Our intrepid veterans have once again been spreading their wings and have flown on this occasion to Munich in southern Germany to compete in the 2023 European Masters Regatta. This was held from Thursday 27th to Sunday 30th July on the course that was built for the 1972 Olympics. We had a slim team of just eight male masters, ably assisted in coxed events by our friends from Mortlake Anglian and Alpha BC and yet we came away with an interest in thirteen first places and four second places out of the twenty six races in which we participated. Below you will find the results of all these races, interspersed with details provided mainly by Huw Jones.
Huw begins:
"This was quite some regatta punctuated with severe rainstorms delaying racing at times and causing some events to be cancelled completely. Otherwise, a consistently steady tailwind meant generally fair conditions with warm sun as the norm.
Of our results, three 4’s races were collectively won by less than 2/3rd of one second! Read on…
Thursday, 27th July
Event 101 Race 1 Men's Masters G 4-
Tom's was the first of the two 'G' coxless fours we had an interest in and took part i the first race of the regatta.(Ed.)
Rank | Crew | 500m | 1000m |
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1 | Waatz Masters / Ruderclub Baden (INT) | 1:41.54 | 3:23.45 |
2 | Reading Rowing Club | 1:43.90 | 3:28.64 |
3 | Dart Totnes Amateur Rowing Club / Upper Thames Rowing Club / Quintin Boat Club | 1:48.77 | 3:35.76 |
4 | Club d'Aviron Saintais / Sport Nautique Compiègnois / Rowing Club de Port Marly (FRA) | 1:49.34 | 3:40.30 |
5 | Pirnaer Ruderverein 1872 e.V. / Akademischer Ruderverein zu Leipzig e.V. / Ruder-Gemeinschaft Grünau e.V. / Hallesche Rudervereinigung Böllberg/Nelson e. V. (GER) | 1:51.43 | 3:50.32 |
6 | Société Nautique d'Avignon (FRA) | 1:52.63 | 3:54.38 |
Crew: Peter Atkinson (DTARC), Rod Stewart (DTARC), Lee Brown (UTRC), Tom Bishop (QBC).
Event 101 Race 4 Men's Masters G 4-
For the all-Quintin G 4- it was the third race on the first day. This was won by 19/100th’s of a second. Here was the first twist of the regatta, as the second-placed crew thought they’d won and even went up to collect their medals – but they were turned away.
Rank | Crew | 500m | 1000m |
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1 | Quintin Boat Club | 1:43.78 | 3:29.25 |
2 | Newark Rowing Club / Hollingworth Lake Rowing Club | 1:43.77 | 3:29.44 |
3 | Rowing Club de Port Marly (FRA) | 1:48.78 | 3:41.54 |
4 | Guildford Rowing Club | 2:01.24 | 4:15.94 |
Crew: Huw Jones, Pete Meaney, Fred Jefferies, Richard Lonergan.
Event 116 Race 2 Men's Masters G 8+
Next the G eight raced well but were outgunned by a very strong multinational crew. Hence a second place was a decent result beating Irish and French opposition.
Rank | Crew | 500m | 1000m |
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1 | Csepel Evezos Klub Se / Ruderclub Baden / Ferencvárosi Evezos Club / Waatz Masters (INT) | 1:35.58 | 3:15.28 |
2 | Mortlake Anglian Alpha Boat Club / Quintin Boat Club | 1:40.55 | 3:22.56 |
3 | Cercle Nautique de Versailles / Club d'Aviron Saintais / Rowing Club de Port Marly / Sport Nautique Compiègnois / Club Nautique de Chateau-Gontier Aviron / Cercle Nautique de France / Club de l'Aviron de Vichy (FRA) | 1:45.05 | 3:29.30 |
4 | Athlone Boat Club (IRE) | 1:44.31 | 3:31.28 |
5 | Old Collegians Boat Club (IRE) | 1:49.32 | 3:39.13 |
Crew: Huw Jones, Ian Hyslop, Geoff Peel, Pete Meaney, Steve Aquilina, Chris Andrews, Fred Jefferies, Richard Lonergan (all QBC), Hilary Cook (Cox, MAABC)
Event 122 Race 1 Men's Masters H 1x
Tom Bishop was on next in his H 1x and, it almost goes without saying, he gained a comfortable victory.
Rank | Sculler | 500m | 1000m |
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1 | Tom Bishop (QBC) | 2:02.55 | 4:13.68 |
2 | Michael Horn ( Akademischer Ruderverein zu Leipzig e.V.)( GER) | 2:12.70 | 4:25.63 |
3 | Tony Corcoran (Lee Valley RC) (IRL) | 2:09.92 | 4:28.48 |
4 | Hans Nohr (Lyngby Roklub) (DEN) | 2:16.80 | 4:36.27 |
5 | Rikardo Grzunov (Veslacki Klub Jarun) (CRO) | 2:17.63 | 4:43.44 |
6 | Grahame Stanley (Dart Totnes ARC) | 2:22.32 | 4:52.42 |
Event 126 Race 1 Men's Masters F 4-
Shortly afterwards, our F4- raced a tasty Czech crew that fought hard all the way. So much so, that QBC returned to the pontoon with the sense that this was the one that got away. However, sometime later, it was pointed out that we had in fact won – by a handsome 33/100th of a second. Magic!
Rank | Crew | 500m | 1000m |
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1 | Quintin Boat Club | 1:41.68 | 3:24.17 |
2 | Veslarský Klub Slavia Praha (CZE) | 1:41.55 | 3:24.50 |
3 | Rudergesellschaft Wiking e.V. / Osnabrücker Ruder-Verein e.V. / Wiener Ruder Club Donaubund | 1:43.44 | 3:29.07 |
4 | Upper Thames Rowing Club | 1:43.96 | 3:30.05 |
5 | Star Club | 1:45.81 | 3:47.59 |
6 | Ruderverein Linden von 1911 e.V. Hannover (GER) | 1:54.81 | 3:50.18 |
Crew: Huw Jones, Chris Andrews, Fred Jefferies, Richard Lonergan.
Event 134 Race 1 Men's Masters G 4x-
This race saw Tom get his second gold and then in the other heat, our QBC G4x came a close second.
Rank | Crew | 500m | 1000m |
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1 | Dart Totnes Amateur Rowing Club / Upper Thames Rowing Club / Quintin Boat Club | 2:05.87 | 4:16.57 |
2 | Fredericia Roklub (DEN) | 2:06.97 | 4:17.34 |
3 | Erster Kieler Ruder-Club von 1862 e.V. (GER) | 2:08.34 | 4:21.74 |
4 | Société Nautique d'Avignon (FRA) | 2:11.60 | 4:26.51 |
500m | Schweinfurter Ruder-Club Franken von 1882 e.V. / Akademischer Ruderclub Würzburg e.V. (GER) | 2:14.54 | 4:29.72 |
6 | Club d'Aviron Saintais / Sport Nautique Compiègnois / Rowing Club de Port Marly (FRA) | 2:15.89 | 4:33.88 |
Crew: Peter Atkinson (DTARC), Rod Stewart(DTARC), Lee Brown (UTRC), Tom Bishop (QBC).
Event 134 Race 3 Men's Masters G 4x-
Rank | Crew | 500m | 1000m |
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1 | Upper Valley Rowing Foundation / Rocky Mountain Rowing Club / University Barge Club / Linzer Ruderverein Ister (INT) | 1:36.55 | 3:24.45 |
2 | Quintin Boat Club | 1:45.80 | 3:26.16 |
3 | Osnabrücker Ruder-Verein e.V. / Kiev Sportclub Dnipro / Rudergesellschaft Wiking e.V. / Jurmalas Sports (INT) | 1:43.79 | 3:35.49 |
4 | Ruderverein Normannen Klosterneuburg / Wiener-Ruder-Club Pirat (AUT) | 1:42.90 | 3:38.42 |
5 | Mülheimer Wassersport e.V. Köln / Berliner Ruderclub Ägir e.V. / Ruder-Club 'Allemannia von 1866' / Rudergesellschaft Wiking e.V. (GER) | 1:48.35 | 3:43.99 |
6 | Bentham Boat Club / Worcester Rowing Club | 1:50.91 | 4:00.55 |
Crew: Steve Aquilina, Chris Andrews, Pete Meaney, Ian Hyslop.
Event 139 Race 1 Men's Masters E 4x
In the final race for the club on the first day, Mr Geoffrey Peel raced with Ardingly in an E4x. Unfortunately ‘no cigar’ was awarded in this instance.
Rank | Crew | 500m | 1000m |
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1 | Ligue Grand Est Aviron (FRA) | 1:35.88 | 3:14.67 |
2 | Bradford On Avon Boat Club / Upper Thames Rowing Club | 1:38.77 | 3:19.35 |
3 | Upper Thames Rowing Club | 1:41.90 | 3:25.38 |
4 | Quintin Boat Club / Ardingly Rowing Club | 1:45.92 | 3:35.77 |
5 | Ruder-Club Favorite Hammonia (GER) | 1:46.51 | 3:36.30 |
6 | Humlebæk Roklub (DEN) | 1:50.48 | 3:39.88 |
Crew: Geoff Peel (QBC), Stephen Banks (ARC), Michael Howe (ARC) Peter Billin (ARC).
Friday, 28th July
7 events – four 1st places, two 2nd places and a 4th. Check out Events 201 I 1x, 208 G2-, 214 H4-, 219 F4x, 229 J-M 4x, 241 F8+ and 244 I 8+.
Event 201 Race 3 Men's Masters I 1x
Rank | Sculler | 500m | 1000m |
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1 | Tom Bishop (QBC) | 2:00.71 | 4:04.55 |
2 | Bernard Luttikhuizen (Roeivereniging Rijnland) (NED) | 2:03.10 | 4:05.42 |
3 | Michael Horn ( Akademischer Ruderverein zu Leipzig e.V.) (GER) | 2:13.76 | 4:27.62 |
4 | Tony Corcoran (Lee Valley RC) (IRL) | 2:10.61 | 4:32.07 |
5 | Hans Werner Mortensen (Fredericia Roklub) (DEN) | DNS |
Event 208 Race 3 Men's Masters G 2-
Rank | Crew | 500m | 1000m |
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1 | Dezso Galamb / András Vavra (Ferencvárosi Evezos Club) (HUN) | 1:46.69 | 3:38.32 |
2 | Graham Price (Newark RC) / Nigel Price (Hollingworth Lake RC) | 1:51.88 | 3:44.86 |
3 | Gerhard Tapken / Manfred Knoche (Gerhard Tapken / Manfred Knoche) (GER) | 2:01.28 | 3:58.79 |
4 | Geoff Peel (QBC) / Stephen Banks (Ardingly RC) | 2:02.09 | 4:07.49 |
5 | Norbert Willrader / Franz Gratsch (Wiener Ruderverein Ellida / Tullner Ruderverein) (AUT) | 2:12.41 | 4:23.49 |
Event 214 Race 1 Men's Masters H 4-
Rank | Crew | 500m | 1000m |
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1 | Waatz Masters / Ruderclub Baden (INT) | 1:45.65 | 3:29.80 |
2 | Dart Totnes Amateur Rowing Club / Quintin Boat Club / Upper Thames Rowing Club | 1:48.80 | 3:37.27 |
3 | Turun Soutajat Ry (FIN) | 2:05.34 | 4:18.23 |
4 | Wassersportverein Honnef e.V. / Mannheimer Rudergesellschaft Rheinau 1909 e.V. / Mainzer Ruder-Gesellschaft 1898 e.V. / Ruderclub Rheinfelden e.V. (GER) | DNS |
Crew: Peter Atkinson (DTARC) Rod Stewart (DTARC), Tom Bishop (QBC), Lee Brown (UTRC).
Event 219 Race 1 Men's Masters F 4x-
Rank | Crew | 500m | 1000m |
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1 | Quintin Boat Club | 1:42.80 | 3:25.10 |
2 | Marlow Rowing Club | 1:45.35 | 3:31.60 |
3 | Berliner Ruder-Club e.V. / Rudergesellschaft Wiking e.V. / Ruder-Club Bergedorf e.V. (GER) | 1:47.24 | 3:35.77 |
4 | Marlow Rowing Club | 1:49.35 | 3:40.36 |
Crew: Steve Aquilina, Chris Andrews, Peter Meaney, Ian Hyslop.
Event 229 Race Men's Masters J-M 4x-
Rank | Crew | 500m | 1000m |
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1 | Crefelder Ruder-Club 1883 e.V. / Cambridge Boat Club / Dart Totnes Amateur Rowing Club / Quintin Boat Club (INT) | 1:50.86 | 3:43.63 |
2 | Koblenzer Ruderclub Rhenania 1877/1921 e.V. / Ruder- und Tennis-Klub Germania e.V. Köln / Ruderclub Rheinfelden e.V. / Mainzer Ruder-Gesellschaft 1898 e.V. (GER) | 1:55.06 | 3:54.06 |
3 | Dart Totnes Amateur Rowing Club / Riga Rowing Club / Jurmala Rowing Club / Rocky Mountain Rowing Club (INT) | 2:08.04 | 4:15.49 |
4 | Estonian Rowing Federation / Lake Casitas Rowing Association / Royal Chester Rowing Club / Aberdeen Boat Club (INT) | 2:12.61 | 4:23.11 |
Crew: Werner Busch (CRC), Carlo Zezza (CBC) Rod Stewart (DTARC), Tom Bishop (QBC)
Event 241 Race 1 Men's Masters F 8+
Rank | Crew | 500m | 1000m |
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1 | Veslarský Klub Slavia Praha (CZE) | 1:42.08 | 3:18.55 |
2 | Quintin Boat Club | 1:43.13 | 3:22.49 |
3 | Ludwigshafener Ruderverein von 1878 / Dormagener Ruder-Gesellschaft 'Bayer' e.V. / Mülheimer Wassersport e.V. Köln / Rudergesellschaft Wiking e.V. / Berliner Ruderclub Ägir e.V. / Ruder-Gesellschaft Benrath e.V. / Akademischer Ruderclub Würzburg e.V. (GER | 1:43.48 | 3:25.58 |
4 | Old Collegians Boat Club (IRE) | 1:46.31 | 3:32.25 |
5 | Athlone Boat Club (IRE) | 1:48.21 | 3:38.93 |
Crew: Chris Andrews, Geoff Peel, Huw Jones, Pete Meaney, Steve Aquilina, Richard Lonergan, Fred Jefferies, Ian Hyslop, Hilary Cook (Cox)
Event 244 Race Men's Masters I 8+
Rank | Crew | 500m | 1000m |
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1 | Dart Totnes Amateur Rowing Club / Star Club / Broxbourne Rowing Club / Minerva Bath Rowing Club / Poplar, Blackwall District Rowing Club / Quintin Boat Club / Upper Thames Rowing Club / Wallingford Rowing Club | 1:46.36 | 3:31.59 |
2 | Limburger Club für Wassersport von 1895/1907 e.V. / Ruder- und Tennis-Klub Germania e.V. Köln / W'sportverein Honnef e.V. / Koblenzer RC Rhenania 1877/1921 e.V. / Mainzer Ruder-Gesellschaft 1898 e.V. / Tübinger Ruderverein "Fidelia" 1877/1911 e.V. (GER) | 1:48.37 | 3:36.17 |
3 | Roeivereniging Rijnland (NED) | 1:50.84 | 3:40.29 |
Crew: Peter Atkinson, Shirl Musselle, Anthony Stokes, Klaus Riekemann, Bob Milligan, Tom Bishop, Rod Stewart, Lee Brown, Rachael Haycock (Cox)
Saturday, 29th July
A busy day. First up was Event 304 F1x, then 310 G4+, 317 E8+, 319 H4x, 322 F4+, 332 G1x and 335 I 2x. Four 1st places – and this included the incredible win in the F4+ by 13/100th seconds from being 1.48s behind at 500m. Breathtaking!
Event 304 race 7 Men's Masters F 1x
Rank | Sculler | 500m | 1000m |
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1 | Ansgar Wessling (Turnverein 1877 e.V. Essen-Kupferdreh) (GER) | 1:50.70 | 3:51.64 |
2 | Fatih Örer (Galatasaray Sports Club) (TUR) | 1:55.59 | 3:58.81 |
3 | Steve Aquilina (Quintin Boat Club) | 1:56.34 | 4:11.34 |
4 | Jürgen Hock (Ludwigshafener Ruderverein von 1878) (GER) | 1:56.34 | 4:11.39 |
5 | Yavuz Kuban (Fenerbahc¸e Spor Kulu¨bu¨) (TUR) | 2:07.02 | 4:20.90 |
6 | Franz Gratsch (Tullner Ruderverein) (AUT) | 2:26.89 | 4:57.63 |
Event 310 Race 2 Men's Masters G 4+
Rank | Crew | 500m | 1000m |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Upper Valley Rowing Foundation / Rocky Mountain Rowing Club / University Barge Club / Linzer Ruderverein Ister / Cambridge Boat Club (INT) | 1:47.16 | 3:36.61 |
2 | Rudergesellschaft Wiking e.V. / Club d'Aviron Saintais / Ruder-Union Arkona Berlin -1879- e.V. (INT) | 1:47.70 | 3:37.94 |
3 | Veslarský Klub Slavia Praha / Veslarský Klub Hodonín (CZE) | 1:48.75 | 3:41.74 |
4 | Mortlake Anglian Alpha Boat Club / Quintin Boat Club | 1:49.96 | 3:41.88 |
5 | Ruderclub Rotsee Luzern / Ruderverein 'Neptun' e.V. Konstanz gegründet 1885 / Ruderclub Baden / Ruderclub Kreuzlingen (INT) | 1:52.80 | 3:49.99 |
Crew: Geoff Peel, Chris Andrews, Steve Aquilina, Ian Hyslop, Sarah Kell (Cox, MAABC).
Event 310 Race 3 Men's Masters G 4+
Rank | Crew | 500m | 1000m |
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1 | Quintin Boat Club / Mortlake Anglian Alpha Boat Club | 1:46.53 | 3:37.63 |
2 | Upper Thames Rowing Club / Star Club | 1:46.70 | 3:41.23 |
3 | Poole Amateur Rowing Club / Dart Totnes Amateur Rowing Club / Upper Thames Rowing Club / Upper Thames Rowing Club | 1:51.30 | 3:44.33 |
4 | Berliner Ruderclub Ägir e.V. / Ruder-Gesellschaft Benrath e.V. / Rudergesellschaft Wiking e.V. / Akademischer Ruderclub Würzburg e.V. (GER) | 1:51.12 | 3:49.14 |
5 | Aviron Club 94 du Parc Interdepartemental (FRA) | 1:55.89 | 4:01.43 |
6 | Guildford Rowing Club | 2:03.50 | 4:15.95 |
Crew: Huw Jones, Pete Meaney, Fred Jefferies, Richard Lonergan, Hilary Cook (Cox, MAABC)
Event 317 Race 2 Men's Masters E 8+
Rank | Crew | 500m | 1000m |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Wiener Ruderklub Donau / Wassersportverein Ottensheim / Linzer Ruderverein Ister / Wiener Ruder Club Donaubund / Ruderverein Friesen (AUT) | 1:32.96 | 3:09.47 |
2 | Rudergesellschaft Speyer 1883 e.V. (GER) | 1:35.63 | 3:13.11 |
3 | Quintin Boat Club / Wallingford Rowing Club / Ardingly Rowing Club / HSBC Rowing Club | 1:36.83 | 3:13.56 |
4 | Pirnaer Ruderverein 1872 e.V. / Akademischer Ruderverein zu Leipzig e.V. / Ruder-Gemeinschaft Grünau e.V. / Hallesche Rudervereinigung Böllberg/Nelson e. V. (GER) | ||
5 | Old Collegians Boat Club / Athlone Boat Club (IRE) | 1:39.61 | 3:27.21 |
6 | Ruderclub Erlenbach (SWI) | 1:42.48 | 3:29.08 |
Crew: Geoff Peel, Stephen Banks, Peter Billin, Alexander Dombrowe,Brian Humphris, Michael Howe, Jon Carter, David Law, Rachael Haycock (Cox).
Event 319 Race 1 Men's Masters H 4x-
Rank | Crew | 500m | 1000m |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Dart Totnes Amateur Rowing Club / Quintin Boat Club / Upper Thames Rowing Club | 1:42.91 | 3:35.25 |
2 | Leidener Roei- En Zeilvereniging Die Leythe / Wassersportverein Meppen e.V. / Koninklijke Roei- En Zeilvereniging De Maas / Roei- En Zeilvereniging Poseidon (INT) | 1:47.35 | 3:40.44 |
3 | Kolding Roklub (DEN) | 1:49.71 | 3:45.56 |
4 | Roeivereniging Rijnland (NED) | 1:49.06 | 3:47.20 |
5 | Llandaff Rowing Club | 1:52.12 | 3:49.07 |
6 | York City Rowing Club / Ruderclub Greifensee (INT) | 1:58.57 | 4:03.41 |
Crew: Peter Atkinson (DTARC), Rod Stewart (DTARC), Tom Bishop (QBC) Lee Brown (UTRC).
Event 322 Race 1 Men's Masters F 4+
Rank | Crew | 500m | 1000m |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Quintin Boat Club | 1:44.17 | 3:30.28 |
2 | Rudergesellschaft Wiking e.V. / Wiener Ruder Club Donaubund / Akademischer Ruderclub Würzburg e.V. / Osnabrücker Ruder-Verein e.V. / Ruder-Union Arkona Berlin -1879- e.V. (INT) | 1:42.69 | 3:30.41 |
3 | Star Club | 1:44.58 | 3:41.89 |
4 | Viana Remadores do Lima / Associação Desportiva E Cultural Juventude de Cerveira / Weybridge Rowing Club (INT) | 1:46.93 | 3:44.74 |
5 | Wiener Ruderverein Ellida / Tullner Ruderverein (AUT) | 2:04.17 | 4:14.47 |
Crew: Steve Aquilina, Chris Andrews, Fred Jeffries, Richard Lonergan, Hilary Cook (cox).
Event 332 Race 3 Men's Masters G 1x
Rank | Sculler | 500m | 1000m |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Wilken Behr von (Ratzeburger Ruderclub e.V.) (GER) | 1:56.64 | 4:06.47 |
2 | Gérard Le Flohic (Club d'Aviron Saintais) (FRA) | 2:04.14 | 4:12.39 |
3 | Peter Meaney (QBC) | 2:04.35 | 4:15.84 |
4 | Jaromír Brunhofer (Veslarský Klub Tj Neratovice) (CZE) | 2:10.77 | 4:36.38 |
5 | Stephen Pickin (Marlow RC) | 2:24.19 | 4:47.29 |
Event 335 Race 1 Men's Masters I 2x
Rank | Crew | 500m | 1000m |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Rod Stewart (Dart Totnes ARC) / Tom Bishop (QBC) | 1:54.29 | 4:01.02 |
2 | William Byrd / Wyatt Hume (Willamette Rowing Club / Kent Mitchell Rowing Club) (USA) | 1:59.01 | 4:05.60 |
3 | Dietrich Laak / Hartmut Schreiber (Sportverein Energie Berlin e.V. Abt. Rudern) (GER) | 1:59.02 | 4:23.47 |
4 | Thomas Kroner / Piet De Boer (Ruderclub Greifensee) (SUI) | 2:14.42 | 4:38.64 |
Sunday, 30th July
Three mixed event entries saw ‘just’ one win in the G2x.
Event 502 Race 2 Mixed Masters G 4x-
Rank | Crew | 500m | 1000m |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Wiener Ruderklub Donau / Turnverein 1877 e.V. Essen-Kupferdreh / Rowing Club de Port Marly / Frisco Rowing Center (INT) | 1:43.83 | 3:32.46 |
2 | Strathclyde Park Rowing Club / Quintin Boat Club / Mortlake Anglian Alpha Boat Club | 1:45.93 | 3:35.29 |
3 | Lucky Charms / University Barge Club / Sacramento State Women's Rowing / Upper Valley Rowing Foundation (USA) | 1:48.49 | 3:39.18 |
4 | Ruderverein Hoya von 1926 e.V. / Lucky Charms (INT) | 1:48.86 | 3:45.98 |
5 | Viana Remadores do Lima / Weybridge Rowing Club (INT) | 1:52.78 | 3:52.00 |
Crew: Ailie Ord (SPRC), Steve Aquilina (QBC), Tom Bishop (QBC), Hilary Cook (MAABC).
Event 510 Race 1 Mixed Masters G 2x
Rank | Crew | 500m | 1000m |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Ailie Ord / Tom Bishop (Strathclyde Park Rowing Club / Quintin Boat Club) | 1:57.21 | 3:55.65 |
2 | Gérard Le Flohic / Joelle Thuez (Club d'Aviron Saintais / Rowing Club de Port Marly) (FRA) | 1:57.14 | 4:06.48 |
3 | Bertrand Ollivier-Lamarque / Pauline Fry (Club Nautique de Chateau-Gontier Aviron / Société Nautique d'Avignon) (FRA) | 2:04.10 | 4:08.51 |
4 | Claude Maymil / Philippe Troivaux (Sport Nautique Compiègnois) (FRA) | 2:06.43 | 4:15.53 |
5 | Jacqueline Marsh / Ian Weeks (Llandaff RC) | 2:16.34 | 4:38.63 |
6 | Sabine Großkopf / Klaus Schneider (Münchener Ruder- und Segelverein 'Bayern' von 1910 e.V.) (GER) | 2:25.66 | 4:52.81 |
Event 515 Race Mixed Masters F 8+
Rank | Crew | 500m | 1000m |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Turnverein 1877 e.V. Essen-Kupferdreh / Csa Steaua Bucuresti / Ruder-Gesellschaft HANSA e.V. / W'sportverein Meppen e.V. / Sportvereinigung Polizei Hamburg von 1920 e.V. W'sport-Abteilung / Aviron Lachine Rowing / New Haven RC / Frauen-R-C Wannsee (INT) | 1:45.56 | 3:32.07 |
2 | Monmouth Rowing Club | 1:46.57 | 3:36.41 |
3 | Dart Totnes Amateur Rowing Club / Quintin Boat Club / Ardingly Rowing Club / Mortlake Anglian Alpha Boat Club | 1:49.47 | 3:38.97 |
4 | Veslarský Klub Bohemians Praha / Veslarský Klub Slavia Praha (CZE) | 1:47.95 | 3:41.36 |
5 | Rudergemeinschaft Angaria e.V. / Ruderverein Weser von 1885 e.V. Hameln / Ruderverein Linden von 1911 e.V. Hannover / Deutscher Ruder-Club von 1884 e.V. (GER) | 1:50.00 | 3:43.88 |
Crew: Rod Stewart, Tom Bishop, Stephen Banks, Michael Howe, Linda Goldsmith, Clare Davison, Esther Clutton, Ursula Tanner, Hilary Cook (Cox).
So that’s 13 Golds, a fantastic haul that reflects the huge effort that goes in to achieving such results.
And here are some further notes regarding our illustrious Mr Bishop:
Tom had two quite memorable races amongst his 14 (albeit 2 lost to weather, sadly including the H2x with Geoff – where they had a strong chance of a win).
In the single scull Tom enjoyed the fact that the H event was a lot easier than the I... and he had a nip and tuck race with Bernard Luttikhuizen from Rijnland Holland. Tom says “We talked later, and he had targeted racing me after Libourne last year but I had also seen him coming at last year's event as he had been faster than me in second 500m. He was in the Dutch 1972 2+ Olympic crew and has only recently taken up sculling, so he is still getting quicker. I need to keep training."
Tom Continues:
"In the mixed 2x G with Ailie Ord of Strathclyde, we drew a crew who are also accustomed to winning: Joelle Thuez and Gerard Le Flochic from France. The race was pretty much level at 500 metres, miles ahead of the rest …’race on ‘… both crews were sprinting for the line and I thought we just had a few feet in hand with ten strokes to go when they stopped (catching a crab I think) and we drifted across the line in relief having covered the second 500m faster than the first and in the fastest time for the event.
Doing crews with some of the older guys was a privilege . In the I-M 8+ we fitted clams to the 80+ year olds oars so they could keep up. In the J 4x the crew order was decided by the fact that one guy was totally deaf and so had to sit behind his chum who could hear… so he could follow the person in front of him. I got lumped into steering the quad, something I have avoided since 1976 Olympics when as the person steering I lost control and changed lanes in the B final. Werner Busch at three in the J quad promised not to tell anyone I steered afterwards as I had managed to stay in the lane.
We all had stories to tell but it is great to go and race and to meet all the masters of like mind. Beer was nice too."
And finally, a few additional notes:
- All the results from the regatta may be found at this link
- Even Marcel Hacker, ex world champion sculler (Seville 2002) couldn’t win in his double … but he did win in his 1x.
- The oldest competitor was 97 years old – and looked good on it. There again, the 80+ lads looked amazing too (BTW I’m not referring to our squad!).
There are a good few more wins to add to the Potwinners Chart. Tom is inevitably way out in front with 12 wins so far this year.
Photographs of the event may be found at http://quintinboatclub.org/gallery/index.php?ref=3339.
Mark Russell and Mike Harris got together with John Ferrario and others from our neighbours at MAABC to take part in the annual Oarsome Challenge - a sponsored row from Greenwich to Chiswick in aid of Lonon Youth Rowing. They represented Chiswick Rowing Trust with a crew name of "Chiswick Beach". A little bit of competition is injected into the row by including a time trial from Putney Bridge to the finish at QBC. We are happy to report that our (mixed) crew completed the race in 32 min. 27 sec, a minute and 10 seconds faster than the fastest all-male crew, and also raised over £1,700 for the Chiswick Rowing Trust.
Full results of the time trial here.
Photographs of the event may be found at http://quintinboatclub.org/gallery/index.php?ref=3332.
The club had an interest in three events at Henley Masters Regatta this weekend. Racing in the quarter-final of Open Masters E single sculls on Friday afternoon, Ken Almand lost to Drew of City of Bristol RC by two lengths. On Saturday we had two finalists. Graham Bagnall stroked to victory in Open Masters I Quadruple Sculls in a composite with Royal Chester RC, beating a composite Saugatuck / Upper Thames crew by one length. Then, in the last race of the day, our Open Masters G eight lost narrowly to a composite Bedford / Star Club crew, the verdict being ¼ length.
The full results from the regatta may be found at https://henleymastersregatta.org.uk/results/.
Meanwhile Tom Bishop was competing in Open Masters I single sculls at Kingston Regatta, beating a sculler from Maidstone Invicta by 3½ lengths in a straight final to chalk up his fourth regatta win of the season.
Full results from Kingston at https://www.kingstonregatta.co.uk/draw.htm.
Tom continues to head the Potwinners Chart , as usual ...
... and you can see who Graham's crew mates were, listed on our Head and Regatta Wins page.
A photograph of the Masters I quad may be found at http://quintinboatclub.org/gallery/index.php?ref=3330.
Our women's pair of Sophie Young and Jess Hardwick were competing in championship lightweight coxless pairs at Henley Women's Regatta on Saturday. In a closely fought quarter-final race they lost to a Molesey BC / University of Surrey combination by just half a length.
Full results of the event may be downloaded from https://hwr.rowresults.co.uk/resultsHWR/hwr23/Tree311158.pdf and results from all the events may be accessed from https://hwr.org.uk/results2023/.
The club clocked up a number of successes at the weekend, competing at Reading Amateur Regatta on Saturday and at the British Rowing Masters Championships at Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham on both Saturday and Sunday. At Reading on Saturday our women's pair of Jess Hardwick and Sophie Young rowed to victory, rowing over in their heat after St Catherine's College scratched and beating Lady Eleanor Holles School very comfortably in the final, the verdict - easily. In the Open eights event our crew had a good start against a good University of Birmingham crew but eventually lost by 3 lengths. The Birmingham crew went on to beat Eton College in the final.
Full results from Reading at http://www.reading-amateur-regatta.org/RESULTS/regatta.php?id=23119&day=1&b=1.
At Nottingham on Saturday our Masters G quad scull qualified for the final in second place, just under a second behind Broxbourne and then went on to win the final, beating Sons of the Thames by 1.37 seconds with Broxbourne 10 seconds behind in fifth place. Our crew; Steve Aquilina, Tom Bishop, Pete Meaney and ian Hyslop. Tom then went on to a comfortable win in Masters I single sculls against K. Moore of Burton Leander. Ken Almand competed in Masters E single sculls, winning his heat in 3 min 55.76 sec. and finishing fourth in the final in 3 min. 57.09 sec. The final was won by Ali Boileau of Putney Town in 3 min. 47.06 sec, beating Guy Pooley into second place.
On Sunday the sweep oar events took place with Quintin competing in Masters G eights and Masters G coxless fours and with Tom Bishop in a composite Dart Totnes/ MAABC/Quintin Masters H four in the same heat. The eights race was won by a fast Bedford/Star composite with Quintin in fifth place but the 'G' four fared better, winning their final in 3 min. 31.28 sec. over Ardingly and a "Jock Wishart" composite. The 'H' four only had one crew to beat - Nottingham RC - and finished over 13 seconds ahead of them in 3 min 42.61 sec.
Full results from Nottingham at https://rowresults.co.uk/brmc23. See our 8th June news item for our race times.
Take a look at the updated Potwinners Chart.
Photographs from Reading may be found at http://quintinboatclub.org/gallery/index.php?ref=3326.
A brief report from the Vogalonga trip: our crew completed the processional course in around 2 hours 22 minutes under good conditions but with a head wind for the first half. The crew: Simon Wood, Mike Harris, Graham Bagnall, Adrian Ballardie, Willy Almand, D. Hermann Andreas (from Berliner Ruder Club), Steve Aquilina and cox Lucy Wood. Take a look at the photos!
Photographs of the event may be found at http://quintinboatclub.org/gallery/index.php?ref=3310.
Our women's coxless pair of Sophie Young and Jess Hardwick is competing at Reading Regatta on Saturday. They have a heat against St. Catherine's College at 10:27 and have drawn the Oxfordshire station. The winners go on to race either Oxford University Women's Lightweight RC or Lady Eleanor Holles BC in the final at 12:15.
Full details of the regatta draw may be found at http://www.reading-amateur-regatta.org/RESULTS/regatta.php?id=23119&day=1&b=1.
The club has eleven competitors taking part in the national masters championships at Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham, this weekend. The sculling races are on Saturday and the sweep oar events on Sunday.
Our masters G quad scull of Steve Aquilina, Tom Bishop, Pete Meaney and Ian Hyslop has a heat at 9:04 on Saturday against Broxbourne, Tideway Scullers, Walton and Talkin Tarn. The three fastest crews will go forward to the final at 10:52. Tom Bishop is also racing in the Masters H/I single sculls final at 13:52. The 'I' scullers are K. Moore of Burton Leander and Tom while the 'H' scullers are R. Milligan (Poplar B & D), M. Venn (Gloucester) and G. Perrin (Birmingham). At 16:12 Ken Almand will be racing for us in a heat of masters E single sculls, against T. Keir (Exeter RC), J. Waller (Notts. & Union), I. Westmore (Warwick RC) and T. Lunel (Stratford-upon-Avon). The final for this event is at 17:52.
On Sunday our masters G eight races at 12:10 in a straight final against Tideway Scullers School, Broxbourne, MAABC/Poplar B & D and Bedford/Star. Our crew: Graham Bagnall, Tom Bishop, Huw Jones, Pete Meaney, Charles Harrison, Ian Hyslop, Fred Jefferies, Richard Lonergan, with Jane Adams coxing. Then at 14:25 there is a combined Masters G and H coxless fours final with Dart Totnes/MAABC and Nottingham RC in the 'H' category and Quintin, Ardingly and a Walbrook composite in the 'G' category. Our crew: Huw Jones, Pete Meaney, Fred Jefferies and Richard Lonergan.
The summary draw for Saturday may be found at https://www.britishrowing.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/BRMC23-Saturday-Summary-as-at-7th-10pm.pdf and the full draw for Sunday may be found at https://www.britishrowing.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/BRMC23-Sunday-Races-as-at-7th-10pm.pdf. At the time of going to press the link on the Bristish Rowing website to "Saturday's Races" was incorrectly showing the Sunday timetable, but "Saturday's Summary" gives the correct details.
Our intrepid barflies are once again tackling the Vogalonga, which takes place in Venice this weekend. For those of you not in the know this is a procession (NOT a race) around 32 km of the Venice lagoon, starting next to St. Mark's Square and finishing with a paddle down the Grand Canal. All shapes and sizes of manually propelled craft take part. Our boys usually acquire the use of a wide-bodied coxed eight and typically complete this course in just over two hours. We wish them good luck and not too sore extremities!
A map of the course may be found at http://quintinboatclub.org/gallery/index.php?ref=879.
Belated congratulations to Beks and Mark Chatwin on the birth of their daughter, Lily Maeve, last Thursday, 20th April.
Our women's pair of Jess Hardwick and Sophie Young have won the women's pairs event at Hammersmith regatta. In their semi-final they beat Sydenham High School by 4½ lengths and in the final they beat Tideway Scullers School easily.
The club had also entered an open coxless four but this scratched.
The full results from the regatta may be found at https://easyregatta.co.uk/er_raceorderlive.php?rID=1509.
This win opens our summer season Potwinners Chart.
Last summer Quintin member Leif Jacobsen came across a film in a new BBC online archive which was a newsreel from Henley Royal Rgatta 1948. Included in the film are clips from the Double Sculls final, featuring Horwood and Garrod of Quintin Boat Club who were defending (unsuccessfully) their 1947 success in the event. Your website editor was on holiday at the time Leif sent through the link and unfortunately this vital bit of information has remained in his in-tray until now, prompted by our ever vigilant secretary. A link to the film has been added to the notes in our Henley Records but you can access it directly here.
At the tail-end of March Tom Bishop took off to compete in the Skiffhead single sculls head race over a 7,500m course on the River Amstel in Amsterdam. Tom completed the course in 37 min. 26.5 sec, winning the Masters I category (age 75-79). This was just 3 seconds slower than Rod Stewart of Dart Totnes ARC, who was in the Masters H category. Tom finished 90th out of 150 finishers in the men's masters division (Rod was 88th). Tom and Rod were due to compete together in the double sculls head the following day but this race was cancelled owing to high winds.
The full results may be found at https://hoesnelwasik.nl/skiff/0/uitslagen/HM%201x with a Google Translate version at https://hoesnelwasik-nl.translate.goog/skiff/0/uitslagen/HM%201x?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp.
Tom's win closes the winter season's Pennant Winners Chart with Tom crowned champion pennant winner (again) on six wins.
Photographs of the event may be found at http://quintinboatclub.org/gallery/index.php?ref=3306.
The newly branded Vets Head followed metaphorically in the wake of the Head of the River Race, starting at 2:00 pm on Sunday. The weather was overcast but dry with a gentle to moderate SW wind blowing and rowing conditions were quite acceptable. There were 224 entries, including 151 eights and 73 coxless quad sculls. 215 crews completed the course.
Quintin fielded two crews - a Masters F eight (average age 60-64) and a Masters H eight (average age 70-74). The F eight, starting at No. 128 finished 145th in a time of 21 min. 37.37 sec. The H eight, starting at No. 142 were in a G/H handicap division and so were hoping to exploit their age advantage over the 'G' opposition. In the end they beat all of the G/H opposition on raw time except for the Broxbourne 'G' crew (12 seconds faster) and the Bedford/Star 'G' crew (4 seconds faster). As the handicap between 'G' and 'H' was calculated at 34 seconds, Quintin won the G/H pennant with a comfortable margin.
Details of the winning crew may be found on our regatta wins page.
The full results may be found at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MmbO7KjjRigaLzSVM5ZOAyUbH05uAjWu5-dm3k0ptZ4/edit#gid=0.
Photographs of the event may be found at http://quintinboatclub.org/gallery/index.php?ref=3303.
"Head" day started drearily with persistent rain until mid-morning when, much to the relief of competing crews, things started to brighten up. By the afternoon the sun was shining, giving a spring-like feel to the atmosphere, ready for the race to begin at 1:00 pm. As expected, Oxford Brookes University dominated proceedings with five of their crews taking the top eleven places, six in the top twenty and their eighth crew finishing 31st. Leander just missed winning the race by 1.9 seconds to finish second and their second crew pushed Thames A into sixth place where they retained the Vernon Trophy.
Quintin fielded two crews, very much at the development stage. The B crew went first, at start No. 108, and fished 146th in 19 min.15.6 sec. The A crew started at No. 116 and finished 110th in 18 min. 56.8 sec. Well done to the captain for getting both crews afloat!
A summary of the club's results may be found on our Head of the River web page and full results are available at https://www.horr.co.uk/wordpress/results-2023/.
Photographs of the event may be found at http://quintinboatclub.org/gallery/index.php?ref=3300.
The prizegiving for the 2023 Quintin Head was held at the boathouse on Thursday, 23rd February. The prizes were presented by Bill Weston, chair of the trustees of the Quintin Hogg Trust. Medals for category winners were awarded to those able to atttend. The boys victor ludorum prize of a CoxBox was collected by representatives of King's College School, Wimbledon while the girls victor ludorum prize (also a CoxBox) was collected by their WJ15 and WJ16 crews, who had also won medals in their respective categories.
The host club was represented by most of the winning Open Masters G crew and their efforts have swelled the ranks of this year's Pennant Winners Chart.
The race results may be found at ../quintinhead/results.php?date=2023-01-29.
Photographs of the event may be found at http://quintinboatclub.org/gallery/index.php?ref=3282.
The club's annual dinner was held at the Royal Mid-Surrey Golf Club on Friday 10th February. The guest speaker was three times Olympic rowing gold medal winner Andrew Triggs Hodge who has since rowed roung the island of Great Britain and is now involved in London Youth Rowing. The event was well attended by members past and present and their guests. The now-traditional game of "heads or tails" was won this year by Andrew Bramah.
Photographs of the event may be found at http://quintinboatclub.org/gallery/index.php?ref=3279.
The 19th Quintin Head took place on Sunday with an overcast sky and the air comparatively balmy after the recent sub-zero temperatures, although most crews had the sense to wrap up well. This year the number of entries was increased from 250 to 300 and even with a few withdrawals before the draw took place 300 names went into the hat.
The race started pretty promptly just after 10:30am, despite the fact that there were 31 latecomers. Thames RC led off the procession and rowed over to retain their start position. Molesey won both the open senior and intermediate 1 categories. Intermediate 2 was won by Notts County and the development category by Imperial College School of Medicine. St Paul's, finishing sixth, were the fastest school crew, but competing in the Championship category. They also won the J15 category. Eton College won both J18 and J16 categories. Leander were the fastest women's crew while the other senior women's categories were shared by City of Bristol (W Senior), Upper Thames (W Inter 1) and City of Cambridge (W Inter 2) with University of Warwick taking the women's development prize. Henley retained the WJ18 top position while Surbiton High School won both WJ16 and WJ15.The masters winners were spread among the usual suspects: Crabtree (Masters B/C) Upper Thames (Masters D and E/F), Quintin (Masters G, by a whisker over Weybridge), Walton (Women's Masters C), Putney Town (Women's Masters D) and Broxbourne (Women's Masters E/F).
Full results are at ../quintinhead/results.php?date=2023-01-29.
The junior victor ludorum prizes, donated by the trustees of the Quintin Hogg Memorial Fund, for the best aggregate results across 18, 16 and 15 year olds were won by King's College School (boys) and Surbiton High School (girls). Each club will receive a CoxBox Core.
Club | J18 | J16 | J15 | Total |
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King's College School | 11:19.48 | 12:07.84 | 12:29.90 | 35:57.22 |
St Paul's School | 11:44.31 | 11:59.63 | 12:23.01 | 36:06.95 |
Radley College | 11:33.95 | 12:17.66 | 12:43.80 | 36:35.41 |
Westminster School | 11:30.96 | 12:37.44 | 12:49.03 | 36:57.43 |
Dulwich College | 12:02.36 | 12:38.02 | 13:07.90 | 37:48.28 |
Kew House School | 12:41.77 | 12:45.23 | 13:20.58 | 38:47.58 |
Club | WJ18 | WJ16 | WJ15 | Total |
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Surbiton High School | 12:48.65 | 12:52.99 | 13:29.36 | 39:11.00 |
St Paul's Girls' School | 12:48.51 | 14:07.26 | 13:58.80 | 40:54.57 |
In the end 281 crews started and completed the course. As is expected at this time of the year there a number of scratchings, either due to illness or due to the lack of practice on swollen rivers in the lead-up to the race. For those of you who, like football pundits, revel in statistics, the race was administered and marshalled by some 206 volunteers, including umpires, marshals, timing teams and safety boat crew. There were six safety vessels along the course and 29 marshals' and umpires' boats used in all.
New this year was the ability to watch the results of the primary timing system coming in during the race on the internet, courtesy of the Alge timing system. Thanks go to the volunteers from King's College, London who helped to man the timing teams, and of course to all the other volunteers without whom the race could not be run on such a scale.
Photographs of the event may be found at http://quintinboatclub.org/gallery/index.php?ref=3264.
The annual plum puddings event was held today in wintry conditions over the normal downstream course from the Pink House to the club. Thirteen crews took part, including six eights, five quad sculls, a coxless four and a coxed octuple scull, fielded from four different clubs. According to current practice the crews were started in expected order of speed, with the fastest going off first, but a sealed handicap was applied to determine who should win the prizes. Prizes were awarded to first and second in the eights and octuples and to first and second in the quads and fours. The Quintin women's novice octuple took first prize in the eights and octuples, with Sons of the Thames mixed veteran eight taking second place. In the fours and quads MAABC's men's veteran G quad came first, with their men's veteran E quad second.
The full results may be downloaded from ../news/2022_plum_pudding_results.pdf.
After the racing was over, the boats washed down and stowed away, and hot showers taken by the competitors, a large number congregated in the club room to distribute the prizes, take on some festive spirit, warm up with chilli con carne supplied by Nick Ryan and co. and to take the opportunity of purchasing the inevitable raffle tickets. A good time was had by all.
Mark Chatwin and Charles Harrison were competing in single sculls at the Walton Small Boats Head on Saturday. Mark came second in the Masters C division in a time of 12 min. 7.3 sec, while Charles came second in Masters G in a time of 13 min. 27.6 sec.
The full results may be downloaded from http://www.waltonrowingclub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/WSBH-2022-ALL-DIVISIONS-BY-BOAT-v2.pdf.
The club had two crews competing in the Veteran Fours Head on Sunday and Tom Bishop was also representing the club in a composite crew. Our Masters G quad scull finished second in category in a time of 20 min. 34.0 sec, eight seconds behind Sons of the Thames. Their overall position was 46th. Our Masters F coxless four (barflies) completed the course in 22 min. 47.4 sec, finishing 182nd overall. Tom Bishop's composite Masters H quad scull, with Rod Stewart and Pete Atkinson of Dart Totnes ARC and Lee Brown of MAABC won their category in a time of 20 min. 32.3 sec, 43rd overall.
The full results may be found currently at http://www.vetfourshead.com/results-and-prizes/.
Tom Bishop increases his tally in this year's Pennant Winners Chart.
A photograph of the Masters F coxless four may be found at http://quintinboatclub.org/gallery/index.php?ref=3261.
The club had a quad scull competing in the Fours Head on Saturday. They were placed in the Club quad sculls category and finished eighth out of 15 in the category in a time of 19 min. 23.8 sec.
The full results may be found at https://rowresults.co.uk/4shead22.
The club has a quadruple scull entered for the Fours Head this Saturday. It has a starting position of 100 and is entered in the club event, for which there are sixteen entries.
The full starting order may be found at https://fourshead.org/startorder/.
The club also has two entries and an interest in a third in the Veteran Fours Head on Sunday. Our Masters G quad scull has a start position of 159 and our Masters F coxless four starts at number 177. In addition Tom Bishop is sculling in a composite Masters H quad scull, combining with Dart Totnes and Mortlake Anglian and Alpha. They have a start position of 169.
The full starting order for this race may be found at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rltz9R6zYWEdkKWpzVN2K7u0abCn1-cwOKJUD5DvzF4/edit#gid=2136296556.
We wish all our competitors "Good luck!" and we are sure they would appreciate some vocal support from the river bank during the race. Both races are, of course, over the Championship track from Mortlake to Putney, Saturday's race starting at 12 noon and Sunday's at 1:00pm.
Steve Aquilina repeated his triumph at Kingston Small Boats Head last week with a win this week in Masters F single sculls over the same 5,200m course at the Teddington Head. His time of 22 min. 3.4 sec. was 15 seconds faster than his closest rival in a field of seven Masters F scullers. Charles Harrison was also successful, winning the Masters G/H single sculls pennant in a time of 22 min. 50.1 sec.
The full results may be found at https://walbrookrowing.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/div-1-results.pdf.
Our list of successes in the autumn heads is beginning to grow - take a look at our Head and Regatta Wins for this year.
Steve Aquilina was competing in the Kingston Small Boats Head on Saturday. He completed the 5,200 metre course in 21 min. 9.17 sec. to win the Masters F pennant, a minute and seventeen seconds ahead of his closest rival.
The full results may be found at https://www.rowtimer.com/event/15c2cc.
With this win Steve joins this year's Pennant Winners Chart.
At the beginning of the year Tom Bishop set off with his friend Rod Stewart from Dart Totnes ARC to compete in some masters races "down under", and the rest, as they say, is history, with Tom and Rod returning to the UK with a clutch of medals. Now, not content with their earlier successes, Tom and Rod went west to compete in the Head of the Charles race in Boston, Massachusetts. They completed the course in a time of 19 min 16.438 sec, finishing sixth in the over 60s double sculls division but were the fastest over 70s by over a minute, securing the Veteran medals.
The full results may be found at https://www.regattacentral.com/regatta/results2/eventResults.jsp?job_id=6144&event_id=18.
Whilst they came away with another pair of medals it was not, to use a nautical term, all plain sailing. Tom takes up the story below. One of the photographers recording the race from the bank was a certain Hugh Slee, who was a member of Quintin back in the 1980s and '90s but now lives in Boston. He recognised the Quintin colours and took a great interest as the story unfolded, documenting it photographically. Some of his photographs may be found in our photogallery, where there is also a link to his website.
Tom's Story
"We had rented a brand new all carbon latest Hudson, and set it up the previous two days so that we were flying - hoping to see if we could beat the 60 year olds (we are 74 average - it's why we do it).
On the way to the start we hit an underwater tree which knocked the fin out. The boat was unsteerable. However we were just a couple of hundred metres from Harvard men's boathouse. I knew the boat man Charlie Butt from the 70's and quad sculling, so I thought we might get help there. We duly landed and called for the boatman...who didn't appear; but a lady, Sarah Baker, who is the coach of the Harvard women's heavy weight and lightweight squads did come to see what the fuss was about. She tried the Harvard spares for a Hudson fin, but the ones they had were the wrong type and didn’t fit. Time was now getting short till our start time and we were 15 minutes away from the start. Rod had given up by now and accepted that we had blown it, however my mantra is ‘how do we win from here’…. I asked Sarah if there was a boat we could borrow, and she said yes!
It happened that the Harvard women's boathouse at Weld is being refurbished and all the women's boats are at the men's boathouse (the men and women have found that they actually like each other and may switch the women and men to sharing boathouses in the future, lightweights in one and heavies in the other). She and a chum went and got the lightweight women's Fluid out of the boat park. By now we had 12 minutes until our start time. We jumped in and without even time to adjust our feet, set off. At this point we realised that the boat had steering, and we were going in a circle. I said to Rod, "You are steering all over the river". He replied, "I can’t move the steering shoe". You have to imagine we were in a panic as it was. I looked down and realised I had the steering shoe. We managed to laugh at that. So we now rowed at rate 27/28 to the start and got there with 30 seconds to spare, slotting into our place and straight into the race. We didn’t race particularly well as we had been racing for 12 minutes before we started on the course, but it was sufficient as the results showed. It was difficult to get the head back into race mode after the dislocation and we were only at 30 rate when we had hoped to go over at 32 ish.
In addition, on the way to the start, counting down the minutes and trying to steer with a shoe, going into the last (concrete) bridge I misjudged it and we were hard up against the buttress. I shouted at Rod to hold hard but it was too late and I had to let my left scull go or it would have been snapped off at the gate. So now my scull is parallel with the boat and Rod just had time to pull his left blade all the way in to the gate missing the buttress by an inch. How we didn’t roll into the water I don't know, but we got ourselves back together and paddled the few strokes into the starting shute to race. It would have been a disaster to break borrowed blades and borrowed boat.
Sarah Baker is bringing the Harvard ladies over to the UK in June to do Women's Henley and Henley Roya and is looking to do an outing on the Tideway to give her girls that experience. I said to contact us as we should be able to arrange boating from QBC/MAA to return the favour of the boat loan. I think they will be renting a fleet of Hudsons in the UK (they might like Empacher?).
Anyway a lot had to go right in sequence, and amazingly it did. We paddled the Fluid back to the Hudson dock after the finish, and Hudson were already aware and had a fin for us to collect, take to Harvard, repair the Hudson and paddle it back to the Hudson rental dock. After which we went for a few beers!
So snatching victory from the jaws of defeat!"
Tom Bishop
Tom is establishing another early lead in the 2022-23 Pennant Winners Chart.
The club also had an interest in racing the following day when sometime Quintin member Bruce Lamka was competing in Grand Masters eights with his clubmates from the Ancient Mariners club in Seattle. They were also an over 70s crew and also won the veterans category.
Photographs of the event may be found at http://quintinboatclub.org/gallery/index.php?ref=3250.
Photographs of the event may be found at http://quintinboatclub.org/gallery/index.php?ref=3259.
Three of our masters took part in the Weybridge Silver Sculls on Saturday over the upstream course of approximately 3300m between the Little Weir between Walton and Sunbury and the top of the Desborough Cut. Ken Almand came third out of 14 in the Masters E singles culls event in a time of 15 min. 20 sec, Steve Aquilina came second out of seven in Masters E in a time of 15 min. 54 sec. and Charles Harrison won the Masters G event in a time of 16 min. 25 sec, beating the three other 'G' scullers.
Full results may be found at https://www.weybridgerowing.club/wss-results/2022.
With this win Charles joins Tom Bishop in this year's Pennant Winners Chart.
A report from Adrian Ballardie
A party of the BarFlies group went to the 2022 Rund Um Wannsee race in Berlin held by the Berlin Rowing Club on Sunday 2nd October.
Our crew were to have rowed as an eight but David King slipped on a flight of stairs the day before the race and fractured a rib and Roger Griffiths fell foul of a very bad cold. Accordingly, we rowed in a coxed six kindly lent by BRC in lieu of the eight we had hired. Other Quintin members, Simon Wood and Andrew Bramah, rowed with a Downing College Cambridge alumni eight, and yet others, Willy Almand and Tony Zucher, rowed in a Mortlake Anglian and Alpha and Sons of the Thames mixed composite eight.
Results:
Mens 8+ Vet D-H
Downing College 3rd of 4 in a time of 1:04:25
Mortlake Anglian & Alpha Composite crew 4th of 4 in a time of 1:05:15
Mens 6+ Vet "Out of Competition"
Quintin Boat Club Vet E 2nd of 2 in a time of 1:16:21
The crew of our 6 were Sakti Narayan, Mike Harris, Richard Ware, Adrian Ballardie, Mark Russell and David Nicol with a local cox.
Despite being reduced to six, the Quintin Boat Club crew had a most enjoyable row in good conditions with sunshine and a brisk westerly breeze on the lake. The Downing crew inexplicably lost their rudder a few minutes into the race which made their result good given the steering problems that inevitably ensued. The overall winning time by a Berlin crew was 0:52:00 by a M 8+ Vet A crew.
Berlin Rowing Club afforded their best hospitality, staging a buffet meal on the Friday night of our arrival as well as providing a cox and great equipment, all greatly appreciated by our crews.
Photographs of the event may be found at http://quintinboatclub.org/gallery/index.php?ref=3245.
Our winter season kicked off with the Pairs Head this Saturday, where we had an interest in two double sculls: Steve Aquilina and Ian Hyslop entered the Masters G category while Tom Bishop paired up with Rod Stewart of Dart Totnes ARC in Masters H. Steve and Ian finished 123rd overall in a time of 15 min. 7.3 sec, but were the only entry in their category and so were not competing for a pennant. Tom and Rod finished a very creditable 51st overall in a time of 14 min. 27.37 sec, winning the Masters H pennant by just over 80 seconds.
The full results may be downloaded from https://www.bblrc.co.uk/pairshead/pairs-head-recent-results/pairs-head-results-2023/.
With this win Tom doubles his tally in the Pennant Winners Chart.
(posted late - 01/11/2022 - owing to editor's holiday interfering with the smooth running of things!)
The club had six scullers competing in this year's Scullers' Head, all racing for pennants in various masters divisions. The club's fastest sculler over the championship course was Ken Almand, finishing second in the Masters E division in a time of 24 min. 2.66 sec. Tom Bishop won the Masters I pennant in a time of 24 min. 33.45 sec, with a winning margin of 71 seconds. Graham Bagnall was third in the same division in 26 min. 36.59 sec. There was an inter-club battle in Masters D between Mark O'Brien and Dov Ohrenstein, sculling in TSS colours, with only seven seconds separating them at the finish. Dov was also just pipped by Tom. Here is a summary of our results:
- Ken Almand (MasE) finished 141st in 24:02.66 - 2nd in category
- Mark O'Brien (MasD) finished 171st in 24:27.01 - 12th in category
- Tom Bishop (MasI) finished 190th in 24:33.45 - 1st in category
- Dov Ohrenstein (TSS) (MasD) finished 191st in 24:34.06 - 13th in category
- Steve Aquilina (MasF) finished 206th in 24:42.19 - 6th in category
- Graham Bagnall (MasI) finished 358th in 26:36.59 - 3rd in category
- James Spicer (MasE) finished 361st in 26:47.25 - 15th in category
The full results may be found at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1trSX1rvVshUrglg-fmkY_LoSPGCy0FFw7zLZ-w2V63E/edit#gid=0.
Once again Tom Bishop kicks off a new season's Pennant Winners Chart.
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