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Success at Sports Awards

The 2009 awards were held at the new Hilton Hotel on February 19 after the weather postponed the event from January.

First up were Tony Rose and Peter Taylor who shared the Male Veteran of the Year award. They had a very successful 2009 gaining gold medals at the National Veteran Championships and the World Masters held in Vienna. They also won the quad sculls at the Veteran Fours Head.

Men's Eight win at Wallingford

The Men’s Squad's first venture on to the (very windy and wet) summer regatta circuit post (the very sunny and warm) training camp yielded some satisfying results.

The IM3 8+ reached their final following a solid second place finish in their heat. A valiant battle resulted in a 5th place finish against a strong field of school boys.

Womens Eights Head or the River Race

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Women’s Eights Head of the River Race

On a sunny Saturday in March the women’s squad sent three Eights down to London to compete in the Women’s Head of the River Race, on the 4.25 Mile long Championship course.

The Reading A boat started at position 45 and finished with a time of 19:55.9 at 27th place out of 300, alongside international boats, beating some well established club crews, who they had gone head to head with the previous summer.

The B boat was the second Reading crew to slip into the top 100 at a time of 20:46.2 at 84th place – a great result, as they have climbed up about 40 places in the rankings and with that increased the starting position for the coming year.

The C Boat started at Position 249, put in a strong performance and finished 136th in a time of 21:14.8 for the 6.8 Kilometer long championship course. A very pleasing outcome in the light of the standard of women’s rowing.

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Reading juniors win Head of the River

Reading Rowing Club’s Nick Brown, Ryan Seager, Richard Laney, James Shorland and Stephanie Franklin (cox) recorded a superb win in the Junior Men’s 16 Coxed Four event at the School’s Head of the River Race held on the Tideway.

Henley Fours and Eights Head

Henley Fours and Eights Head saw the women's squad once again establishing themselves on the stretch where they are hoping to achieve their top performances in the summer. The A boat, competing in IM1, rowed a textbook race, completely unaffected by the choppy water and bitter cold. They came in at 11:53 as the fastest women's crew of the day, 4 seconds ahead of the Cambridge Blue Boat over the 3.5k course, and left competitors such as Putney Town, Maidenhead and Marlow RC dead in the water. The B boat in W.IM2 placed 5th in their category, tucking in neatly just below Cambridge's Blondie and the Oxford and Cambride Lightweight Women's boats. The C boat placed 4th in IM3, after the university crews but miles ahead of all other club boats entered, in spite of spending a significant proportion of their race in the stream as a result of Maidenhead stubbornly refusing to clear the racing line. The D boat put in an excellent performance, taking the 5th place in IM3 behind the C boat.

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