Awards presented for achievements in 2022

The Winners

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Here are the winning photos and links to the albums for all the photos in each category:

6.1 Person or people (male) (Drake Cup)       

photo by Helen

6.2 Person or people (female) (Colour Cup)      

photo by Tim C

6.3 Action (Albert Welvaert Memorial Trophy)       

photo by Simon

6.4 Scenery/Landscape (President's Trophy)        

photo by Mark

6.5 Building/buildings (The Tom and Mrs Fish Cup)       

photo by Helen

6.6 Humorous or funny (Snapshot Trophy)      

photo by Ged

6.7 Best Group photo (Pete Mitchell Memorial trophy)

photo by Janice

6.8 Hors catégorie 

(I'll add more of the exhibited HC photos when I find them.)         

Photos arrive in this HC category for numerous reasons, not delivered before the deadline, not showing an obvious link to cycling, not taken by the person submitting the photo, exceeding the quota of two photos per category, or not meeting other criteria for the competition. But they are good photos all the same so we are pleased to be able to exhibit them along with those in the main categories.

A big thank you to Ken and Paul Day and Paul James who judged the photos this year, (along with myself). We were pleased to be able to include in the display a selection of Neil Warlands's photos from the 'Manche to Med' (St Malo to Sète) cycle tour he and Patrick did with a Green Jersey group in the Summer.

Since well before my time as a coordinator of the photo competition Jez Darvill at Bowlrite in Tolworth has engraved our trophies. It was a bit of a blow to discover In January that he had retired but this year Adorn Jewellers in New Malden have taken on the task and we are grateful that they could deliver all 13 trophies in time for presentation.

To read Clive Janes' prize winning account of his solo tour in Normandy and Brittany visit our 'SW London Tours' blog pages:

https://souwesters-on-tour.blogspot.com/2022/05/normandybrittany.html

https://souwesters-on-tour.blogspot.com/2022/05/brittany.html

Thank you to Simon for lining up all the contenders' articles and to the committee for reading through all the reports to arrive at the winning entry for this prize.

Thank you to everyone who took part and congratulations to all prize-winners.

With hard won trophies for the Mileage Competitions

We hope that the photos and winning scores will inspire your cycling adventures and witty articles for the Sou'Wester this year. Remember too that we have a special blog, 'SW London Tours' where you can post your reports and photos for any tour you undertake. And note the targets to aim for if you are at all serious about the keenly fought mileage competitions, and indeed, the attendance competitions.

~ Tim