Speed adding 10 to the tally on day one before making way for Joe Jaggar on day two who scored nine points.
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