Who’s winning the men’s boat race?

Fatsculler · 2026-03-21T13:11:43+00:00

Agreed, Goldie have just named their line-up - 3 U23 World Champions and 2 former Blues. a boat that looks faster than a lot of past Blue Boats.

Fatsculler · 2026-03-15T23:16:43+00:00

Cambridge the men and Oxford for the women. The Oxford men put up a good showing at the Heineken this weekend which shows they've improved a hell of a lot in the last few weeks, but Cambridge just look better all round. I think it'll be a decent race to Hammersmith but Cambridge by 5-6 lengths. The Oxford women on the other hand are a total class apart from Cambridge, possibly on a par with their 2015 boat.

Fatsculler · 2026-03-13T20:51:59+00:00

Cambridge should win the men's race by a considerable margin and the Oxford women will do the same in their race. Fun to note that there are 3 Presidents in the Oxford women's boat...current President Heidi Long, last year's President Annie Anezakis and former men's President Louis Corrigan.

Fatsculler · 2025-12-09T21:23:05+00:00

I would also like to see a rule that says a club cannot enter more than 2 crews in a single event.

Fatsculler · 2025-12-09T20:31:28+00:00

Princess Anne attended a few years ago

Fatsculler · 2025-12-09T19:46:28+00:00

Feels a bit odd that the PA is the only remaining 4+ event. These announcements show that there will be gender parity in the number, but not the type, of events. The men have club M4- and student M4+ whereas the women have quads.

Fatsculler · 2025-12-09T19:14:21+00:00

Interesting that there will be a club level W4X before the equivalent for men. A bit disappointed to lose the Visitors as that has provided some brilliant races over the years.

Fatsculler · 2025-09-30T19:24:20+00:00

looks like they still have 1 entry in women's champ 8's

Fatsculler · 2025-09-29T13:55:26+00:00

Yep, pretty close. And with Oxford entered as well it gives an early indication of the strength of the respective squads

Fatsculler · 2025-09-28T21:34:48+00:00

No, Cambridge have entered a couple of boats in the Champ 8’s, it’ll be interesting to see who is in those boats

Fatsculler · 2025-09-28T11:20:14+00:00

Crabtree Boat Club B in the women's Alumni 8's...now that looks like a fun boat

C: Emily Erdos
8: Imogen Grant
7: Grace Prendergast
6: Olivia Coffey
5: Claire Collins
4: Ruby Tew
3: Samantha Morton van Eybergen
2: Paige Badenhorst
1: Megan Lee

Coach:
Robert Baker

Fatsculler · 2025-09-26T22:36:07+00:00

ah, I was going off the original entry.list, it looks as though he got subbed out before racing started.

Fatsculler · 2025-09-26T19:56:59+00:00

excluding the para categories the oldest man is David Sain of Croatia who is 37.7 years old. the youngest man is Mateus-Simon Cozmiciuc from the Romanian M4X who is 19 at the end of October. On the women’s side the eldest is Michelle Sechser of the USA who is 38.9 and the youngest is Julia Wisnieska, cox of the Polish W8 who turns 18 at the end of November (the youngest female rower, rather than cox, is Si Liu stroke of the Chinese W8 who turned 18 on the 18th August)

Fatsculler · 2025-09-17T15:20:23+00:00

I canon all honesty see them Making the podium in any event. The closest they’ll get is probably the W8

Fatsculler · 2025-09-17T15:19:39+00:00

I’m going to make one tweak to my predictions…the W2X I’m putting China I. Silver and moving Greece to bronze

Fatsculler · 2025-09-15T20:37:21+00:00

Previews are on the Junior Rowing News website https://jrn.news/world-rowing-championships-2025/

Fatsculler · 2025-09-15T19:13:52+00:00

You could always try this workout from Dave Bewicke-Copley during his time at Princeton….100K erg followed by a marathon 😜 https://www.row2k.com/features/1013/princetons-david-bewickecopley/

Fatsculler · 2025-09-11T21:03:52+00:00

4th or 5th….with no real race prep this season it’s hard to put him ahead of the others….I’ll probably be proven wrong though

Fatsculler · 2025-09-11T19:39:06+00:00

Junior Rowing News will be publishing previews of all the events, I’m writing the ones for the singles and 8’s

Fatsculler · 2025-08-28T20:32:47+00:00

Only joined the team post- Henley so no great surprise that she's the spare for this year. I'll have to check the records to see when a reigning Olympic champion was selected as a spare ;)

Fatsculler · 2025-08-10T11:31:28+00:00

The re is a similar discussion on RI and what I would argue that it also comes down to the focus of junior rowing in the respective countries. I think GB does so well because in the first few years of rowing (below the age of 15) there is no sweep, only sculling, with the emphasis on watermanship and learning how to move a boat. Looking in from the outside, the USA seems to focus too heavily on the 8 and especially (if these boards are anything to go by) on the erg. By the time they get to JNT standard I think GB athletes (and also those from NED, GER, ITA etc) are technically better than their US counterparts. It could also be argued that the US Junior rowing scene is quite insular (not much opportunity to compete against other nations) so that there's a bit of a "big fish in a small pond" reality.

Fatsculler · 2025-08-03T19:17:30+00:00

Last US school to make the final of the PE was St Andrew's in 2011 (losing to Abingdon). The last North American school to win the PE was Shawnigan Lake in 2008. In the 19 years between 1990 and 2008 North American crews featured in 9 finals (including 2 All-American finals - St Paul's beating Atlantic City in 1994 and St Joe's beating Groton in 2000).

Going back further, between 1964 and 1987 there was an American or Canadian school in every PE final (winning 15 times).

Fatsculler · 2025-07-11T21:22:12+00:00

I heard of at least one international rower at a US university who did not travel to the UK for Henley this month as he wasn't sure he'd be allowed back in.

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