English Indoor Rowing Championships

On Sunday the 30^th January the English Indoor Rowing Championships took place at the Velodrome in Manchester. The competition is based on personal best times for 2000 Metres on an ergometer and Northwich Rowing Club coming away from the national championships with three medalists.

Ed Grisedale a pupil at Sir John Deane’s and a product of the Northwich Rowing Club Junior section won gold in the Men’s J18 event with a very fast time of 6:20.2.  Ed has also been invited to the next GB Junior Squad trials at Caversham over the weekend. 

Not to be outdone, the ladies had success with; Vicky Cheshire winning the Bronze in the Women’s 30-39 event in a time of 7:50.9 and Kerry Clarke winning Silver in the Women’s 30-39 Lightweight event in a time of 8:25.7. Both these ladies are recent graduates of the ‘Learn to Row’ programme at the Rowing Club and are also now competing in a Novice Crew.

 

Three other club members competed at the event on Sunday – Elaine Young, Nathan Jump and Chloe Weston.

Boxing Day 8’s becomes Boxing Day 6’s on the Ergo!
Thanks to the frozen river we had to change the normal Boxing Day regatta for an Ergo race.  Three teams of 6 rowed for 30 minutes.

Team A captained by Ed Grisedale with Liam Adamson, Peter Burdis, Amy Greaves, Alex Watton and Harriet Beesley came first covering 8267m

Team C were second, Captain Matt Langridge, Nathan Jump, Jill Burdis, Kat Heiner, Chloe Tully and Becky Jones with 8003m

Team B third, Captain Matt Jump, Abi Watson, Emma Chaplin, Beth Chaplin, Beth Wynne and Alice Elliot.

But we know they are all winners as the rest of us didn’t even make it to the start!

Clare Briegal
Captain

Head of the Float 4-Dec-10

Whilst most of sports in the Northwest were affected by the wintry conditions, the Northwich Rowers braved the conditions and took to the docks of Wallasey to compete in a Head time trials at the Liverpool Victoria Club.

The race took place over two legs of 1,300 metres with the junior crews having the best of the day with the J15s Girls Quad of Katie Meehan(S), Beth Chaplin, Ashleen Hudson, Olivia Oakes coxed by Sam Over winning the pennant by 16 seconds over Warrington, Liverpool and Chester crews respectively. This after having to restart their second leg when impeded by a safety boat!

After a quick break and a warming drink, Sam Over found herself back in the boat coxing the boys J15’s Eight to victory in the Novice class. Yet another significant success as this was the first race the boys had come together to form an Eight rather than sculling, beating a University Boat by 6 seconds as well as other senior boats from Chester and Warrington. The boys lined up as Liam Adamson (S), Tom Asteriades, Alex Murphy, Zak Trigg, Ryan Gamble, Joe Ronald, Nathan Jump and Craig Milne.

A great close to the year with the club increasing their successes further to end the racing for 2010 and with such a healthy crop of Juniors, 2011 bodes well.

Link to Results here

Ian Adamson