2007
Yukon River Quest Race Awards
SPECIAL
AWARDS
Spirit of the North Award
(sponsored by Raven Ink):
The awesome women of voyageur Team #50,
Messengers of Hope, who not only were
the happiest and most musical team in
the race, they raised $35,000 for the
women of Nunavut!
Top
Yukoners (sponsored by Chilkoot
Brewery):
Men: Ryan Martin and Dan Girouard of
#20 Kissynew Skookum Asphalt (voyageur)
Women: Pauline Frost-Hanberg of #66
Bold Rush Determinators and Pat Boyde
of #53 CANU-2 (both in mixed canoes)
Top
Senior Award - oldest team
to finish: (sponsored by Inanda Images):
Urs Mader, #53, Down Under 2 from Australia
(solo kayak)
Top
Women's Team (sponsored by
Sportees):
Liz Bosely and Pat McKenna, #25 Yukon
Water Women 2 (canoe)
Red
Stove Award (sponsored by Haywire
Industries):
Joe Evans, #63 Team Bumbazer (solo canoe),
finished at 3:53:56 Sunday morning.
Fastest
Team (free entry in 2008 YRQ):
Voyageur Team #5 Coureur De Bayou, Richard
Ameen - captain (new voyageur record
of 41 hours, 15 minutes)
Solo
Kayak Women
1st. Team 82 Girl from Oz, Liz Winn,
55:56:03 - $1600
2nd Team 21 Grandma Bun Bun, Linda Bourassa,
57:23:36 - $600
3rd. Team 17 Lubbock Flower Power, Ingrid
Wilcox, 57:40:49 - $300
Solo
Kayak Men
1st. Team 18 Tractor Boy, Andrew Jillings,
47:37:02 - $1600
2nd. Team 35 Down Under 2, Urs Mader,
47:43:55 - $600
3rd. Team 39 Down Under 1, Tom Simmat,
48:12:38 - $300
Solo
Canoe
No award – only one in category
(congrats Joe Evans on finishing!)
Tandem
Canoe Men
1st. Team 64 Desnedhe Dene, Norbert
Wolverine and Lionel Campbell, 51:32:20
- $1600
2nd. Team 70 River Bandits, Tony Arcand
and Kevin Mellis, 52:15:20 - $600
3rd. Team 38 Gerties Waiting, Larry
Seethaler and Jan Nyboer, 57:54:25 -
$300
Tandem
Canoe Mixed
1st. Team 51 V&E's Express, Veronica
Wisniewski and Thom Prichard, 50:13:09
- $1600
2nd. Team 66 Bold Rush Determinators,
Pauline Frost-Hanberg and Derek Crook,
50:49:57 - $600
3rd. Team 53 CANU-2, Jim and Pam Boyde,
51:31:29 - $300
Tandem
Canoe Women
1st. Team 25 Yukon Water Women 2, Patricia
McKenna and Elizabeth Bosely, 52:42:17
- $1600
2nd & 3rd (no awards – team
85 finished over 65 hours, and other
team scratched)
Tandem
Kayak Men
1st. Team 32 Evil Geezers, Phillipe
Blouin and Richard Steppe, 47:23:40
- $1600
2nd. Team 31 Wobbly Wallabees, Peter
Anderson and Steve Pizzey, 47:45:08
- $600
3rd. Team 26 Rowers Revenge, Simon Huntley
and Johnathan Mills, 51:12:11 - $300
Tandem
Mixed Kayak
1st. Team 3 Alberta Rivver Runners,
Darrell Wiebe and Jennifer Allen, 53:18:39
- $1600
2nd. Team 87 Pole Pole, Jamie and Allison
Furniss, 60:28:00, $600
3rd. Team 52 Team Kamloopsy, Kam Davies
and Jason Doucet, 60:31:35, $300
Tandem
Women’s Kayak
(no awards – no entries)
Voyageur
Class
1st. Team 5 Coureur des Bayou, (Richard
Ameen, George Melder, John Hoffart,
Edoh Y. Amiran, John Qualls, Liam Price,
Wade Binion, Pete Binion) 41:15:00 (new
record) - $2500
2nd. Team 14 Kissynew, (Martin Bernardin,
Paul Hayne , Derek Eftoda, Zenon Kucheran,
Gordon Moise, Ken Wallis), 42:16:47
- $1000
3rd. Team 20 Kissynew Skookum Asphalt
(Michael Bernardin, Ryan Martin, Brad
Stone, Dan Girouard, Jimmy Peter MacDonald,
Dennis Fosseneuve), 45:08:11 - $500
