Steve Bloyce (Maidenhead), Hilary Birkenshaw (Guildford), Chris Boys (Guildford), Ben Marsden (Marlow)
One of the most electric events on the entire rowing calendar including the adaptive/para circuit is the British Indoor Rowing Championship (aka “BRIC”). And for adaptives, this was the biggest one yet…
- Most Events – 20 (11 last year was high water mark)
- Most Entries – 43 (38 last year was high water mark)
- Most Junior Entries – 4 (3 last year was high water mark)
This year also set all sorts of adaptive milestones including two new pararowing world records:
- Ellen Buttrick, Women’s PR3 record to 7:38.2
- Sean Gaffney, Invictus squad, Mens PR3 record to 6:28.3
Congratulations to the champions (full results can be found here):
- Para Men PR1 (2000m) – Benjamin Pritchard, City of Swansea
- Para Men PR2 (2000m) – Gregg Stevenson, GB Rowing Team
- Para Women PR2 (2000m) – Sophie Brown, Sudbury Rowing Club
- Para Men PR3-PD (2000m) – Sean Gaffney, Royal Navy NavyFit (retained title, WORLD RECORD)
- Para Men PR3-PD (500m) – Sean Gaffney, Royal Navy NavyFit
- Para Women PR3-PD (2000m)– Ellen Buttrick, GB Rowing Team (WORLD RECORD)
- Para Women PR3-PD (500m)– Alice Mason, Peterbourough City Rowing Club
- Adaptive Men AR2 (2000m) – Piers Barnett, Help for Heroes
- Adaptive Men AR2 (500m) – Piers Barnett, Help for Heroes
- Adaptive Women AR2 (2000m) – Faith Fordham, Help for Heroes
- Adaptive Women AR2 (500m) – Faith Fordham, Help for Heroes
- Adaptive Men AR3-PD (2000m) – Calum Titmus, Peterborough City (retained title)
- Para Mixed Adaptive Relay (4000m) – Invictus
- Adaptive Relay (4x 1000m) – Guildford Rowing Club
- Para Junior Year 10 PR2-PD (5 min) – Patrick O’Donovan, Great Marlow School
- Para Junior Year 10 PR3-PD (5 min) – Felix Barrow
- Para Junior Year 10 PR3-PD (500m) – Felix Barrow
- Para Junior 6th Form PR3-PD (2000m) – Sebastian Johnson, Marlow Rowing Club,
- Para Junior Girls PR3-PD (6 min) – Georgia Walker, Marlow Rowing Club (event record)