British Rowing Championships

The British Rowing Championships takes place every year. The event is held at the National Water Sports Centre, Holme Pierrepont (Nottingham) with occasional championships held at the Strathclyde Country Park. It is a major event for club rowers and some schools also participate, however, because its position in the British Rowing calendar means that it is held when most public schools have ended their year, some of those schools choose not to compete. Events are held for open, women, open junior, women's junior, under 23, lightweight, adaptive and coastal boats.

Each crew member of the first, second and third placed crews in each event receive gold, silver and bronze medals respectively. The club champion in each event (i.e. the highest placed non-composite crew) also receives a wooden club champions plaque to display in their clubhouse.

The Championships were inaugurated in 1972 and held at the National Watersports Centre in Nottingham, which had only been built the previous year.[1][2][3]

In 2010 the Regatta adopted the title British Rowing Championships to reflect the change in name of the Amateur Rowing Association to British Rowing. The logo and branding now reflects that of British Rowing. The 40th anniversary of the Championships was celebrated in 2012. Although it has been the practice for the Championships to be held in Scotland at the Strathclyde Country Park every fourth year, the 2014 Championships was held in Nottingham. This was because Scotland hosted the 2014 Commonwealth Rowing Championships at Strathclyde Country Park. Since 2016 the Championships have only been held in Nottingham.

Future of the Championships

A decision was taken in 2012 that in order to raise the standard of senior competition, the senior events from the Championships would be moved to autumn from 2013.[4] The junior events continue to be held on the July dates. However the 2020 Senior Championships were cancelled to review the dates and format following the lack of entries for the 2019 Championships.

Dates and locations of Championships

Senior and Junior combined
Year Number Dates Location Notes
1972122–23 July 1972NottinghamInaugural Championships[3]
1973221–22 July 1973Nottingham
1974320–21 July 1974NottinghamRecord entry of 330 crews.[5]
1975419–20 July 1975Nottingham
1976516–18 July 1976NottinghamEntry affected by Olympic year.[6]
1977615–17 July 1977Nottingham
1978714–16 July 1978NottinghamRecord entry of 428 crews.[7][8]
1979820–21 July 1979Nottingham
1980918–20 July 1980NottinghamEntry affected by Olympic year.[9]
19811017–19 July 1981Nottingham
19821117–18 July 1982Nottingham
19831216–17 July 1983Nottingham
19841314–15 July 1984NottinghamEntry affected by Olympic year.[10]
19851420–21 July 1985NottinghamRecord entry of 517 crews.
19861518–20 July 1986NottinghamEntry affected by Commonwealth Games year.[11]
19871617–19 July 1987Nottingham
19881715–17 July 1988NottinghamRecord entry of 561 crews.[12]
19891814–16 July 1989StrathclydeFirst Championships away from Nottingham.[13]
19901920–22 July 1990NottinghamRecord entry of 653 crews.[14]
19912019–21 July 1991Nottingham
19922117–19 July 1992Nottingham
19932216–18 July 1993Strathclyde
19942315–17 July 1994Nottingham
19952414–16 July 1995NottinghamRecord entry of 741 crews.[15]
19962519–21 July 1996Nottingham
19972618–20 July 1997Nottingham
19982717–19 July 1998Strathclyde
19992816–18 July 1999Nottingham
20002914–16 July 2000Nottingham
20013020–22 July 2001Nottingham
20023119–21 July 2002Nottingham
20033218–20 July 2003Strathclyde
20043316–18 July 2004Nottingham
20053415–17 July 2005Nottingham
20063514–16 July 2006Strathclyde
20073620–22 July 2007Nottingham
20083718–20 July 2008Nottingham
20093817–19 July 2009Nottingham
20103916–18 July 2010Strathclyde
20114015–17 July 2011Nottingham
20124113–15 July 2012Nottingham

Senior Championships
Year Number Dates Location Notes
20134219–20 October 2013Nottingham
20144318-19 October 2014Nottingham
20154417-18 October 2015Nottingham
20164522-23 October 2016Nottingham[16]
20174621-22 October 2017Nottinghamcancelled; weather
20184720-21 October 2018Nottingham
20194815-16 June 2019Nottingham[17]cancelled; insufficient entries[18]
2020-Not heldn/ain order to give more time to review future dates and format.[19]

Junior Championships
Year Number Dates Location Notes
20134220–21 July 2013Nottingham
20144319-20 July 2014Nottingham
20154418-19 July 2015Strathclyde
20164515-17 July 2016Nottingham[20]
20174614-16 July 2017Nottingham[21]
20184719-21 July 2018Nottingham[22]
20194819-21 July 2019Nottingham[17]
20204917-19 July 2020NottinghamCancelled due to Coronavirus disease 2019[23]

References
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  6. "By a Special Correspondent. "British championships carry on regardless." Times, 17 July 1976, p. 17". Times Digital Archives.
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  8. "Railton, Jim. "Rowing." Times, 15 July 1978, p. 21". Times Digital Archives.
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  11. "Railton, Jim. "Leander take Kingston with a late charge." Times, 21 July 1986, p. 28". Times Digital Archives.
  12. "Railton, Jim. "Holmes is not risking his injury." Times, 15 July 1988, p. 34". Times Digital Archives.
  13. "a Special Correspondent. "Top crews do clubs good turn." Times, 13 July 1989, p. 44". Times Digital Archives.
  14. "Rosewell, Mike. "A record entry attracted." Times, 20 July 1990, p. 414". Times Digital Archives.
  15. ""Record national entry." Times, 15 July 1995, p. 34". Times Digital Archives.
  16. "2016 British Rowing Senior Championships" (PDF). British Rowing.
  17. "2019 British Rowing Championships series". British Rowing.
  18. "Announcement on the British Rowing Senior Championships 2019". British Rowing. 10 June 2019. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
  19. "Statement on British Rowing Senior Championships". British Rowing.
  20. "Henley Rowing Club triumph at the British Rowing Junior Championships". British Rowing.
  21. "Rowers delight at the 2017 British Rowing Junior Championships". British Rowing.
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  23. "British Rowing Junior Championships National Water Sports Centre, Nottingham has been cancelled due to coronavirus (COVID-19)". British Rowing.
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