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The Juniors had another excellent day at one of our favourite local head races. On an October day where many got a little sunburned in temperatures of around 23C we saw wins for Annie Collins in WJ17 1x, Niamh McAdden and Emma Moroney in WJ18 2-, Lewis Strange and Tom Fanstone in J15 2x and…

The club put on another great event on our home stretch of water for 400 crews from around the country. A big thank you to all the volunteers – the events committee, club members and parents – who helped make it so successful. We had a number of winners: Andy Hull, our Treasurer, in OMasC…

Four of our scullers raced in the Vesta Scullers Head on the Tideway last Saturday. First raced in 1954, this is the UK’s largest race for 1x and attracted no fewer than 543 competitors this year. Huge congratulations to all of our scullers for finishing in the top 3 in their categories: Mariann Novak in…

Another superb outing for the whole club – Seniors, Masters and Juniors (and parents!) all mixing it up and having a great time together at one of our most local regattas. Highlights from the weekend included Fi Halliday enjoying her first racing – reaching the final of the W8+ no less – and Ruth Haigh…

Another hugely successful outing for our Juniors to this popular regatta. I strongly suspect they like it so much because it is only 500m long… but they also award old-fashioned glass-bottomed tankards as prizes, which is becoming increasingly rare. The organisers nearly cancelled it in the face of Storm Antoni, and in the end we…

The club had a most successful visit to this regatta on 30th July. We came within a hair’s breadth of winning the Victor Ludorum with our 10 wins, denied mostly because they were in smaller boats rather than the 8s you need to pick up the desired points. Nevertheless, it was a fantastic club showing, with…

Some of our intrepid Masters went to Munich to race in this year’s European Masters Championships. Despite storms causing the postponement and cancellation of some races, Wallingford athletes came home with wins in composite crews in WMasF and G 4+ (Janet Dutton) and in WMasC and E 8+ (Katie Kapernaros, Lou Wymer, Rachael Haycock), the…

The last major event for our juniors was at Strathclyde Country Park in Scotland this weekend. We took a record number of crews (36) and achieved both a record number of finalists and a record number of medals! The conditions were very windy – a stiff headwind on Friday and Saturday, and a howling cross-tail…

Congratulations to our two Masters crews who brought home gold medals from this regatta! The WMasB 2- of Sam Hammond and Emma Butler bookended their main season with a much deserved win over Exeter RC in the semi-final and a Scottish composite crew in the final, having won the WMasB 2- title at the Pairs…

Our W4- of Ruth Haigh, Lucy Walker, Sam Hammond and Emma Butler did Wallingford RC proud at HRR. If you missed the YouTube coverage it is well worth looking for – they rowed brilliantly, looked super smart and there was some lovely commentary. Having entered just to get a taste of the Henley experience in…