Henley Royal

Congratulations to Sophie Hoskings for winning the Princess Grace as part of the Composite GB women's lightweight quad.

Commiserations to the Wyfold B four of Bart Hudson, Carl Maw, James Young and Dave Finn. They lost to Tyne Rowing Club in the final of the Wyfolds. The lightweight London four were unable to close the gap opened up by Tyne's faster start, and despite a great sprint down the enclosures lost by one length. The Tyne crew, made up of former juniors and U23s had previously put out London Wyfold A by 1 1/4l on Thursday.

There were a number of other London crews racing well in the regatta, Rob Williams, as part of the GB Lightweight men's quad, lost in the final of the Prince of Wales Challenge. A London/Wallingford composite, which is a prototype for the World Student Games, race in the semi-finals of the Visitors, losing to the eventual winners, the Kinston/IC/ Scullers composite, containing 2000 Olympic Gold Medal winner Kieran West. It was disappointing regatta for London's A club crews, with none of them making it to the Friday of the regatta, for the first time since 1999, And even though it is worth noting that both the Brit A and Wyfold A crews lost to the eventual winners, there will be a lot of work being done over the summer to prepare for the 2009 season.

Henley Regatta

Date: 2008-07-08

Met Regatta

Metropolitan Regatta was the next step towards Henley for the 2008 London Rowing Club squad. There was some good racing with established units and some more experimental combinations were tried with mixed results. There were also some good results from our non-Olympic internationals.

In brief, London won the Senior one fours on Saturday in a close race, The four of Kitch, Bell, Gilfillan and Hayes just holding on ahead of Grosvenor and Lea. The Elite fours featured our top club lightweight unit, stroked by 9st 12lb rowing maestro Bart Hudson lining up against Kieran West MBE, former Cambridge Blue and Olympuc gold medallist. In the end Kieran's crew just beat the London into third place, in what was an excellent performance by the lightweights.

The London international rowers, who were not racing in Munich, had a sucessful weekend. Danny Harte, racing the GB LM4x won the Elite Quad both days, Mathilde Pauls and Sophie Hosking won the Elite Quad on Saturday, and Sophie won the Elite Double on Sunday. Stephen Feeney was second in Lightweight Elite 1x.

Lastly a special mention for Alex Woods, newly arrived at London, who stepped in to win in Elite Pairs with Diarmuid Macolgain. Diarmuid's original pairs partner, Mr Herbert Griffin, had sustained an unfortunate knee injury while cross training.

Date: 2008-06-28

Munich World Cup

Munich World Cup, Day 1

The first day of the Munich World Cup began with very windy conditions making for tough going and slow times. Four LRC athletes were in action on day one. James Lindsay-Fynn and James Clark won their heat to progress to the semi in the lightweight Fours. Sophie Hosking racing in GBR2 LW2x finished third in her heat and goes to the repechage. Mathilde Pauls, finished second in her heat, beating Andrea Dennis, last year's lightweight single into third place. She therefore moves direct to the semis. Full results are available here.

Munich World Cup, Day 2

An intriguing situation arose in the repechage of the LW2x, GBR2 with Sophie Hosking of London and Laura Greenhalgh lined up alongside GBR1 containing Helen Casey and Hester Goodsell. The progression was the first two crews to go through to the Semis, however this rapidly became academic as the two GBR crews fought it out far ahead of the rest of the field. There was under 1s separating the crews at 500m, 1000m and 1500m with no quarter was being asked or given. However, mindful of the races to come, and with both crews were more than 15s ahead of the field the last 500m showed some let-up of the pace and GBR 2 managed to sneak through to claim the win. The semis and final should prove very interesting. Elsewhere, in the Lightweight pair Rob Williams of London rowing with Beechey of Leander won their heat to progress through to the final. Full results are available here.

Munich World Cup, Finals

The GB lightweight four, containing two LRC members, James Clark and James Lyndsay-Fynn won the Silver medal in the first world cup. As with all the lightweight races the final margins were exceptionally tight with only 1 s covering the first three crews. Although they didn't win it was still a positive start to the season for the crew. James Clark summed it up well; “It took us quite a while to get in our rhythm. This race was a good lesson for the next ones."

In other races Mathilde Pauls was 4th in the women's lightweight single. Rob Williams was 5th in the lightweight pair. Sophie Hoskings was 3rd in the B final of the womens Lightweight Double. Full results are available here.

Date: 2008-05-14

Dove Pier Report

TRRC report on the accident at Dove Pier

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Five London Rowers to Race at Munich

GB team for Munich

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Wallingford Regatta

Wallingford Regatta

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