British Rowing Beach Sprint Championships

The 2025 British Rowing Beach Sprint Championships will take place from 30-31 August. The venue will be announced soon.

Got a question? Email [email protected]

Swift British Rowing Beach Sprint Championships

30-31 August 2025 | St Andrews, Scotland

Key Documents (2024)

Notice of Competition (entries closed at 15:00 on Monday, 29 July 2024)

Entries list (as at 4 August 2024)

Competitor Instructions (version 1.0)

Schedule – Saturday (version 1.0)

Schedule – Sunday (version 2.0)

Sunday Race Trees

Start Order (version 1.0)

Safeguarding Policy

BeachSprint racer diving for the line

Results

2024 British Champions

Event Champion
Coastal Open Solo S Scrimgeour (Glasgow RC)
Coastal Women’s Solo L McKenzie (University of Glasgow)
Coastal Open Student Solo H Flowerdew (Tynemouth RC)
Coastal Women’s Student Solo I Lancaster (Bradford ARC)
Coastal Open U19 Solo Z Hills (Whitby Coastal RC)
Coastal Women’s U19 Solo Z Gray (Lympington ARC)
Coastal Open Double Sculls H Hall (Stirling RC) and C Buchan (Edinburgh University)
Coastal Women’s Double Sculls L McKenzie (University of Glasgow) and H Gordon (Inverness RC)
Coastal Mixed Double Sculls L McKenzie (University of Glasgow) and S Scrimgeour (Glasgow RC)
Coastal Mixed U19 Double Sculls S Ormston and Z Hills (Whitby Coastal RC)
Event:
Coastal Open Solo
Champion:
S Scrimgeour (Glasgow RC)
Event:
Coastal Women’s Solo
Champion:
L McKenzie (University of Glasgow)
Event:
Coastal Open Student Solo
Champion:
H Flowerdew (Tynemouth RC)
Event:
Coastal Women’s Student Solo
Champion:
I Lancaster (Bradford ARC)
Event:
Coastal Open U19 Solo
Champion:
Z Hills (Whitby Coastal RC)
Event:
Coastal Women’s U19 Solo
Champion:
Z Gray (Lympington ARC)
Event:
Coastal Open Double Sculls
Champion:
H Hall (Stirling RC) and C Buchan (Edinburgh University)
Event:
Coastal Women’s Double Sculls
Champion:
L McKenzie (University of Glasgow) and H Gordon (Inverness RC)
Event:
Coastal Mixed Double Sculls
Champion:
L McKenzie (University of Glasgow) and S Scrimgeour (Glasgow RC)
Event:
Coastal Mixed U19 Double Sculls
Champion:
S Ormston and Z Hills (Whitby Coastal RC)

Results from previous years

MEDALS

Further information (2024)

Accommodation

Accommodation is available at the University of St Andrews.

Individual competitors can book directly here.

For group bookings, please email [email protected].

What are Beach Sprints?

The Beach Sprint format is ideal for agile and skilled scullers with a performance background, from either coastal or river rowing.

It starts with a sprint on the beach for one person from each crew. After entering the boat, the boat slaloms around buoys, turns around and rows straight back to the beach before one of the crew exits the boat and runs to the finish line.

Find out more

About St Andrews Beach

St Andrews Beach is famous as the location for the opening scenes of the film Chariots of Fire. This stunning beach extends for almost two miles of uninterrupted golden sand, backed with dunes and the world-renowned golf course.

See also the <a href=”https://www.britishrowing.org/events/events-calendar/british-rowing-offshore-championships/”>British Rowing Offshore Championships</a> for endurance coastal sculling races.

St Andrews Beach

Volunteers

At British Rowing we rely on our amazing volunteers to make our events a success. We are always on the look out for people who want to help out – no rowing experience is required and everyone is welcome.

Please email us if you can help at [email protected].

Beach Sprint volunteer

Retail Village 2024

Each of our Championship events has a retail village for boats, blades, clothing, gifts and more. If you are interested in booking a pitch, please just email James Lee for details.

Retail stand