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Ice Breaking Drills
Winter Sporting Success - The Alpine season kicked off with the Regimental alpine ski team training and then competing in the Royal Artillery Championships in Les Deux Alpes, France. The team enjoyed success across all categories; Capts Dorey and James winning individual races in the Senior, SSgt Ternent achieving top-three results in the Veteran category and Gunners Owen and Mitchell in the Novice category. Capt Dorey won the overall individual combination. The team then progressed onto the Divisional Championships at Ex PIPEDOWN, where they achieved a third-place result in the Team Giant Slalom race and won a trophy for the best Royal Artillery team at the championships. Crucially, they managed to qualify a regimental team to the Army Championships, to compete with the best 100 racers from across the Army. The team had some great individual results at the Army Championships and had racers represent the RA Corps team in every team event. This season was one of the most successful in recent years and has set an excellent foundation for next year!
The Nordic season began in Sjusjeon, Norway where, with other RA teams, preparation began, consisting of four weeks hard skiing and range work culminating in two races where 29 Cdo RA performed to a standard suggesting this year they may qualify for
Turning Blue to Green
the Army championships. The competitive season commenced with the RAC, AAC and RA champs at Ex WHITEFIST in Hochfilzen, Austria. After the week-long competition, the unit placed 10th overall. Ex PIPEDOWN was the 1 UK Divisional champs in Les Contamines, France, the unit were able to pull it out of the bag and deliver some exceptional results. Most notably Bdr Pawlowski who consistently placed in the top 10 in every race. Ex RUCKSACK is for the top Army, Navy and RAF teams across both divisional competitions. After a gruelling two weeks of racing, the team placed 19th but the achievement was in qualifying for the Army’s; the first time in over ten years.
The snowboarding team spent the season in Flachau, Austria at the Gunner Championships, Ex SNOWSTORM and then the Army Championships, Ex SNOWJACK. The team saw success in all categories at Ex SNOWSTORM with Sgt Harvey and Bdr Bowyer achieving 1st and 3rd overall respectively in the Advanced category, and Cpl Hammond RM and WO2 Parker 1st and 3rd overall in the Novice category.
“United we Conquer”