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HWR 2024: Images From The Line

Aspirational 1x: Armstrong of City of Oxford (pictured) beat Bailey of Mortlake AA by 3L.

27 June 2024

By Tim Koch

Tim Koch was on the finish line for the HWR finals.

Junior 1x: Anderson of Wycliffe College (pictured) beat Riley of Latymer Upper School by 3 1/2L.
Championship Lightweight 2x: Dart Totnes ARC (pictured) beat NCRA by 1 1/2L.
Championship Lightweight 2-: Quintin BC beat Molesey BC/Surrey University by 1/2L.
Championship 2-: Despite appearances, Leander (top) beat Thames (below) by 1 3/4L.
Development 4+: Edinburgh University (pictured) beat Upper Thames by 4 1/2L.
Championship 2x: Oxford Brookes/Thames (pictured) beat Reading University by 3 1/2L.
J16 4+: Godolphin and Latymer School beat Headington School by 3L.
J16 4x: Henley RC beat A B Severn RC/ Stratford Avon by 1L.
Aspirational Academic 8+: Oxford Brookes University beat Edinburgh University by 3/4L.
Brookes appears to have been cheered on by an excited swan.
Aspirational Club 4-: London (pictured) beat Upper Thames by 2 3/4L.
Junior 2x: Hartpury University and Hartpury College (pictured) beat Lea RC by 1 3/4L.
Championship Lightweight 1x: McCormick of Schuylkill Navy, USA, (pictured) beat Nolan of University College Cork, IRL, by 2 1/4L.
Junior 4x-: Wycliffe College (pictured) beat Marlow by 5L.
Aspirational Club 8+: Thames beat London by 3L.
Aspirational 4x: RV Skadi (NED), foreground, beat A.A.S.R Skoll/U.S.R. Triton (NED) by 1/2L.
PR3 1x: Gough of St Andrew BC (pictured) beat Knight of Llandaff by 2 1/2L. The PR3 class includes rowers with residual function in the legs which allows them to slide the seat. It also includes athletes with vision impairment and the partially sighted Gough was steered by her coach through an earpiece.
Aspirational Academic 4-: Durham University (pictured) beat A S R Nereus (NED) by 2 1/2L.
Championship 4x-: Nottingham RC/ Trentham BC/ Twickenham RC (foreground) beat Leander by 1/4L.
Championship 4-: Leander (pictured) beat Molesey by 4 3/4L.
Championship 1x: Egnot-Johnson of Waikato Rowing Club (NZL) (pictured) beat McKay of Grosvenor by 2L.
Aspirational 2x: Hartpury University and Hartpury College (pictured top) beat D S R Proteus-Eretes (NED) (foreground below) by 2L.
Championship 8+: Oxford Brookes (pictured) beat Imperial Coll/ Leander Club/ Oxford University by 2L.
Junior 4+: Aberdeen SRA  (pictured) beat Kingston Grammar School by 4 1/2L.
Junior 8 +: Headington School (background) beat Hinksey Sculling School (foreground) by 3/4L.
Headington and Hinksey at the finish.
Happy Headingington supporters cheer their clubmates following the final race of the regatta.

Full results and crew lists are on the HWR site.

Regatta reports are on the sites of Junior Rowing News, British Rowing and the Henley Herald.

Editor’s note: The question has come up what makes a crew “Aspirational”. Please see Rule 1.4 here.

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