photo courtesy of Ben Marsden After years of COVID and high waters, Marlow Spring Regatta finally returned in full spring glory with sunshine and a full day of fine competition. With the Phyllis Court Time Trial providing a solid basis … Read More »
The National Junior InterRegional Regatta is a major fixture on the UK’s national junior competition which has been promoting is adaptive racing for a number of years culminating in the biggest and most competitive adaptive events ever this weekend. British … Read More »
Starting from a humble invitation by Phyllis Court to include a couple of adaptive rowers in its traditional spring time trial, this cornerstone event in the adaptive community has grown through Phyllis Court’s generous support to the largest annual adaptive … Read More »
Marlow Adaptive Juniors doing their NJIRC pieces Back to the nostalgic days of COVID. Allows the competition to be even more inclusive by removing geographical barriers to competing. The innovation expanded the event to a record 7,664 competitors featuring 209 … Read More »
The Para Rowing Foundation recently concluded its annual Foundation Intensive event in Portugal with support from a number of prominent individuals from the UK taking part: Isaac Clarkson, athlete, Stratford Upon Avon Court Clarkson, observing coach, Stratford Upon Avon Ben … Read More »
British Rowing recently joined a Paralympic Discover Day in Liverpool supported by Runcorn Adaptive Lead Faye Stewart. Faye supported the previous event in Birmingham and kindly shared her account with us: “It was a very busy day at the stand. … Read More »
The British Indoor Rowing Championship 2024 at NEC, Birmingham was the biggest in its history with over 100 competitors (including competitors from Ireland and Malta) in 57 adaptive events from 24 clubs (a 5 not in clubs). The elephant in … Read More »
14 intrepid RRC Ross rowing club MARS Stars and supporters advanced upon Turin this year, with high expectations after last year’s positive experiences. The welcome from Armida club that we received was even more heartfelt than last year … thank … Read More »
In a nod to the ever increasing popularity of Paralympic sport, Ocean Outdoor and Paralympic GB set up the first ever outdoor “Fanzones” for large group viewing of some of the big Paris events. Of course, pararowing featured highly in … Read More »
ALLEZ LES PARAS! The Paris Paralympic Regatta was not only a marvellous Olympics occasion, but it also showed the world just how strongly Great Britain supports disabled sport with GB’s success on the leaderboard in general and the complete domination … Read More »