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1991 British Rowing Championships
The 1991 National Rowing Championships was the 20th edition of the National Championships, held from 19–21 July 1991 at the National Water Sports Centre in Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham. Senior Medal summary Lightweight Medal summary Junior Medal summary Coastal Medal summary Key References {{English and British National Champions British Rowing Championships British Rowing Championships The British Rowing Championships usually take place every year. The event is held at the National Water Sports Centre, Holme Pierrepont (Nottingham) with occasional championships held at the Strathclyde Country Park. The championships originall ... British Rowing Championships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holme Pierrepont National Watersports Centre
Holme Pierrepont Country Park, home of The National Water Sports Centre is located in the hamlet of Holme Pierrepont near Nottingham, England and on the River Trent. It is used for many different types of sports and has recently received significant investment which has enabled a major refurbishment of existing facilities as well as introduction of new facilities. Run by Serco on behalf of Nottinghamshire County Council, it was previously one of five National Sports Centres, and is a unique sporting venue set in the centre of the country. History The centre was constructed during 1970 and 1971 on a former gravel works and required the excavation of one and a half million cubic yards of material. The centre opened in 1971 and won second prize in the 1972 Times/RICS Conservation Awards and was consequently chosen to host the first National Rowing Championships in 1972. Until 2009 the centre was operated on behalf of Sport England however control was returned to Nottinghamshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nottingham & Union Rowing Club
Nottingham & Union Rowing Club is a rowing club on the River Trent, based at Trentside, West Bridgford, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire. History The club was founded in 1946 as an amalgamation of two clubs called the Nottingham Union Rowing Club and the original Nottingham Rowing Club (not the modern club formed in 2006). The reason for the merger of the two clubs was because the boathouse belonging to the Nottingham Union club was destroyed by bombs in World War II leaving them no base to row from. The club won the prestigious Wyfold Challenge Cup at the Henley Regatta in 1963 and 2010. Notable members *Arnold Cooke * Richard Nicholson (1966 World Rowing Championships) *R C Waite (1966 World Rowing Championships The 1966 World Rowing Championships was the second time that world championships in rowing were held. The regatta was held from 8 to 11 September at Lake Bled in Bled, Slovenia, Yugoslavia. There were 613 rowers from 32 countries who competed ...) * Peter Webb Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thames Tradesmen's Rowing Club
The Thames Tradesmen's Rowing Club is a rowing club on the Tideway (upper estuary of the Thames) in West London, United Kingdom at Chiswick Boathouse, 100 metres north-west of Barnes Railway & Footbridge – beyond which is Barnes Bridge railway station. Other footpaths link to Old Chiswick, Chiswick High Road and Strand-on-the-Green. Foundation and colours The club was established in 1897. Its kit colours are white, claret and green If the claret dates to two years or more later it may be a nod to Thames Ironworks F.C. If adopted later, the order is the same and top colour only a slight shade different from the suffragette flag, devised in 1908 and widely seen until the 1920s. Ethos Until 1956, the club was one of the leading and few London members of the National Amateur Rowing Association and helped to bring about the gradual merger with the Amateur Rowing Association for people in 'non-physical' work, to which were affiliated the various clubs on the Putney Embankm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birmingham Rowing Club
Birmingham Rowing Club is an amateur rowing club, based at Birmingham in England. It is situated on Edgbaston Reservoir in the centre of Birmingham. The club was founded in 1873 although there is reference to a 'Birmingham Soho Club' using the reservoir earlier in 1859. The club, which serves Birmingham is an open rowing club for men, women, adults, juniors and veterans. It is affiliated to British Rowing. The club's president is Peter Veitch who was elected at the AGM in 2015 after the death of Sir Adrian Cadbury. Henley Successes The club's earliest win at Henley Royal Regatta was the Wyfold Challenge Cup The Wyfold Challenge Cup is a rowing event for men's coxless fours at the annual Henley Royal Regatta on the River Thames at Henley-on-Thames in England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders ... in 1904. A dearth of further successes was ended with successes in the late 1940s and 1950s with Ken Tinegate, Graham Beech ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwich Rowing Club
Norwich Rowing Club is a rowing club on the River Yare based at Whitlingham Boathouses, Whitlingham Lane, Trowse, Norwich and is affiliated to British Rowing. History The club was founded in 1972. The club has produced five British champion crews. Honours British champions References Sport in Norfolk Norwich Rowing clubs in England {{rowing-club-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hollingworth Lake Rowing Club
Hollingworth Lake Rowing Club is a rowing club on Hollingworth Lake and based at The Clubhouse, Lake Bank, Littleborough, Greater Manchester Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county and combined authority area in North West England, with a population of 2.8 million; comprising ten metropolitan boroughs: Manchester, Salford, Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tamesid .... The club was founded in 1872 but the current clubhouse was built in 1972. The club has produced multiple British champions. Honours British champions References Sport in Greater Manchester Rowing clubs in England {{rowing-club-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agecroft Rowing Club
Agecroft Rowing Club is a rowing club based at Salford Quays, Greater Manchester, England. It was formerly based close to the Agecroft Hall in Pendleton north. Its current location is its third within today's City of Salford on a site close to the city centre of Manchester. History There has been rowing in Manchester and Salford since 1823, with more than 15 clubs operating during the 1860s. Agecroft R.C. was formed by the gradual merging of these River Irwell-based clubs. Agecroft R.C. was established in Oct 1861 by Ishmael Lythgoe with its first boat house in the grounds of Agecroft Hall at Pendlebury before the manor house was sold and rebuilt by the James River in Virginia, USA. The club soon moved to the River Irwell further upstream at Littleton Road and were based there for over a hundred years. However, in early 2000s, the stretch of river had been allowed to return more to reeds to support fishing and the boathouse lay on part of a new flood plain so the club moved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claire Parker (rower)
Claire Parker is a female former rower who competed for England. Rowing career Parker was part of the double sculls with Diane Prince, that won the national title rowing for a Birmingham University and Pengwern composite, at the 1986 National Championships. This led to her representing England and winning a bronze medal in the doubles sculls with Diana Prince, at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland. She represented Great Britain in the 1989 World Rowing Championships and won the National title with Helen Mangan in both the double sculls and lightweight doubles. In 1991 she was part of the double scull with Tonia Williams that won the national title rowing for the NCRA at the 1991 National Championships and afterwards she competed in the double sculls with Tonia Williams at the 1991 World Rowing Championships The 1991 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held from 19 to 25 August 1991 in Vienna, Austria. The regatta was held ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Birmingham Boat Club
University of Birmingham Boat Club is a rowing club on the River Severn, based at The Towpath, New Road, Worcester, Worcestershire. A second boathouse is also used for the development squad which is shared with Birmingham Rowing Club. History The club was founded in 1949 and belongs to the University of Birmingham. The senior squad row out the Worcester boathouse while the development squad row out of the Birmingham Rowing Club boathouse on Edgbaston Reservoir Edgbaston Reservoir, originally known as Rotton Park Reservoir and referred to in some early maps as Rock Pool Reservoir, is a canal feeder reservoir in Birmingham, England, maintained by the Canal & River Trust.Environment Agency public r .... The club produced national champions in 1986 and 2009. Honours National champions References Sport at the University of Birmingham Sport in Worcestershire Sport in Worcester, England Rowing clubs in England Rowing clubs of the River Severn {{rowing-club- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mortlake Anglian & Alpha Boat Club
Mortlake Anglian & Alpha Boat Club (MAABC) is a rowing club based on the River Thames, close to Chiswick Bridge in Chiswick, West London and has produced multiple national champions. Location The MAABC boathouse is situated next door to the Quintin Boat Club which itself is part of the University of Westminster Boathouse and is undergoing refurbishment due to finish in 2022. History Although established in 1984 it has much older roots which features a series of mergers from eight clubs. In 1877 the Mortlake Rowing Club was founded and the following year the Anglian Boat Club was founded, these two clubs merged in 1962 to form the Mortlake Anglian Boat Club. Two clubs called the Bedford Park Rowing Club and the Barnes Bridge & District Rowing Club merged to form the Chiswick Rowing Club and they later merged with the 1962 Mortlake Anglian Boat Club becoming the Mortlake Anglian & Chiswick Boat Club. Finally in 1984 the Alpha Women's Boat Club (which was formed in 1927) merged wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London Rowing Club
London Rowing Club (LRC, or colloquially, 'London') is the second-oldest of the non-academic active rowing clubs on the Thames in London, United Kingdom. It was founded in 1856 by members of the long-disbanded Argonauts Club wishing to compete at Henley Royal Regatta. It is regarded as one of the most successful rowing clubs in Britain and its patron was Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. History The club was founded in 1856 at the instigation of Herbert Playford, A. A. Casamajor and Josias Nottidge for the purpose of promoting rowing on the river Thames and winning medals at Henley Royal Regatta. These three formed part of the crew that won the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley in 1857. LRC is the second oldest of the non-academic type in London; the oldest is Poplar Blackwall and District Rowing Club having taken that status from Leander Club which gradually migrated from 1897 to 1961 to Henley on Thames in Oxfordshire. The club and its members were fundamental in the setting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glasgow Rowing Club
Glasgow Rowing Club is a rowing club, based in the Gorbals area of Glasgow, Scotland. It is a private club, with no direct public funding. Application for membership is open to all. The club is affiliated to Scottish Rowing. History The club was formed on 4 December 1983 by the amalgamation of Glasgow Argonauts Boat Club (GABC), founded in 1924 and City of Glasgow Amateur Rowing Club (CGARC), founded in 1965. GABC was originally a club for the Alumni of Glasgow University Boat Club, and CGARC was formerly The Printers Rowing Club founded early 1900s. Both clubs had for some years resided as tenants of other clubs and part of the reason for the merger was the shared desire to build new premises. The boathouse, which was officially opened by the Lord Provost of Glasgow in May 1997, is located in Silverfir Place on the south bank of the River Clyde, just along from Shawfield Stadium. The club colours are yellow and red. These were chosen to reflect the club's origins and were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |