Author: 99acadoux
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New Director of Rowing at Wallingford
Wallingford Rowing Club is thrilled to have appointed Keith Settle as our new Director of Senior Rowing. Keith is a renowned coach, with nearly 20 years’ experience in winning programmes at Molesey, Shiplake College and Reading Rowing Club, bringing to our club a proven training structure, a cohesive approach and far-reaching ambitions. He joins Katie…
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Maidenhead Regatta
Wallingford RC sent 16 Junior crews to Maidenhead Regatta on Saturday 6th August and came back with 9 winners! Pictured are victorious crews from the morning division including our mixed quad who, racing in the Open Senior event, and with alumna Freya Sharp from Oxford Brookes University on board, dominated their opposition and brought bowman…
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Henley Town & Visitors Regatta
Wallingford RC entered 25 crews from all the age groups into this regatta, held on the site of Henley Royal Regatta, and uniquely racing three crews abreast along the Thames. We had five wins, in WMasC 4x, WJ16 1x, J15 1x, J14 1x and WJ14 2x, not a bad return for the day! Pictured are…
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British Rowing Junior Championships
Wallingford sent 19 crews to the British Rowing Junior Championships this weekend, with many of them experiencing Holme Pierrepont for the first time. There was some fantastic racing, the highlights being Lucy Mead bringing home a silver medal in WJ14 1x in her first ever multi-lane race in a single, and Tabby Gauden and Annie…
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Boat-naming ceremony for our new Hudson
Well, nearly new! It’s been at the club for two years but missed its naming ceremony due to the pandemic, so we made up for it today. It’s a lovely Hudson 2x, funded by the amazing Wallingford-based charity 1155 who organise the town’s fireworks and Santa sleigh, and who support a host of other charitable…
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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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