Explore a selection of race reviews, opinion pieces, and blog posts about rowing.
Rowing at a high-performance club has always been my dream from the moment the competition side of rowing became apparent to me aged 16. At school we never qualified for Henley and had gone to junior GB trials but never made it past February, so when the opportunity to join a high-performance university team presented itself it seemed like a no-brainer.
Trial 8’s is used as an opportunity for boat race athletes to test the washy waters of the tideway in a 1 vs 1 as a preliminary test before taking on any external competition
Rowing is my passion and for many of you I’m sure you could say the same. However, in my ten years of rowing I have come to realise that the highs you get from doing well or winning races peaks very early in your career.
With the annual Golds cup event taking place at the end of October coming up now is as good a time as any to discuss cash prizes in rowing. For a little context, the Golds cup is a highly prestigious single sculling event that has run since the 1920’s in the US. It returned to regularity in 2011 and has one of if not the biggest prize pot in rowing
I'm sure people are tired of hearing the same thing about how rowing is outdated, elitist, and other similar stereotypes. These are the same stereotypes that the Rabil brothers were tired of hearing about their sport, Lacrosse.
In early 2018 British rowing announced that the power 8 sprints would be coming to a city near you. It was an attempt to promote rowing to wider audiences by setting up 350m sprints blasting through major cities.
Why do people watch sports that they don’t play or do themselves? Whether that is football, a widely accessible sport to both play and watch, or F1 which is highly unlikely that you would be a competitor but nonetheless has a huge fan base.
