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HWR 2025: A Celebration Of Women’s Rowing, Part II
Brookes’ Academic Eight – top of the class.
29 June 2025
By Tim Koch
In Part I posted yesterday, there were pictures of the winning Henley Women’s Regatta crews in Championship Open Weight, Development and Lightweight. In Part II, I conclude with the Academic, Junior, Club, Aspirational and PR3 Single finals.
Academic
Academic 8+: Oxford Brookes beat Newcastle University by 1 1/4 lengths.Academic 4-: In an all Dutch final, KSRV Njord beat USR Triton by 2 2/3 lengths.
Junior
Junior 8+: Headington School beat St Edward’s School by 4 1/4 lengths despite (or perhaps because of) St Edwards earlier defeating National Schools winners, Shiplake.Junior 1x: Gardener of Hartpury University and College beat Youlton of Chester-le-Street “Easily.”Junior 2x: Page and Smith of Nottingham RC/Northampton RC beat Hornzee and Weddell of Walton by a Canvas.Page and Smith in recovery mode.Junior 4x: Wycliffe College beat Marlow by 3/4 length.Wycliffe in repose. It was their third HWR J4x win in a row.Junior 4+: Surbiton High School beat Blair Academy Crew, USA, by 1/2 length.Surbiton – not so suburban.
Club
Club 8+: Thames beat London by 1/4 length.The Thames 2nd Eight – always happy to beat London if only narrowly. However, London is getting faster…Club 4-: Thames beat Upper Thames by 1 length.The Thames 4- produced another demonstration of Thames’ strength in depth.
Aspirational
Aspirational 1x: Marshall of University of St Andrews beat Baker of Leeds RC by 3 1/2 lengths.
Marshall in recovery.
Aspirational 2x: Gough and Webster of Leicester RC beat Visschers and Koolhaas of KSRV Njord, Netherlands, by 2 lengths.Aspirational 4x: Glasgow Univ/ Leeds Univ/ Nottingham RC/ Strathclyde Park beat Clydesdale ARC by 3 lengths.
PR3 1X
Sangiovanni Vincentelli of Rob Roy BC beat Gough of St Andrew BC “Easily”.Sangiovanni Vincentelli acknowledges her supporters.
I could not stay for the prize-giving but the regatta has posted some very nice professional photographs of the presentations on their Flickr account.
KSRV Njord, winners of the all Dutch final of Academic 4-, treated the assembly to their club song. Picture: HWR.Wycliffe College, winners of Junior 4x, capture some shots for their “socials”. Picture: HWR.Imogen Grant with the George Innes Cup for championship single sculls. Picture: HWR.
At the prize-giving, HWR chairman Naomi Ashcroft said: The quality of rowing over all three days has been exceptional and reflects the depth of talent now embedded in women’s rowing. The fiercely contested racing demonstrates how hard earned a HWR medal is. Henley Women’s Regatta continues to be a celebration of women’s rowing.
Tom Morgan has his always reliable take on the regatta in Junior Rowing News.
Thank you, Tim, once again for your coverage of HWR – and all your other posts. Could I use that photo of Imogen for a talk I will be doing at Trinity in September, please?
Yes, of course Jane. I am not precious about my pictures if they are used to promote rowing and rowing history. Not that only the picture in Part 1 is mine.
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Thank you, Tim, once again for your coverage of HWR – and all your other posts. Could I use that photo of Imogen for a talk I will be doing at Trinity in September, please?
Yes, of course Jane. I am not precious about my pictures if they are used to promote rowing and rowing history. Not that only the picture in Part 1 is mine.