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 in a day which yielded 13 medals in total. Hazel Wake of City of Oxford Rowing Club won the women’s championship lightweight single before Rob Roy Boat Club claimed the women’s junior 18 doubles title. Sir William Perkins’ School were the winners of the women’s junior 18 pairs title before St George’s College took the open junior 18 coxless fours. Wallingford Rowing Club won the women’s club coxless fours before Globe Rowing Club took the open equivalent in the final race of the day.
Minor medals went to a variety of programmes, including Max Raymond-Barker of Lea Rowing Club, who won bronze in the open club singles. Recently minted Henley Women’s Regatta champion, Catherine Jackson of Worcester Rowing Club, was second in the women’s championship lightweight single before Barn Elms took silver in the women’s junior 18 doubles. Filippi took a pair of bronzes in the open championship lightweight single and open junior 16 doubles (Jack Norton of Bath University and Wallingford Rowing Club, respectively) before Wallingford Rowing Club and the Tideway Scullers School took silver in the open junior 18 coxless fours and open club coxless fours, respectively.
Saturday started with a bang, as Marlow Rowing Club took the women’s junior eight title in a race that Wallingford—also racing in a Filippi—placed third in. We collected silver and bronze in the mixed club coxed fours (University of Birmingham and Grosvenor Rowing Club) before we won another set of bronzes in the women’s club eights via Cambridge University and the open junior 16 singles via Trentham Boat Club’s Lucas Copeland.
A Filippi podium sweep followed in the open junior 18 pairs, as Walton Rowing Club took gold, followed by two St George’s College crews in silver and bronze. We collected a gold in the women’s junior 18 coxless fours via Sir William Perkins’ School and followed this up with two more category wins in the mixed championship eights (Thames Rowing Club) and the open junior 18 eights (Claire’s Court School). We rounded off the day with silver and bronze in the open club eights, riding with the City of Cambridge and Derby Rowing Club.
Sunday began in similarly fast fashion, as gold was achieved in the opening A-final; the University of Birmingham took out the open club doubles ahead of two Nottingham Rowing Club crews. Bronze in the open junior 18 quads with the Tideway Scullers School was followed by gold and bronze in the women’s junior 16 equivalent whilst riding with George Heriot’s School and Wallingford Rowing Club, respectively. Two more golds followed in the women’s junior 18 quads (Sir William Perkins’ School) and the open club/beginner coxed fours (Kingston Rowing Club), the latter of which saw us also claim silver via Dart Totnes Rowing Club. The final medal of the Sunday came in the open championship coxless fours, as Agecroft Rowing Club won bronze.
Monday brought a further three medals to round off our weekend’s haul. Gold was won in the women’s AR3 single via the prodigious talents of Amalia Sangiovanni Vincentelli of Rob Roy Boat Club, who also won the PR3 category at Henley Women’s Regatta a few weeks ago. We also collected gold in the open junior 15 singles with Hugh Hall-Craggs from Tideway Scullers School whilst Henry Crisp of Bedford Rowing Club was back in bronze.
Last weekend’s racing in Nottingham was the clumination of yet another fabulous season of rowing. At Filippi, all eyes will now turn to exploits on the international stage, with many of our shells represented at the U19, U23 and Senior World Rowing Championships in the weeks to come. We look forward to supporting those athletes in their pursuit of glory and congratulate all crews who raced to medals in our shells over the last 9 months here in the UK.
