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The club paid its annual visit to one of our favourite regattas and came away with 6 wins. The best story of the day was our winning J14 2x featuring Atticus who had only rowed for 4 weeks – a great achievement – and they were using a boat called Roger Brown. Guess who was…

Wallingford won both the Junior and the overall Victor Ludorum at this weekend’s British Rowing Championships, the first time in the club’s history, and a reflection of the amazing progress under Directors of Junior Rowing Katie Greves and Andy Green. Our Juniors won no fewer than 6 medals including gold in WJ18 8+ and WJ16…

Five of our WJ16s were selected for the WJ16 4+ at this year’s GB-France match, their first taste of an international regatta, and the first GB vests at the club for a number of years. The match took place at a new venue, Lery-Poses en Normandie, where there was some excellent tight racing and verdicts…

At the recent Henley Masters Regatta we had no fewer than 6 wins, including Sean in his MasJ 1x. He is seen here holding the certificate he was also given for racing in the year of his 80th birthday! An incredible achievement, one we would all like to emulate. There were also wins for our Treasurer…

The 4+ from Wallingford Schools BC (formerly a separate club rowing out of Wallingford RC, now disbanded) who won the Britannia Challenge Cup in 1974 successfully carried out their 50th anniversary row-past at the Sunday lunch interval at Henley Royal Regatta this weekend. They proudly wore the bright yellow and blue kit not seen on…

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,…