Filippi enjoyed a successful weekend at the 2024 British Rowing Junior & Senior Club Championships, collecting 24 medals during four flat-out days of racing. This included nine golds across various events.
Friday opened the event and Filippi shells collected six medals, starting with a silver for Bath University in the open championship lightweight single. Immediately afterwards, Nottinghamshire County Rowing Association picked up overall victory in the women’s equivalent, defeating scullers from Surrey and Derby in the process.
We won another gold in the open club singles, with Lea Rowing Club taking the victory ahead of Hereford and Nottinghamshire County Rowing Association. A silver in the open junior 18 single followed, thanks to George Watsons College, before we took both silver and bronze in the women’s junior 18 double, as Trentham and Lea Rowing Clubs finished second and third respectively.
Saturday was our most successful day, as we collected 12 medals, including the gold in the first final of the day; Thames Rowing Club ‘A’, fresh from their double wins in the Thames and Wargrave Challenge Cups, secured the mixed championship eight title. Following that race, we took bronze in the open club eights with Dart Totnes before taking gold and silver in the women’s club eights, as Cambridge University swept home to take the top-two podium positions in Filippi shells.
Marlow Rowing Club rounded off a wonderful season to win gold in the women’s junior 18 quad category, in a race that also saw Filippi-bearing Lea Rowing Club win bronze. In the open junior 18 eights, Claires Court School won a fantastic silver before Wallingford Rowing Club took the girl’s title in style, leading a pack that also contained Marlow Rowing Club in bronze, who raced a Filippi. Another gold was bagged in the open junior 18 doubles, as Lea Rowing Club continued their richly-rewarding weekend of racing to triumph.
Rounding off the Saturday for Filippi were a pair of silver medals, collected in the open junior 16 singles (George Watsons College) and open junior 16 quads (Kingston Rowing Club).
Sunday brought four Filippi medals, starting with a silver in the women’s championship coxless four via an accomplished outfit from Cambridge University. Bronze was secured in the open club coxed fours when riding with Auriol Kensington before our solitary gold of the day was won in the open AR1/2 singles thanks to Stratford-upon-Avon. The final medal came in the women’s junior 14 singles, as Bewl Bridge took bronze.
Two medals on the Monday closed out Filippi’s weekend of rowing; the University of London won bronze in the women’s beginner double before City of Bristol took gold in the final race of the day (the women’s junior 15 coxed quads) in a Filippi.
With the domestic season drawing to a close, we’re excited to turn our attention to the Paris Olympic Games and watch Filippi athletes from all over the world take to the water in pursuit of ultimate rowing glory.
