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 »
Special report from Chair of the Community Adaptive Group Mark Dewdney on the 2023 Mixed Ability Regatta in Turin: For the second year UK clubs attended the Mixed Ability regatta in Turin on 7th-8th Oct. The International Paralympic and Special … Read More »
The Pararowing Foundation supports adaptive athletes pursue their ambitious around the world and the UK has been fortunately enough to have several of its athletes attend its annual training camp in Avizaqcua Team Center in Avis, Portugal. In 2019, (on … Read More »
One of my first objectives for the Adaptive Rowing UK website was to provide a comprehensive set of (a) adaptive clubs, and (b) adaptive competitions (see sidebar) in the UK. But some of the most exciting adaptive rowing opportunities for … Read More »
The Stratford Upon Avon adaptive squad is trailblazing international frontiers for UK adaptive rowing with their trip this past week to the International Mixed Ability Sport regatta in Cork, Ireland. They were joined by crews from England, Ireland and Italy … Read More »
Congrats to Sophie Brown of Sudbury (PR2), Georgia Walker (PR3-VI) and Ella Holloway (PR3-PD) for representing their home nations at the Home International Regatta at Strathclyde this weekend. British Rowing reported… “England also won both of the regatta’s adaptive rowing … Read More »
Photo courtesy of Ben Rodford Photography Let me start off the congratulations by tipping my hat to Womens Henley Regatta. WHR are the highest profile UK rowing competition to support pararowing (NatSchools has stonewalled with their focus on the big … Read More »
The Adaptive Rowing UK site has tended to focus on grass-roots or club-level “Adaptive” rowing in the UK (which can also be “Pararowing” for those who go through the FISA classification process). One of the motivations for setting up the … Read More »
Last week, Marlow Rowing Club also hosted an international pararowing camp which included the entire population of Swedish pararowers – namely, Ebba Einarsson. Ebba was a successful junior rower in Sweden until a couple of years ago when she was … Read More »