Month End - Number of Posts per Olympic Sport

This end of month is significant because it sees the closure of the first round of the ticket allocation. Our list of requests went into Sportsworld several weeks ago, and now we must wait on tenderhooks to see what we will get!

Coming up in the start of July we have European Triathlon Championships, European Flatwater Canoeing Championships, European Fencing Championships and the Sailing World Championships.

The month will complete with the European Youth Olympic Festival

	Archery	5 posts		Athletics	21 posts
	Badminton	5 posts		Baseball	0 posts
	Basketball	3 posts		Beach Volleyball	2 posts
	Boxing	2 post		Canoe - Kayak Flatwater	5 posts
	Canoe - Kayak Slalom	4 posts		Cycling - BMX	0 posts
	Cycling - Mountain Bike	1 post		Cycling - Road Race	4 posts
	Cycling - Track	13 posts		Diving	2 posts
	Equestrian	3 posts		Fencing	0 posts
	Football	2 posts		Gymnastics - Artistic	7 posts
	Gymnastics - Rhythmic	2 posts		Gymnastics - Trampoline	0 posts
	Handball	3 posts		Hockey	6 posts
	Judo	6 posts		Modern Pentathlon	3 posts
	Rowing	5 posts		Sailing	5 posts
	Shooting	4 posts		Softball	0 posts
	Swimming	21 posts		Synchronized Swimming	0 posts
	Table Tennis	1 post		Taekwondo	4 posts
	Tennis	1 post		Triathlon	3 posts
	Volleyball	1 post		Water Polo	2 posts
	Weightlifting	1 post		Wrestling	0 posts

Campbell Walsh wins European Bronze

Campbell Walsh, won Bronze in the Men’s K1 event at the European Slalom Championships in Liptovsky Mikulas, Slovakia. The 29 year old Scottish paddler received a 2 second penalty due to touching an upstream gate, his final time was 205.81, three seconds behind the Slovakian winner Jan Sajbidor.

In the other Olympic disciplines, Daniel Goddard and Nicholas Smith were seventh in C2, Stuart MacIntosh sixth in C1, Laura Blakeman was sixth and World Championship Silver medallist Fiona Pennie tenth in women's K1.

Other medals from the championships were won by the women’s team of Fiona Pennie, Laura Blakeman and Lizzie Neave won Bronze in the K1 team event. In the Men's K1 team event Campbell Walsh (the Olympic Silver medallist and 5 times World Cup medallist), Richard Hounslow and Huw Swetnam also won Bronze.

The Men's K1 Event takes place on 12th August.

Tim Brabants wins K1 bronze

Tim Brabants won a bronze medal in K1 500m World Cup 3.It's Brabants first ever World Cup medal at this distance.

Tim, who won the individual kayak 1000m (K1) flatwater canoe bronze medal at the 2000 Olympics, has collected a medal at each of the World Cup series events this year.

World Cup 3 (Gerardmer, France) Bronze Medal in K1 500m
World Cup 2 (Szeged, Hungary) Bronze Medal in K1 1000m
World Cup 1 (Zagreb, Croatia) Bronze Medal in K1 1000m

Its now on to the Senior European Championshps at the end of June.

The Men's K1 1000m event takes place on 22nd August.

Wildwater World Champions goes Flatwater for Olympics

Britain's Jon Schofield won K1 kayak 500m sprint gold at the European Wild Water Championships in Bosnia. The 22-year-old Lancashirian posted the two fastest times of the event.

Unfortunately for Jon, Wild Water canoeing is not one of the two Olympic Canoeing disciplines, and so he has also been flatwater canoe racing in a bid to win Olympic gold.

Currently, he is forming a formidable partnership in the two-man kayak (K2), with Ben Brown to achieve GB selection. The final of the 500m event takes place on 23rd August 2008.

Two Modern Pentathlon places secured

Eight qualification places for Beijing 2008 were available from the European Championships because of the high calibre of modern pentathletes in Europe.

But a top-eight finish doesn¹t guarantee a place on the flight to Beijing. Further qualification opportunities will follow, including at the World Championships and World Cup final and only up to two men and two women per country may qualify.

But there will be two British women modern pentathletes, as Heather Fell took silver and Katy Livingston finished sixth at the European Championships.

Georgina Harland, the bronze medallist at Athens 2004 produced the fastest run in the field, but it was only enough for 12th overall.

The Olympic Women's Pentathlon takes place on 22nd August 2008.