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Glasses were not provided with the winners’ bottles of Champagne, so Lola Anderson improvised.
27 July 2023
By Tim Koch
Tim Koch peers through a haze of Moët.
Theresa May, Prime Minister 2016-2019, was the prize giver. The Member of Parliament for nearby Maidenhead, Mrs May is the first Prime Minister since Stanley Baldwin in the 1920s and 1930s to regularly attend Henley socially. The Remenham Challenge Cup was won by Maple Bay Rowing Club, Canada.Some of the Maple Bay crew enjoys the great taste of Champagne and silver polish.The GB women’s four racing as Leander/Imperial College/Marlow won the Town Challenge Cup. Helen Glover, third from the left, is, at the age of 36, hoping to row in her fourth Olympics in Paris 2024 having previously won Olympic gold at London 2012 and Rio 2016.A member of the London RC crew who won the Wyfold, LRC’s first Henley win since 2011.Canada’s Jill Moffatt and Jenny Casson, proud holders of the Stonor Challenge Trophy.A Grand Day Out. A Leander / Oxford Brookes /Plymouth ARC / Newcastle University composite won the Grand Challenge Cup.Rebecca Edwards and Chloe Brew, temporary holders of the Hambleden Pairs Challenge Cup but permanent owners of small replicas of the trophy awarded in place of medals.German World Champion, Olli Zeidler, retained the Diamond Sculls, his third Pineapple Cup.St Edward’s School won the Princess Elizabeth Challenge Cup for the first time since 1999 as they held off new competition from clubs, not just schools, that could now enter their J18 crews.Ukrainian Diana Dymchenko, now representing Azerbaijan, won the Princess Royal.Tideway Scullers beat the favourites, Wycliffe, to win the Diamond Jubilee Quad.Ladies’ First. Oxford Brookes, winners of the Ladies’ Challenge Plate.Welcome Visitors’. Another Brookes win.Brookes get a Prince Albert.Island Girls. Brookes win the Island Challenge Cup.Worshiping at the Temple: Brookes again.The Brookes winners: Burgundy amidst the Champagne. Thames RC, winners of the Thames Cup, show that they are a premier cru.There is no problem in smiling for the camera when you are holding the Thames Cup.Thames RC’s cuvée de prestige, their Wargrave winning crew.More Thames. Everyone looks up to a winner of the Britannia.That’s all folks, but here is a reminder of the winners. Henley 2024 is from Tuesday, 2 July to Sunday, 7 July.
In 1951 the University of Pennsylvania 150# crew won the Thames Cup. We weren’t winner’s. The Cup was filled with beer and replenished. I sat in the seven seat and I am the only one left. Our motto was Press On Regardless.
Hear The Boat Sing 
In 1951 the University of Pennsylvania 150# crew won the Thames Cup. We weren’t winner’s. The Cup was filled with beer and replenished. I sat in the seven seat and I am the only one left. Our motto was Press On Regardless.