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Cambridge Christmas Head 2025 – Rob Roy Lights Up the Cam
The Cambridge Christmas Head delivered exactly what this event exists for: cold fingers, warm spirits, questionable costumes, and a river absolutely packed with every flavour of Cambridge town rowing. The course was buzzing from first light as Rob Roy crews, parents...
Rob Roy Junior Performance Squad – 2024/25 Season Overview
A year defined by depth, ambition and breakthrough performances The 2024/25 season will be remembered as one in which the Rob Roy Junior Performance Squad showed not only strength at the top end, but remarkable depth across every age group. From J14 athletes taking...
Hampton Small Boats Head 2025 – Rob Roy Performance Squad Report
After an early season marked by repeated race cancellations, the Rob Roy Performance Squad arrived at Hampton Small Boats Head carrying something close to pent-up enthusiasm. With one of the largest trailers on site—eighteen boats packed tightly and precisely—the...
2024 Highlights for Rob Roy BC Junior Squad
A British Junior Championships silver medal for our inspirational WJ18 quad, plus six other Rob Roy crews in the top 15 in their categories Our WJ18 quad, and at least 8 former Rob Roy juniors in international, school or university crews, racing at Henley Royal...
Rob Roy BC Wins National Coaching Team of the Year 2022 Award
The Rob Roy BC Junior squad’s coaching team were thrilled to win British Rowing’s Coaching Team of the Year 2022 Award. Secretly nominated by members of the junior squad, the team of Jo Burch, Andy Turnbull, and Stefan Graf were named winners at British Rowing’s...
Rob Roy BC Junior Women make history at Henley Royal Regatta
A Rob Roy BC junior girls’ quad made history last week racing at Henley Royal Regatta in the first round of the Diamond Jubilee Challenge Cup. This was the first time a junior crew from the Club has raced at Henley, the most prestigious club regatta in the world. Even...
Try Rowing – thanks to Curly!
Thanks to a generous donation in memory of Curly Galbraith, our Try Rowing schools outreach programme has been secured for the next five years. Curly, a long-standing member of Rob Roy BC, launched the Club’s Junior Squad in the 1970s, resulting in an almost...
The three rs: rest, refuelling and recovery for rowers
Former GB Rowing Team physiologist Craig Williams provides advice on how you can reap more rewards from your training sessions https://www.britishrowing.org/2019/02/the-three-rs-rest-refuelling-and-recovery-for-rowers/
Stretham Head, Saturday 23 February 2019. A new head race organised by Rob Roy Boat Club
Stretham Head, Saturday 23 February 2019 A the new head race organised by Rob Roy Boat Club. Distance 4km and 3km on the Cam between Stretham and Ely.
Train smarter to improve your performance
Train smarter to improve your performance While mileage might make champions, is this the best training model for success? Sarah Moseley, British Rowing Sport Scientist (physiology), explores the options https://www.britishrowing.org/2019/01/train-smarter-to-improve-your-performance/
Future rowing champions are launched as pupils seek victory at Rob Roy’s ‘Try Rowing’ Boat Races
Future rowing champions are launched as pupils seek victory at ‘Try Rowing’ Boat Races Honours were even when teams from Parkside and Chesterton Community Colleges met for the annual Try Rowing Boat Races at Milton Country Park this week. The adrenaline-fuelled relay races were the finale to the Try Rowing outreach project organised by Rob […]
Victor Ludorum for Rob Roy BC Juniors at Peterborough Junior Championships
Five golds and one silver made the Rob Roy BC junior squad the most successful club at Peterborough Junior Championships on Sunday, winning them the Victor Ludorum trophy. In blistering heat and challenging windy conditions, the Rob Roy junior crews raced through heats, semi-finals and finals over 1000m, often with only half an hour between […]
Rob Roy Juniors at Henley Qualifiers 2018
Nottingham City and Masters and Club Regattas and National Schools Regatta – an “eventful” weekend for Rob Roy Juniors!
The Nottingham weekend was all about mountainous seas and survival. Bad enough on Saturday but by Sunday the organisers decided that, rather than cancel the regatta, they would stage all the events at the far end of the course where the water was slightly calmer. Which meant not only that Elizabeth, Lara and Elana in […]
Rob Roy’s Ed Evans Blogging for Junior Rowing News
Another Winning Weekend for Rob Roy BC Juniors!
Rob Roy BC Juniors scooped up another armful of prizes at two separate events over the Bank Holiday weekend. At the prestigious Junior Sculling Regatta held on the Olympic course at Eton Dorney, Brett Taylor (15) won a silver medal in the J16 single sculls; the J16 quadruple scull of brothers Oliver and Dylan Montes, […]
National Medals for Rob’s Junior Scullers at JIRR 2018
National Medals for Rob Roy Boat Club Junior Scullers Rob Roy Juniors Matt Allen (14) and Brett Taylor (15) won gold and bronze for the region at the recent Junior Inter-Regional Regatta held at the National Watersports Centre in Nottingham. Six junior crews from Rob Roy Boat Club represented the region; with more than a […]
Rob’s Juniors Easter Training Camp 2018 at CUBC
The Junior Squad is just back from an excellent Training Camp at the Cambridge University boathouse at Ely. Wonderful facilities, great water, and massive progress from every junior so we are already looking at dates to go back next Easter. As well as our five days on the water, the squad enjoyed talks from specialists […]
Rowing Foundation Award
We are hugely grateful to The Rowing Foundation for awarding Rob Roy Boat Club grant-funding for this year’s Try Rowing Outreach 2018. This enables us to introduce around 150 state-school children to rowing – and to put 24 of them through their paces on the water during this summer term, leading to what will be a […]
British Rowing launches Power8 Sprints
British Rowing has announced an exciting new sprint rowing event, Power8 Sprints. The first ever Power8 Sprints event will be held in Bristol on Sunday, 22 July and will be the headline act on the water at the annual Bristol Harbour Festival. The sprint event will see teams from eight cities – Bristol, Cambridge, Exeter, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham […]
British Rowing Article: Why it is important to stay healthy as well as fit
New Launch – Thanks to The Rowing Foundation
Juniors Easter Training Camp
Rob Roy Juniors are taking their Easter training camp to the Cambridge University Boat Club in Ely for the the week after Easter. The training camp is for the Juniors’ Performance Squad and for any others in the Juniors’ Racing Squads who are interested in this 5 day intensive camp. For more information contact juniors@robroyboatclub.org.uk
Jurgen Grobler, Paul Thomson and Tom Dyson – In Conversation
See British Rowing’s ‘In Conversation’ with coaches Jurgen Grobler, Paul Thomson and Tom Dyson https://www.britishrowing.org/2017/12/in-conversation-with-coaches-jurgen-grobler-paul-thompson-and-tom-dyson/
19th November – Olympian joining us for our annual dinner!
ROB ROY BC – BUMPS 2017
With their meteoric rise up seven places through Division 2 and well into Division 1, the Rob Roy BC W2 crew was not only the most successful crew on the river in this year’s Town Bumps but also probably the youngest. With three fifteen-year olds and a sixteen-year old all just back from competing at […]
Teamwork Triumphs at Try Rowing Boat Race Day
No-one fell in but everyone jumped into the water at Milton Sport Lakes to celebrate a very close contest between pupils from Parkside Community College and Chesterton Community College at their Try Rowing Boat Race Day this week, watched by a large crowd of parents and friends. The two schools had been invited to take […]
Strength in Depth at National Rowing Championships for Rob Roy Boat Club Juniors
While medals were hard to come by at the 2017 British Rowing Junior Championships last weekend, five crews formed from Rob Roy Boat Club’s Junior Squad made it into the top 12 crews in the country in their categories. Fifteen-year-old Brett Taylor won a bronze medal in the J15 single sculls – just a week […]
Marlow Regatta 2014
Marlow & Metropolitan Regattas 2014
Marlow Regatta 2014 21st June, Dorney Lake Yet more great conditions at Dorney heralded further progress on the road to Henley today (21st June) for the senior men. Our Wyfolds aspirants (Schramm, Clift, Lundgren, Stark) pulled a 4th in the Elite 4-final ….but only beaten by Visitor’s crews. Overcoming a poor start, the guys just […]
The MET Report
The Metropolitan Regatta 2014 31st May/1st June, Dorney Lake This was Dorney at its most benign, two days of great conditions, and six Robs crews there to enjoy it. Met Regatta 2014 On Saturday six boats raced: An Elite 4- (Schramm, Clift, Lundgren, Stark), a Senior 1x (Revell), an IM1 2- […]
Ivo Dawkins selected for 2014 Boat Race
Congratulations to Robs ex-Junior Ivo Dawkins on being selected for the 3 seat in this years Cambridge crew for the Boat Race ….. and commiserations to Robs Nick Hazell who narrowly missed out in a strong Oxford crew packed with international athletes. Nick will row with with Isis for the second time. The 2014 crews […]
GB Senior and U23 Trials 16th and 17th November
Pairs Head – Masters B win
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British Championships 19th/20th October 2013
Photo by Naomi Baker[/caption] The British Rowing Championships (ex-Nat Champs) took place last weekend at the National Water Sports Centre, Nottingham, and for the first time included members of the GB National Squad rowing for their clubs.
Andrea Bosnyak wins at World Masters Rowing Championships in 1x
Andrea raced the Masters C category in a single scull over 1,000m at Varese Lake in Italy. She was first across the line in a time of 4 minutes 4 seconds, beating scullers from Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Czech Republic, Sweden and Brazil.
Peterborough Summer Regatta 2013
Sunday’s winning WIM3 quad crew[/caption]
RRBC Feature on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
Jeremy Sallis (photo courtesy of BBC- promoting BBC Radio Cambridgeshire)[/caption] Find out if BBC Radio Cambridgeshire presenter Jeremy Sallis enjoyed his sculling outing in Cambridge today, hosted by Rob Rob Boat Club.
Cambridge Town Bumping Races 2013
With another episode of Town Bumping Races now past, all Rob Roy Boat Club crews entered can be proud of their accomplishments. There were no bumps made on Robs crews and one crew won blades. Robs entered four crews this year, all racing in Division One with M1 chasing for the headship. Robs M1 […]
Henley Masters Regatta 2013 Final Results
Three gold medals for Robs!
RRBC at HRR
Simon Goodbrand and Ed Parkhouse competing in The Double Scull Challenge Cup on Thursday (photo by HRR Photo)
Coaching Opportunity
Chris Covey coaching during a RRBC Sculling Course
Henley Masters Regatta 12 and 13 July
Following a carefully executed programme of Stretham-based training, Robs Womens and Mens Squads have been working towards peak performance for this weekend’s Henley Masters Regatta. Still clip from video of Men’s VIII training at Stretham last Sunday
Henley Royal Regatta Update
Image courtesy of Henley Royal Regatta[/caption] Following on from Friday’s Henley Royal Regatta Qualifying Races, Huge congratulations to Ed Parkhouse and Simon Goodbrand who have qualified to compete in The Double Sculls Challenge Cup. Their first race will be against J.R. Thomas and T. Barras from Cardiff University on the Thursday of HRR.
Results from Met and Peterborough Regattas
Ed Parkhouse (shown here racing Vesta Scullers Head 2012- Photo by Big Blade Photography) won Novice 1x at Peterborough Regatta on Sunday 2 June 2013
Women’s Captaincy
Anna-Rosa Gejlsbjerg has been appointed Women’s Captain for Rob Roy Boat Club. Anna-Rosa is a very active member of the Women’s Squad, frequently training and racing in a variety of crews. She has served as Events Secretary for the past couple of years, during which time she expertly organised the club’s two autumn events.
Notts City Regatta & British Rowing Masters Championship
Racing Update
Photo of Charlie Cousins by Peter Reed Look out for the next big event for Team GB rowers, which will be the World Cup at Dorney Lake on 21-23 June. After his stunning 1x win over Alan Campbell on 21 April at GB Senior Trials in Caversham, ex-Robs athlete Charlie Cousins teamed up with Campbell in a […]
Invitation From Everyone Active
Head of the Cam Results 27 April 2013
Rob Roy Boat Club crews racing 2013 Head of the Cam throughout a day of sunshine, rain and hail enjoyed many good results:
Sport Science Research Study- Call for Volunteers
Race News – Round up 10th March 2013
head race season, Robs members have been active across the squads to good effect. Here’s our round up…
News Update from the Weekend of 23/24 Feb
Winter League Update
Results are in for the second leg of Cambridge Winter League and there were some good times put in by Rob Roy Boat Club crews. Congratulations to Stefan Graf, fastest single sculler in the Leg Two race and to Chris Covey, who was fastest single sculler in the Leg One race.
Annual Club Dinner – March 16
Annual General Meeting – February 23th
Win pogies
To celebrate our club’s website relaunch, we have a competition courtesy of Godfrey Sports. Godfreys have offered a pair of navy blue multi-use pogies worth £18 to keep our prize winner’s hands warm this year whether rowing or sculling.
City Bumping Races 2012 – Report
Rob Roy Boat Club had five VIII’s racing the Bumping Races this year. M1 Rowed over every race, remaining position two in Division 1. Matt Castle sends this report: ‘Robs M1 rowed over four days in a row; it was a different scratch crew each night. We didn’t make any ground on Cantabs and whilst […]
Cold Weather Rowing and Sculling
Captained by Leander-based Jock Wishart, the Old Pulteney Row to the Pole six-man crew left Resolution Bay 29 July 2011. They sculled 450 miles across the Arctic Ocean, reaching magnetic North Pole after 28 days in constant daylight. The expedition was organised to highlight effects of climate change on Arctic ice. Air temperature during the […]
2 wins at Norfolk
Check out this happy picture of Stefan with his latest trophy. Matt and Stefan raced Div 1 and Div 3 of Norfolk Long Distance Sculls today and they both came away as winners. Stefan’s wins made him fastest sculler of the day, earning him a nameplate on that great trophy. Both guys raced twice over […]