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Winning Weekend

June brought some great results for X-Press rowers.

Star Race

On Saturday the 13th June One Four All beat Kent University at Bedford Star Regatta, in the final of the novice coxed fours, after curtailing Kent's endeavours to hold the lead for the first third of the race. The conditions were fabulous and Star very welcoming in a relaxed and well organised event.

Star Pose

Coxed by Roy Cooper; S Rachel Anderson; 3 Emily Rodgers; 2 Maria O'Callaghan; 1 Sarah Cooper.

XP2 at the FinishAnd on Sunday, XP2 won gold medals in the Novice Vet C 8+ category at the ARA National Vets regatta in Nottingham.

The crew were certainly helped by an automatic bye into the 4-crew final… and then by one of the other crews not turning up, but they still powered away from (their nemesis CRA crew to that date) Champs RC, and Tees RC right from the start to win by three quarters of a length.

Two years ago the core of this crew formed Scrambled X, and their previous high was rowing over in the Town Bumps that year, second from bottom of the river, narrowly holding off a 'charging' Vet G crew on the Reach.  Since then the combination of Allan Fowlie's organising and John Dent's coaching has worked absolute wonders. Thank you to them, to super-calm cox Alex for an arrow-straight line, to Adrian Cooke for coaching on the day and to Roy and Joe for subbing in and for bringing a bit of class to proceedings.

Posing

Cox Alex Booth; S Roy Cooper; 7 Jeremy Proctor; 6 Roger Thornton; 5 Allan Fowlie; 4 Andrew Miers; 3 Marcus Taylor; 2 David Traynor; B Joe Oldak.

Sue Brown brought back a stack of medals from the National Vets too, as she is prone to do! In her own words:

  • Gold WC1x - nice to have nailed that one again.
  • Gold WC8 - great race against our arch rivals, UK gold.
  • Gold WC4X - gutsy row at end of long day's racing.
  • Silver WC2X - first race for this combination... watch this space!
Last Updated on Sunday, 21 June 2009 22:15
 

2009 X-Press Head Results

Thanks to all those who came and we hope you had an enjoyable row. Here are the results.

X-PRESS HEAD RACE - 15TH JUNE 2009 - RESULTS
Race No. Club M/W Crew Name Time Winner
431 City of Cambridge RC Men IM3 4+ Bootleggers 10:06 Fastest Mens' 4+
423 Champion of the Thames Men J8 Christie 10:06 Fastest Mens' 8
404 Hornets Men Vet E 8 Knights 10:10 Fastest Mens' Vet 8 (E/F)
422 Champion of the Thames Men Nov 8 Doggett 10:10 Fastest Mens' Novice 8
416 City of Cambridge RC Men Nov 8 Uranus 10:11  
401 Cambridge Veterans Women Vet B 8 COWs 10:14 Fastest Womens' 8
439 X-Press Men IM3 4+ Oldak 10:18  
409 City of Cambridge RC Women IM3 8 CCRC W2 10:19 Fastest Womens' IM3 8
420 Chesterton Men Nov 8 Connolley 10:21  
403 Champion of the Thames Men Vet C 8 Howlett 10:22 Fastest Mens' Vet 8 (B/C)
412 Cantabs Women IM3 8 Fitzgerald 10:35  
407 Cantabs Men IM3 8 Roddis 10:37  
410 Champion of the Thames Women IM3 8 Holt 10:42  
421 Cambridge '99 RC Men Nov 8   10:48  
419 St Radegund Men Nov 8 M2 10:50  
428 Cantabs Men IM3 4+   10:52  
438 Rob Roy Men Vet C 2- Shepherd/Watson 10:53  
430 City of Cambridge RC Men IM3 1X Mightyben 11:03 Fastest Mens' Sculler
411 X-Press Women IM3 8 King 11:10  
405 Champion of the Thames Men Vet E 8 Munby 11:21  
406 Cantabs Men Vet E 8 InVeterAte 11:23  
402 Cantabs Men Vet C 8 Hunter 11:26  
417 City of Cambridge RC Men IM3 8 Mars 11:28  
408 City of Cambridge RC Women IM3 8 Janet 11:41  
435 Champion of the Thames Men J14 2X Baldwin/Haynes 11:55  
437 X-Press Men Vet F 8 Ancient Mariners 11:58  
426 Chesterton Men Nov 8 Holland 12:03  
436 Cantabs Men Nov 1X Tolfts 12:03  
413 Champion of the Thames Women Vet C 8 Perkins 12:17  
429 Isle of Ely RC Men IM3 4+   12:19  
432 City of Cambridge RC Women J14 4X+ Kingfishers 12:24  
424 City of Cambridge RC Women Nov 8 Davina 12:25  
425 Chesterton Women Nov 8 Roberts 12:45  
433 Champion of the Thames Women J14 4X+   12:52  
415 X-Press Women Vet D 8 Free Radicals 12:54  
414 Champion of the Thames Women Vet C 8 Neal 13:24  
434 Isle of Ely RC Men Vet G 1X Littlewood 14:37  

 

Last Updated on Saturday, 20 June 2009 14:02
 

Champs VIIIs Head

Race 1Race 2Allan Fowlie's M2 surprised and delighted him, his crew, the club and pretty much everyone else by winning the IM3 category in the Champs VIIIs Head on 17th May. Here's the happy crew, several with the first silverware they have won for over 20 years!

Their (stroked by Andrew G and admittedly-less-wind-impeded D1) time of 5.16 was 6 seconds faster than XP1 (D2), beat many college crews and was the second fastest town crew on the day. The only disappointment was that John Dent was on holiday and wasn't there to see it - a big thank you John from the whole crew.

Pictured from left to right: Alex Booth, Andrew Goyder, Nathan Wrench, Roger Thornton, Allan Fowlie, Andrew Miers, Marcus Taylor, David Traynor, and Neil Clark.
Last Updated on Monday, 25 May 2009 11:35
 
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