After our very successful Head Race, GRC had it’s AGM during which we expanded and evolved our committee. We made a couple of changes to our constitution enabling temporary membership and updates to some committee appointed positions.
We welcome Paul as our new President who will be taking over from Steve in the coming days.
We wish them all the very best and look forward to a continuing improvement of facilities and environment at the club. You can find details on our Organisation page on this website.
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We had the opportunity to host a number of clubs at our head race in September. It was beautiful weather and the energy and excitement was very noticeable. Due to amazing support from across the membership of GRC, we were able to have volunteers at all key stations to run the event safely and efficiently. We were also able to enter a few GRC crews in the races, a few of which won their events.
Well done in the first division to the Open Restricted 2 Quad who powered past a neat crew from George Watson’s College. Congratulations also to the Women’s Masters Double who came up against a strong crew from Clydesdale to win.
In the second division, congratulations go to our Women’s Restricted 2 Quad who sped down the course to beat a very capable Strathclyde University Boat Club crew from just down the water. Also congrats to the Glasgow Academy/GRC composite crew who won their Women’s Novice Coxed Quad event beating, among others, our own GRC crew. We were also able to boat in the Open Double Sculls in an uncontested event.
The event was great, feedback from all clubs was very positive and we look forward to welcoming back everyone next year to grow the event and the sport at club level in Scotland.
The sun came out and regatta season kicked off in style with Clyde Power Sprints on 20th April. Glasgow Rowing Club had a strong presence on the course with entries in multiple events.
First on the water were Cameon and Dan in ONov 2x. They put in a good effort but lost out to the more experienced crew from Castle Semple.
We then had our first guaranteed medal in ONov 1x where it was GRC vs GRC. Ruairi came away with the win this time against Rylan. Will we see a rematch later in the season..?
First Race of 2024 🎉 And the medals train continues 🚂 W Nov 4+ 🥇 O Nov 2x 🥇&🥉 O 2x 🥉👀 W Nov 8+ 🥇 W J16 1x 🥇 O Nov 4x+ 🥇&🥉 Also big kudos to our LTR graduates taking part in their first-ever head race in some extreme conditions 🌬️ 👨🎓👩🎓👨🎓👩🎓👨🎓👩🎓 📸@jamesrayrowing_coaching😍
Last weekend, 23 members of the club headed up North to Inverness for the Caley Marina Fours and Small Boats Head 2023. With 4 divisions of racing, approximately 150 boats in each division and most clubs in Scotland (plus Tees from the North of England) attending, it’s the largest time trial race in Scotland.
Caley Marina Fours and Small Boats Head 2023View Results
Joe and Katie recently travelled to Turin, Italy to compete in an International Mixed Ability Sporting event (IMAS). They competed with adaptive rowers from Stratford upon Avon, Ross on Wye and Cork against atheletes for the host club Armida, other areas of Italy, Spain and Portugal.
As well as enjoying the event, they managed to pick up some international silverware (medals). Joe won Silver in the Quad, Silver in the Double and Bronze in another Quad. Katie won Gold in the Quad and Silver in both the Double and her Single.
Amazing achievements from two excellent athletes and GRC representatives.
Caitlin raced WJ14 1x and came 2nd with a photo finish on the line
Caitlin and Beth raced a WJ14 2x and came a very creditable 5th in the A final
Hannah raced in a composit WJ18 4x with friends from @standrewbc1846 & @strathclydeparkrc
Finally Hannah closed out her junior rowing career racing with Caroline
This is an event we have re-appeared at following the HelKat days a long long time ago What an awesome way to come back and we can only go up from here
Another AMAZING day of racing for the club and a sneak peak into the new fancy boathouse over on the dark side of the river 👀 Huge thanks to @clyde_rowing for putting on such awesome day of racing…..again 😁🤷 if anything it was a bit too hot ☀😎🥵
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W Nov 1x 🥇👑 O R2 2x 🥇💪🏼 O Nov 2x 🥇👍🏻 W Nov 4x+ 🥇😎 Mix 4x 🥇&🥈 👀 Mix Nov 2x 🥇💃🕺 W J14 1x 🥇👸 Mix R2 2x 🥈🤏🏾
Special shout to the two LEGENDS that are Hannah & Ruairi for winning 3/3 events they raced 🥇🥇🥇+🥇🥇🥇
What an awesome way to come back and we can only go up from here 
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