Source: Angling Trust
Korda Carp Team England comprised: Kia Sanger, Jack Stamp, Billy Flowers, Jamie Londers, Mark Bartlett, Kevin Hewitt, Jacob Wildbore, Daniel Wildbore, Ian Huntington (Manager), Pete Holehouse (Captain).
Korda Carp Team England had practised at the venue in early August as part of their team preparations and another practice match was held in September, with other nations taking part, which helped England identify tactics ahead of the event and the team felt confident they could do well, especially after a very poor showing in the 2012 event.
On the morning of the championships England were hoping for a good draw but unfortunately it didn’t happen and some of the strongest teams got the best draws and, in addition, the weather turned for the worse with strong winds, and rain forecast for the duration of the match.
The first 24 hours of the match were slow and at the halfway point things had only slightly improved to put England into 18th place (of 19). By the final morning of the 72 hour match, England’s Mark Bartlett and Jake Wildbore had climbed to 14th place overnight in A Section with five fish for 8.983kg and B Section had produced five fish for 9.203kg for a very respectable 4th place for Kia Sanger and Jack Stamp. Despite this late improvement England could only finish well back in 10th position and they criticised the venue and their ‘poor luck’ for their failure…
Ian Huntington, Korda Carp Team England Manager said:
“Congratulations to the winning teams Portugal, Croatia, and Kazakhstan and commiserations to the four times World Champions South Africa who finished last, which emphasises the bad luck point as it affected them more than most. Luck played a major part in the outcome due to who had fish in front of them. Looking back there were a number of key elements clearly wrong with this year’s World Championships and the venue failed in several areas to meet the essential criteria laid down by FIPSed rules for waters deemed fit for a World Carp Championship venue. Let’s hope in future that if venues do not meet the criteria then the host country will have to find a venue that does comply, or not to host the event.”
Dick Clegg, OBE International Events Manager, Angling Trust commented:
“Part of my responsibility as a member of the FIPSed technical commission is to try and ensure that the rules set out for World Championships are adhered to by both competitors and host countries. It would appear that in this case the latter, Portugal, failed in complying with the regulations relating to their choice of venue if the information is correct that I received from both my manager Ian Huntingdon and coach Pete Wholehouse then the venue did not comply with the strict guidelines laid down by the rules committee.
We need to address this situation to ensure that such things don’t happen again and I will do everything in my power to make sure that future events and venues are of the standard expected for a World Championship.”
Team Result
1st Portugal
2nd Croatia
3rd Kazakhstan
4th Serbia
Pairs Result
1st Carlos Cardoso / Hugo Marmelo – Portugal
2nd Damir Ladnjak / Tomislav Vuksic – Croatia
3rd Alesandro Crosato / Ivano De Bortoli – Italy
4th Daniel Badircea / Iohan Kraus – Romania
