Year: 2022
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Walton Small Boats Head
Many congratulations to Wallingford RC sculler and club committee member Chris Revell who won the overall headship at Walton SBH last weekend. Chris beat all other single scullers, winning Open Sculls in a time of 11.22.8. Fellow sculler Sam Chard came 3rd in a time of 11.30.5, getting ever closer to his Wallingford rival. Must be…
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Wycliffe & Hampton Small Boats Head
WRC took 32 junior crews to Wycliffe Small Boats Head in Gloucestershire and 12 junior crews to Hampton Small Boats Head on the same day, using both trailers and just about every volunteer we could muster. Wycliffe was our J14s first ever race. They did the club proud, Tom Debney and Arthur Liddy winning J14…
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Wallingford Head
A brilliant club effort saw a really well organised Head partly ruined by the dastardly rain – by the time Division 1 was raced the river had risen from yellow to red boards meaning that Division 2 had to be cancelled. Still there was some hotly contested racing in conditions that, apart from the stream,…
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Fours Head and Veterans Fours Heads
We had some superb results at the weekend’s Fours Heads on the Tideway. On Sunday, our Women Masters C 4+ of Emily Booker, Emma Butler, Lou Wymer, Sam Hammond and cox Rachael Haycock won their class by well over a minute and were the second fastest sweep-oared women’s crew on the day, beating all but…
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Club fundraisers
This week has seen two amazing fundraisers for the club. Tara and Pat Mead, Ruth Peters, Susie Coleman, Emma Richardson and Judy Collins (all parents of current Juniors) and Katie Guyatt (from our Masters’ squad) helped at the annual Wallingford Bonfire and Fireworks spectacle, selling sparklers and glow sticks, and collecting donations on behalf of…
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Update on 24-hour sponsored erg
As you all probably know, the Wallingford Juniors organised a 24-hour sponsored erg in May this year, raising an incredible £14,000 to be shared equally between Ukrainian charities and the boat club. £5,000 of that money was donated to MSF (Medecins Sans Frontieres), and £2,000 to DEC (Disasters and Emergencies Committee.) We have just received…
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WRC at the Head of the Charles River
The weekend of 22/23rd October saw two crews from Wallingford racing at the largest head race in the world, in Boston, USA. Our Grand Masters Womens 8 (that’s US parlance for an average 60-70 years age group) of Rachael Haycock, Katie Kapernaros, Becky Waller and Lou Wymer with some crewmates from other UK clubs, produced a…
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Reading SBH
Wallingford RC had an unprecedented 11 wins at Reading Small Boats Head at the weekend, from the Women’s Masters F quad sculls (average age 60+) to J15 coxed quads (age 14). Excellent organisation as always from our neighbouring club, and the sunny, warm weather we have become used to at Reading in recent years. Some…
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Wine and Nibbles at the boathouse
Here at Wallingford RC we believe in rowing hard and playing hard! As well as our forthcoming Club Dinner, much-loved “tea and toast” between sessions at the weekend and a raft of junior celebrations, we have just got our Members’ Room back into action (it had sadly become a repository for spare riggers and dust…)…
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Pairs Head
Many congratulations to Emma Butler and Sam Hammond for winning Womens Masters B 2- at this year’s Pairs Head! A sterling effort particularly considering the work done the previous day at Wallingford Long Distance Sculls. Our mens crews did well too, finishing 2nd and 6th in Club and Intermediate 2- respectively. Our newly appointed Director of Senior…
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