You are here: Home > Henley Royal Regatta Members’ Bookings. Members of Leander Club will be sent a Booking Pack by post in the first half of March 2016. Full booking details will also be published on the website at this time. A general overview of the Members’ facilities can be seen here, to help you make the most of your time with us at Henley Royal Regatta. Corporate Bookings. Leander Club accepts a limited number of corporate hospitality [...]
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Henley Royal Regatta will run from July 1-5 this year (2015) | Photo Credit: Henley Royal Regatta Archant Henley Royal Regatta, the world-famous rowing competition in Oxfordshire that’s a bastion of Edwardian style, returns this July. Here’s what you need to know. Spectators on the waters at the Henley Royal Regatta (somewhere between1890-1900) The History The most famous regatta in the world has been running annually ever since its establishment [...]
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The Montreal Rowing Club participated from August 1st to August 8th 2010, to the 128th Royal Canadian Henley Regatta. Nineteen rowers from the competitive program and nine from the master program have participated in those international regattas that take place over a week and bring together clubs from Canada, the United States, and Mexico but also from Europe. Our athletes have brilliantly performed: four wins, four second places, two third places [...]
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The 132nd Royal Canadian Henley Regatta Thursday when it was recognized by the Niagara Sport Commission as the event of year for 2014. The rowing championships, which last summer attracted upwards of 4, 500 athletes from throughout the world to Martindale Pond in St. Catharines, had an economic impact of $15 million and drew the second-most spectators in the event’s history, Rod Mawhood, master of ceremonies at an awards breakfast Thursday at the [...]
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New Zealand’s Olympic Champion, Mahe Drysdale, added a remarkable fifth Henley title to his career tally at Henley Royal Regatta this morning. Competing in the open single scull event, the Diamond Challenge Sculls, he made this man-killing event - on one of the toughest courses in international rowing - look easy and won in 8:11 by a big margin over Hungarian International Gabor Csepregi. “It’s a Regatta I always enjoy coming to”, said Drysdale. “It’s [...]
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Henley Royal Regatta’s 175th anniversary event moved up a gear today with a stunning series of close races in sizzling temperatures. Closest of all was the dead-heat in the Visitors’ Challenge Cup for men’s fours between Seeclub Zurich of Switzerland and Molesey Boat Club. The judges’ ultimate verdict was a dead heat. The two crews were will now have to row the grueling 2112m course again tomorrow. The world’s top rowers made their first appearance [...]
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Tom teamed his look with a white shirt and also added some black sunglasses to protect himself from the rare hot British weather. Kelsey looked effortlessly elegant for the day in a pretty strapless patterned dress. She accentuated her looks with a slick of lipstick and stood alongside her boyfriend as they posed for pictures. Classy lady: Kelsey looked effortlessly elegant for the day in a pretty strapless patterned dress Chasing The Sun: The singer [...]
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Henley Royal Regatta will be available to view around the world via a live stream in 2015, the Committee of Management of the world-famous Regatta has announced. All racing will be shown live and a daily highlights show will be available to watch on demand within an hour of the close of each day’s racing from July 1-5. More than 250 races feature at the Regatta, which includes Olympians and emerging stars from around the world and is renowned for [...]
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Things are already heating up in Henley-on-Thames (Photo: B. Kitch) While the first day of racing at Henley is nearly over, there are many events that have not yet begun. Wednesday was a hot one, both in terms of the weather and the action on the water, and we don t see any reason what that should change (in the case of the latter, at least) throughout the week on the Thames. Here are a few choice picks and predictions for the racing to come, thanks [...]
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HENLEY-ON-THAMES, England - Washington men s rowing won all three of its races at the Henley Royal Regatta on Friday, July 3, as the varsity eight won its first round race in the Ladies Plate against Princeton, the coxed four won its first round matchup in the Prince Albert Challenge Cup over Newcastle, and the coxless four completed the Friday sweep with a second-round win over Yale in the Visitors Challenge Cup. It s all about advancing to the [...]
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The 1829 boat club. All photographs: FE Castleberry/Rowing Blazers/Carlson Media Ltd FE Castleberry/Rowing Blazers Jack Carlson s new book Rowing Blazers is dedicated to an oddity of British style – one that is now nearly 200 years old. As a professional rower taking part in the Henley Royal Regatta this week, rowing apparel is a subject that the American knows a lot about, and his access to this privileged, preppy world, provides stories from clubs [...]
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[Top: Actors Armie Hammer and Josh Pence row in a Harvard Eight as twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss. Bottom: Harvard Varsity Eight 2004. Photo via Row2k.com] The Social Network film directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin finished off the last scenes of shooting this weekend at the Henley Royal Regatta (all regatta pictures are HERE). The Regatta, one of the three Royal British sporting events of the year (others include Wimbledon [...]
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The Royal Canadian Henley Course has hosted a number of rowing events over the years; a brief overview of these events is listed below. The Royal Canadian Henley Regatta began in 1880 as the championship for the newly formed Canadian Amateur Rowing Association. The Royal Canadian Henley Regatta was hosted in many different locations until Port Dalhousie, Martindale Pond specifically, became its permanent home in 1903. The Henley , as it is commonly [...]
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Experts predicted that the clash between the Universities of Washington and Princeton in the Ladies’ Challenge Plate for intermediate eights would be the match up of the day at Henley Royal Regatta. It did not disappoint. Princeton led early but Washington battled back to take the verdict. Remarkably the strokeman of the Princeton eight was racing for the second time that day in the same event. He had earlier raced and lost with the Princeton “B” [...]
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Right, time is marching on so I better get on with previewing the Club events. Now that the draw has been made I can focus on those crews that the Stewards have deemed worthy of Selection (and a few of the others who could give the selected crews a shock!) 27 Green Lake “B” USA. From Seattle Green Lake have two boats entered and both have been selected. At the top of the draw are the “B” crew. This crew raced at Marlow Regatta and finished 3rd in [...]
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