Year: 2024

The club has just purchased a brand new Filippi carbon-wing 8+, thanks to multiple fundraising efforts, donations and grants. It will be racing down the Henley Royal Regatta course on Tuesday 2nd July. We have named it “Tim Brock” in honour of one of our most cherished members – former Club Captain, current committee member, safety…

Many congratulations to our J16 girls for being selected to represent GB in a 4+ at the forthcoming GB-France match in Lery-Poses en Normandie, France on 13th July. We hope this is a start of a flow of athletes enjoying international success from our club!

The club won a superb 9 events in Reading this weekend, from first-ever wins for our J14 B crew boys and Lily Q in a J15 4x+, to a pre-Henley win for our WJ18 8+ and J18 4x, to our Masters D 4x who won their semi-final by all of 2 feet. 

Our outstanding Masters squad brought home 8 medals (6 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze) from this year’s Championships in Nottingham, across all boat types from 1x, 2x, 4-, 4x and 8+. Of particular note was 4 wins for Janet Mehers and 3 wins and a silver for Anne Grainger. An inspiring squad!

Our youngest members went to this regatta on 8th June for more side-by-side racing experience, and came away with bucket loads! They had lots of fun, two of them even racing 7 times in one day, including a capsize. The win therefore for our WJ14 2x of Jemma and Aurelia at the end of a long,…

A record club entry, a record number of “B” (3) and “A” finalists (8) and a record number of medals (5) made this a hugely successful weekend for Wallingford, showing how far our Junior programme has come in the three years since Katie Greves and Andy Green took charge. Everyone upped their game, with huge…

We took our youngest Juniors to Thames Ditton Regatta to enjoy the fun of side by side racing in a traditional English setting – by a Tudor palace, showers and sun, great home-baked cakes, capsizes at the start etc. – and the mayhem of trying to boat from a small beach on the Thames. Once…

The club took a mixture of Junior and Masters crews to Holme Pierrepont for Nottingham City Regatta on Saturday and Nottingham Club & Masters Regatta on Sunday. Our Juniors won four events, including Annie, Hannah, Tabby, Elin and cox Orla winning both WJ18 4+ and W 4+, Niamh and Emma winning W 2- and Jacob…

We enter relatively few crews into our own regatta as we are busy organising it, but this year our WJ17s picked up a trophy by winning WJ18 4+, storming down the course ahead in both the heat and final. The next day at the Junior Sculling Regatta we nearly broke our record JSR medal tally,…

This is seen by many as the first major regatta of the year, where you can test the effectiveness of your winter training and start looking ahead to Henley. This year’s was an exceptional event: well organised, running on time, superb racing, and even relatively benign Dorney weather with that rarest of things, sunshine. Many…