Filippi Focus | Junior Fours Head 2025
In its first-ever staging, the Junior Fours Head got off to a spectacular start, welcoming hundreds of young athletes to the Tideway on the world-famous championship course. In the light of so much cancellation over the last few years, it was a pleasure to see so many athletes make their way down towards Putney embankment […]
Filippi Focus | GBRT Senior + U23 November Trials 2025
Image Credit: AllMarkOne Filippi kick-started the 2025/26 GB trialling season in excellent form, securing several high-ranking finishes. We were the most popular boat brand at the November edition of the trials (almost one in three shells were Filippi), and 40% of top ten placements in men’s and women’s sculling were achieved in Filippi shells. On […]
Filippi Focus | Wingfield Sculls 2025
A stormy Sunday afternoon set the stage for a dramatic return of the Wingfield Sculls, a unique invitational event in which six of the UK’s top scullers go head-to-head over the Championship Course. Last Sunday, champion Callum Dixon lined up against five rivals in the shadows of Putney Bridge as he sought to retain his […]
Silver Linings: Filippi Family Becky Wilde’s 2025 season
Image Credit: Benedict Tufnell / Ed Evans When reflecting on the 2025 season, it can only be viewed as the beginning of a new chapter. A new and different chapter to those that have gone before. A few months ago, I wrote: “My Olympic year can only be compared to a rollercoaster. This season has […]
Filippi Focus | Vesta Scullers Head 2025
Filippi started the 2025/26 season in the best possible fashion by emerging as the most successful boatbuilder at the 2025 edition of the Vesta Sculler’s Head of the River. Filippi shells took 45% of the wins, taking victories in 17 categories and placing 45 athletes into top-three positions. Max Raymond-Barker of Lea Rowing Club finished […]
Wallingford Rowing Club | Turning The Tide
Club rowing at a junior level in the UK is struggling. The talent pool that was once widely and equitably spread seems to be consolidating rapidly into the cohorts of the largest and most successful schools. Clubs, who have always traditionally had issues generating funding, finding coaches and attracting talent, are now faced with the […]
Filippi UK Partnering with inaugural Junior Fours Head
Filippi UK is delighted to partner with the inaugural Junior Fours Head to promote and enhance the junior rowing calendar in the UK. The Junior Fours Head launches in November 025 and will take place on the Championship Course, from Mortlake to Putney. It aims to allow junior rowers to experience racing on the Tideway after several years […]
Paris 2024: Reflections One Year On
This article was written by Becky Wilde. One year since Paris 2024. One year, but it could be ten. It truly feels like a lifetime ago. There have been many articles, interviews, and podcasts, but a year later, in my own words, this is a reflection on achieving the medal many thought was impossible. The […]
Filippi Focus | British Rowing Club Championships 2025
Filippi rounded off the UK season in impressive fashion, securing 41 medals at the 2025 British Rowing Club Championships across four action-packed days of racing. 16 winners crossed the line in Filippi shells, with ten silvers and 15 bronzes also handed out to Filippi participants. Six of our golds came on the Friday of racing […]
Filippi Focus | Henley Royal Regatta 2025
Filippi enjoyed a sensational Henley Royal Regatta 2025, recording 11 wins across 27 Trophies and emerging as one of the most decorated boatbuilders across the course of the week. With temperatures soaring in the early stages of racing before Finals Day was greeted with storms rolling in from the East, the Regatta’s racing reflected the […]