Rowing News

Read the latest rowing news from the Reading Small Boats Head and the Pairs Head from last weekend.

Reading Small Boats Head, Saturday 7 October

Five quads from the J15 group had their first race of the season at Reading Small Boats Head on Saturday. The crew of Ettore Bresciani, Paul Turner, Hugo Tuil, Edward Ludgate and Victor Mizzoni Schmidt won the J15 quads event overall.  St Paul’s also won both the band 2 and band 3 sub-categories of the event.

Pairs Head, Sunday 8 October

Fifteen pairs and doubles from the senior and J16 squads raced at the Pairs Head on Sunday.  There was more Tideway success for the group that did well at the Scullers head a fortnight ago – Felix Peerless and Alec Wild won the J18 pairs category by two seconds from Alp Karadogan and Pat Wild in a category in which SPS took positions 1st to 7th, 9th and 10th.  Sam Fowlie and Philip Wolfensberger finished 2nd in the open championship pairs event, though they were only the third-fastest SPS boat on the day.  These three pairs were the 1st, 2nd and 4th fastest sweep crews from any category in the event beating many university and men’s senior crews.  Elsewhere, there was also a 3rd place finish for Wilder Daffey and Jonathan Miles in the J16 doubles category.