Raid International Gaspésie: Youth Event Is a Smashing Success Diane
Contract 400119680 ESTABLISHED • MAY 1975 VOLUME 45 / NO 37, SEPTEMBER 18, 2019 $1.50 (Tax included) Raid international Gaspésie: Youth event is a smashing success Gilles Gagné Arsenault. In the 150-kilometre CARLETON – Up to 300 event, the Chandler team of high school students partici- Rémi Castilloux and Alex pated in the Raid international Clément won in 17 hours, 33 Gaspésie’s Youth pre-event minutes and 7 seconds, a on September 12 in Carleton. mere 15 minutes and 42 sec- The students came this year onds ahead of Benoit Bujold from the Gaspé Peninsula, and Antoine Barriault of New Lower Saint Lawrence, the Richmond. North Shore and the Eastern It was the sixth and last Townships regions. The event Raid international Gaspésie has become so popular over under the current format. The the last six years that this year organizing committee’s some students from various spokesperson Daniel Labil- parts of Quebec were refused lois points out that such an due to organizational con- event requires the mobiliza- straints. tion of an enormous amount Like the main event, the of resources, including finan- Photo: G. Gagné prologue features cycling, cial means. The support sys- tem has been stretched to the running, canoeing and orien- Up to 300 high school students from various regions took part in the prologue. teering, but only over 20 kilo- limit. A different and smaller metres. The best time was event will likely be organized recorded by Edward Marsh the event, Re’Anna Wilson, pesian teams, despite the race in 22 hours, 39 minutes next year, including the youth and Mathieu Henry, of École River Jerome, Aiden Paul and presence of teams from eight and 8 seconds, which was 45 prologue.
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