Friday 31st October 2003
- St. Neots coach Martyn Rooney has BBC Radio Cambridgeshire Sports Personality of the Year (UK) - after not knowing he'd been nominated let alone won...
Thursday 30th October 2003
- FISA's 2003 annual awards go to James Tomkins/Drew Ginn (AUS, Male Crew of the Year), Caroline and Georgina Evers-Swindell (NZL, Female Crew of the Year), Giuseppe La Mura (ITA, Coach of the Year), Thor Nilsen (NOR, Distinguished Service to Rowing). Full details on the FISA website.
Wednesday 29th October 2003
- Today Graham Walters leaves La Gomera on a double-ocean rowing attempt (Atlantic then Pacific, via the Panama Canal), today. Giggle-worthy article from the Tenerife Western Sun.
Tuesday 28th October 2003
- The Armada Cup (Switzerland) last weekend featured 250 sculls all starting to race at once.
Monday 27th October 2003
- The Tyne Scullers Head was cancelled on Saturday due to rough water, but Ken Hastie of the NERN website says "if you want a laugh click here" (UK).
Wednesday 22nd October 2003
- Team Madine Meuse Loraine (oarsmen Sebastien Lefebvre and Gregory Loret, FRA) pulled out of the 2003 Woodvale Atlantic Rowing Race late last night, for reasons as yet unclear. Holiday Shoppe Challenge (NZ) is currently in the lead.
Monday 20th October 2003
- Results of the Head of the Charles (USA) up (seems to work better on IE than any other browser). From a quick look, London Training Center (Canada I presume?) seem to have blitzed through the 1997 women's champ eights record, beating USRowing, while in the men's champ eights event, Princeton Training Center were just outside the record time, but beat Victoria City RC and USRowing pretty comfortably. No sign of the Dash results yet (or perhaps they're just very well hidden).
- The 2003 Woodvale Atlantic Rowing Race started yesterday.
- A document on a proposed bridge across the Cam (UK).
Saturday 18th October 2003
- Early results from the 39th Head of the Charles (USA) - championship men's and women's singles winners today were Jonathan Beare and Kristin Goodrich respectively, although it could be argued Roumiana Neykova would probably have won the women's were it not for 20 seconds of penalties (steering, I think).
Friday 17th October 2003
- Rowing results from last night's BBC Superstars heat (UK) were Greg Searle 29 points (1st) and Jonny Searle 18 points (6th). Greg and rugby player Phil de Glanville go through to the final.
Tuesday 14th October 2003
- The Gippsland Grammar School (co-ed, 550 students, Victoria, Australia) is once again looking for young people, probably gap-year students or similar, to help with their rowing program. They say" "The position would suit a young person just out of school or a university student wishing to take a break from studies. As in previous years the assistants would need to make their own travel arrangements to and from Australia but full accommodation and meals and a small weekly allowance would be provided. The job starts as soon as possible and runs through to May 2004." To apply or for more information, contact Pam Scrivenor.
Monday 13th October 2003
- For those wanting to know what state the Isis in Oxford is in (a limited UK audience, obviously), there are two new pages giving the flag status by image and as a single character.
- Results from the Saturday Wansbeck Scullers Head (UK) online.
Friday 10th October 2003
- The date of the Henley Boat Races (OU versus CU women and lightweights) in the UK has been confirmed as Sunday 21st March 2004, one week before the more famous men's boat race.
Wednesday 8th October 2003
- For those who haven't managed to see them so far, the "waterski-ing behind an 8+ pictures" A and B from Vancouver Rowing Club in Canada, as mentioned recently on the rec.sport.rowing global newsgroup.
- A short from the Western Morning News (UK) says that the Mayflower Offshore Rowing Club in Plymouth have set a new record for the 40-km sea race of Plymouth Mountbatten Centre to Eddystone Lighthouse and back. They finished in just under 5 hours, 1.5 hours faster than last year.
Tuesday 7th October 2003
- Mike Schofield is keen to hear from any members of the British Army who are interested in rowing.
- Results for the Rowers Revenge Triathlon (UK) now up. Overall men's and women's winners were Hywel Davies and Michelle Parsons respectively: Michelle finished 29th overall, just 12 minutes behind Hywel.
- The Boat Race 2004 is seeking volunteers to help out on the day and in the week before.
Monday 6th October 2003
- Results of the weekend's Canal Cup for international eights, in Germany, were wins for the host nation in both the ergometer sprint and 12.7km water race: more details on the official website (in German). USA were second, GBR third and NED fourth in both sections of the event.
- A silly/frightening British picture from some time last week.
- The Miss England 2003 competition includes a certain Miss Reading, who lists amongst her ambitions "to row at the 2008 Olympics".
Friday 3rd October 2003
- Alan Watson and Miles Barnett are two of the rowers aiming to cross the Atlantic during the 2003 Woodvale Atlantic Rowing Race, which starts from the Canary Islands on 19th October. Their Team Bright Spark website (Java must be enabled) is up and running.
- Controversy at Exeter Rowing Club (UK) about the recent WEARA championship award: the club's website has more.
