On Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th May, Ironbridge Rowing Club took our crews up stream to race at Shrewsbury Regatta and Sprint. Held over 900m on Saturday and 550m on Sunday the event promised to be a fantastic day for team Ironbridge with 10 crews entered on Saturday and 8 crews on Sunday, these were:
- Open Masters B Coxed Four
- Open Masters C Coxed Four
- Women Masters C Coxless Quad
- Women Master E Coxed Four
- Women Senior Coxed Four
- Open Pair
- Open Double Sculls
- Open Junior 18 Double Scull
- Women Junior 17 Double Scull
- Open Junior 16 Double Scull
- Women Junior 14 Coxed Quad
- Women Junior 14 Double Scull
The event saw some very close races with our J16 2x- recording a narrow loss to North Staffordshire in the Semi Final by only 1foot! Likewise our J18 2x missed out on the final by a third of a length to a Royal Shrewsbury School crew! Our women senior and masters coxed fours had another great weekend, racing against some tough opposition on both days. In our Senior mens squad both the pair and the double had great draws. With our senior pair racing local ‘rivals’ Bridgnorth in the final on both days!
A huge well done to our Women Junior 17 Double Scull of Krystiana and H, who on Sunday were crashed into on the way to the start resulting in their bow blade snapping clean in half! After a medical check both of them got back on the water and raced their race! A real credit to the club and showed the ‘Heart of Ironbridge’!
It was a win by 3.5 lengths for our Women Master C Coxless Quad in the Final over Loughborough Rowing Club over the 900m Saturday course.
In their first regatta of the 24-25 season the ‘Ponies’ stuck out early to establish a firm lead which they took home in the last 300m to take the winning spot. Well done to Chantalle, Liz, Catherine and Sarah
Facing each other in the final our Men Masters Squad joined by members of our Senior Squad had a brilliant race that saw the Men Master C Boat win by 2 and a half length over the Master B boat in what was a great race for both crews with the glory going to Blair, John, James , Paul and Nicki
Racing in Open Double Sculls, our Junior 18 2x took on Senior opposition over the 900m course on Saturday to take the win!
They were joined on the other side of the draw by our Open 2x of Nick and Pav, who sadly were knocked out in the Semi Finals . T and Will were able to beat Loughborough Student by 1 length in the final to secure the win for Ironbridge!
