Author: 99acadoux

Both our 8s raced at WEHORR in challenging conditions this weekend. A strong wind which blew mostly cross-head all the way made for a tough day, especially for crews whose time on the water has been seriously limited by flooding. Our senior crew came 97th, a mix of experienced and development rowers getting useful Tideway experience,…

J16s Lucy and Lily went to the GB U19 5k time trials in Boston, Lincs last weekend. A great experience for them and they acquitted themselves well both in the Saturday 1x trial and the 2- trial on Sunday, despite being the youngest girls there. Both were National Schools Champions in the WJ16 8+ in…

A club outing to the cinema is a very rare thing, but also very enjoyable. The Corn Exchange was sold out last Tuesday for a showing of George Clooney’s “Boys in the Boat” about the University of Washington crew who defied the odds to win a gold medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Cue groans…

Some fifty members of Wallingford RC turned out at the club bar to celebrate Sean’s 80th birthday with tea, cake and prosecco. Sean first raced for Wallingford in 1972 when he won the Britannia Challenge Cup in a 4+ that was unbeaten all year until by the GB Olympics crew in final trials, and then only…

After three months of races cancelled due to floods and fog, our Juniors finally got to race, at Wycliffe on 3rd February. All crews raced hard bringing home four wins: J16 4+, WJ16 8+, J15 8+ and WJ15 4x+. We are looking forward to a packed racing schedule over the rest of the Head season!

The club parties like it rows – with great energy and success! We held our annual club dinner in Cholsey Great Hall with over 110 members enjoying a 3 course meal, speeches, raffle and some very fine Scottish country dancing. Award winners for 2023 were: Senior Woman – Liberty Barlow; Senior Man – Chris Boyles;…

Chris Revell competed in this, arguably the toughest race, and certainly one of the oldest, for single sculls. Founded in 1830 it follows the championship course from Putney to Mortlake (except in exceptional years) and is raced side by side, this year by 5 scullers. Even to compete is a great achievement, and congratulations to…

Our Masters spent the weekend in Angers, France competing at this 15km head race. Although Saturday’s racing was cancelled due to a storm, the women resorted to relay ergs to sort out the winner and Wallingford won! I’m sure they didn’t want to travel all the way to France just to erg, and luckily racing…

Our single sculler Chris Revell won the prestigious Silver Sculls trophy at Weybridge this weekend, emulating the likes of Sir Steve Redgrave, Guy Pooley and Dan Topolski in previous years. Janet Mehers also won WMas 1x (combined D-G age groups.) Two entries, two wins!

The second major head race of the season on the Tideway saw no fewer than three wins for Wallingford! Emma Butler and Sam Burrows retained their WMasB 2- title by less than a second; Liberty Barlow and Lucy Walker won Club W 2-; and Chris Revell and Mariann Novak won Mixed 2x.