Recent Competitions

Over the last few weeks, there have been a couple of competitions with great Masters representation.

On the weekend of the 25th & 26th of July, Australian Ice Racing ran the Duke Trophy in honour of great Australian speed skater, Len Duke.

Three state teams (Queensland, Victoria and New South Wales) competed for the prized Duke Trophy, with the winning team entitled to the bragging rights as the best short track state team for the year.

Masters compete in 12 races in three sessions over the two days, which makes for some very tired bodies, skating 2 x 1500, 4 x 500m, 4 x 1000m, 1 x 3000m and 1 x 3000m relay. The skaters race placing gains points for the overall team total, so there are no heats, or finals.

New South Wales took home the overall competition honours. Two special awards are also presented in the Spirit of the Duke Trophy for the skater who personifies the spirit of the competition and the Len Duke Fairest and Best Trophy.
Toby Dite of Victoria took out the spirit of the Duke Trophy and Frank Anderson took out the Fairest and Best award.

Duke Trophy Protocol

On the weekend of the 6th and 7th of August, the Trophée Léon Quaglia was contested in Chamonix, France.

Eight Master skaters from 5 countries, including my good friend Spaniard Marcello Bresin competing in his first ever short track event after having competed in the Masters division of LT for several years.

Barrie Barreto from Scottish Club Dundee took out the overall division win from Joel Martin of France. Barrie is a keen photographer and videographer with a full compliment of video on his YouTube page.

Congratulations Barrie.

Trophée Léon Quaglia Protocol

With the season now officially underway, I look forward to updating more results soon.