Year: 2022
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Henley Masters Regatta
Our women masters continued their remarkable winning record at Henley Masters Regatta on 8/9th July by taking the Women Masters F 8+ title in a composite crew. Becky Waller, Katie Kapernaros and cox Rachael Haycock powered home their boat to beat a Marlow 8 in the semi-final, then in a tough final beat an American crew…
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Wins at TVP!
Our Wallingford Rowing Club juniors got back into their winning ways with two victories at Thames Valley Park Regatta in J15 coxed fours and WJ18 coxed fours. Special mention to this latter crew for winning in the J18 category with girls aged 14, 15 and 17, and an extra special mention to our Joint Junior…
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Great performance at Henley Women’s
Wallingford had four crews entered at HWR, including three junior boats and our “Aspirational 2x” of Liberty Barlow and Lucy Walker. Our WJ16 4+ “A” crew qualified from the time trial for side by side racing on Saturday but alas drew the eventual winners Henley in the first round. Henley had to beat the course…
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Wins at Reading Amateur Regatta!
Wallingford Rowing Club took 33 crews and 25 boats to Reading Amateur Regatta. A well organised regatta, sunny weather and some excellent racing – what more could you ask for? The club achieved a fine haul of 7 wins across all age groups and both genders. The youngest – our star J14 sculler Lucy Mead…
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Boat naming!
On 2nd June in glorious sunshine we held a boat-naming ceremony at the club – the first for a while! This was to honour Katie Greves, who is not only one of our inspirational Directors of Rowing, but also Wallingford’s most successful Olympian, with a silver medal from the eight at the Rio Olympics in 2016,…
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Unprecedented success at National Schools Regatta (NSR)
NSR is one of the most prestigious regattas in the junior calendar. When was the last time Wallingford won a gold medal? It was in 2012, a sorry record that was smashed at the weekend by the victorious WJ15 4+ of Tabby Gauden, Zara Richardson, Annie Collins, Martha Hudson and cox Katie Mellers. They dominated…
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Going the distance
From 3.30pm on Friday 6th May to 3.30pm on Saturday 7th May the WRC junior squad kept two ergs spinning for 24 hours to achieve an ambition they had first dreamed of six months earlier. They rowed on the landing stages until nightfall, in the gym when it grew dark or rained, outside the gym when other…
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