Year: 2023

The club had a most successful visit to this regatta on 30th July. We came within a hair’s breadth of winning the Victor Ludorum with our 10 wins, denied mostly because they were in smaller boats rather than the 8s you need to pick up the desired points. Nevertheless, it was a fantastic club showing, with…

Some of our intrepid Masters went to Munich to race in this year’s European Masters Championships. Despite storms causing the postponement and cancellation of some races, Wallingford athletes came home with wins in composite crews in WMasF and G 4+ (Janet Dutton) and in WMasC and E 8+ (Katie Kapernaros, Lou Wymer, Rachael Haycock), the…

The last major event for our juniors was at Strathclyde Country Park in Scotland this weekend. We took a record number of crews (36) and achieved both a record number of finalists and a record number of medals! The conditions were very windy – a stiff headwind on Friday and Saturday, and a howling cross-tail…

Congratulations to our two Masters crews who brought home gold medals from this regatta! The WMasB 2- of Sam Hammond and Emma Butler bookended their main season with a much deserved win over Exeter RC in the semi-final and a Scottish composite crew in the final, having won the WMasB 2- title at the Pairs…

Our W4- of Ruth Haigh, Lucy Walker, Sam Hammond and Emma Butler did Wallingford RC proud at HRR. If you missed the YouTube coverage it is well worth looking for – they rowed brilliantly, looked super smart and there was some lovely commentary. Having entered just to get a taste of the Henley experience in…

Wallingford has offered free membership to refugees from war and conflict for the past 18 months. We’ve been proud to host two Ukrainian boys who have honed their rowing skills (and their English) as part of our J16 squad. Pictured here at stroke is Tymur Shatalov, with Toby Mould at bow, in their 2x at…

What a regatta to remember! We had two crews racing on Sunday, a day for Wallingford to be proud of. First up were the 4- in the Lester Trophy for Aspirational Club Coxless Fours. This crew has had a great season so far, winning or close to winning at all their regattas and heads, and…

The weekend also hosted a major championships event. Only two Wallingford crews represented the club, and they both won! Congratulation to Andy Hull (who made it back to Reading the next day to support his daughter Alice in her WJ14 quad) for winning Mas Lightweight C 1x and to Janet Dutton for winning WMas Lightweight…

The first baking hot weekend of the year saw Wallingford take over 40 crews to this highly competitive pre-Henley Women’s and HRR regatta. Racing from 9 am through to nearly 7 pm, there seemed to almost always be a Wallingford crew on the course to cheer. There was a great Wallingford camaraderie off the water…

Meaning “long row” in Italian, it lived up to its name for four Wallingford Masters who rowed a total of 35kms in 4.5 hours around the canals and sea channels of Venice on Sunday 28th May. The Vogalonga was founded in 1974 by a group of Venetians protesting against the deterioration of the city and the…