Rowing/Sailing

A University of Cambridge student has spent “countless hours” designing and building a Lego scale model of the oldest wooden-framed boathouse on the River Cam. Keen rower Jim Gleed, 19, from Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, used about 10,000 bricks to recreate Christ’s College’s boathouse. His 1:42 scale model is 100cm (39in) x …

A rower who has aspirations to smash two world records by traversing the Indian Ocean has been left high and dry after her team’s food order was damaged. Lara Vafiadis, from Malvern, Worcestershire, and her three crew mates had planned to begin their 5,500 miles (8,851km) journey from Australia to …

A 100-year-old former rower who previously won the main event at the Henley Royal Regatta has returned 80 years on. Tony Purssell won The Grand Challenge Cup when he and his crew defeated a Swiss team from Zurich in 1946. But when he and his fellow athletes – mainly made …

A woman preparing to row across the Atlantic will raise money in memory of a school friend. Liv Stocks, 22, from East Yorkshire, is preparing for the 3,000-mile (4,800km) challenge alongside Jenna Vincent, 25, from Poole in Dorset, and Meg Neely, 24, from Swindon in Wiltshire. Stocks will raise money …

The 187th running of the Henley Royal Regatta is under way with rowing crews from across the world and spectators showing off their best attire. The annual event in Henley-on-Thames, Berkshire, began on Tuesday and ends on Sunday. This year the regatta has seen a record-breaking 862 entries from 21 …

The club said its coaches and volunteers would put on a number of training sessions before the “fun competition” next month. Nicky Will, club vice captain and the Sports Commission’s director of communications, said the swift boats were the “standard for all offshore competitions” and “really are the future”. “Having …

Thousands of athletes and spectators are set to descend on Henley-on-Thames for the town’s world-renowned royal regatta, which begins on Tuesday. The Henley Royal Regatta dates back to 1839, and sees crews from across the globe take part in more than 400 races across its six-day programme. British Rowing said …

The quadruple skulls team were joined on top of the podium by the men’s quad sculls of Cedol Dafydd, Callum Dixon, Tobias Schroder and Rory Harris. They built a commanding lead through the first three-quarters of the race to hold off the charging Netherlands boat with Germany in third. Daniel …

So far, the trainees have been hard at work restoring the main door on Mondays and Tuesdays. Kevin said he had been pleased with their progress, though he admitted there was an element of learning on the job. The rowing club is now focused on securing funding and rallying as …

A squad of female rowers from the University of Oxford were working hard to prepare for their upcoming race against Cambridge. Whilst the women’s competition at Henley was overshadowed by the more famous men’s race on the Thames, the stakes were just as high – not only for the race …

More than 300 rowers have taken in a relaunched boat race in the Lake District. Lakeland Rowing Club (RC) said its annual race on Derwentwater had attracted 142 crews from 23 rowing clubs across northern England and Scotland, with competitors ranging in age from 15 to 81. The event was …

A crew of veteran rowers with national and international honours have beaten rival crews 30 years younger than them. The four men from Tees Rowing Club in Stockton compete in the 80-85 age category and won gold medals at the World Rowing Masters Regatta in Banyoles, Spain, last year. In …

The four-person crew set off from Land’s End on 25 July and headed north into the Irish Sea, before 20-knot headwinds forced them to stop at Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire. They returned to Cornwall and started the challenge again in the other direction. Less than two weeks later, they were contacted …

Duo Tim Foster and Mike Reed are the first Manx pair to row across the ocean. BBC News

For years Becky Wilde did not think how she was treating her body while living with an eating disorder was anything other than normal. Now an Olympic medal-winning rower, the former swimmer said a comment over weight gain when she was a teenager was behind a change in her performance, …

When Mia Freischem takes part in the 80th Women’s Boat Race, she will – for a short time – be leaving family loyalties, as well as her tracksuit and waders, by the side of the Thames. The 24-year-old will be part of a Cambridge crew looking for a ninth successive …

Oxford claimed their first victory in the women’s Boat Race since 2016 as Cambridge won their fourth consecutive men’s race. Oxford made a blistering start to the 80th edition of the women’s race on the Thames in tricky and blustery conditions along the 4.3-mile course from Putney to Chiswick. Cambridge …

A Paralympic gold medalist and world record breaking rower has joined with local freemasons to raise thousands of pounds to help disabled people get into the sport. Ben Pritchard, who triumphed in the men’s PR1 single sculls at the 2024 Paris games, helped Henley-on-Thames’ Regattas Lodge and Oxfordshire Masons raise …

Olympic gold medallist Hannah Scott has said it is “really special” to have been awarded the freedom of Causeway Coast and Glens Borough council. The council said it was in recognition of her outstanding achievements, including winning Olympic gold in the Women’s Quadruple Sculls as part of Team GB at …

An initial departure planned for March and another earlier this month had to be postponed because of poor weather conditions for the 26-mile (42km) each-way challenge. Mcguire said the variability of the Scottish climate had been an issue for training but the team had not been discouraged. “They’ve been rowing …