Wingfield Sculls
Alan Campbell yesterday won the 168th Wingfield Sculls, the club's fourth successive victory in the event.
Alan, who first won in 2006, took on 2007 and 2008 winner Mahe Drysdale and finished three lengths ahead in a time of 20.27. Graeme Coleman of Nottinham & Union was third.
On 14th November Alan and Mahe will be joined by Iztok Cop and James Dunley to defend the club's Fours Head crown.
Weybridge Silver Sculls
Over half term, Sophie and Hermione took on Weybridge Silver Sculls and came out top.
In WJ14 2x, they won by just a second over a very quick Ross crew, then had a five-minute turnaround before hopping into their singles to race the 3.3km course once again.
Hermione was very unlucky to be held up by a cruiser, but Sophie ploughed through the opposition to win WJ14 1x by over a minute.
Head of the Charles
The TSS Great 8 raced in the snow in Boston to win Men's Championship Eights at the Head of the Charles Regatta.
The crew of Warren Anderson, Ondrej Synek, Mahe Drysdale, Tim Maeyens, Alan Campbell, Lassi Karonen, Iztok Cop and Marcel Hacker, coxed by Ali Williams, completed the 3.2-mile course to win the blue-riband event in a time of 14:33.239.
Row2k's Head of the Charles coverage includes reports and photos, as well as video interviews with Mahe and Ali.
Pairs Head
Fifteen TSS crews - plus four composites - raced in Saturday's Pairs Head from Chiswick to Hammersmith Bridge.
The IM1 double of Nick Marriott and Antony Smith followed up their Wallingford result with another win, and were the fastest TSS crew, finishing third overall in a time of 12:14, while the seventh-placed composite of Charlie Clarke and Pete Wells (Bryanston School) won the Senior doubles pennant.
Swiss internationals Nora Fiechter and Sara Hofmann (Seeclub Biel) won Women's Elite and were the fastest women's crew of the day, finishing 65th overall. Katy Smith and Lizzie Mann won Women's IM1 doubles, twenty-four seconds clear of the second-placed crew.
In pairs, Mike Hennessy and Alasdair Leighton-Crawford won the Elite pennant; Dickie Clarke and Frank Llewellyn took Vet D/E.
Wallingford Long Distance Sculls
The new season started with four wins for the men's squad at Wallingford Long Distance Sculls.
The double of Nick Marriott and Antony Smith won Intermediate 1, and were the fastest double of the day. In singles, Alister Taylor won elite, and Charlie Clarke took both Intermediate 2 and Intermediate 3.
Great Eight in America
The Great Eight, winners of the 2009 Head of the River Race, will come together again for the Head of the Charles in Boston.
The crew of Olaf Tufte, Ondrej Synek, Mahe Drysdale, Tim Maeyens, Alan Campbell, Lassi Karonen, Iztok Cop and Marcel Hacker will race in the Men's Championship Eights on Sunday 18th October.
They will also race on the first day of the regatta, as three TSS entries in Championship Doubles - Maeyens/Synek, Cop/Tufte and Campbell/Hacker - and two (Drysdale: West End RC; Karonen: Swedish Rowing Federation) in Championship Singles. On the Thursday before the regatta the crew will take part in an outreach programe at Community Rowing Inc.
Row2k.com has launched its Head of the Charles coverage with a feature on the Concept2-sponsored crew - click here to read.
The Editor
Crew change: Olaf Tufte is unable to take part, so will be replaced by the American sculler Warren Anderson in both the eight and the double with Iztok Cop.