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2008 Events
Womens Head of the River Saturday  1 March, 10.00  

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Head of the River     
Saturday 15 March, 09.45

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Evesham Regatta  
Saturday 3 May  

evesham-rowing-club.co.uk
Wallingford Regatta     
Sunday 4 May

wallingford. regatta.org.uk
Bedford Amateur Regatta  Saturday  10 May  

bedfordregatta.co.uk
Thames Ditton Regatta 
Saturday 17 May

thamesdittonregatta.co.uk/
Metropolitan Regatta   
Saturday  31 May
Sunday 1 June  

metregatta.org/
Eton Schools Regatta 
Saturday 7 June

etonrowing.org.uk/

Reading Amateur Regatta
Saturday 14 June

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Henley Womens Trials
Friday 20 June

www.hwr.org.uk/

Marlow Regatta
Saturday 21 June

www.marlowregatta.org.uk/

Henley Womens Finals
Sunday 22 June

www.hwr.org.uk/

Henley Qualifiers
Friday 26 June

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Henley Royal Regatta
Wednesday 2 July-
Sunday 6 July

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Kingston Regatta
Saturday 12 July

www.kingstonregatta.co.uk/
National Rowing Championships
Sunday 20 July

www.natchamps.org.uk/
Home International
Saturday 12 July

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Henley Town & Visitors
Saturday 2 August

henleyrowingclub.org/
 
Peterborough Summer
Saturday 9 August

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Oxford City Royal
Saturday 16 August

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Gloucester Senior
Sunday 24 August

gloucester-rowing.org
 
Ross on Wye Senior
Monday 25 August

rossrowingclub.co.uk
 
 
 
 

 



London Olympics Flag Flies at Ross Regatta


The new 2012 Olympics flag flew alongside Ross Rowing Club's on Sunday/ Monday August 24/25 to celebrate the handover from Beijing to London.

The River Wye was at its highest for many years, and beaches used for
boating on and off, and the Benthall side umpire, were submerged.

  Monday
Races
15:00  15:15  15:30  15:45  16:00  16:15  16:30 
  16:45  17:00  17:15  17:30  17:45  18:00  18:15 


Gloucester Regatta Returns to Home Waters


A four-year absence caused by the construction of a new by-pass road
ended 23 August 2008, when Gloucester Regatta successfully returned
to the Sharpness canal.

The camping field has been converted to a new Hempsted Meadows
Market and Car Boot Site with parking for 400. When it opened mid-
July, all 199 car boot pitches were occupied.

Gloucester Council plan to re-locate the Rowing Club on the site,
with continued camping facilities for rowing club events.

2006 & 2007 Gloucester Regattas were at Ross-on-Wye.

Sunday
Races  
10:15  10:30  10:45  11:15  11:30  11:45 
  12:15  12:30  12:45  13:15  13:30  14:15 


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Oxford City Royal Regatta



Saturday, 16 August 2008. Raced over 1000m downstream on the Isis from
Folly Bridge to Longbridges.

Morning Division Batch 1  Batch 2 Batch 3 Batch 4   
Afternoon Division Batch 5 Batch 6 Batch 7 Batch 8 Batch 9  
    Batch 10 Batch 11 Batch 12 Batch 13 Batch 14



Cambridge City Novices Break 1995 Record

 
Cambridge City beat Northampton and Cambridge 99  in the Novice Eights
over the 1,000 metre course at Peterborough Summer Regatta on 9 August
in the fastest time since 1995.

Races 102-108 109-112 113-116 117-120 121-124 127-128  
129-132 133-136 137-140 141-144 145-148 149-152 153-157  


Henley RC Win Town & Visitors Top Prize




Victories in Elite, Senior 1 and Womens Senior 2 Eights earned Henley RC
the Peter Sutherland Trophy for best performance at the Henley Town
& Visitors Regatta, 2 August.

The club also won Senior 1 Single Sculls and Veteran F Doubles, but the
eights victories carry extra weighting in performance calculations. The prize
included a cheque for £750.


Races  42-45  46-49  52-55  56-59  60-63  64-67
   68-71  72-75  76-79  80-83  84-87  88-91

Henley Standard: "What makes Town and Visitors' Regatta so special"

England overtake Scotland in Home Internationals


Scotland opened their Home International challenge in Cardiff Bay on 26 July 
with three successive victories in Mens and Womens Junior Coxless Fours and Womens Lightweight Pairs.

But although Scotland went on to win the Junior Men's event, England pulled 
back Mens, Womens and Junior Womens events to head the results below.

Eng Ire Scot Wal
J Women 20 18 18 13
J Men 15 15 21 18
S Women 29 23 18 18
S Men 26 20 20 24
Overall 90 76 77 73
Races:  1- 3   4- 6   7- 9   10- 12   13- 15 
 16- 18   19- 21   22- 24   25- 27   28- 30   31- 33 

 

Leander Clean Sweep at NatChamps



Leander Club won nine finals of eleven entered at the National Rowing Championships, Sunday 26 July.

The two exceptions were Open Lightweight Single Sculls, where R Hunter was second to R Burdett of Thames, and Womens Coxless Pairs, second to Worcester.

Leander Club won every Open event (above)


Kingston Victor Ludorum for Granta BC



Kingston won the day's  big race, Senior 3 Eights, but Granta took top club 
honours at Kingston Amateur Regatta on Saturday 12 July. 

Granta won Senior 4 Eights, Coxed and  Coxless Fours; and Single Sculls 
at Senior 2  & 3 levels.

Canadians Triumph at Henley Royal Regatta


Canadian crews won three top eights events at Henley Royal Regatta, 
2-6 July: the Grand, Temple and Princess Elizabeth Challenge Cups.

Other overseas successes came from Estonia for the first time, from the
United States, South Africa and Ireland (above, Channel views)

Electrical storms interrupted the Sunday finals for 20 minutes.

Semi finals and finals 

Quarter finals (work in progress, channel views)

Below: Prizegiving by Lord Colin Moynihan, Silver Medallist at the Moscow 
Olympics,  Chairman, British Olympics Association.  
(see Channel views for individual events)

Henley Qualifiers 



With club & university events massively oversubscribed, 270 crews competed in time trials on Friday 27 June for 84 first round places the following week. 

Despite a failure rate of 2:1, the Henley Qualifiers are the peak of many club & university rowing careers. 

Times were published for those who failed.  Times were withheld for competitive reasons for those who achieved a place in the first round.

Marlow Regatta 


567 crews, mostly men's elite and senior, competed on Saturday 21 June at Dorney Lake. Started last year, a separate Sunday event gives more opportunities for Womens and Juniors events.

Saturday races
57 to 115, includes all finals

Henley Womens Regatta Finals


The 21st Henley Womens Regatta,  Friday 20 June to Sunday 22 June. 

Henley Womens Regatta Time Trials


The three-day Henley Womens Regatta started  Friday 20 June with time trials for 43 Intermediate Eights crews, 53 Intermediate Coxed Fours and 21 Senior Coxed Fours ... all competing for a place in first round races later.

The system is fairer than Henley Royal Regatta's qualifying system, it is said, because there is no pre-selection.  All entrants - no matter how distinguished their racing record - are required to enter time trials for the classes over-subscribed.

Intermediate Eights  24-38 39-47 48-56 57-66
Intermediate Fours 103-114 115-126 127-135 136-146 147-156
Senior Fours 82-91 92-102

Reading Amateur Regatta 


Reading Regatta was again oversubscribed, and Saturday's 440 entries on the 1500 metre course were reduced to 225.  

Finals RoundUp  

Men  Women  (above)
Q-Finals WN 8 MN 8 WS3 8 MS3 8 MS2 8 MS1 8/WS2 4+
S-Finals 134-41 142-5 146-8 150-3 154-128b
Finals 156-61 165-7 163-8

155-75

177-9

180-3

Not the National Schools Regatta 


A late addition to the rowing calendar to provide racing for as many events as possible for which races were cancelled through bad weather at the National Schools’ Regatta 2008

Finals Four Five Six
Semis One Two Three

Durham University Shine at Metropolitan


Three wins Saturday and five Sunday earned Durham University second place in the Dogget Cobb Trophy for most successful club over the weekend. 

They trailed mighty Leander whose 7 club victories were enhanced by composite successes. Durham U led third place London RC (4), who also had a strong composite presence.

Durham U also scored five second places. MAA had three wins and six seconds. Furnival SC ... another big composite contributor ... were placed fourth.

Monmouth Regatta 


Heavy rains, strong stream and high following winds made conditions very fast 
for Monmouth Sprint Regatta, held over 750 metres on Saturday 24 May.

Sunday conditions deteriorated, but 1000 competitors launched 373 boats. They represented 42 clubs, two from Belfast and a strong Maidstone contingent, as well as clubs from Wales, the South West, Midlands and Thames Valley.

With the National Schools Regatta abandoned, Monmouth schools did well

Sprint RoundUp   

Senior  Women Junior/Novice Veteran
Sprint Finals 
15.00 15.15 15.30 15.45 16.00 16.15 16.30 16.45 17.00
  

Regatta RoundUp   

Senior Women Junior Vet/Novice
Regatta Finals
14.30 14.45

15.00

15.15 15.30 15.45 16.00 16.15 16.30
16.45 17.00

Packed Programme at Thames Ditton


"There may have been more races at Thames Ditton Regatta years ago when 
it started Friday evening", said commentator Stan Collingwood, "but 233 in one
day is the most I can remember."

Unlike many other regattas, Thames Ditton is unconnected with any particular rowing club. The buoys along the 1000 metre course, ending at Hampton Court Palace, are laid out by the Dittons Skiff and Punting Club, who also provide a meeting room for the TDR organising committee.

Eton, Kingston & Radley Excel at Bedford


Kingston led the senior events, with four victories, but lost the Senior 1 Eights to Christ Church, Oxford, who completed a notable double winning the College Eights too.

Eton took the junior crown with seven victories. But Radley, with only three, had the satisfaction of winning the top Junior Eights and Junior Fours.

Balliol won Senior 3  and Womens Senior 4 Eights, and Haberdashers Monmouth excelled at Womens J14 Octuples for both first and second crews

Osiris win five Wallingford events

Osiris, Oxford University women, won five events at the 56th Wallingford Regatta, taking the senior 2 & 3 eights, the senior 2 & 3 coxless fours and the senior 3 coxed four.  Coach Andy Green recently joined from Headington School.

The event was at Dorney Lake, location for last year's world championships and venue for London's Olympic regatta in 2012.

More than 2,000 athletes and 600 crews took part: a further 300 crews had to be turned away.

Overseas entries included 21 crews from two Irish clubs, newcomers Muckross and Killorglin. Marine Technical University, St. Petersburg, Russia also competed.

The Regatta's instant phone-in results service shows Molesey BC had 45 entries - one, the winning Elite Coxless Four, with two Olympians!
  

Morning Division: Finals 

RoundUp
 33 - 37   38- 42   43 - 47   48 - 52   53 - 57   58 - 63 
  

Afternoon Division: Finals

RoundUp
 94 - 101   102 - 107   108 - 112   113 - 118   119 - 123   124 - 129 
  

Storm Clouds Clear at Evesham


Heavy rains cast doubts over Saturday's Evesham Regatta, which only cleared Friday lunchtime when the go-ahead was given. 

With one eye on the weather, the organisers replaced the 1000 metre upstream course with the Sunday Sprint format of 500 metres downstream.

Events had been split into morning and afternoon sessions to enable athletes to compete in more than one event, and with no further rain the regatta ran to time in ideal rowing conditions.

One of the most beautiful regatta settings, Evesham is on the Avon halfway between Stratford and Tewkesbury, where the river joins the Severn.
  

Morning Division: Finals

RoundUp

Scenes  83 - 91   90 - 87   94 - 96   100 - 105   107 - 109
  

Afternoon Division: Finals

RoundUp

 111 - 97   100 - 103   102 - 92   109 110   112 - 111   
  
 

David Flook  RowTv.co.uk