Author: 99acadoux

Wallingford has offered free membership to refugees from war and conflict for the past 18 months. We’ve been proud to host two Ukrainian boys who have honed their rowing skills (and their English) as part of our J16 squad. Pictured here at stroke is Tymur Shatalov, with Toby Mould at bow, in their 2x at…

What a regatta to remember! We had two crews racing on Sunday, a day for Wallingford to be proud of. First up were the 4- in the Lester Trophy for Aspirational Club Coxless Fours. This crew has had a great season so far, winning or close to winning at all their regattas and heads, and…

The weekend also hosted a major championships event. Only two Wallingford crews represented the club, and they both won! Congratulation to Andy Hull (who made it back to Reading the next day to support his daughter Alice in her WJ14 quad) for winning Mas Lightweight C 1x and to Janet Dutton for winning WMas Lightweight…

The first baking hot weekend of the year saw Wallingford take over 40 crews to this highly competitive pre-Henley Women’s and HRR regatta. Racing from 9 am through to nearly 7 pm, there seemed to almost always be a Wallingford crew on the course to cheer. There was a great Wallingford camaraderie off the water…

Meaning “long row” in Italian, it lived up to its name for four Wallingford Masters who rowed a total of 35kms in 4.5 hours around the canals and sea channels of Venice on Sunday 28th May. The Vogalonga was founded in 1974 by a group of Venetians protesting against the deterioration of the city and the…

Our Juniors brought home yet another record haul: three medals, more than anyone can remember in recent years. Across the whole regatta there was a fierce cross-head wind making their performance in time trials and heats crucial, as the organisers placed the fastest crews in the more sheltered lanes 1 and 2 for the semis…

A sunny, breezy and very successful day in Weybridge this weekend saw the club winning 5 out of the 6 events that we entered. Congratulations to our W4- of Sam Burrows, Emma Butler, Lucy Walker and Ruth Haigh who continued to show why they are ones to watch this summer with a fine win over…

Also taking place at Dorney the day after our regatta, this is one of the major junior events of the year. A medal at JSR is hard to come by, and this year saw (what we think is) a record performance by our juniors. Gold in the WJ16 2x for Tabby Gauden and Annie Collins…

What a magnificent day! Huge congratulations to the organisers for setting up a superb regatta, and to the many volunteers who made it happen. The weather was kind, it ran pretty much on time, and lots of excellent racing. How impressive is it that a club of our size can run a regatta like that?…

Wallingford’s women won again at the bumps races kindly organised by our neighbouring club City of Oxford RC. This is a chance for club crews to take part in a really exciting racing format usually exclusive to colleges – 8s racing nose to tail 1.5 lengths apart in an attempt to get an overlap or…