The club attended Chester Long Distance Sculls - the first event of the new head racing season.
An annual head race is held over 5km from Eccleston Ferry to the Groves for singles, doubles, quads and Octs. First raced in 1955 the event is in 2 divisions and attracts over 300 competing crews.
For the race the conditions were good - warm and sunny with a strong tailwind in the afternoon.
Northwich entered 8 crews including two WJ18 quads, WJ16 quad, boys J16 quad and double and three single scullers.
One win for NRC Clare Briegal WMasC 1x (masters C single).
Two club members Ed Grisedale and Matt Jump raced in the fastest boat of the day (Royal Chester men's quadruple scull) posting a very fast time of 16 minutes and 30.7 secs. Faster than any other crew by 36 seconds.
Clare Briegal
25 September 2011
21 August 2011
Peterborough Regatta 13-14th Aug 2011
Two days of four lane racing on the 1000m rowing lake in Peterborough. This is a great venue for the sport, a fantastic event to take part in. The weather over the weekend was cloudy with sunny intervals, no rain with a brisk tail wind which died off on the Sunday.
Saturday (1000m event)
The club put entries in the following events IM2.1x (Andy Malins), W.Nov.1x (Mel Benson), IM3.2x (Nick Parkes - Str and Phil Hewitt - Bow) and IM3.4+ (James Morrison - Cox, Tom Fuller - Str, Chris Crawford - 3, Matt Begley - 2 and Adam Webster - Bow). The crews who entered gained some really good experience, unfortunately the standard of the competion was very high and none of the crews made it to the finals.
Sunday (500m event)
The IM3.4+ crew stuck around for this event and were the only NRC entry on the Sunday, this was a more successful days rowing than the Saturday. The day started well with a win in the heat, followed up with second in the semi final qualifying the crew for the final. The final was a very close race which was won by Reading RC the Northwich crew came third. Overall 3rd out of 12 crews, this is a great acheivement for a crew which started this years regatta season as novice oarsmen.
Saturday (1000m event)
The club put entries in the following events IM2.1x (Andy Malins), W.Nov.1x (Mel Benson), IM3.2x (Nick Parkes - Str and Phil Hewitt - Bow) and IM3.4+ (James Morrison - Cox, Tom Fuller - Str, Chris Crawford - 3, Matt Begley - 2 and Adam Webster - Bow). The crews who entered gained some really good experience, unfortunately the standard of the competion was very high and none of the crews made it to the finals.
Sunday (500m event)
The IM3.4+ crew stuck around for this event and were the only NRC entry on the Sunday, this was a more successful days rowing than the Saturday. The day started well with a win in the heat, followed up with second in the semi final qualifying the crew for the final. The final was a very close race which was won by Reading RC the Northwich crew came third. Overall 3rd out of 12 crews, this is a great acheivement for a crew which started this years regatta season as novice oarsmen.
Special thanks to Nick Emmett the mens squad coach who organised the attendance of this event for Northwich RC
The Northwich 4 a head of Peterborough
09 August 2011
World Rowing Junior Championships
Congratulations to Ed Grisedale on his recent selection and success making the final at this event. It was held 3-7th Aug 2011 as an Olympic test event at Dorney Lake.
British Rowing - "One of the surprise performances of yesterday was Ed Grisedale and Joseph Guppy sneaking into the final of the double sculls at the expense of Belgium. The British knew they had a hard task to make an impact in the 'A' final yet gainly stayed in touch with the field and pressured fifth-place Slovenia all the way to the finish before crossing the bubbles in sixth."
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