The quality of this year's river rowing events was significantly strengthened by strong contingents from Lea, Thames Rowing Club and the University of Kent who took a significant share of the medal haul (7, 4 and 4 wins respectively), which reduced MIRC's tally to just 5, when we usually achieve 10 to 15.
That said, we produced some strong and encouraging performances.
Our Men's senior performance crew of Hampshire, Nicholls, Hynes and Mollison - coxed by Laura McGrillen destroyed all comers winning the fastest boat pennant and beating the closest opposition by 43 seconds in a time of 8.24.
Iddendon and Marlow just managed to hold off a strong Novice 2x field with a time of 9.53.
The Masters C4+ of Hodgkinson, Barton, Evans and Bennett - coxed by Danielle James in her first ever competition won an all MIRC Masters C/D/E competition in 9.56.
Huggins and Abraham rowing at Masters D2x won the D/E/F competition in 9.57.
Our Novice four of Blamey, Hermann, Arschott and Slade - coxed by Lois Birrell were in an unusually large field of 10 crews, and were just pipped into 2nd place by one of University of Kent's 4 Novice crews. They came 8th fastest overall with a strong time of 9.29.
Included in that field were 2 Mens Masters Novice crews, with average ages of 2.5 times their opposition. The much improved lightweight crew beat their nemeses in the heavyweight novice boat for the first time by 6 seconds.
The Juniors picked up one win: Fish and McConchie in the WJ162x with an impressive 11.04.
A couple of neat Junior doubles.
Fish and McConchie winning the WJ162x event
The event went very smoothly: no one fell in (to my knowledge), organisation was efficient, and fun was had by all. Well done to all rowers, the Race Committee and the many helpers and supporters. The BBQ worked non stop and made a very healthy £845 profit.
No comments:
Post a Comment