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Most
rowing
in the UK is done in fine boats and on indoor rowing machines but
it is not the only sort of rowing that takes place. Rowing in and
around the UK takes on many different forms from traditional boats made
of wood
which are raced on both rivers and around the coast, and
specifically
designed sea and ocean going boats in which rowers compete around the
coasts
of the UK and from continent to continent. And
it's not all about racing, recreational rowing is very popular in
Europe
and is becoming a more common pastime in this country.
The details below are from the Amateur Rowing
Association.Amateur
Rowing Association, 6 Lower Mall, Hammersmith, London W6 9DJ Tel:
020 8237 6700 Fax: 020 8237 6749 For general enquiries email: info@ara-rowing.org
ROWING
CLUBS IN ENGLAND A-C
ROWING
CLUBS IN ENGLAND D -N
ROWING CLUBS IN ENGLAND O - W
ROWING
CLUBS IN ENGLAND W-Z
Record
times
Links
and direct pages:
- The long-promised Rowing
Results Database from Ronald Janssens is now here. To be honest,
only useable with Java running well, but that doesn't stop it being the
answer to all the statsmeisters' prayers, with results from 1947-1985
(and extending) for Worlds, Olympics and European championships
(senior). Searchable in several different fields, this is going to be
handy for journalists, athletes and rowing club/pub bores alike.
- WorldRowers.Com,
a JAMCO site listing extensive World Championship and Olympic
historical data on the 2000 Olympic Rowing team members from all
countries. This is an extremely useful resource for journalists, as
well as being fascinating for statsmeisters and browsing rowers.
- The first files of the FISA athlete's
database are now up.
- In the Regatta Online record book, GB
Nat Champs fastest times.
- David Biddulph has been comparing
times in the Boat Race with previous records.
- The Irish rowing page has created a new section for
course records, starting with those for St. Michael's course
records.
- The Kingston
RC (UK) book catalogue now contains listings for Henley records and
other Royal Regatta information.
- May 1999: A cutter containing an interesting
assortment of British rowing names-and-faces arrived at the Eiffel
Tower, in Paris, having rowed there from London to break the old London-Paris rowing
record.
- The story of the Ryde Round the Isle of
Wight record row last month.
- Jamco Times is running a new databasing and analysis
system for results at world level, and for the 1999 Worlds, did a prediction page for every
race in the Olympic boat classes. They were extremely accurate not only
in their overall qualifying predictions, but in the boat positions too.
Books
on rowing
- Those with a sense for the history of the sport may
be interested by Way Enough!,
Recollections of a Life in Rowing, by Stanley Richard Pocock. As well
as building boats, Stan was the most successful coach of Olympic crews
in U.S. history. There is apparently much in the book about English
rowing, Henley, and the Thames.
- A Cambridge (UK) publication: "The Bumps", a book with
enclosed interactive CD-ROM, showing everything from the college
bumping charts, history and photographs, to video footage of racing and
the varying rowing styles.
- A page online for a book called Daring The Sea,
about the first men ever to row the Atlantic Ocean, back in 1896.
- The Kingston
RC (UK) book catalogue in coordination with Internet Books gives
you the
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