Second Annual Flying Carp Race

Saturday, September 15, 2007 | 8:34 p.m. CDT; updated 2:55 p.m. CDT, Monday, June 30, 2008

BOONE COUNTY — Twenty-seven competitors participated in the Second Annual Cooper’s Cup Flying Carp Canoe and Kayak Race on Saturday at Cooper’s Landing, a campground store and marina located on the 170.5 mile mark on the Missouri River. The competition consisted of two races, an adult and youth race (16 & under), and an adult canoe and kayak race. Bill Rotts and his daughter, Maggie, won the adult and youth race in 19 minutes and 34 seconds, and a canoe team of Eric Henpel and Rod Power won the canoe and kayak race in 19:17.

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