Author: 99acadoux
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Trafford Head of the Bridgewater
Wallingford RC won two events at this race thanks to Ruth Haigh, visiting old haunts but representing her current club. Congratulations to Ruth on winning both W 2x and O 2x (but in a mixed crew.) She also came second in her 1x by only 8 seconds, pictured. Three races in one day and two…
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Launching Junior and Adult Learn to Row Courses
Come to learn how to row on the best and most beautiful stretch of the River Thames! We can promise that you will learn new skills and get fitter, we can ensure that you will have fun, and we hope that you may even fall in love with the sport enough to want to take…
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Henley 4s & 8s Head
Firstly, our deepest condolences to the family and friends of the UTRC masters rower who sadly died following a suspected heart attack at this Head race. It is a tragic reminder that health and safety must be taken seriously at all times for rowers of all ages, during events and training. The organisers decided not…
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Wycliffe Big Head
Our juniors won three events at Wycliffe Big Head on Saturday 4th February. In lovely conditions, and surprisingly warm for Wycliffe, our J16 4+ beat their nearest opposition by 26 secs, and our WJ16 8+ (pictured with medals) beat theirs by 41 seconds. The boys, including a J15, looked strong at half-way and continued to power…
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Christmas Erg challenge
Inspired by Keith Settle, our Director of Senior Rowing, thirty-nine members of the Club smashed a Christmas challenge to rack up the approx. 2,500 kilometres between Wallingford and Kyiv. In total we rowed, erged, swam, biked (distance divided by three!), ran or walked 3,213,393 metres from 19th December to 1st January to raise money for the British Red…
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Walton Small Boats Head
Many congratulations to Wallingford RC sculler and club committee member Chris Revell who won the overall headship at Walton SBH last weekend. Chris beat all other single scullers, winning Open Sculls in a time of 11.22.8. Fellow sculler Sam Chard came 3rd in a time of 11.30.5, getting ever closer to his Wallingford rival. Must be…
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Wycliffe & Hampton Small Boats Head
WRC took 32 junior crews to Wycliffe Small Boats Head in Gloucestershire and 12 junior crews to Hampton Small Boats Head on the same day, using both trailers and just about every volunteer we could muster. Wycliffe was our J14s first ever race. They did the club proud, Tom Debney and Arthur Liddy winning J14…
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Wallingford Head
A brilliant club effort saw a really well organised Head partly ruined by the dastardly rain – by the time Division 1 was raced the river had risen from yellow to red boards meaning that Division 2 had to be cancelled. Still there was some hotly contested racing in conditions that, apart from the stream,…
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Fours Head and Veterans Fours Heads
We had some superb results at the weekend’s Fours Heads on the Tideway. On Sunday, our Women Masters C 4+ of Emily Booker, Emma Butler, Lou Wymer, Sam Hammond and cox Rachael Haycock won their class by well over a minute and were the second fastest sweep-oared women’s crew on the day, beating all but…
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Club fundraisers
This week has seen two amazing fundraisers for the club. Tara and Pat Mead, Ruth Peters, Susie Coleman, Emma Richardson and Judy Collins (all parents of current Juniors) and Katie Guyatt (from our Masters’ squad) helped at the annual Wallingford Bonfire and Fireworks spectacle, selling sparklers and glow sticks, and collecting donations on behalf of…
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