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Charlie Lodge
Discipline: Raft Racing
Class: R4 & R6
Hometown: Nazeing, Essex
Living Now: St Neots, Cambridgeshire
Current Boats: Bull Raft
Shaft of choice (straight or bent ): Straight
Big Volume or Tight and technical: Tight and Technical
Favorite Paddling Spot: French Alps
Achievements: European R4 H2H Gold Medal, World R4 H2H Silver Medal
What’s Next... Ambitions / Plans: Win a medal at European R6 Championships
Best things about paddling: Being able to travel to some great places and race against the best teams in the world.
Best Boating Moment: Night training in Al Ain at the World Championships – everything clicked into place and enforced a huge amount of confidence in the team going into the competition.
Worst Boating Moment: Nailing the sprint line in Al Ain to find out there had been an issue with the timing beam (I’m still convinced that was a medal winning run).
Other Hobbies: Gym, Boxing, Reading
Ultimate Worldwide Destination: New Zealand
Favourite Stuff:
Food: Chicken and Rice
Drink: Guinness (when not in training)
Music: Depends on mood.
Movie: Hot Fuzz
Read: Way of the Peaceful Warrior
Heroes: Ranulph Fiennes
Villans: Nigel Farage
More : www.britishrafting.com
