Paignton do West proud in South Coast championships

The regatta attracted 134 entries from the three Rowing Associations, Coast (Kent and Sussex), Hants & Dorset and the West of England (Devon, Cornwall and Somerset). This necessitated 30 highly competitive races. Conditions were challenging at times particularly during a spell when the wind was against tide and later when crews rowed against wind and tide.

Paignton Rowing Club played a major part in the representation of the West of England ARA producing some truly inspiring results.

In the Championship Men’s Junior/Senior coxed fours the crew of Ethan Frost, Rob Harris, Mike Lister and Yuri Allasia rowed to a credible fourth place. In the Championship Men’s Junior coxed fours the crew of Sam Brueton, Nick Brown, Ethan Frost and Yuri Allasia challenged the two leading crews down the course and finished a comfortable third.

In the Championship Ladies Junior coxed fours the crew of Isla Unwin, Freya Martin, Erin Mooney and Eva Birchell took sixth place but their previous race at Girls Under 16 coxed quadruple sculls had drained them.

In the Open Men’s Novice coxed fours the crew of Marcus Green, Sam Brueton, Hugo Dossett, Josh Bradley and cox, Eva Birchell, finished fourth with a strong push for third all the way to the course.

The club achieved two magnificent results in the Junior events with Marcus Green, Sam Brueton, Hugo Dossett, Josh Bradley and cox, Erin Mooney, finishing second on the stern of the winners and Freya Martin, Isla Unwin, Eva Birchell, Erin Mooney and cox, James Tookey, finishing second in a close race.

South Coast Rowing Championship results:

Championship events:

Men’s Senior coxed fours 1 Itchen Imperial 2 Herne Bay 3 Deal

Ladies Senior coxed fours 1 Deal 2 Southampton Coalporters 3 Shoreham

Men’s Junior/Senior coxed fours 1 Southampton Coalporters 2 Southampton 3 Shoreham

Men’s Junior coxed fours 1 Southampton 2 Ryde 3 Paignton

Ladies Junior coxed fours 1 Southsea 2 Southampton Coalporters 3 Lymington

Masters coxed fours 1 Lymington 2 Shoreham 3 BTC Southampton

Open events:

Men’s Senior coxed fours 1 Christchurch 2 BTC Southampton 3 Bexhill

Ladies Senior coxed fours 1 Southsea 2 Worthing 3 Herne Bay

Men’s Junior/Senior coxed fours 1 Dover 2 Herne Bay 3 Ryde

Men’s Junior coxed fours 1 Folkestone 2 Southampton Coalporters 3 Bexhill

Ladies Junior coxed fours 1 Bexhill 2 Lymington 3 Christchurch

Men’s Novice coxed fours 1 Southampton 2 Eastbourne 3 BTC Southampton

Ladies Novice coxed fours 1 Dover 2 Eastbourne 3 Southsea

Men’s Masters 40 coxed fours 1 Deal 2 Poole 3 Eastbourne

Man’s Masters 50 coxed fours 1 Christchurch 2 Poole/Lymington 3 Southampton

Ladies Masters coxed fours 1 Herne Bay 2 BTC Southampton 3 Folkestone

Junior events:

Boys Under 16 coxed quadruple sculls 1 Shanklin & Sandown 2 Paignton 3 Southampton

Girls Under 16 coxed quadruple sculls 1 Southampton Coalporters 2 Paignton 3 Poole

Boys Under 14 coxed quadruple sculls 1 Shoreham 2 Dover 3 Herne Bay

Girls Under 14 coxed quadruple sculls 1 Shanklin & Sandown 2 Ryde/Bexhill 3 Shoreham