WORLD Championship success was clinched for Wiltshire Youth Canoe Club’s Hannah Brown, 26, who achieved a bronze medal in the Canoe Sprint Senior World Championships in Racice, Czech Republic.
Hannah, who trains at the Adventure Centre in Melksham, was partnered by Banbury’s Angela Hannah, and the pair claimed bronze in the K2 200m event, after beating stiff competition in the heats and semi-finals to win a place in the A Final.
This time last year Hannah sustained a serious shoulder injury during racing in Pau, France, which required reconstructive surgery and months of rehabilitation. Yet, she has had one of her most successful canoe sprint seasons this year.
The K2 partnership with Angela Hannah was newlyformed earlier on the season and they were selected to represent Great Britain at the Canoe Sprint World Cups, followed by the European Championships.
At the Europeans they narrowly missed the podium by 0.1 of a second, so podium success at the World Championships was especially sweet.
After their success Brown said “It’s all still settling in after such a crazy year of rehab and change to be able to put a performance down like ours in the final on Sunday was fantastic! With a new crew combination of Angela and me this year we’ve learnt a lot, having some good racing and some frustrating ones, so to put a good race down for our last one of the 2017 international season is amazing. Getting to stand on that podium will only fuel us onto the winter training we have in the coming months”.
Hannah is also the reigning World Championship in Wild Water Canoe Sprint Racing and will be defending her title in Pau later on this month.
![Melksham Times Past
A column about days gone by in Melksham by local historian Lisa Ellis
The Independent Chapel and Women’s Rights in the 1840s
A document I recently transcribed lists the baptisms performed at the Independent Chapel. This record is especially helpful in that, along with baptisms, a lot of them include birth dates - one of the ways I discover which day someone was born.
The following is taken from a Wiltshire Times article published on 9th November 1878 which reports a speech given during the 100-year services and to celebrate their renovations (what we now know to be the Rachel Fowler Centre).
One speaker, Rev. T. Mann, minister in Trowbridge, talked about the Chapel’s origins when he related how Rev. Honywill came to Melksham and how he’d gone on to remain as the minister for the Independent Chapel for almost 60 years. [Honywill and his family lived on King Street in what we now call “Legion House”.]
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A column about days gone by in Melksham by local historian Lisa Ellis
The Independent Chapel and Women’s Rights in the 1840s
A document I recently transcribed lists the baptisms performed at the Independent Chapel. This record is especially helpful in that, along with baptisms, a lot of them include birth dates - one of the ways I discover which day someone was born.
The following is taken from a Wiltshire Times article published on 9th November 1878 which reports a speech given during the 100-year services and to celebrate their renovations (what we now know to be the Rachel Fowler Centre).
One speaker, Rev. T. Mann, minister in Trowbridge, talked about the Chapel’s origins when he related how Rev. Honywill came to Melksham and how he’d gone on to remain as the minister for the Independent Chapel for almost 60 years. [Honywill and his family lived on King Street in what we now call “Legion House”.]
Read more on our website, the link is in our bio.")
