Crew Bronze and Particular person Silver Medals for Irish Shore Angling Crew
The World Shore Angling Championships have been held in Peniscola, on Spain’s Mediterranean coast final week. The Irish workforce had travelled over the earlier week and put in lengthy hours of observe, attending to know the seashores and species within the space and honing their rigs, bait presentation and ways. And all of the observe paid off handsomely!
Teamwork
The Mediterranean is a troublesome venue, with completely totally different circumstances and species than our anglers are used to at residence. Spain, Italy, France and different southern European nations have been the new favourites. However the Irish workforce threw a spanner within the works, with a incredible outcome on the primary day of competitors having them main effectively, with 3 zone wins and all 5 anglers within the prime 11 total. But it surely’s a 4-day competitors, and the house groups realized from that first day. Day 2 noticed Italy put in a robust efficiency to take over on the prime of the leaderboard, with Eire dropping to third behind Belgium.
One other nice efficiency on Day 3 noticed Eire take 2nd on the day, and transfer as much as 2nd total, with Italy in a commanding place after one other good day for them. It was all to play for on the final day, with any of the highest 6 or so groups in with an opportunity of a podium place. And certainly it was Spain, in sixth place, who leapfrogged a number of groups into 2nd total on that last day. Eire put in a robust efficiency to take bronze, only one level behind Spain, with Italy taking the general title.
Congrats to the Irish workforce of Troy Francis, Chris O’Sullivan, JP Molloy, Derek Kenrick, Tim O’Sullivan and Ciaran Fogarty, with workforce managers Darren Ryan and Ruairi Coleman offering good help.
Particular person Success
The Irish workforce proved how good theyeach have been on Day 1, with 3 zone wins, a 2nd and a third (20 anglers per zone!). Follow had gone effectively, however a sudden inflow of contemporary water meant the species that they had been catching disappeared, they usually needed to goal different fish. A rig devised by Troy Francis proved very profitable and was put to nice use by the remainder of the workforce, particularly Chris O’Sullivan from Tralee, who went into the ultimate competitors day mendacity in fifth place. A superb zone win, and 2nd total on the day, noticed him leap to second place and a world silver medal, behind Spanish angler Juan Canoves. An enormous effectively performed to Chris, no stranger to those stories, who has put in large work over the previous couple of years to make the Irish workforce.
Pathways
The outcome on international shores is testomony to the work put in in any respect ranges by he Irish Federation of Shore Anglers, significantly the coaches of youth and junior groups. A pathway to success at nationwide, youth and senior degree, is in place and can hopefully carry continued success for out sea angling groups over the approaching years. Properly performed to all concerned!
