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Fergus Pragnell set a unique club record yesterday at the 2013 NSW Rowing Championships as he stroked the SUBC men’s Eight to their ninth win in a row. The Boat Club won this event in 2005 after a thirty year gap from the previous win in 1975. Fergus has been the only athlete to row in all nine winning crews. When asked after the race if he would be back...
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The Australian Boat Race 2012 will be initially aired on Fox Sports at 3.00pm to 4 pm this Friday 21st December.
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The 129th Riverview Gold Cup Regatta was held on the Lane Cove River last Saturday (1st December) in scorching conditions tempered at times by a light sea breeze. The Gold Cup men’s eights was considered by pundits as a contest between Sydney Rowing Club and Sydney University with most feeling Sydney were slight favourites. On the day Sydney had to withdraw Chris Morgan (Simon Nola) while Sydney Uni had to...
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The Melbourne University women’s eight and the Sydney University men’s eight are the winners after a wonderful morning of competition at The 2012 Australian Boat Race on Sydney’s Inner Harbour. Blessed with light winds and a partially sunny and partially overcast morning the harbour was at its calmest as the four crews warmed up on the Lane Cove River. The women’s eights we first up and Melbourne was favoured having...
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The annual Australian University Games was held in Adelaide from 24-28th September and with the Westlakes course available the rowing was held as part of the Games. The event included a long trailer drive to South Australia which has its share of drama as the main towing bar on our trailer snapped just out of Wagga. Fortunately of Head Women’s Coach, Debbie Fox was able to get the trailer to...
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The EON Hanse Cup is a annual rowing and music festival held on the at Rendsburg in Germany. The rowing part of the event is two sprint races – one at the start of the festival and the other later in the week followed by the main race - a 12.7 km marathon from Brieholz to the railway bridge at Rendsburg, This year national eights from Germany, Australia and Great...
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The Gallagher Great Race on the Waikato River was run for the 11th year on Sunday (9th Sept). This year crews in the men’s and women’s eights were from Waikato University and Sydney and Queensland Universities. The day started with quite a bit of rain making things a little uncomfortable for spectators. In the women’s eight Sydney University led by Olympians Sally Kehoe and Sarah Cook took an early lead...
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Published September 6, 2012 by Andrew Tilley, SUSF website. Four returning 2012 Sydney Uni Olympians have travelled along with the rest of their senior eights rowing squads to Hamilton, New Zealand, to prepare for Sunday’s annual Gallagher Great Race and further fan the trans-Tasman rivalry on the mighty Waikato River. Cox Toby Lister and rowers Nick Purnell, Sarah Cook and Sally Kehoe – all 2012 London Olympic finalists – will...
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On the 21st of July, nine of SUBC’s best young rowers set off for a three-week tour to Canada. Jonny Rundle, Tom McClintock, Jack Hargreaves, Peter Koster, Kit Cunningham-Reid, Hamish Playfair, Tom Sacre, Nick Wheatley and Ryan Barraclough were joined in North America by one of Australia’s best Under 23 coxswains, SUBC’s Will Raven. Together we formed an eight for competition at the Ontario State Championships and Royal Canadian Henley,...
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The SUBC U23 eight flies out to Toronto this Saturday 21st July to compete in the Ontario Rowing Championships and the Annual Canadian Henley Regatta. The crew consists of seven members of the crew that won the national U23 eights title at Champion Lakes, WA in March this year. Replacing Sasha Belonogoff and Ryan Edwards are newcomers Peter Koster and Jack Hargreaves. Sasha and Ryan have just finished competing at...
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