The Guildford Rowing Club Newsletter
Headlines
Juniors have strong showing at Hammersmith
Juniors represent Thames Region at Junior Inter-Regional Regatta
Juniors win Victor Ludorum at Maidenhead
Masters win at Shrewsbury
Adaptive squad shine at Marlow
Rowing
Junior Inter-Regional Regatta Nottingham A long day at Nottingham which was a great event running to
Headlines
Wins for Seniors at Henley, Walton and Weybridge, Juniors at Teddington and Burway
Adaptives and Juniors have strong showing at the British Rowing Indoor Championships
Puss in Boats receives rave reviews
Christmas Scratch Regatta sets the festive scene
2018 starts with a win at Weybridge
Rowing
At Henley Long Distance Sculls
The Charity Support Through Sport UK recently published an article on Adaptive Rowing at Guildford.
Thank you to Danny and Robert for your contribution.
Support through Sport UK had the pleasure of chatting to Guildford Rowing Club's Robert Hall and Danny Skillman about the club's adaptive rowing sessions.
Hi Robert and Danny.
Headlines
Martin Tye wins 6 medals and Steve Allman one at Invictus Games in Canada
Robert Hall and Jeff Watling win at Pairs’ Head
Wins at Wallingford, Bedford and Upper Thames autumn head races
Chris Boys wins the Frank Toner Cup at Bedford
New Adaptive double scull to arrive this month – to be named
First Win for our Ladies at Maidenhead
See the results page for details. To summarise, 12 wins across all squads. Despite thunderstorms at Staines cancelling some events we recorded 4 junior wins. The masters double of Rob & Jeff achieve back to back wins at Henley Town & Visitors and Maidenhead.
A small squad of 7 Guildford rowers competed at National Masters on 10th June at Nottingham. With the conditions worsening as the day progressed, Guildford enjoyed success, winning Gold in WMas A/B 4x. The crew comprised of Annika Gleichmann, Lenka Higley, Emma Pinchbeck and Jackie Johnson. Lenka, in her first
What a great day at Weybridge!
5 finals and 3 wins and Keziah and Jess had 6 races each! Not bad for the first regatta of the season for the GRC Beginner Junior Squad.
WJ13 1x. Keziah Markfort won her first race against a girl from Lady Eleanor Holles
Emily who is part of the senior women's squad ran in the London marathon on Sunday 26th April.
She took part to raise money for the Alzheimer's society, a charity that means so much to Emily and her family after her Dad sadly passed away last year after suffering with Alzheimer's.
Emily
The senior women's quad raced at Kingston 5k race on Saturday 21st March. Annika, Lauren, Emily and Jackie were up against some tough competition with many university crews and the likes of Vesta and Maidenhead rowing club in their categories. Despite the weather conditions and a very strong head wind
