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Northwich Spring Head 2015
On Bank Holiday Monday, 6th April, the last North West Head Race of the season was a great day of competition for the 296 entries representing 25 clubs. The cold spring morning, with fog enveloping surrounding fields, underwent a transformation […]
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Oxford win Boat Races
Even before they started, the 2015 Boat Races had written their name into the very fabric of British sport. The world had rightly sat up and taken notice that the Newton’s Women’s Boat Race had at last, taken its rightful […]
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Cambridge Wins at Henley Boat Races.
Cambridge took an early two-nil lead in the 2015 series, winning both the men’s and women’s lightweight boat races at Henley on Easter Sunday and claiming the Francombe Cup, the Henley Boat Races’ Victor Ludorum trophy. It was a chilly […]
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Northern Region’s Sunday League
Crews shone through in damp and windy conditions on the Tyne last weekend as the 2015 “Sunday League” in the northern region kicked off at Tyne United. This is the fourth year that the league has run in the north […]
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10,000 Rowers Compete in Spring Heads
In 15 days at the end of March 2015, over 10,000 rowers and coxes raced for their lives – in military terms an entire division! Add to that several battalions of organisers, umpires and of course spectators and you have […]
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Cornish gig rowers star in BBC’s Poldark
Forty years after the first Poldark TV series, a new adaptation is currently showing on BBC One and gig rowers from Charlestown Rowing Club are involved. Adapted from Winston Graham’s epic tales set in Cornwall during the 18th Century, the […]
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Community Sport and Recreation Awards 2015
Is your Rowing Club changing lives? Do you represent the very best that sport and recreation organisations can offer their community? If so, nominations are now being taken for the Sport and Recreation Alliance’s Community Sport and Recreation Awards 2015. […]
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Henley Royal Regatta to be Broadcast Live
Henley Royal Regatta will be available to view around the world via a live stream in 2015, the committee of management of the world-famous regatta has announced. All racing will be shown live and a daily highlights show will be […]
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Vesta host quality Veterans Head
Over 200 crews took to the Thames on Saturday morning for the 2015 edition of the Vesta Veterans’ Head of the River. Despite concerns that the event may not go ahead owing to a forecast of inclement weather, competitors were […]
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Head of the River success
It was third time lucky for the Head of the River Race on Sunday as 327 crews made it safely from Mortlake to Putney, defying a terrible weather forecast which did not quite come to pass. The Head was cancelled […]
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