British university rowers battled rough conditions at the biggest university rowing regatta on the British calendar, the BUCS PwC Regatta. Raced over three days at the Nottingham National Watersports Centre, rowers and organisers worked around the windy situation.
To avoid cancelling races due to high winds, organisers chose to shorten the course to 1000m for most of Saturday’s racing and all of Monday’s finals. This meant that nearly all of the 46 classes of races were able to take place. Classes ranged from the lightweight women’s eight through to the men’s single scull and the women’s quadruple sculls.
Reading University finished at the top of the medals table with a huge 16 medal haul, nine of them gold. Charlotte Burgess helped win four of the golds. Burgess, 20, made the British under-23 team in 2010 racing at the World Rowing Under 23 Championships in the lightweight women’s double. She also took silver at the World University Rowing Championships in the same year.
But Reading’s medal haul was not enough for them to secure the top trophy, the Victor Ludorum Trophy. This went to Durham University who finished with the most points for the eighth year in a row. Reading took second while last year’s second place getter, Imperial College finishing one down in third.
The rest of the story here: worldrowing.com
To avoid cancelling races due to high winds, organisers chose to shorten the course to 1000m for most of Saturday’s racing and all of Monday’s finals. This meant that nearly all of the 46 classes of races were able to take place. Classes ranged from the lightweight women’s eight through to the men’s single scull and the women’s quadruple sculls.
Reading University finished at the top of the medals table with a huge 16 medal haul, nine of them gold. Charlotte Burgess helped win four of the golds. Burgess, 20, made the British under-23 team in 2010 racing at the World Rowing Under 23 Championships in the lightweight women’s double. She also took silver at the World University Rowing Championships in the same year.
But Reading’s medal haul was not enough for them to secure the top trophy, the Victor Ludorum Trophy. This went to Durham University who finished with the most points for the eighth year in a row. Reading took second while last year’s second place getter, Imperial College finishing one down in third.
The rest of the story here: worldrowing.com
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