Year: 2023

Our Juniors brought home yet another record haul: three medals, more than anyone can remember in recent years. Across the whole regatta there was a fierce cross-head wind making their performance in time trials and heats crucial, as the organisers placed the fastest crews in the more sheltered lanes 1 and 2 for the semis…

A sunny, breezy and very successful day in Weybridge this weekend saw the club winning 5 out of the 6 events that we entered. Congratulations to our W4- of Sam Burrows, Emma Butler, Lucy Walker and Ruth Haigh who continued to show why they are ones to watch this summer with a fine win over…

Also taking place at Dorney the day after our regatta, this is one of the major junior events of the year. A medal at JSR is hard to come by, and this year saw (what we think is) a record performance by our juniors. Gold in the WJ16 2x for Tabby Gauden and Annie Collins…

What a magnificent day! Huge congratulations to the organisers for setting up a superb regatta, and to the many volunteers who made it happen. The weather was kind, it ran pretty much on time, and lots of excellent racing. How impressive is it that a club of our size can run a regatta like that?…

Wallingford’s women won again at the bumps races kindly organised by our neighbouring club City of Oxford RC. This is a chance for club crews to take part in a really exciting racing format usually exclusive to colleges – 8s racing nose to tail 1.5 lengths apart in an attempt to get an overlap or…

Our WJ16s represented the Thames Upriver region in the finals at Nottingham last weekend, in this the first regatta of the year (at a surprisingly benign Holme Pierrepont.) The UK is split into 12 regions, each sending a crew across various categories of boat in the J14-16 age groups. Our girls raced in both the…

Huge congratulations to the Juniors for completing their second annual sponsored erg at the weekend, and thanks to everyone who generously donated. They kept two ergs running from 16.30 on Saturday to 16.30 on Sunday, clocking up 580,193 metres and raising £4,644 (at the time of writing.) Half of this will go to the children’s…

We waited. And waited. And waited all week for Bedford Spring Small Boats Head to be cancelled, but no – the organisers were adamant that the Great Ouse would be rowable. And it was. Fast, quite high but perfectly safe, with all the usual low and narrow bridges intact and ready to be whacked by…

Last weekend, the Wallingford Masters travelled to Devon to take part in the notorious Head of the Dart. A 15km race from Totnes to Dartmouth, navigating tributaries, false turns, conflicting streams, moored boats and a chain ferry. It made for a fantastic weekend away and light hearted relief from the build up to the tideway heads, with…

Wallingford’s Juniors put in some solid performances at this Head, the culmination of a winter’s work in quads. Best of all came from our amazing group of J14 boys whose A crew won a silver medal in J14 4x+, overtaking both boats in front of them during the race, as well as a gold medal…