British Rowing

In May 2023, 23-year old rower and umpire Ryan Winterbottom was diagnosed with testicular cancer.

Now, he's raising awareness of the importance of early diagnosis, and shares how the rowing community helped him through his treatment.

Read more👇

Rowing beyond testicular cancer | British Rowing Plus University rower and testicular cancer survivor Ryan is raising awareness of the importance of early diagnosis

2024 is going to be an exciting year for coastal rowing - today we're sharing news about the following opportunities for rowers and coaches 🌊

📅 Dates and locations for the British Rowing Offshore Championships and British Rowing Beach Sprint Championships

🇬🇧 2024 GB Beach Sprint Team Selection Policy and Trials Process

📣 GB Beach Sprint Coach Education Programme

Find out more about all of these opportunities on our website 👇

Coastal and beach sprint dates/venues and policies plus coach development webinars - British Rowing British Rowing is pleased to announce details of coastal and beach sprint racing for 2024 and development opportunities for coaches

Has your rowing club been affected by recent flooding?

Sport England's Small Grants Programme is now open for applications.

Find out how to apply on behalf of your club here 👇

Have you been impacted by the recent flooding?

Our Small Grants Programme is open to applications for storm relief funding from organisations in the areas most affected.

The available funding will be focused on those areas most badly affected, and we’ll prioritise sports and activities that need to return quickly.

https://www.sportengland.org/news-and-inspiration/support-available-flood-damaged-facilities

"Seat-racing allows a coach to find out which athletes and combinations – on the day in question at least – make the biggest difference to the speed of the boat"

Martin Gough explains why clubs may choose to seat race and its limitations.

Read more👇
https://plus.britishrowing.org/2024/01/02/seat-racing/

Rowing outdoors during the winter can enhance sleep quality, boost productivity and improve the function of the immune system ❄️ 🚣

Dr Helen Blamey explores the science behind exercising outside during the winter months 👇
https://plus.britishrowing.org/2021/10/25/the-benefits-of-rowing-on-the-water-in-winter/

It's day two of ROW31, and we've still got 29 days of indoor rowing to go! 💪

Catch up with the last 2 days of workouts on Inside Indoor and get started with our free month-long programme running throughout January.

Sign up today👇
https://insideindoor.com/row31-is-back/

Congratulations to Miriam Luke, President of Henley Rowing Club, who has been awarded an MBE for services to women's rowing in the 2024 New Year Honours List 🎖️

Read about Miriam's brilliant work for rowing as a coach, as Chair of Henley Women's Regatta and more on our website👇
https://britishrowing.org/2023/12/henley-rowing-club-president-miriam-luke-awarded-mbe/

Good sleep health requires a good dose of daylight – not always easy during the winter 💤

Sleep specialist Dr Sarah Gilchrist offers 20 top tips to promote and maintain good sleep health👇
https://plus.britishrowing.org/2022/01/26/winter-sleep-strategies/

During the winter season, always remember to support your body with adequate fuel and eat plenty of fruit and vegetables 🚣 🥕

From three bean chilli to malt loaf, Performance Nutritionist Hatty Bates gives examples of great pre and post-workout meals👇

Fuel well in winter | British Rowing Plus During the winter season, it’s essential that we support our bodies with adequate fuel, recover well and eat plenty of fruit and vegetables to protect our immune system. Hatty Bates shares tips on how you can do this Winter can be a challenging time; the days are getting shorter, the temperature i...

Considering Veganuary next year?

People choose a plant-based diet for many reasons, from health to environmental and ethical 🌍

Rowing take a huge amount of energy so when choosing a plant-based approach, even if it's for a month, rowers should pay particular attention to making sure they eat enough food to meet their energy and protein demands, as well as their omega-3, calcium and iron intake.

Read the full article for advice on how to fuel yourself in a healthy way from Performance Nutritionist Hatty Bates 👇
https://plus.britishrowing.org/2023/12/18/veganuary-plant-nutrition-and-rowers/ #:~:text=Research%20suggests%20that%20plant%2Dbased,and%20some%20important%20nutritional%20considerations.

"Successful rowing programmes blend the principles of rowing training with the specific circumstances of an individual club or athlete"

But what does this mean in practice?

In his six-article series, Olympic High Performance Coach Dan Moore unpacks how to design an elite rowing training programme 👇

Designing an elite rowing training programme (1): Overview | British Rowing Plus An introduction to 6 key physiological factors you need to consider when designing an elite rowing training programme

Rowing our way into Christmas (part 2) 🎄🎅

📸 16 sets of eyes are in the boat this season at Cambridge '99 RC
📸 Dashing, dancing and prancing up the slide at Bewl Bridge RC
📸 Cambridge 99 RC are ready to work on their leg(o) drive this session
📸 Good luck getting those Royal Chester RC eights down the chimney, Santa
📸 Christmas crocks are on Southampton University RC's wish list this year

Merry Christmas!

Rowing our way into Christmas (part 1) 🎄

📸 Glasgow RC sleighing their water session
📸 The new Mojo Dojo Janousek looking sublime at Cambridge '99 RC
📸 Wrapping up training until after Christmas with Peterbough City RC
📸 It's Southampton University BC's time to shine this Christmas

Have you had a festive session this Christmas? Email us your pictures at [email protected]! 🎅

Think you can distinguish your bow from your stern, your sculling from your sweep? 🤔

Test your rowing knowledge, find training advice and learn top coaching tips over the Christmas break with the Rower Development Guide.

Start exploring the guide👇
https://rdg.britishrowing.org/guide?pillar-psv=4&level-psv=13&area-psv=37&competency-psv=51

Get ready to get start the ROW31 new year challenge 📆

ROW31 is a free indoor rowing training programme led by our Go Row Indoor Master Trainers, designed to help you kick off 2024 in the best way possible.

Each week of January includes👇
✅ 5 instructor-led video workouts into your inbox
✅ 1 live workout
✅ 1 rest day

Sign up to ROW31👇
https://insideindoor.com/row31-is-back-for-2024/

"Clooney does well to capture the essence of the college rowing atmosphere: community, rivalry and the balance of study with ruthless training." - GB Rowing Team cox, Harry Brightmore

The Boys In The Boat, a film based on the book by Daniel James Brown, chronicles nine young Americans' journey to the 1936 Olympics in a crew from the University of Washington 🚣‍

Excited to watch the movie? Read our review by GB Rowing Team cox Harry Brightmore, out on the British Rowing website now! 👇
https://www.britishrowing.org/2023/12/gb-rowing-team-cox-harry-brightmore-reviews-the-boys-in-the-boat-movie/

🗓️ UK Film Release: 12 January 2024

Last minute Christmas gift hunting? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Order your official England Rowing kit to stay warm in the new year!

10% of each purchase goes towards supporting the team 🚣

Find it on Crewroom 👇
https://www.crewroom.co.uk/pages/england-rowing-official-merchandise

Did you spot British Rowing Deputy Chair Kate O'Sullivan at the BBC Sport Personality of the Year Awards last night?

Kate was named as this year’s Unsung Hero for the North East and Cumbria region - an award recognising volunteers who go above and beyond to bring sport to their local community 🚣

Read more about the work Kate has done to support Tees Rowing Club, the region and our sport on our website here👇
https://www.britishrowing.org/2023/12/kate-osullivan-wins-regional-bbc-sports-personality-of-the-year-unsung-hero-award/

The 2024 Oxford and Cambridge Trial Eights 🚣

Tough conditions, loose seats and postponed trials made for eight dramatic races along the Championship Course for the 2024 Trial Eights. Lively wind conditions set the tone for Cambridge's trials races on 13 December, eventually shifting by the start of Oxford's races on 15 December.

The December trials are the only opportunity for the rowers, coxes, coaches and umpires to see how their squads perform in the closest simulation of the 2024 The Boat Race they can stage.

In the lead up to the trials, each university takes the top 16 rowers and 2 coxes and splits them into two evenly matched crews. Openweight and lightweight men's and women's crews race side-by-side along the iconic Putney to Mortlake course 🏆

Read the full round up and watch the races again 👇
https://www.britishrowing.org/2023/12/the-2024-gemini-boat-race-trials-races-roundup/

📸 Benedict Tufnell Row360 for The Boat Race

December Olympic and Paralympic Trials ✅

Well done to all the athletes who raced at Caversham last weekend and thank you to all the coaches and support staff for making it happen 👏

📸 Benedict Tufnell

The British Rowing Awards 2023: The Shortlist 🌟 🏆

Congratulations to all of our nominees and regional winners and thank you to everyone who took time to recognise clubs, crews and individuals from across the rowing community with their nominations 👏

The national winners will be announced online at the Awards ceremony on Thursday, 25 January 2024 ✨

Read the full shortlist here 👇
https://www.britishrowing.org/2023/12/shortlists-revealed-for-the-2023-british-rowing-awards

Provisional programme announced for the 2024 British Rowing Junior and Senior Club Championships 🚣

We are excited to announce the events on offer and the provisional programme for this new, combined competition, taking place from 19 - 22 July 2024 🗓️

Find the programme on our website 👇

Programme for the 2024 British Rowing Junior and Senior Club Championships - British Rowing We are excited to announce the events on offer and the provisional programme for this new, combined competition

PR2 World Champion Gregg Stevenson has been shortlisted for the British Elite Athletes Association Male Athletes’ Athlete of the Year 2023 Award! 🏆

Gregg only joined the GB Rowing Team in 2023, but has since become World Champion and broken the PR2 Mixed Double Sculls World Record twice alongside partner Lauren Rowles 👏

Well done Gregg Stevenson!

Find out more about the award on our website 👇
https://www.britishrowing.org/2023/12/gregg-stevenson-shortlisted-for-beaa-athlete-of-the-year-2023-award/

“Women are 7% more likely to miss a competition on their period than at any other time. Yet we still know so little about the mechanisms that underpin these differences” - GB Rowing Team athlete Kyra Edwards

“In the GB Rowing Team we have open communication about our menstrual cycle and how it might be affecting us”👇

🗣️ 2022 World Champion Heidi Long found that, “In the days before my period I struggle to lift the weight in the gym that I can lift on the first few days of my next cycle with ease. This is only a few days later.”

🗣️ Olympian Chloe Brew said, “On the days leading up to my period I feel more tired, and my body and mind become more sensitive.”

🗣️ Two-time Olympic Champion Helen Glover said, “We’re scraping our fingernails for those halves of a percent speed gains. Knowing more about the menstrual cycle would definitely make a positive difference”.

Part-time Research Fellow at UCL Kyra Edwards discusses her latest research in an article on British Rowing Plus 👇
https://plus.britishrowing.org/2023/12/11/being-an-athlete-that-bleeds/

📸 Benedict Tufnell

Looking to join an indoor rowing community? 👋

Now you can join clubs, online communities, or take on competitive challenges with other indoor rowers from around the UK!

Find out more 👇

Online Indoor Rowing Community - Inside Indoor If you are looking for like-minded indoor rowers to train with, compete with, or simply just to connect with, why not either join one of the many indoor rowing clubs available, become part of an online indoor rowing community group, or get signed up to one of the community driven challenges. Find ou...

Two-thirds of female Olympic athletes believe the menstrual cycle affects their performance.

Kyra Edwards, GB Rowing Team athlete and part-time Research Fellow in medical statistics at University College London, discusses her latest research👇

Being an athlete that bleeds | British Rowing Plus GB Rowing Team member and Research Fellow Kyra Edwards talks about new research findings and how the team see the menstrual cycle

After a stand-out season, Great Britain’s Lightweight Women’s Double (LW2x) of Emily Craig and Imogen Grant have been named Women’s Crew of the Year at the 2023 World Rowing Awards 🏆 🚣‍♀️

Since the Delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games the crew have been unbeaten, winning back to back World and European titles and every World Cup they have raced at. This season they also achieved a World Best Time of 06:40.47 ⏱️

Their coach Darren Whiter was also nominated in the Coach of the Year category as further recognition of the Lightweight Women’s Double success this season.

Find out more about the award on our website 👇
https://www.britishrowing.org/2023/12/emily-craig-and-imogen-grant-win-womens-crew-of-the-year-at-world-rowing-awards/