News - 2009 Season
06 Dec - Marsters win at Newark
Newark Head
Hayley Marsters and Jo Canton won at Newark Head on Sunday.
They teamed up with Bruce Margetts from Lincoln Rowing Centre and Chris Morrill from the RAF to win the Mixed Veteran B/C coxed fours in a time of 13 minutes 20 seconds.
They beat Huntingdon Rowing Club by 1 minute 8 seconds over the 4 km course on the River Trent.
28 Nov - Four at Soar
Soar Head, Loughborough
We had four wins at Soar Head at Loughborough on Saturday.
Fastest Peterborough winners were the Intermediate 2 coxed four of Matthew Barrows, Mark Pocock, Steve Fox and Steve Pearce, coxed by Ella Lamming who finished the 3000m upstream course in 12 mins 24 secs – 46 seconds faster than their opposition from Nottingham University.
Sally Wallace, Megan Rogers, Ericha Knowles and Ella Lamming coxed by Annabell Pitcher beat four other crews, finishing 5 seconds ahead of the second-placed Doncaster crew, to win the Women’s Intermediate 3 coxed four in a time of 13 mins 39 secs, 5 seconds.
Winners of the Veteran C/D coxed four event in 13 mins 8 secs were Steve Fox, Jamie Davis, Jack Ward, Keith Blackman and cox Ericha Knowles, finishing 23 seconds faster after handicapping than second placed Doncaster Veteran D crew and 40 secs faster than Doncaster’s Veteran C crew.
Jo Canton won the Centre Veteran C/E double sculls in a composite crew with Bruce Margetts from Lincoln Rowing. The Mixed Veteran C double beat four all-male crews, and finished 22 seconds faster than second-placed Loughborough, in 13 mins 5 secs.
Peterborough’s fastest crew was the Men’s Intermediate 3 coxed four, who came second in their event and third overall in a time of 12 mins 14 secs.
22 Nov - Six indoor golds for Peterborough
British Indoor Rowing Championships
The Junior squad has a great day at the British Indoor Rowing Championships with six gold medals (five team and one individual) breaking two Championship records in the process, with two silver medals (one team and one individual) and an individual bronze medal.
Bradley Bucknell racing at Junior 12 broke the Championship record when he rowed 568m in 2 minutes, beating James Lannigan from Plymstock School by 28m, with fellow Peterborough rower Faizan Shah finishing third with 526m. Bradley and Faizan then won gold in the team event with Max Rippon and Jake Langham finishing their 500m race in 2 mins 1.5secs, five seconds ahead of the KES A team from Stratford-upon-Avon.
James Marshall missed out on gold in his Junior 14 event by just 1m over the 4 minutes row. He was beaten into silver by Oliver Knight from Walton who rowed 1199m. He still went home with gold though, as part of the Junior 14 team event with Matt Hart, Harry Veal-Gray and Daniel Richardson. They finished their 750m race in 2 mins 38 secs, four seconds ahead of the Beans on Toast team from Warrington.
Peterborough shone in the team events with the Women's Junior 12 girls team of Aimee Parker, Amy Whitehead, Abbie Jessop and Melissa Ozmen breaking the Championship record to finish 500m in 2 mins 10 secs, 1 second ahead of silver placed St Peters/St Josephs from Stoke.
Meghan Lawless, Gemma Titchmarsh, Georgia Swain and Paige Phillips won the Women's Junior 15 girls event finishing the 1000m in 3 mins 53 secs, two and a half seconds faster than silver medallists Warrington RC.
The boys also won gold in the Junior 11 event when the team of Robert Baile, Archie Benson, Alex Slater and William Coulson won their 500m event in 2 mins 17.5 secs, six and a half seconds ahead of Sutherland Boys from Stoke.
In the Junior 16 team event Aaron Taylor, Jake Lunn, Adam Fox and Daniel Boyle took silver in 3 mins 20 secs against an impressive Cardiff City RC crew who set a new Championship record of 3 mins 13.4 secs.
22 Nov - Barks is Champion of the Great Ouse
Star Small Boats Head
Graham Barks was Male Great Ouse Sculling Champion and won two events at Star Small Boats Head in Bedford on Sunday.
Veteran C single sculler Graham Barks beat off younger Elite scullers to be the fastest single sculler over the 2000m course, finishing 6 seconds faster than Elite single sculler Hamblett from Sudbury Rowing Club in 7 mins 10 secs. He beat Parker from Boston Rowing Club by one and a half minutes to win his Veteran C single sculls event.
He had previously doubled up with Pete Essex to win the Veteran C coxless pairs, finishing fastest of the five crews in 7 mins 45 secs and beating fellow City pair Pete Dolby and Ian Davis into second place. Barks and Essex had also raced the first division of the Head in Veteran D double sculls finishing in 7 mins 29 secs but no time was taken for their only opposition.
17 Oct - Pair of wins at the Pairs Head
Pairs Head of the River Race and Ancholme Head
Peterborough picked up a pair of wins at the Pairs Head in London on Saturday.
James Fox won the Junior 18 double sculls with Laurence Dugdale from King’s School, Ely in a time of 12 minutes 33 seconds, beating the second-placed Walton Rowing club crew by just one second on the 4000m Thames-course, between the University Stone at Mortlake and Hammersmith Bridge. Fox and Dugdale finished 21st overall in this top quality Head race, which had 372 crews competing.
Hayley Marsters and Jo Canton overtook their younger opposition, finishing 11 seconds ahead of them, to win the Women’s Veteran B/C coxless pairs. After the handicap was applied, they beat the Parrs Priory/Vada pair by 25 seconds, finishing in 14 mins 38 secs.
Jo Canton also picked up a pair of wins the previous week at Ancholme Head. She dead-heated on time with Penny Barker from Ancholme to share the win in the Women’s Veteran C single sculls, and then won the Women’s Intermediate 3 quadruple sculls with three novice Lincoln scullers, beating a York quad over the 2700m north-lincolnshire course.
04 Oct - Seven City wins at St Neots
St Neots Small Boats Head
Peterborough continued their impressive start to the Head season with seven wins at St Neots Small Boats Head on Sunday.
Meghan Lawless won the Women’s Junior 15 single sculls event in 11 mins 47 secs, finishing 19 seconds ahead of second placed Swann from Dame Alice Harpur School.
Meghan picked up a second win in the Women’s Junior 15 coxed quad with Gemma Titchmarsh, Paige Phillips and Eloise Austin, coxed by Serena Ward when they finished seven seconds ahead of Dame Alice Harpur School in 10 mins 52 secs.
James Marshall did equally well, winning the Junior 14 single sculls in 11 mins 38 secs, 13 seconds faster than fellow city sculler Matt Hart, and then winning the Junior 14 coxed quad with Matt Hart, Harry Veal-Grey and Daniel Richardson, coxed by Matt Newton in 9 mins 57 secs, 1 minute 2 seconds ahead of another Peterborough quad.
Peterborough’s fastest boat of the day was the Novice coxed quad of Adam Fox, Jake Lunn, Daniel Boyle and Aaron Taylor, coxed by Matt Newton, who finished 3 seconds ahead of Star Club in a time of 9 mins 53 secs.
In the 1200m Mini-head, Holly McFarlane won the Women's Junior 15 B single sculls in 5 mins 32 secs, 18 seconds of her King’s School Rochester opposition, and Matt Dodds won the Junior 13 B single sculls in 6 mins 6 secs, two seconds ahead of Faizan Shah from Peterborough and 54 seconds ahead of the third-placed Leicester sculler.
03 Oct - Fox fastest at Wallingford
Wallingford Long Distance Sculls
James Fox broke the course record by nearly three seconds when he won the Senior Single sculls at Wallingford Long Distance Sculls on Saturday.
James finished the 4000m upstream Thames course in 14 mins 11.3 secs, two seconds ahead of Moody from Upper Thames, becoming the fastest ever single sculler to race the course. Previously the fastest time of 14 mins 14 secs was set in 2002 by Senior 1 sculler Collins from Molesey. The Junior sculler could even have even set a better time if he’d negotiated the last bend of this unfamiliar challenging river course more smoothly in the testing cross-tailwind conditions.
City also had good results in the Junior 17 single sculls, packed with GB-junior squad scullers, with Tom Chung finishing fourth in 15 mins 10.4 secs, and Sam Tuck ninth in 15 mins 30.9 secs out of the 36 racing in their event. Tim Ellis was second in the Veteran C single sculls, with the handicap-adjusted time of 14 mins 48.7 secs.
13 Sep - Seven up at Cambridge
Cambridge Autumn Regatta
City brought a successful regatta season to a close with seven wins at Cambridge Autumn Regatta on Sunday.
The last local regatta of the season was also a regatta of firsts, with Faizan Shah winning his first regatta event in the Junior 12 single sculls, beating Keech from Royal Docks Rowing Club in the final, and Joan Heath winning her first rowing event in twenty years in the CRA women’s coxed fours. The crew of Hayley Marsters, Jo Canton, Anita Carter, Joan Heath and cox Kate Wallace comfortably beat Xpress in the semi-final, to then convincingly beat the less-experienced Cambridge 99 crew in the CRA women’s coxed fours final.
After some emergency repairs on their steering line on the way up to the start by Peterborough’s boatman Steve Taylor, the Women’s Intermediate 3 coxed four with the crew of Sally Wallace, Megan Rogers, Annabell Pitcher and Ericha Knowles coxed by Matt Newton kept their cool and beat Milton Keynes in a straight final on the 600m River Cam course.
City’s Women’s Junior 15 coxed quadruple sculls crew of Eloise Austin, Meghan Lawless, Paige Phillips and Georgia Swain, coxed by Serena Ward beat Broxbourne Rowing Club in their straight final, and then Meghan Lawless and Paige Phillips picked up a second win, again beating Broxbourne, in the final of the Women’s Junior 15 double sculls.
The Junior crew of James Marshall, Matt Hart, Harry Veal-Gray and Daniel Richardson, coxed by Chris Defreitas, also beat Broxbourne to win their straight final of the Junior 14 coxed quadruple sculls.
Veteran scullers Graham Barks and Pete Essex probably had the closest race, when they won by just one foot against the Broxbourne double in the final of the Veteran D double sculls.
03 Sep - Tim's a World Champion
FISA World Masters Regatta, Vienna
Tim Ellis won gold in the Veteran C single sculls at the FISA World Masters Regatta held in Vienna, Austria. The regatta for veterans, held from 3rd to 6th September, is raced over a 1000m course in a different country each year, and attracts crews from all over the world.
Tim, racing for the Royal Air Force, was level with about 250 m to go but then upped the rate to win in a time of 3 mins 48.41 secs, over four seconds ahead of the second-placed german sculler from TU Dresden in the eight-lane final.
Peterborough City were second in four of their events. In the Women’s coxed eights, racing as part of a composite Cambridge clubs/Leicester/Peterborough crew, they had second places in the Women’s Veteran A, B and C events with Hayley Marsters in all three crews, Jo Canton in B and C events, and Anita Carter in the A event. In the Women’s Veteran B coxed eights the crew only just missed out on gold by 0.76 of a second to an Estonian/Latvian composite crew, after being just in the lead at 500m. Joan Heath finished second in her Women’s Veteran F single sculls event, with her sprint finish pushing her up from third place.
Tim Ellis was also fifth in the Veteran C double sculls with Steve Tuck, and third with Joan Heath in the Mixed Veteran D double sculls. Hayley and Jo also picked up 3rd place in their Women's Veteran C pairs.
09 Aug - Summer's Super Seven
Peterborough Summer Regatta
We had seven wins at Peterborough Summer Regatta.
Sarah Smith’s first regatta back after her second baby was a great success when she won the Women’s Intermediate 3 coxed four with Amanda Gopaul, Sarah Waghorn (rowing for RAF) and Hannah Davies, coxed by Lewis Tuck on Saturday’s 1000m course. The crew finished three seconds ahead of Globe RC in 3 mins 55 secs, with Twickenham and City of Oxford third and fourth. It was also a special race for Amanda Gopaul, as she lost her rowing novice status and received the customary dunking in the lake. (See Photo gallery for picture of the winning crew.)
Also winning on Saturday were Sam Tuck, Chris Lutterodt and cox Lewis Tuck, in a composite Men’s Intermediate 3 coxed four with James Jarratt and Thomas Eames from Tideway Scullers School, in 3 mins 27 secs. They beat a Churchill composite by four seconds into second-place, with City of Cambridge third and Broxbourne fourth.
On Sunday, another novice dunking was required when the Novice double sculls event was won by juniors Jack Greenway and Ashley Piper, who beat City of Sheffield into second, with Wolfson College third and Derby fourth.
Ashley was also in the winning Peterborough/Leicester composite Men’s Intermediate 3 coxed eight of Matthew Barrow, Dave Todd, Mark Pocock, Alex Stephenson-Brown (Leicester), Ben Feighery, James Bizley and Will Roberston, coxed by Ella Lamming, who had such a close race with City of Cambridge they hadn’t realised they’d won until hearing the announcement 500m after the finish line. Sudbury were third and Nottingham Rowing Club were fourth.
Joan Heath beat younger scullers to win the Women’s Veteran D/E single sculls by clear water against Lea, Star Club and St Neots.
Graham Barks and Pete Essex won the Veteran C/D double sculls, beating city Veteran C double of Tim Ellis and Steve Tuck, and gaining revenge on the Poplar and Blackwall double scullers, who won the Veteran D/E race on Saturday when they had the benefit of their Veteran E handicap.
Meghan Lawless and Paige Phillips won the Women’s Junior 14 double sculls, beating Isle of Ely, fellow city scullers Holly MacFarlane and Eloise Austin, and Nottingham in the straight final.
The Victor Ludorum was won by Nottingham Rowing Club.
01 Aug - Vets win at Sudbury
Sudbury Regatta
We had one win at Sudbury Regatta in Suffolk on Saturday.
The Veteran Intermediate 3 coxed four of Steve Ackerman, Matt Barrows, Neil Elder and Keith Blackman, coxed by Ella Lamming, had their second win in a week, after last Sunday’s Veteran C win at St Neots (see previous news report and photo gallery. They beat Maidstone Invicta in the final of the Veteran Intermediate 3 coxed fours, easily, in 2 minutes 28 seconds on the 650 m upstream course on the River Stour.
They also raced at Veteran C coxed fours earlier in the day but didn’t fare so well, being beaten in the quarter-finals by Medway Town RC by 1 ½ lengths, in the slower time of 2 minutes 54 secs. Veteran H single sculler Brian Hawden was the only other City crew racing, losing in the final to Leek from Lea RC by 2 lengths, who finished in 3 mins 19 secs.
26 Jul - Novice eight win at St Neots
Thirteen Peterborough wins at St Neots Regatta
The Novice Men's eight won their first regatta at St Neots Regatta, in a weekend that saw Peterborough City Rowing Club pick up thirteen wins.
The Men’s Novice coxed eight of Dave Clow, Matt Smith, Jamie Gordon, John Cameron, Ollie Shelley, Steve Pearce, Dave Betts and Chris Elder, coxed by Kate Wallace beat Lea Rowing Club in the 500m final. Fellow club members gave them their customary dunking in the river to celebrate losing their novice status.
On Saturday, over the 1000m course, a composite Women’s Intermediate 1 coxed eight with Hayley Marsters and Jo Canton won their event beating Barnes Bridge Ladies. They then teamed up with Leicester rowers Liz Pulford and Sally Horrocks to win the Women’s Veteran C/D event beating Oundle Town in the final after overcoming a handicap of 9 seconds to beat Star Club in the heat.
A fourth rowing win was recorded by the Veteran C coxed four of Steve Ackerman, Matt Barrows, Neil Elder and Keith Blackman, coxed by Ella Lamming on Sunday’s 500m course, when they beat Globe RC in the final.
Veteran D double scullers Graham Barks and Pete Essex won on both Saturday and Sunday, meeting and beating Milton Keynes in both finals.
The Junior 14 coxed quad had one of the hardest of wins racing against Oundle Town RC, in what was Peterborough’s only straight final, when they dead-heated. James Marshall, Matt Hart, Josh Codd and Dominic Manganiello, coxed by Lucille Kenny then had to return to the start to rerow the 1000m race, this time beating Oundle Town.
James Marshall and Matt Hart had a total of three wins, winning in the quad, the Junior 14 double sculls on Saturday against a Cantabrigian/City of Cambridge composite, and the Junior 13 double sculls on Sunday against Oundle Town. Josh Codd won a second pot, winning the Junior 13 double sculls with Harry Veal-Gray on Saturday, beating fellow Peterborough Juniors, Matt Newton and Dominic Manganiello in the final. City also won the Junior 15 coxed quad on Saturday with Adam Fox, Jake Lunn, Aaron Taylor and Daniel Boyle, coxed by Serena Ward.
Junior Sam Tuck had two senior wins, winning the Intermediate 2 double sculls with Norwich’s Harry Neale on Saturday and on Sunday beating Ancholme RC in the final of the Mixed Intermediate 2 quadruple sculls with Peterborough’s Ed Rippon, and St Neots girl’s Natalie Bream and Polly Hetherington.
18 Jul - Ed is National Champion
Gold and Silver at the Nat Champs
Ed Rippon won gold and Meghan Lawless won silver at the National Rowing Championships of Great Britain, held at Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham.In the Open Junior 16 single sculls final, Ed Rippon was fourth over the first 1000m and didn’t hit the front until the last 500m of the 2000m-race where he then pulled away to finish nearly 6 seconds ahead of Marcus Bowyer from Exeter RC and 9 seconds ahead of Liam Downes from Lea RC, winning gold in a time of 8 mins 29.19 secs. In his semi-final on the Friday, with racing delayed by thunder storms earlier in the day, he had finished second behind Exeter RC’s Bowyer, knowing that the first three scullers would qualify for the final.
Meghan Lawless won her heat on the Friday, in the third fastest time, to qualify for Saturday’s final of the Women’s Junior 14 single sculls. She finished second to the Hollingworth Lake sculler Jessica Leyden, who dominated the race finishing over 28 seconds ahead of the field. At the 1000m mark, Meghan was in third place, 2.5 seconds behind Tees-sculler Imogen Leigh sitting in second, but rowed through her in the second half of the race to be one second up at the 1500m mark and then maintained that gap to finish in 10 mins 51.6 secs and win the silver medal.
12 Jul - Two Quarts wins and Runner's up at Henley Vets
Bedford Quarts Sprint & Henley Veterans regattas
Pete Dolby and Ian Davis won Veteran B/C pairs at Bedford Quarts Sprint Regatta, on Sunday, beating the Veteran B Lincoln/RAF composite of Bruce Margetts and Chris Morrill in the final by 1 length in 2 mins 17 secs in windy conditions over the 600m upstream course.
Jo Canton got Peterborough’s second win of the day in the Mixed Intermediate 1 double sculls final with Bruce Margetts from Lincoln Rowing Centre, beating Margetts’ pairs partner Chris Morrill, from RAF, and Lincoln sculler Lou Elkington, by 1 ½ lengths in 2 mins 15 secs.
Peterborough also had finalists in the Veteran C coxed eights and Veteran D coxless fours, but tired legs from racing at Henley Veterans regatta the previous two days, and racing in heats into a strong headwind, took it’s toll.
At Henley Veterans regatta on Saturday, Ian Palmer was runner-up in the Men’s Veteran A single sculls to Van De Giessen from Vereniging Veteranen Roeiers, from Belgium. In the Veteran B single sculls he lost to the eventual winner from Ryde in the first round on Friday.
Pete Essex and Graham Barks had a tough final, after winning comfortably in the previous two rounds, but though they fought hard, they couldn’t overcome Breda from Holland in the final of the Men’s Veteran D double sculls.
Hayley Marsters and Jo Canton racing in a composite crew with Liz Pulford and Sally Horrocks from Leicester Rowing Club had a good race in the final of the Women’s Veteran C coxless fours, being up at around 250m but ended up losing by 1 ¼ lengths to a strong Tideway Scullers crew. The crew then split into pairs and raced each other in the Women’s Veteran C coxless pairs final, with the Leicester crew beating Peterborough.
Joan Heath and Tim Ellis, racing in a Peterborough/RAF composite, reached the semi-finals of the Mixed Veteran D double sculls. They led off the start but were overtaken just after the barrier by a brother and sister composite crew from Tideway Scullers and Parrs Priory, losing by 1 length. Tim Ellis, racing for the RAF, also reached the quarter-finals of the Veteran C single sculls, but was knocked out by the eventual winner Pike from Ryde.
12 Jul - GB win for Tuck
GB v France U16 Match
Sam Tuck stroked the GB quad to victory in the GB v France Under 16 Match held in Cardiff on Sunday.
In very windy, wavy, conditions on Cardiff Bay the quad of Thomas Eames, Jack Leask, James Jarrett and Sam Tuck beat their French opponents by four lengths. It was the second win in a row for Sam, who won last year with the Peterborough J15 quad. This year Great Britain won the overall match.
The GB Women's quad from Nottingham didn't fare so well in the waves of Wales, sinking as they drew up to the landing stages!
05 Jul - Chung reaches Henley Semi-finals
Henley Royal Regatta Results
Tom Chung reached the semi-finals of the Fawley Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta sculling for Peterborough in the composite Hollingworth Lake Rowing Club and Leander Club crew.
They had a bye to the second round where they easily beat Borlase's and Maidenhead RC in 7 mins 9 secs, they then met Sydney RC who had previously beaten Ed Rippon's Bewl Bridge and Peterborough crew by 3 lengths in 7 mins 12 secs. Ed's crew had met with Sam Tuck's Tideway Sculler's School crew in the first round and in a tight race beat them by half a length in 7 mins 13 secs.
In the quarter-finals, Tom's crew beat Sydney by 3 3/4 lengths in 7 mins 12 secs to then meet Melbourne Grammar school in the semi-finals. Unfortunately this was where their Henley racing ended for them, when they were beaten by half a length. Melbourne Grammar School then lost to Westminster School by half a length in Sunday's final. Full results of the Fawley Challenge Cup can be found here.
James Fox reached the quarter-finals sculling for Peterborough in the composite Sir William Borlase’s Grammar School and The King’s School Ely crew in the Prince of Wales Challenge Cup for Intermediate Men's Quadruple sculls . In their first round they beat U.S.R Triton, Holland by 1 1/2 lengths in 6 mins 40 secs and then met London R.C. & Old Collegians B.C., Ireland crew in the quarter-final. The crew, who are all juniors but were excluded from entering the Fawley, always knew this would be a tough race, but rowed well and lost by 3/4 length, the winning time being 6 mins 52 secs. The winner of the Prince of Wales Challenge Cup was Durham University and Oxford Brookes University who beat Leander Club by two lengths in the final. Full results of the Prince of Wales Challenge Cup can be found here.
01 Jul - Good luck at Henley boys!
Good luck to the Peterborough scullers racing in four crews at Henley Royal Regatta from Thursday.
Racing in the Fawley Challenge Cup, for Junior quadruple sculls, will be Tom Chung, Ed Rippon, and Sam Tuck (for Tideway Sculler's School).
In the first round Ed's Bewl Bridge and Peterborough City crew will meet Sam's Tideway Sculler's School crew, who both qualified on Friday. The winning crew will then meet Sydney Rowing Club. Tom Chung's composite crew (listed as Hollingworth Lake Rowing Club and Leander Club on the programme*) are through to the second round as a selected crew and will meet either Borlase's and Maidenhead RC or York City RC.
James Fox will be racing in the Prince of Wales Challenge Cup for Men's quadruple sculls against U.S.R Triton, Holland, in the crew that raced for GB at Munich (listed as Sir William Borlase’s Grammar School and The King’s School Ely*).
The timetable for racing will be up on www.hrr.co.uk on Wednesday night for Thursday's racing. Live results are posted on the HRR website and each night the timetable for the next day's racing will be posted.
[* crews cannot list more than two names on the entry, even if more clubs make up the composite crew.]
29 Jun - Celebratory soaking for Women's Novices
Ironbridge Regatta
Peterborough Women's Novice coxed four got a good soaking at the club's annual camping trip to Ironbridge, Shropshire – not from rain, but by the traditional celebration of being thrown in the river when losing their Novice rowing status.
Sally Wallace, Megan Roberts, Ericha Knowles and Annabell Pitcher coxed by Kate Wallace had good wins in their heats and then beat Stourport Rowing Club by over a length in the final of the Women’s Novice coxed fours Sprint at Ironbridge Regatta on Sunday. Fellow city rowers then helped them celebrate by throwing them in the River Severn. See the Photo gallery for our soggy stars of the weekend.
Also reaching finals were the Men’s Veteran C coxed fours, with Angus Marshall, Pete Harris, Hugo Spiegl and Rob Florance on the Saturday, and Matt Barrows, Rob Florance, Neil Elder and Keith Blackman on the Sunday, but both crews were beaten by Stourport. Pete and Hugo lost their final of Veteran C double sculls to Loughborough by a length.
Angus Marshall got to the semis in the Novice single sculls on Sunday and the two Novice men's fours raced competitively but were beaten by better crews. Ella Lamming continued to display her expert steering skills without the aid of a rudder in the Women's Novice double sculls with Ericha Knowles, but met a good Ironbridge crew in the first round. Matt Barrows made a rare appearance racing in a single scull for Peterborough but maintained his Novice sculling status.
27 Jun - Eight medal haul for Juniors
Peterborough Junior Championship
We won one gold, two silver and three bronze medals at the Peterborough Junior Championship held on Saturday.
Going one better than last year, James Marshall and Matt Hart won gold in the Junior 13 double sculls. It was a clean sweep for Peterborough in this event, with Dominic Manganiello and Daniel Richardson winning silver and Josh Codd and Harry Veal-Gray getting bronze. James Marshall also won silver in the Junior 13 single sculls and Harry Veal-Gray won bronze, with Matt Hart finishing fourth. Jemma Codd and Abigail Fletcher also did well to reach the final of the Junior 12 double sculls, finishing fourth in this new event.
Bronzes were also won by Meghan Lawless in the Women's Junior 14 single sculls, Georgia Swain in the Women's Junior 13 single sculls and in the Junior 13 coxed quad of Dominic Manganiello, Chris De Freitas, Daniel Fardey and Will Hayes coxed by Holly McFarlane.
The winners of the Bursary were Jones from Nottingham RC for the Junior 14 single sculls and and Leigh from St Peters School for the Women's Junior 14 single sculls (A Division), who was fastest of the two Women's Junior 14 single sculls events (Boston sculler Housam won the B division).
Winners of the Victor Ludorum were Headington School, with Peterborough City runners up. The Watermanship medal went to Sir William Perkin's School for their Women's Junior 14A coxed octuple sculls and the Coxing medal went to Champion of the Thames for the cox of the Women's Junior 13A coxed quadruple sculls.
Full results can be found here and the Peterborough Evening Telegraph report can be found here. Photos taken by Mr Zip can be found here.
20 Jun - HRR hopefuls race at Marlow
Marlow Regatta
Peterborough City scullers had promising results at Marlow Regatta racing in their crews entered for Henley Royal Regatta.
Sam Tuck raced for Tideway Scullers in the Junior 16 quadruple sculls, finishing second (6.35.33) behind Windsor Boys School (6.30.93), but comfortably ahead of the other crews. They will now be racing in the Qualifiers at Henley on Friday evening to secure a place in the Fawley Challenge Cup event.
Tom Chung competed in the Junior 19 quadruple sculls in an Evesham, Leander, Hollingworth Lake and Peterborough City RC composite, finishing third behind Royal Dutch Rf Vendel (the Dutch national squad crew) and a York City/Chester/Llandaff/Yarm Composite crew. This good result probably gained them their pre-qualification place in the Fawley Challenge Cup for Henley Royal Regatta.
James Fox finished fifth in the Elite quadruple sculls final (6.02.81) after winning their heat to reach the final in the composite Peterborough RC, King’s School Ely, Agecroft RC, Sir William Borlase’s crew. They too have pre-qualified, but as a result of representing Great Britain at the recent Junior regatta in Munich, James cannot defend his Fawley win, and so the crew is entered into the Prince of Wales Challenge Cup, for Men’s quadruple sculls.
Another Henley hopeful from Peterborough is Ed Rippon, who will also be racing in the Fawley Cup Qualifiers at Henley in a Bewl Bridge and Peterborough composite crew with Leander Club scullers.
It will be a busy weekend for Sam and Ed, on Sunday they will be competing in qualifying races to represent Great Britain in the Junior 16 Anglo-French Regatta. Both scullers won gold in the Quadruple sculls in the Anglo-French last year, but this time Sam Tuck will be aiming to qualify in a quad with Tideway Sculler’s School and Ed Rippon in the single sculls for Peterborough City RC.
19 Jun - City qualify at Women's Henley
Henley Women's Regatta
Our Women's Senior coxed four crew raced in the Frank Harry Cup at Henley Women's Regatta today [Friday 19 June 2009].
Claire Hartley, Nikki Williams, Bridge Lloyd and Sarah Cook, coxed by Kate Wallace were in the top 16 crews that qualified in this morning’s time trial over the 1500m Thames course to proceed to the heats of the Senior coxed fours.
In their heat [this afternoon], with a strong cross-head wind and bouncy river conditions, they had a good row racing against Maidenhead Rowing Club, but were beaten by two lengths. Maidenhead, who finished in a time of 6 mins 7 secs, will now meet a Furnivall and Mortlake composite crew in the quarter-finals tomorrow [Saturday].
14 Jun - Two golds for Oldies
National Veteran Championships
We won two golds at the National Veteran Championships at Holme Pierrepont at Nottingham.
Ian Palmer won the Veteran A single sculls event, beating Jones from Grosvenor RC by one second to win in 3 mins 47 secs in a five-lane final. In the final of the Veteran B single sculls event 35 minutes later, with both scullers having won their respective semi-finals in the morning, Jones got his revenge and Palmer had to settle for silver. It was a reverse of last year’s results where Palmer won the Veteran B event and Jones the younger Veteran A category, showing how closely matched these two scullers are.
Another close race saw Hayley Marsters and Jo Canton win gold in the Women’s Veteran B coxed eights event, rowing in a composite crew with Leicester and Cambridge rowers. At 500m they were just half a second down in second-place but came through to finish two seconds ahead of the Medway Towns Composite in 3 mins 34 secs, with the other three finalists off the pace at the finish.
Peterborough-based Tim Ellis also won silver in the Veteran C Intermediate 3 single sculls for the RAF, finishing 3 seconds behind Hill from Grosvenor RC, but comfortably ahead of bronze-medallist Royles from Nottingham RC.
14 Jun - Six wins at Star
Star Club Regatta
Peterborough Juniors had six wins at Star Regatta on Saturday and Sunday.
Over the 1000m upstream course the Junior 15 coxed quadruple scull of Aaron Taylor, Daniel Boyle, Jake Lunn, and Adam Fox coxed by Serena Ward beat Star Club by 3 ½ lengths. James Marshall beat Bradshaw from St Paul’s School in the semi-final, but then won his event by a ‘row over’ when the Star Club finalist scratched.
On Sunday, over the 550m course, Meghan Lawless won the Women’s Junior 14 single sculls beating Tanqueray from Northampton by 1 ¼ lengths in the final. In his first regatta, Matt Dodds beat Cook from Sudbury in the final of the Junior 12 single sculls to win by a boat canvas. In the Junior 13 double sculls, James Marshall, sculling with Matt Hart, had his second win of the weekend beating fellow City scullers Harry Veal-Gray and Josh Codd by 1 ¼ lengths in the final, but with both crews dominating their heats. Daniel Boyle also picked up a second win when he had a ‘row over’ in the Junior 15 single sculls.
31 May - Fox wins at Met
Metropolitan Regatta 30–31st May
James Fox won the Senior quadruple sculls at Metropolitan Regatta last weekend [30-31 May 2009] in the quad aiming for victory at this year’s Henley Royal Regatta. Racing with Matt Bedford (Sir William Borlase Grammar School, Marlow), Ollie Lee (Agecroft Rowing Club) and Laurence Dugdale (King’s School, Ely), they beat second-placed University of Limerick by just under 15 seconds to win the 2000m five-lane final in 6 mins 41.53 secs.
Ed Rippon was also in action racing a composite quad with Star and Arrow and Bewl Bridge scullers in the School/Junior quadruple sculls, finishing third after qualifying for the six-lane final on Saturday. He also won through to the Junior 19 single sculls finals on Sunday, racing above his age category, and finished third.
24 May - Silver for Chung at NSR and two wins for Vets
National Schools Regatta and Doncaster Regatta
Tom Chung won silver in the Junior 16 single sculls at National Schools Regatta after qualifying for the final by winning the time trial and his semi-final. In the final he was in the lead until the 1500m mark but Luke Moon from Star and Arrow Club raced through him over the last 500m to win by 7 secs. Chung finished second in 7 mins 45.83, nearly 10 secs ahead of bronze medallist Leask from George Herriot’s School in the six-lane final. Ed Rippon also qualified for the final but unfortunately went for a swim shortly after the start when he hit the buoys. Peterborough City Rowing Club also had semi-finalists in the Junior 15 double sculls, the Women’s Junior 14 coxed quadruple sculls, and the Junior 17 single sculls (Ed Rippon).While the Juniors were racing over the Bank Holiday weekend, Veteran crews were winning at Doncaster Regatta. Jo Canton won the Women’s Veteran A–C single sculls beating Hume from Cambois Amateur Rowing Club easily, and the Men’s Veteran C coxed four of Steve Ackerman, Rob Florance, Neil Elder and Keith Blackman, coxed by Ella Lamming beat Bradford Amateur Rowing Club.
The Peterborough Veteran D coxed four of Pete Dolby, Joe Smith, Colin Roberts and Ian Davis in their first row together were just pipped on the line in their final by Sheffield City Rowing Club, the Veteran C coxed eight lost by a quarter of a length after making up much of the handicap against the older Sheffield Veteran D crew, and Joe Smith and Colin Roberts just missed out winning their novice pot in the Veteran D Novice double sculls against Bradford. This regatta also was not without incident for Peterborough crews, when Mark Pocock and Matt Barrows hit the bank while trying to negotiate the bend of the 600m downstream course in the Men’s novice double sculls.
10 May - Juniors have a Ball at Dorney
Seven golds at Ball Cup (South) Regatta
Peterborough scullers won seven golds and three silvers at the Ball Cup Regatta on Sunday at Dorney Lake, with James Marshall winning three.
James won Gold in the Junior 13 single sculls rowing for Jack Hunt School, with Harry Veal-Gray picking up silver rowing for Peterborough Schools Rowing Association and Peterborough City Rowing Club (PRSA & PCRC). James then teamed up with Harry Veal-Gray for the Junior 13 double sculls (PRSA & PCRC), beating fellow City boys Matt Hart and Josh Codd into silver position. So it was no surprise when the Junior 13 double sculls gold and silver medallists joined forces for the Junior 13 Quadruple sculls with cox Lucille Kenny (PRSA & PCRC), that they won gold.
Meghan Lawless won the Girl’s Junior 14 single sculls for Jack Hunt School and then won a second gold in the Girl’s Junior 14 Quadruple sculls with Gemma Titchmarsh, Georgia Swain, Eloise Austin and cox Serena Ward as Peterborough Schools Rowing Association and Peterborough City Rowing club. Georgia Swain picked up a second medal by winning Silver in the Girl’s Junior 13 single sculls for Jack Hunt School. Gemma Titchmarsh and Lucille Kenny were also finalists in the Girl’s Junior 14 double sculls, finishing fourth (PRSA & PCRC).
Adam Fox and Jake Lunn (PRSA & PCRC) won Gold in the Junior 15 double sculls with Adam and Jake following up that success with a win in the Junior 15 quadruple sculls with Aaron Taylor, Daniel Boyle and cox Matt Newton (PRSA & PCRC).
Charlotte Laluna and Laura Edwards also posted a creditable performance, finishing fourth in the Girl’s Junior 18 double sculls (PRSA & PCRC) in what was a special day for all the Junior city scullers at the 2012 Olympic venue.
10 May - Fox fourth in final for GB
Munich International Junior Regatta
James Fox, representing Great Britain, was fourth in the Quadruple sculls and sixth in the Double sculls finals at a top Junior International regatta held in Munich at the weekend.The quad of James Fox, Matt Bedford from Sir William Borlase’s Grammar School, Marlow; Ollie Lee from Agecroft Rowing Club and Laurence Dugdale, King’s School, Ely, representing GB rowing came second in their heat on Sunday behind a German composite crew to qualify for the A final. In the final they finished fourth in a time of 6 mins 33 secs behind the Czech Rowing Association and two German composite crews, beating the Netherlands, and the German crew who beat them in the heats. In each of the races they battled through from behind and showed great character with their race plans against top European crews. They sculled well, but also with some space for improvements – so their best is still to come.
On the Saturday, James racing in the Junior double sculls with Laurence Dugdale won the heat to qualify for the A final, where they finished sixth. Matt Bedford and Ollie Lee were third in their heat, and finished sixth in the C final. They also raced in the quadruple scull in a warm-up event where they finished second in their heat behind the Romanian Rowing Federation crew.
GB rowing won two golds over the hot and sunny weekend. On Saturday in the Junior coxless fours, with the second GB four finishing runners-up, and on Sunday in the Junior coxed eights.
The quad will now train together at the end of May ready for competing at Metropolitan Regatta in June and aiming for Henley Royal Regatta in July.
05 May - Wallingford win for Fox
Wallingford Regatta, Dorney Lake
James Fox won at Wallingford Regatta on Sunday in the composite quad that will be representing Great Britain at Munich Junior International Regatta this weekend.James sat at three in the Intermediate 1 quadruple sculls with stroke man Matt Bedford from Sir William Borlase’s Grammar School, Marlow; Ollie Lee from Agecroft Rowing Club (2); and Laurence Dugdale, King’s School, Ely (bow). They won the final by a length, beating Westminster School into second place.
At 500m they were slightly down on Westminster School with Maidenhead close in third and the other four finalists in a separate race. By 1000m they were in the lead, two seconds faster than Maidenhead and eight seconds faster than Westminster, and did well to recover when bowman Dugdale had a monster crab. They then held off Westminster School’s faster second 1000m to win the 2000m race by two seconds in a time of 6 mins 7.68 secs.
19 Apr - Grrr-eight start to the season at Leicester
Leicester Regatta
We had a great start to the club regatta season with eight wins at Leicester Regatta on a beautiful Spring Sunday.Junior scullers Charlotte Laluna and Laura-Jane Edwards lost their novice status when they won Women’s Novice double sculls. Matt Barrows lost his own novice status when he raced in the Men’s Intermediate 2 coxed four crew with Ben Feighery, David Todd and Mark Pocock, coxed by Ella Lamming, to beat Leicester Rowing Club.
Also beating Leicester crews in the finals were the Junior 13 coxed quadruple sculls of Matt Hart, James Marshall, Joshua Codd and Dominic Manganiello, coxed by Matt Newton, and the Women’s Junior 15 coxed quadruple sculls, with the crew of Eloise Austin, Gemma Titchmarsh, Georgia Swain, Meghan Lawless and cox Serena Ward racing a year above their status.
Eloise Austin and Gemma Titchmarsh had a second win in the Women’s Junior 14 double sculls by beating Champion of the Thames. Also winning against the Cambridge-based club in the final was Meghan Lawless in the Women’s Junior 14 single sculls.
James Marshall won through two rounds of Junior 13 single sculls to meet and beat fellow Peterborough-sculler Harry Veal-Gray in the final.
Ensuring all age ranges in the club returned home with wins, Women’s Veteran C sculler Jo Canton racing with Bruce Margetts from Lincoln Rowing Centre beat Ancholme Rowing Club in the final of the Mixed Veteran C/D double sculls.
Photos from the regatta can be seen on the Photo gallery page and on http://www.mrzip.co.uk/Rowing/index.htm
18 Apr - Two wins by City for Team East
Junior Inter-regional Championships, Nottingham
Peterborough City Rowing Club had two wins for Team East at the Junior Inter-regional Championships, racing over a 1500 m course at Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham on Saturday in very windy conditions.Tom Chung won gold in Junior 16 single sculls final by five lengths in very trying conditions. He led from the start and commanded the race to finish in 5 mins 38 secs, 12 seconds ahead of Yorkshire.
The gold won by the Junior 16 quadruple sculls crew of Sam Tuck, Tom Chung, Ed Rippon and Harry Neale (Norwich RC) was a tougher battle to win. The quad had a fright qualifying for the final with the 5th fastest time. In the final they were level after 1000 m with Tideway scullers racing for Thames Downriver and The Grange school racing for North West Region. At about 300 m to go all 6 lanes were in contention, but Eastern region stepped up another gear and surged foward to win by half a length in a time of 4 mins 55 secs, just under two seconds ahead of Thames Upriver (represented by Windsor Boys School) in 2nd and Thames Downriver in 3rd in one of the most exciting finishes of the day.
All Peterborough scullers for Team East, representing the eastern counties against 11 other regions, won places in the finals. The Junior 15 coxed quad of Aaron Taylor, Dan Boyle, Adam Fox and James Rudkin of Northampton Rowing Club were 6th in conditions that saw waves over the sides of boats. Holly Barr was part of a Women’s Junior 15 coxed quad with Lea Rowing Club that came 5th and Sam Tuck and Harry Neale joined with Broxbourne rowers to finish a creditable 4th in the Junior 16 coxless fours. Ed Rippon joined Laurence Dugdale from King’s School Ely for the Junior 16 double sculls, but suffered in the heavy conditions in the final, finishing 5th.
Team East won two more golds in the Women’s J16 coxless quadruple sculls, represented by Bedford’s Star Club, and Junior 15 double sculls from St Neots Rowing Club. North West won the overall Regional Team Championship, also winning the Girl’s Trophy, while Thames Upriver won the Boy’s Trophy by one point.
05 Apr - Four wins at Bedford
Bedford Small Boats Head
In the final Head Race before the start of the Regatta Season we had four wins.James Fox had two wins, first in the Junior double sculls with Laurence Dugdale from King’s Ely beating runners up Butler and Durrant from Star Club by six seconds to finish in 7 mins 7 secs. They then teamed up with Tom Chung and Northampton sculler James Moore to win the Intermediate 3 quadruple sculls in 6 mins 21 secs, nine seconds ahead of second-placed Rob Roy Boat Club and just 3 seconds behind the fastest boat of the whole Head, the Star/Bedford Intermediate 1 quadruple sculls.
The Junior 15 boys were also successful, beating Northampton School for Boys by 40 seconds to win the Junior 15 coxed quadruple sculls. The crew of Adam Fox, Daniel Boyle, Jake Lunn, Aaron Taylor and cox Serena Ward finished the 2 km downstream course on the Great Ouse in 7 mins 28 secs.
Graham Barks and Pete Essex were joint winners with City of Oxford in the Veteran C coxless pairs, both crews posting a time of 7 mins 46 secs, beating Norwich Rowing Club by 18 seconds. Barks and Essex were also second in the Veteran D double sculls behind Bedford Rowing Club and second behind Norwich Rowing Club in the Veteran D coxed fours with Steve Tuck, Dave Truss and cox Lewis Tuck.
Thirty-three Peterborough crews enjoyed the good conditions on this Spring day, with many crews taking the opportunity to try out different crew combinations and a number of new novice crews racing in this popular time-trial.
28 Mar - Five at Lincoln Head
We had five wins at Lincoln Head in squally conditions, the worst of which was in the morning.
The Men’s Novice coxed four of Dave Clow, Kasun Kalirai, Matt Smith, Tom Elston and cox John Canton had their first win, finishing 8 seconds ahead of Hull University in 14 mins 52 secs.
Hayley Marsters and Jo Canton had two wins apiece. First in the Mixed Veteran C/D quadruple sculls with Lincon Rowing Centre’s Jimmy Sockell and Bruce Margetts and then in the Women’s Senior 2 coxed four, coxed by Kate Wallace with Leicester Rowing Club’s Liz Pulford and Sally Horrocks, finishing in 14 mins 8 secs, 47 seconds ahead of the Peterborough Women’s Senior 2 crew that raced in the morning.
Fastest Peterborough crew of the day were the Men’s Senior 2 coxless four of Graham Barks, Peter Todd, Pete Essex and Dave Truss who finished fifth overall in 12 mins 10 secs to win their event 43 seconds ahead of the second-placed Lincoln/RAF boat. Graham Barks and Pete Essex also won the Men’s Veteran C/D/E coxless pairs in 13 minutes 58 secs, beating Nottingham Rowing Club by 17 seconds ahead after handicapping.
15 Mar - Rowing Champs at Cambridge
Cambridge Champs Junior Sculling Head
The Junior girls had two wins at Cambridge Champs Junior Sculling Head on Sunday and the Junior boys had four second-placed crews.
Lucille Kenny and Gemma Titchmarsh won the Women’s Junior 14 double sculls in 7 mins 8 secs, beating second-placed City of Cambridge by 8 seconds over the 1450m upstream course on the River Cam. They then teamed up with Ellie Austin, Georgia Swain, coxed by Serena Ward, for an impressive win in the Women’s Junior 14 coxed quadruple sculls, finishing 37 seconds ahead of second-placed Oundle School to finish in 7 mins 3 secs.
James Marshall and Harry Veal-Gray just missed out on a win in the Junior 13 double sculls, finishing just 0.1 secs behind Champion of the Thames, who won in 7 mins 1.2 secs. James was also second in the Junior 13 single sculls with two further second-places from the junior boys squad in the Junior 14 coxed quadruple sculls and the Junior 15 double sculls events.
08 Mar - Tideway Tales
Men's Head of the River Race and Veterans Eights Head
Two Peterborough Men’s Senior 3 coxed eights raced in the Men’s Head of the River Race on Saturday, and a Peterborough/ Leicester/Lincoln composite Mixed Veteran C coxed eight raced in the Veteran (Eights) Head race on Sunday.
The Mixed Veteran C crew finished second in 20 mins 52.45 secs in their Veteran A/B/C event behind Broxbourne Mixed Veteran B coxed eight, just 1 ½ secs off top slot after times were adjusted for the handicap, and 28th overall. The Men’s Senior 3 crews finished in 20 mins 16.69 secs (73rd and 292nd overall) and 21 mins 15.98 secs (86th and 375th overall) for the Head of the River Race.
28 Feb - Tuck-ing into a trio as club wins four
Norwich Head
We had four wins at Norwich Head on Saturday with three wins from the Tuck family.
Sam Tuck and Tom Chung both had two wins. First in the Senior 2 quadruple sculls with Ed Rippon and Harry Neale finishing the 4600m long course in a time of 17 mins 7 secs, 24 seconds faster than second-placed Beccles RC, and then together in the Junior 18 double sculls, where they beat Neale racing for Norwich with Mitchell from King’s School Ely by just one second to finish in 15 mins 57 secs.
Steve Tuck notched up the third Tuck win with Graham Barks, Pete Essex and Dave Truss in the Veteran D coxless four. Chasing two Norwich crews down the course, they beat second-placed Heron’s crew from Norwich by just one second to finish in 19 mins 40 secs in a hard-fought row.
Over the 2300m short course, the Junior 15 coxed quad of Adam Fox, Daniel Boyle, Jake Lunn, Aaron Taylor and cox Mat Newton beat Norwich School by 5 seconds to win their event in a time of 10 mins 4 secs.
The fastest recorded time over the short course was Peterborough’s James Marshall in J13 single sculls, finishing in an impressive 8. mins 26 secs, unfortunately ARA-rules meant despite having no competition in his event, he couldn’t enter the J14 singles event even though he was over 30 seconds faster.
22 Feb - Tuck wins on Thames
Hammersmith Women's and Junior's Head
City sculler Sam Tuck joined rowers from Maidenhead and Tideway Scullers to win the Junior 16 quadruple sculls at the Hammersmith Women's and Junior's Head of the River on Sunday.
The event is raced on the Thames over half of the boat race course between Chiswick Bridge and Hammersmith Bridge, a distance of just over 2 miles. The composite crew beat a strong quad from the Oratory School into second place and was the fifth fastest boat overall, finishing in 12 minutes 11 seconds.
Also racing on Sunday, Jo Canton was in the fastest women’s boat in the second leg of the Cambridge Winter League. Racing in a coxed eight, the Cambridge Veterans composite crew finished the course in 10 minutes 59 seconds. The final leg of the Cambridge Winter League will be raced in March.
06 Feb - PETERBOROUGH HEAD
CANCELLED
Due to further heavy snowfalls the decision has been taken to cancel this event. Whilst river conditions are satisfactory the boating area is likely to be impassable for boat trailers and if there is a frost Friday night then local roads amy be dangerous.
Refunds of entry fees will be made in due course.
John Canton, Event Secretary, PCRC
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