Record entries for Evesham Regatta

Posted on April 25, 2006 | Filed under Rowing

Evesham Rowing Club is preparing for a record-breaking regatta this weekend. The club received over 600 entries for the regatta - the highest levels of entries in the club’s history. Saturday sees crews competing over the 1,000 metre course while Sunday is the Evesham Sprints over 500 metres.

Crews from 50 clubs will be attending. Most local clubs - Warwick, Stratford, Upton, Cheltenham, Gloucester - are supporting the event. Rowing schools such as King’s and RGS Worcester will be there, as well as school crews from Windsor Boys and Eton. From further afield the event has attracted entrants from Bristol, Bath, Staines, Nottingham, and Bideford, Devon.

Winning crews will be awarded a goblet this year, a change from the usual pewter tankards. Each day there is also a prize pot of £250 in the Victor Ludorum for the top winning club.

The action starts at 8.15 on Saturday morning with novice scullers competing over the 1,000 m course. Many of the region’s top rowers will be in action during the day. Events to watch out for are the senior 1 sculling race (2.26pm, Saturday) in which top Evesham junior rower Ali Gregory is pitted against strong competition from Huntingdon and Northampton. Emma Woodedd, recently selected to represent GB, is rowing at Senior 3 level (10.25am, Saturday) in the crew that won the Schools’ Head in March. There is some hot competition in the men’s novice event with 14 crews racing to see if their months of winter training will finally pay off. Evesham’s novice men are looking for their first pot starting at 12.27 on Saturday.

On Sunday the rowing is fast and furious. The races over the 500m course are usually over in two minutes, or less. The action starts at 8.30 with single sculls events. Evesham’s senior women are out in force. At Senior 3 level Victoria Seymour and Jane McIntosh are competing in the double sculls event. The pair have been rowing several times a week over the winter and hope to add to their collection of pots at Evesham. In the novice double sculls (10.10 Sunday) Marcus Hutchings and Sergei Phoursa, junior 18 rowers, are pitted against a crew from Bewdley. On both days Evesham’s junior girls and boys are racing at all levels from J11 up to J16.

Club officials and volunteers have been working all hours to put the finishing touches to the club house after months of building work. Regatta visitors will be catered for from the new kitchens. Town visitors are welcome to drop in for all-day breakfasts, sandwiches, cakes and teas. There will also be fund-raising stalls including book stalls and a tombola. Money raised will go towards the club’s boat fund.

Evesham Rowing Club looks forward to your support.

Comments are closed.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, April 25th, 2006 at 11:40 am and is filed under Rowing. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.