Medals and cup for Far South Coast dragon boaters at Cross Border Championships

Two days of racing at Albury's Gateway Lakes kicked off with the 1kilometre pursuit race where a women's team started in the lead by 100metres and the open's team had to catch up to cross the line together after two laps of the oval course.

It's all about working together to get the fastest time achievable by both crews. Southern Waratahs came in the bronze medal position with a time of 7.16 minutes.

In the 200metre relay, the women's team started and as they crossed the 200metre line the open team took off.

After the first heat the Southern Waratahs were sitting in silver position and comfortably held onto the place in the grand finals in a time of 2.12 minutes.

For the second day racing started with 500metre racing with mixed crews in 20s boats.

Across three heats Southern Waratahs managed to improve their times from 2.26 minutes to 2.21 minutes to ensure a third place, taking two third places and a second in the heats.

The final race was the fast and furious 100metre splash and dash.

The Southern Waratahs mixed crew consistently produced second places in each of the three heats ahead of the ACT Dragon Flyers and NSW Western region Kombo Dragons to secure the silver medal in a time of 00.31.58.

Points for all races were accumulated to give Southern Waratahs an overall silver position in the Senior B Southern Cross Cup, a pleasing result given the team was racing with four to five men in open's and mixed crews and not the full complement of 10 men.

The regatta was also a chance for sweep Kerri Freeman, of Tura Beach to move to the next sweeping accreditation - level 3, making her the fifth sweep in the Merimbula Water Dragons to be successfully assessed at that level.