Scullers Head of the River Race

Scullers Head of the River Race
Frequency Annual
Location(s) Championship Course, River Thames in London, England
Years active 1954-Present
Previous event 16 November 2013
Next event 29 November 2014
Participants 500 crews
Website
www.vestarowing.co.uk/vesta-scullers-head

The Scullers Head of the River Race is a rowing race held annually on the River Thames Championship Course from Mortlake to Putney, open to single scullers only. The race is held in November or early December each year on a week usually to suit the mid-morning or mid-afternoon timing of the ebb tide.

History

The Scullers Head was first raced in 1954 when it was won by John Marsden.[1] It now admits entries of over 500 scullers[2] and is the largest sculling race in the UK for a single class of racing shell. The race gains enough entries to organise the greatest number of marshalls for any singles event on the Thames and it draws considerably more overseas single scullers than the same race held in reverse usually three to four weeks before, the Wingfield Sculls, which dates to the middle of the 19th century.

In 2014 were the first admissions of categories for adaptive rowing for athletes with disabilities, in TA and LTA adaptive rowing classifications.[2]

Annual organisation

The race is organised by Vesta Rowing Club, Putney, London.

Results since 2001

Men

Date Winner Club Time
2001 Guy Pooley Leander 20:03.94
2003 cancelled due to exceptional weather conditions
2004 Mark HunterLeander 21:22.13
2005 Tom GaleTideway Scullers 22:05.18
2006 Mahé DrysdaleTideway Scullers 19:55.26
2007 George Whittaker Imperial College BC 20:58.76
2008 Alan CampbellTideway Scullers 20:30.57
2009 Jamie KirkwoodImperial College BC 20:55.38
2010 Stephen Feeney[3] London RC 21:31.20
2011 Adam Freeman-PaskImperial College BC 21:09.02
2012 Alan CampbellTideway Scullers 20:43.32
2013 Sigmund VerstraeteWalton RC 21:06.99
2014 Jamie CopusOxford Brookes University BC 21:03.55

Women

Date Winner Club Time
Results missing
2009 Hester Goodsell[4]Reading University BC 22:21.92
2010 Beth Rodford[5] Gloucester RC 22:54.06
2011 Imogen WalshLondon RC 22:35.9
2012 Georgina PhillipsImperial College BC 22:40.24
2013 Lou ReeveLeander Club 22:14:41[6]
2014 Brianna StubbsWallingford RC22:41.31

See also

References

  1. Daily Telegraph Obituary John Marsden 5 March 2004
  2. 1 2 Main page noting new facts and full capacity of 550 entries has been reached in 2014. Retrieved 17 November 2014.
  3. http://www.britishrowing.org/gb/biographies/stephen-feeney
  4. http://www.vestarowing.co.uk/vesta-scullers-head/vesta-scullers-head-2009-results/
  5. http://www.vestarowing.co.uk/vesta-scullers-head/vesta-scullers-head-results-2010/
  6. Scullers Head 2013 Results (pdf) Vesta Rowing Club. Retrieved 2014-17-11.


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