This weekend, the club attended the Metropolitan Regatta at Dorney lake, one of the top events on the rowing calendar and an important event for Henley Royal Regatta qualification. As you would expect from an event of this pedigree the competition was tough, and as our first event after BUCSs regatta, a perfect testing ground…
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Last weekend’s sudden front of cold weather didn’t stop us heading down to race at Wallingford Head of The River 2021. We sent down a fleet of 7 crews to race against clubs and schools from around the country to see if our hard winter training is paying off! We started the day with the…
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Last weekend, our boats left Nottingham for the final time this season headed for Henley Royal Regatta. UoNBC entered 4 boats and 15 athletes despite the Regatta taking place in the middle of the summer holidays. It was great to be racing once again at this prestigious competition! The first event entered was the Double…
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Last week, UoNBC saw 17 athletes head south to compete in Henley Women’s Regatta. For our intermediate squad, this was their first time racing down the Henley stretch and their second ever race. Following their bronze medal in Beginner 2 at BUCS last weekend, the development 4+ were excited to compete in a more open…
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This weekend, after over 15th months without a race, UoNBC returned to BUCS Regatta on their home water at the National Water Sports Centre. With very little pre-knowledge of other clubs’ boats, our 25 crews were excited to go out and see where they placed. The Thursday had seven crews hitting the water. On the…
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In keeping with the weather throughout this year’s head season, the last week running into this event had the coaches and club on the edge of their seats waiting for the organisers’ decisions with the changing forecasts each day for Newcastle. As such, with the tail end of Storm Dennis leading to cancellation of the…
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Following on from Four’s Head, the weather took it’s time to settle down, unfortunately leading to the cancellation of Wallingford Head as rivers around the country were still in flow and subsiding slowly. The club moved down to the NWSC to get some water time in this term, and entered more locally to Newark Head,…
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Given the rainfall and flooding of rivers and lakes over the last month, races and training across the country has been touch and go. The time off the water has been a mixed blessing, crews have been unable to boat for water sessions for weeks leading up to the first event since GB trials, and…
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This weekend saw the first event of the season and the first opportunity for the new group to don the green and gold, fittingly on home turf for their first run out and at a familiar event for the club. Running over 5.5km for single scullers in the first division, and 3.9km for crew boats…
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Following the success of last summer, the university was invited again to compete in Xi’an, China. This time the organisers had gained partnership with World Rowing and the Chinese Rowing Association to boost the status and support of the event. Though the 3rd Kunming Lake Famous International University Regatta, this was to be the 1st…
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