Photo: Grant Craies leading the crew from the boat park. Photo Credit: Melanie Lo The famous Auckland schools regatta, Head of the Harbour, has started adding Masters events to the schedule.  Run on Saturday 7th February there were strong entries in the Masters single sculls event with West End's Amanda Badger winning and Brittany Smith coming second. Honourable mention to the lone Cambridge Sculler. Jen Muller making the journey north.   The masters Doubles event was also wo

A small regional rowing regatta in New Zealand has sparked an unexpected debate about what happens when elite athletes compete alongside weekend warriors.   The Blue Lake Regatta, known for its relaxed atmosphere and community feel, recently hosted Olympic gold medallist Emma Twigg and fellow elite rowers Finn Hamill, Matt Dunham, and Michael Brake competing in a range of events including mixed masters eight, quad and double. Their participation drew an angry response from on

The team ready for action Spring weather in Rotorua Roll up, Roll up Cambridge RC novice four Cambridge RC novice four using their winners glasses Alice Beban, Hawkes Bay RC won 1x Alana Hawke, BOPC raced 1x Rose Lampen-Smith, Inge Morton, Claire Russell, Lorraine Anderson from St Georges RC North Shore masters RC winning 8 Jill Edwards and Alana Hawke, BOPC won new masters 2x

Masters rowers, we are just over a month away from 2025 NZ Masters Rowing Champs in Twizel!! This year, your registration to enter is different. Rowing Connect is the new individual registration system for Rowing New Zealand. This means everyone participating in rowing this season will need to self-register. NZ Masters Champs entries open 11th September and […]

We have a giant list of trophies which were won (see document at the end of the article). And a correspondingly giant photo gallery of winners. Full 1k/500m regatta results list. Full Long distance 5k results list. Grateful thanks to Adie Pederson and Mike Harrison for taking the photos. Trophies Presented Singles 16 – Masters Para single […]

A survey was circulated after the New Zealand Masters Championships Regatta in September 2024. The results are summarised below.

Thanks to everyone who filled in the survey after the North Island Masters championships. High level findings

Mahe Drysdale recruited his children to assist with prizegiving.

CAVE CUP (Memorial) Open Mixed Four DAVE BLACKIE HANDLES Oldest Winning Double (Men) DAVE BLACKIE HANDLES Oldest Winning Double (Women) CORPORATE TROPHY Men’s Coxed Four (Recreational / New Novices) CORPORATE TROPHY Women’s Coxed Four (Recreational / New Novices) SCHOOL PARENTS TROPHY Winning Eight or Coxed Four (depending on entries) CORPORATE TROPHY Mixed Eight (50% men, […]

The 62nd Legion of Southland regatta was held in good conditions on the Oreti River – a light breeze came up late in the programme -not that that had any effect on the condition. It was only a small regatta 70 rowers competing. We do have some issues at low tide these days with a build up of Sand […]

Gathered under African Skies, Athletes, Officials, Volunteers, and Support Staff from around the world, joined with the Local Organizers and workers for what has been an amazing event on Roodeplaat Dam. The experience was almost lost when a freak wind and lighting storm hit the venue in the evening a day before the event. We […]

Conrad Blind – Picture Show took these lovely images.

For years, rowing events have relied on the old fashioned way of timing races: by using stop-watches, doing “maths”, and then facing several hours of waiting while the results are finalised. This is immensely frustrating! Moreover, spectators are often heard asking “have they started yet?”, only seeing their crew for a few minutes on the […]

Business House rowing has been reignited in Auckland with organisations being able to compete for the Thomson Memorial Cup. This Cup was competed for annually from 1938 through to 1996. The structure of the event has been adapted from Invercargill Rowing Club. The team will compete in an erg competition on Friday 31 March 2023 […]

The Cup was donated by Mrs Thompson, wife of John Thompson who was a former Club Captain of St Georges in 1898/99. The Cup was donated in 1937 and St Georges Rowing Club executive decided that the Gold cup be competed for annually as an inter-business house rowing championship. The executive resolved “To work in […]

The Legion of Rowers committee is pleased to announce a change to the classification for novice masters rowers. For the 2023 season and the Legion of Rowers Regatta in May 2023 the new classification is Novice Masters Event Classification – A Rower who is eligible for Novice Masters events is a Masters rower who has […]

Getting ready to race takes a lot of practice. Fortunately come head racing season there are a lot of different events where you can practice and improve. As masters we enjoy the challenge of long distance rowing races and accept that we need to plan our training and practice before expecting to be successful racing, […]

The DeLong Brief: The World Master Rowing Championships in 2022, in Libourne, France, was once again, a FAMILY AFFAIR (+ good UK buddy Liz)! Our first FAMILY AFFAIR (+ good UK buddy Liz) was at the World Masters Champs in Hungary in 2019. (Not much has changed, eh?). Libourne, France ‘put on a great […]

South Island Masters regatta hits Dunedin over the long weekend Jan Brosnahan Queen’s Birthday weekend saw the arrival in Dunedin of 220 masters rowers and supporters, mainly from the South Island but some from the North. The South Island Masters Regatta has run for two decades and always at Queen’s Birthday weekend. The first regatta […]

The World Rowing Masters Regatta 2023 has been awarded to South Africa and will take place 21-24 September at Roodeplaat Dam in Tshwane (previously Pretoria). Our vision is to deliver a world-class regatta that is profoundly African and leaves a legacy for South African rowing and the local community. Start planning your trip today, and […]