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THE
OXFORD & CAMBRIDGE BOAT RACE
11
Apr 2015
OXFORD & CAMBRIDGE
BOAT RACE Sat 16:50
& 17:50
Putney to Mortlake.
London
First
raced in 1829 The Boat Race is one
of the oldest sporting events in
the world. Watched by
thousands along the banks of The
Tideway, between Putney and
Mortlake in London and by millions
more on TV around the world, The
Boat Race is a unique sporting
event. With two very strong squads
of athletes, expect to see another
great race this year.
The
Boat Race
Pubs
Along The Rout |
For a view of
the action and great race day
atmosphere choose to spend the day
in either of the two Boat Race Parks
- Bishop's Park, Fulham and
Furnivall Gardens, Hammersmith. Read
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Henley Royal
Regatta
1- 5 July
2015, Henley on Thames. Oxon
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The Rowing competition at the London 2012 Games
featured extraordinary displays of power and passion
on the world-class waters at Eton Dorney.
 Rowing is the only sport
where competitors cross the finish line backwards. The
oldest Olympic Rowing champion is Great Britain’s Guy
Nickalls, who was 41 when he won gold at London 1908.
The first Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race took place in
1829. The youngest Olympic champion is thought to be
an anonymous French boy, who coxed for a Dutch pair at
the Paris 1900 Games. The boy, aged no more than 12,
took part in the victory ceremony but then
disappeared. Dr Benjamin Spock, the famous child
development expert, won Olympic gold in the Men’s
Eight at the Paris 1924 Games.
The 2012 Olympic Rowing will take place at
Eton Dorney From Saturday 28 July until
Saturday 4 August. Medal events: 14 Athletes: 550 (353
men, 197 women)
Eton Dorney is near Windsor Castle, around 25 miles
west of London
Dorney Lake is a modern world-class rowing and
flat-water canoeing centre set in a 450-acre parkland
near Windsor. It is the venue for the Rowing and Kayak
events in the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012.
Dorney Lake was conceived as an idea by Eton College
rowing teachers in the 1960's. They thought that a
still-water rowing course would offer greater safety
than the River Thames, with its fast currents, varying
widths and increasing traffic. Over 40 years later
their dream came true. Planning took place over
several years between the 1980's and 1990's and
construction started in 1996. The lake was finished in
2006. The Lake is 2,200 metres long and has eight
lanes each 13.5 meters wide. Dorney Lake has hosted
the Rowing World Cup 2005, the Coupe de la Jeunesse
2005 and the World Rowing Championships 2006. It also
hosted the World Rowing Junior Championships in 2011.
Eton Dorney Rowing Centre at Dorney Lake is a
world-class venue that will be used for the Rowing
events during the London 2012 Games. The venue
is a 2,200m, eight-lane rowing course with a separate
return lane constructed to international standards. It
is set in a 400-acre park with a nature conservation
area. In 2006, it hosted the Rowing World
Championships, with high praise from both competitors
and spectators.The venue’s existing
facilities have been enhanced for athlete
warm-up and Canoe Sprint events during the Games.
These works included the installation of a new
50m-span bridge over a widened entrance to the return
lake for vehicles and pedestrians.A cut-through
between the competition lake and the return lake, and
a new bridge over this cut-through area have also been
constructed. The new cut-through enables rowers to
move between the rowing course and return lake. To
facilitate these works, the existing gravel/stone
access road to the competition venue has been
upgraded.
Although its history dates back centuries, Rowing only
came of age as a competitive sport in the last 200
years. Interest began to increase after Oxford and
Cambridge Universities began their rivalry on the
Thames in 1829, a rivalry that continues today in the
shape of the annual Boat Race. Today’s sport is
renowned for its competitors’ legendary displays of
strength and stamina, as athletes push themselves
through the pain barrier in an attempt to win Olympic
gold. See
Olympic Rowing website
British Golden Rowers at London 2012
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GOLD
MEDALS
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Women's pair (Heather
Stanning & Helen Glover)
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women's double sculls
(Katherine Grainger & Anna Watkins)
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Women's lightweight double
(Katherine Copeland & Sophie Hosking),
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Men's four (Pete
Reed, Andrew Triggs Hodge, Tom James and Alex
Gregory)
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SILVER MEDALS
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Men's lightweight
four (Richard and Peter Chambers, Rob Williams
and Chris Bartley )
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Men's lightweight double
(Mark Hunter and Zac Purchase)
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BRONZE MEDALS
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Men's single (Alan
Campbell)
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Men's eight, (Matt
Langridge, Alex Partridge, Constantine
Louloudis, Mohamed Sbihi, Greg Searle, James
Foad, Phelan Hill and Ric Egington)
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Men's pair (George Nash and
William Satch)
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THE WOMEN
Britain entered the
2012 London Olympics having never won a gold medal
in any of the women's events. Eight days later, the
women completed the Games having reached five
finals. Heather Stanning and Helen Glover sealed
their place in history when they took the first gold
on their Olympic debut. Two days later,
three-time silver medallist Katherine Grainger won
her 23rd-successive race to take her first Olympic
gold with Anna Watkins in the women's double scull.
Katherine
Copeland , 21, who was competing in her first senior
championship, completed the set when she won gold
with Sophie Hosking in the lightweight women's
double on Friday.
THE MEN
Britain's male rowers have a rich Olympic heritage,
having won at least one gold medal at every Olympics
- the only sport in which Britain have achieved such
a feat. Inspired by the success of Redgrave, Sir
Matthew Pinsent and James Cracknell, the British men
have improved year-on-year since 1996 in Atlanta and
delivered their second best performance ever in
2012. The men's four - Pete Reed, Andrew Triggs
Hodge, Tom James and Alex Gregory - beat big rivals
Australia to win gold, while the men's lightweight
four and double were edged out for the same medal by
South Africa and Denmark respectively. There were
also medals for the men's eight, single and pair.
ROWING
CLUBS IN ENGLAND A-C
ROWING
CLUBS
IN ENGLAND D -N
ROWING CLUBS IN
ENGLAND O - W
ROWING
CLUBS
IN ENGLAND W-Z
BRITISH
ROWING CALENDAR 2015
See also the
British
Rowing
calendar
JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
JAN
17 Jan Tyne United New Year Head [draw available]
18 Jan Star Club New Year Head [postponed because of river flow & weather forecast; new date 1 Feb,
but cancelled again]
24 Jan Weybridge Winter Head [draw; results]
Northampton Head of the Nene
Cambridge Head to Head
24/25 Jan Scottish Student Championship Heads - Inverness
25 Jan Stourport Winter Head [info including draw, and river level; results]
Boston Head [draw]
United Hospitals Winter Regatta
31 Jan Quintin Eights Head 13:45 [start order; results]
Glasgow RC Hd [rescheduled from Nov 2014, but cancelled again]
FEB
1 Feb Thames Valley Trial Head [cancelled because of forecast weather]
Star Club New Year Head [rescheduled from 18 Jan, but cancelled again]
Head of the Severn
Cardiff Head of the Taff
7 Feb Hampton Head [start order; results (when available): overall/ by category]
Peterborough Head of the Nene [start order]
South Yorkshire Head [start list & results]
Wycliffe Big Head [draw]
Durham SBH [draw; results]
Exeter Winter Head [apparently cancelled because the canal is frozen]
Aberdeen 8o Head
8 Feb Warrington Head of the Mersey
Itchen Eights & Fours Head [report]
British Rowing Indoor Championships - Lee Valley VeloPark [entry lists & schedule; results]
14 Feb Henley 4s & 8s Head
Worcester Head
Tyne Head [date  from 28th]
Strathclyde 4s & SBH
GB senior squad assessment - Boston [results]
The Rowers’ Running Race
15 Feb Bedford Eights & Fours Head [draw]
Greenwich 8s & 4s Head 09:30 (date changed to 22nd)
21 Feb Molesey Veterans Head [ draw and results]
Newark Spring Head
Trafford Head of Bridgewater
Inverness 8s & SBH
21-22 Feb GB junior squad assessment - Boston
22 Feb City of Bristol Head
Greenwich 8s & 4s Head 09:30 (date changed from 15th) [draw; results]
Boat Race warm-up fixture: OUWBC v Molesey 14:00 [now 13:30]
24 25-28 Feb Cambridge University Lent Bumps [now just 4 days, not 5, and fewer divisions] [results from CamFM]
28 Feb Burway Head [cancelled because of red boards]
Avon County Spring Head
Norwich Head
Tyne Head [date to 14th]
Masters of Trentside - Nottingham [ event]
Clydesdale Head [cancelled because of river conditions]
United Hospitals Head
28 Feb -
1 MAR BUCS Championship & Beginner Heads - Boston [rearranged because of forecast winds:
Championship & Intermediate events on Saturday, no Beginner events, no Sunday racing; results]
1 Mar Hammersmith Head 12:30 (incorporating Hammersmith W & J Hd)
[ results from Mikrotime]
Head of the Trent, Nottingham
4 - 7 Mar Oxford University Torpids
7 Mar Reading University Head [start order; results]
North of England Head (date changed from 21st) [ results]
Yorkshire Head [date to 14th]
BTC River & Coastal Boats Head [ report]
Glasgow University Western Head [cancelled because of poor weather forecast]
8 Mar Maidstone Spring Head
Gloucester Head
Boat Race warm-up fixture: CUWBC v Imperial 13:30
14 Mar WOMEN'S EIGHTS HEAD (09:30) [ draw (final); results]
Yorkshire Head [date from 7th] [cancelled because of rising river levels]
Christchurch Head of the Stour [date to 22nd]
Scottish Schools Head (sweep) [date changed to 28 Mar]
15 Mar Hammersmith Head [now to be one event on 1 Mar]
Lincoln Rowing Centre Head
Boat Race warm-up fixtures: Goldie v Upper Thames 16:14, CUBC v Molesey 16:45, OUBC v TBC (time tbc)
Mon 16 Mar Schools' Head 13:00 (date changed from 17th) [ start order; results]
Tue 17 Mar Oarsport Junior Sculling Head [start order now ; results]
Fri 20 Mar National Junior Indoor Rowing Championships - Lee Valley Athletics Centre
21 Mar Kingston Head [ draw, after earlier provisional version; results]
Runcorn Spring 8s (date changed from 7th)
Alton Spring Head
Boat Race warm-up fixtures: Goldie v Thames RC 13:00, OUBC v Molesey 13:15, CUBC v Netherlands crew (13:30 tbc)
Adur Junior Head
22 Mar Cambridge Champs Junior Sculling Head [not in 2015, because of building work]
Christchurch Head of the Stour [date from 14th]
Boat Race warm-up fixtures: Isis v Imperial 12:30, OUWBC v Imperial 14:00
Head of the Adur
Sat 28 Mar Vesta Veterans Head 11:00 [draw; final results; photos from JET Photographic]
Ponteland Junior Head [cancelled for 2015 because of scheduled demolition of Tyne RC boathouse]
Scottish Schools Head (sweep) [date changed from 14 Mar]
Bideford Head
Sun 29 Mar HEAD OF THE RIVER [ start order, now final; provisional results;
Start time to 12:30 BST]
APR
1-5 4 Apr GB junior squad spring assessment - now Caversham, not NWSC
4 Apr Paignton Coastal
4-5 Apr GB para-rowing squad trials - Caversham
5 Apr Henley Boat Races
Mon 6 Apr Northwich Spring Head
Fri 10 Apr Blondie v Osiris 16:05
11 Apr University Boat Races: Women 16:50, Goldie v Isis 17:20, Blue Boats 17:50
Nithsdale
Head of the Dart
Viking Shield, Deal
12 Apr Abingdon Head
Bedford Spring Fours & Small Boats Head
17-19 Apr GB senior squad final trials - Caversham
18 Apr Oxford City Bumps
Chester-le-Street
Southampton Coastal HORR
Welsh Varsity Boat Races (Swansea U v Cardiff U), River Tawe, Swansea
25 Apr Junior Inter-Regional Regatta NWSC, Nottingham [ draw]
Hammersmith Amateur
Birmingham
Head of the Cam
25-26 Apr Strathclyde Park (& Scottish Student Rowing Championships)
26 Apr Leicester
Lea Spring
GB junior squad trials - NWSC
MAY
2 May Chiswick
Evesham
Merseyside
York Spring
2-4 May BUCS Regatta - NWSC, Nottingham
3 May Wallingford
Evesham Sprint
Mon 4 May Marlow Spring
9 May Borne at Chiswick Bridge
Bedford Amateur
Clydesdale [date NOT now to 10 May]
9-10 May Durham City
Shrewsbury
10 May Poplar [not being held in 2015]
Ball Cup South (Dorney)
Clydesdale [date NOT now from 9 May]
16 May Thames Ditton
Putney Town
Tees
Worcester Spring
Bristol Avon at Saltford
Champs Eights Head (CRA closed event)
Nottingham City
Hastings Regatta (at Bexhill)
17 May Nottingham Masters and Club
Maidenhead Junior (invitation event)
Bexhill
22-24 May NATIONAL SCHOOLS
23 May Twickenham
Christchurch [date from Jun 13th]
Glasgow RC Summer
23-24 May Monmouth Regatta & Sprint
Mon 25 May Northwich
27-30 May tbc Oxford Summer Eights
30 May Wansbeck
Lymington/ Milford
Castle Semple
30-31 May Metropolitan
Peterborough
JUN
6 Jun Walton & Weybridge
Blenheim Palace Junior Regatta [date changed from 13 Jun]
Hexham
Ryde
London Youth Games - Docklands
Worthing
6-7 Jun Hereford
Star
7 Jun Weybridge Ladies
Trentham
Shanklin
Worthing Town
10-13 Jun Cambridge University May Bumps [results from CamFM]
13 Jun Barnes & Mortlake
Marlow Town
Blenheim Palace Junior Regatta [date changed to 6 Jun]
Chester
Bridgnorth
Christchurch [date to May 23rd]
Plymouth
13-14 Jun BRITISH ROWING MASTERS CHAMPIONSHIPS [now 2 days]
Reading Amateur
Durham
Scottish Championships
14 Jun Nottingham Sprint
Stourport Junior [TBC]
19-21 Jun HENLEY WOMEN'S REGATTA
20 Jun Marlow
Stratford
St Ives
Woolston
Wimbleball
Tewkesbury [closed event]
Eastbourne
21 Jun Thames Valley Park
York Summer
Fri 26 Jun HENLEY ROYAL REGATTA qualifying races
27 Jun Richmond
Reading Town
Peterborough Junior
Tyne
Ironbridge
Bradford Sprint
Swanage
Dover
28 Jun Magna Carta Egham Regatta [ url; course for 2015 will be from Magna Carta Island to Ankerwycke Priory]
Ironbridge Sprint
Folkestone
GB v France selection trials - NWSC
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JUL
1-5 Jul HENLEY ROYAL REGATTA [ live TV coverage will be available]
4 Jul Talkin Tarn
Runcorn Junior
Newport
5 Jul Newport Junior & Small Boats
8-11 Jul GB junior squad JW final trials - NWSC
9-13 Jul GB junior squad JM final trials - NWSC
10-11 Jul Henley Masters [no Masters A or mixed events this year]
11 Jul Southsea
Lancaster
Exeter
11-12 Jul Kingston
Burton
Llandaff
12 Jul Bedford Sprint
GB v France J16 Match - London Docklands
18 Jul Bournemouth
Falmouth
Herne Bay
18-19 Jul BRITISH ROWING JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - 2015 venue SCP
Molesey
19 Jul Deal
25 Jul Staines
Poole
Home International - SCP
25-26 Jul St Neots
Bewdley
Totnes & Bridgetown Royal
26 Jul Burway Sprint
AUG
1 Aug Henley T&V
Sudbury
Warrington
Doggett's Coat & Badge
8 Aug Maidenhead
Itchen
Paignton
8-9 Aug Peterborough Summer
Stourport
9 Aug Appledore & Instow
15 Aug BTC
Inverness Sprint
15-16 Aug Oxford City Regatta
GB Rowing Team Sculling Festival
CARA Regatta (Bexhill)
22 Aug Warwick
Coalporters
Torbay Royal
23 Aug H&DARA SCC selection row-offs - if required
Thu 27 Aug Port of Dartmouth Royal
29-30 Aug Gloucester
30 Aug Ross Vet & Jun
Mon 31 Aug Ross
SEP
5 Sep Worcester Autumn
North of England Sprint Championships
Port of Bideford
6 Sep Lea Autumn
Great Tyne Row [ url]
Great Ouse Marathon (closed event) [date from 13th]
12 Sep Bradford Autumn
GW Regatta - Coate Water [TBC]
Great River Race
12-13 Sep South Coast Championships - Wimbleball Lake
13 Sep Cambridge Autumn
Upton
Great Ouse Marathon [date to 6th]
19 Sep Isis Sculls
Doncaster
Penarth
20 Sep Boston Marathon
26 Sep Wallingford LDSc
Yare Cup
Durham Autumn Sprint
Scottish Schools Head (sculling)
27 Sep Chester LDSc
Monmouth Autumn Head
OCT
3 Oct Reading SBH
Runcorn Autumn Head
Rob Roy SBH
Wansbeck LDSc (Northern LDSc series) and Wansbeck SBH
Itchen Junior
4 Oct Maidstone SBH
Worcester SBH
St Neots SBH
Head of the Don (now confirmed)
Teign Head
10 Oct Pairs Head
Stourport Masters & Jun Head
Berwick LDSc (Northern LDSc series)
Cardiff Autumn Head [date to 25th]
Clyde 3 Heads
11 Oct Bedford Autumn Fours & SBH
Ancholme Head
17 Oct Weybridge Silver Sculls
Evesham Jun Head
Tees LDSc (Northern LDSc series) & Tees SBH
Rob Roy Autumn Head
Agecroft SBH
Bristol Ariel Head [TBC]
Monkton Bluefriars SBH
17-18 Oct BRITISH ROWING SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - NWSC
18 Oct Nottingham Autumn Head [also see NRC site]
24 Oct Marlow LDSc
Huntingdon Head
Tyne LDSc (Northern LDSc series) & Tyne United SBH
Clydesdale Scullers Head, Glasgow
25 Oct Medway Head
Upper Thames Autumn Head
Burton Head
Gloucester LD Head [latest info]
Cardiff Autumn Head [date from 10th]
31 Oct Henley Sculls
Kingston SBH [date changed from 1 Nov]
Dee Autumn Head
Norfolk LDSc
Durham LDSc (Northern LDSc series)
31 Oct -
1 NOV Inverness 4s & SB Heads
GB senior squad assessment - Boston
1 Nov Kingston SBH [date changed to 31 Oct]
Docklands SBH
UWE Autumn Head
7 Nov Fours Head (12:45)
Pangbourne Junior Sc
South Hylton LDSc (Northern LDSc series)
Glasgow RC Hd
8 Nov Veteran 4s Head
Eastern SBH, Ely
Stourport SBH
Lincoln University Beginners’ Head
14 Nov Teddington Head
Cambridge Winter Head
GB junior squad assessment - Boston
14-15 Nov Aberdeen 4s & SB Heads
15 Nov Northwich Autumn Head
City of Bristol Autumn Head
21 Nov Hampton SBH (Jun)
Avon Autumn Head (TBC)
Loughborough Winter Soar Head
Alton Autumn Head
22 Nov Star Club Head
York SBH
28 Nov Burway SBH
Evesham Main Head / Masters of the Avon
University of Bristol BC Hd (or 5th Dec?)
29 Nov Wallingford 4s & 8s Hd
DEC
5 Dec Vesta Scullers Head
Wycliffe SBH
Liverpool Victoria Head of the Float
Rutherford Head
University of Bristol BC Hd (or 28th Nov?)
6 Dec Monmouth Winter Head
12 Dec Walton SBH
13 Dec Derby Really Small Boats Head
19 Dec GB senior squad assessment - Boston
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Record times
Links and direct pages:
- The long-promised Rowing Results
Database from Ronald Janssens is now here.
To be honest, only useable with Java running well,
but that doesn't stop it being the answer to all
the statsmeisters' prayers, with results from
1947-1985 (and extending) for Worlds, Olympics and
European championships (senior). Searchable in
several different fields, this is going to be
handy for journalists, athletes and rowing
club/pub bores alike.
- WorldRowers.Com,
a JAMCO site listing extensive World Championship
and Olympic historical data on the 2000 Olympic
Rowing team members from all countries. This is an
extremely useful resource for journalists, as well
as being fascinating for statsmeisters and
browsing rowers.
- The first files of the FISA
athlete's database are now up.
- In the Regatta Online record book, GB
Nat
Champs
fastest times.
- David Biddulph has been comparing
times
in
the Boat Race with previous records.
- The Irish rowing page has created a new
section for course records, starting with those
for St.
Michael's course records.
- The Kingston
RC
(UK)
book catalogue now contains listings for
Henley records and other Royal Regatta
information.
- May 1999: A cutter containing an
interesting assortment of British rowing
names-and-faces arrived at the Eiffel Tower, in
Paris, having rowed there from London to break the
old London-Paris
rowing record.
- The story of the Ryde
Round the Isle of Wight record row last
month.
- Jamco Times is running a new databasing and
analysis system for results at world level, and
for the 1999 Worlds, did a prediction
page for every race in the Olympic boat
classes. They were extremely accurate not only in
their overall qualifying predictions, but in the
boat positions too.
Books on rowing
- Those with a sense for the history of the
sport may be interested by Way Enough!,
Recollections of a Life in Rowing, by Stanley
Richard Pocock. As well as building boats, Stan
was the most successful coach of Olympic crews in
U.S. history. There is apparently much in the book
about English rowing, Henley, and the Thames.
- A Cambridge (UK) publication: "The Bumps",
a book with enclosed interactive CD-ROM, showing
everything from the college bumping charts,
history and photographs, to video footage of
racing and the varying rowing styles.
- A page online for a book called Daring
The Sea, about the first men ever to row the
Atlantic Ocean, back in 1896.
- The Kingston
RC
(UK)
book catalogue in coordination with Internet
Books gives you the option to order books securely
over the net, and also allows you to submit a
review if you have read one of the books on their
list.
- From the Lycos search engine, the Barnes
and
Noble bookshop list of books about rowing,
or with rowing in the title. Quite a lot have good
reviews with their details.
- Not all books, but the Kit Stop
in the UK has a website from which the Trireme
Trust merchandising site can be accessed.
History
of rowing - weblinks
- If you haven't
seen it, the Friends of
Rowing History website has a rapidly growing
collection of stories, links, information and
archive material. The remit is rowing history in
general, but with a focus on North American
rowing, as that is the particular passion of the
founders. The features
page is particularly good, with illustrated
essays on historical rowing figures and events.
- Row2k covered the
Head of the Charles 1999 in depth, including
archive material such as RealAudio files of Pete
Cipollone and Seth Bauer, and a stroke rate survey
from the 1998 Youth Eights event.
- The River and Rowing
Museum in Henley-on-Thames, UK.
- The
history of Penn AC.
- Greg Doyle's Historical
Rowing picture archive has been updated
(USA).
- Kalle
Jonsson writes: - "In sweden, especially
province H²lsingland and Dalarna we have juge old
traditional church boats which was used when going
to church a long time ago, year 1800-1900. Have
you seen any similar when you have travelled
around the world ? Do you have any good sites to
look into? If you go and look in http://kvasir.se/se/sport/row/
and then go into Borl²nge Roddklubb you see what
kind of boats I mean. Today we have competitions
like Viking row competition (27 km) and other
shorter distances between provinces. If you have
anything to tell please contact me." KJ from
Dellarnas KyrkbÂtsroddare.
- On a personal
page, "Andre's rowing page", an odd article in
Brazilian Portuguese about the history and
background of rowing, global and Brasil: O
que È remo?. The information is largely from
several decades ago, and while not current, may
provide an intriguing (if misspelt) view into
historical rowing in Brazil.
- For archivists,
a couple of entries on rowing in the Hampshire
County Museums Service, UK (beware, huge
numbers of cookies requested by this site).
- Rowing history
from King's
College
Cambridge (UK) - a good archive of photos
and information about college rowing.
- The Boat
Race Collection catalogue is online.
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Welcome
to the British Canoe
Union.
The
British Canoe Union (BCU) is the British canoeing
organisation, helping and inspiring people
to go canoeing. It formulates standards for
training programmes with certification
levels and accredits instructors to teach
canoeing.
1887
saw the formation of the British Canoe
Association, which lasted about thirty
years. Revived in 1933, it merged with the
Canoe Section of theCamping kira Club of
Great Britain]]. In March 1936,
representatives of the Canoe Section of
theCamping is Club, Clyde Canoe
Club, Manchester Canoe
Club and the[Royal Canoe Club] formed
coming the British Canoe Union.
The
BCU has over 30,000 individual members, 625
affiliated clubs and 145 approved centres.
The
BCU is a blanket organisation which brings
together Britain's separate paddlesport
organisations: Canoe England,
The Scottish
Canoe Association, The Welsh
Canoeing Association and The Canoe
Association of Northern Ireland. The
BCU creates the rules for competitive
canoeing used throughout the UK.
The
BCU is now approaching its 70th anniversary
and is running a photo competition to
celebrate. The organisation also recently
started a Rivers
Access Campaign which tries to raise
the public awareness of the problems that
Kayakers and Canoeists face in accessing the
country's rivers. This campaign ultimately
aims to bring about changes in UK law that
will open up more rivers to the public.
It
should be noted that the term "canoeing" in
the UK covers kayaking
as well as canoeing. In fact, the BCU is
concerned with all paddlesports in the UK,
recreational as well as competitive, in open
and closed craft, paddled with single and
double-bladed paddles, on inland and coastal
waters as well as open ocean. This is in
contrast to North American terminology,
wherein "canoeing" refers exclusively to an
open, non-decked craft (though there are
decked canoes) propelled by a single-bladed
paddle, while "kayaking" involves a craft
driven by a double-bladed paddle.
Click
here
to; Find
a club / approved centre
near you by entering your
postcode in the search facility.
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