All the things you need to know about the racing today at Henley Royal Regatta with Sarah Winckless, Race Umpire, Steward and Olympic medallist
Overview
- 81 Races today
- 9 nations in total at the event; 8 nations racing today
- Conditions
- Course is ‘lively’ this year; not like a sanitised lake
- Number of crews struggled with headwinds yesterday which we are expecting again today
- Because of amount of water of last few weeks the stream is also a factor in steering issues
- Couple of crews that got away with it but struggled and were spoken to
- After their races – often find that as coxes turn to look at their rival, the hands are not dislocated from the shoulders turning and the boat tends to turn towards the middle of the course; more prevalent among crews who are not used to river racing and more used to six lane courses
Races to Watch
- Race 9 [PE] King’s College v Eton College
- Race 15 [Diamonds] Bourne v Thomas – youth v Olympian; Bourne U23 World Champion 2019 in quad v Thomas 4th at Tokyo Olympics in double with John Collins
- Race 20 [Diamonds] Martini ITA v Alizadeh [BER] – Martini U23 single and eight for Italy; Alizadeh Bermudan, Olympian and at Cambridge training alongside Cambridge eight
- Race 22 [JWE] Shrewsbury v Lady Eleanor Holles – expecting close race. LEH national champions.
- Race 29 [JWE] Surbiton v Green Lake USA – another junior women’s eights of interest
- Race 32 [Thames] London RC A v Henley RC
- Race 35 [Temple] Edinburgh Uni v Nereus NED – Edinburgh 1’ 52” to the barrier yesterday, Nereus 1’ 47” always an indicator of form
- Race 36 [Temple] Triton Laga NED v Oxford Brookes – both around 1’ 52 to the barrier
- Race 37 [Visitors’] TBC Racing v Oxford Uni – TBC [Uni of Washington] bumped up from club event to Visitors’ and they showed why when they won yesterday; up against a strong Oxford boat
- Race 40 [Stonor] Wilde/Hempleman Adams v Vos/Veldhuis NED – young UK team against Dutch World Cup squad members
- Race 44 [Doubles] Haywood/Meijer v Fletcher/Burns – Haywood/Meijer U23 World Gold quad team
- Race 60 [PE] St Pauls v St Joseph – St Joseph impressed massively yesterday but had steering issues; went out fast against Shiplake
- Race 61 [Doubles] McCarthy/O’Donovan IRL v Townsend/Cousins – Irish are lightweight Olympic and World Champions. O’Donovan will also race in the Queen Mother on Sunday. Townsend/Cousins coached by HRR commentator Adrian Cassidy. Olympic rowers who might like the headwind
- Race 64 [PRCC] Proske v Henry – Proske won gold in Tokyo in the Canadian eight and this looks like it might be her retiring event in a single as she began; she is 35
- Race 75 [Stonor] Craig/Grant v Greves/Eddie – reason it is at this time in programme is Katie Greves wanted race late so she can get childcare arranged and Imogen Grant is at lectures all day for her medical degree so race managed to help their schedules.
