On a blistering hot weekend at Holme Pierrepont, the junior season came to an unofficial end with the staging of the British Rowing Junior Championships. Team WinTech had one of our most successful events ever, collecting 15 wins alongside 12 silvers and 12 bronzes. Our victory count was by far and away the highest of any boat-builder and reiterated our status as the UK’s leading provider of high-quality racing fleet.

Our first win came courtesy of the Windsor Boys School in the J15 Boys Single (in a race where a WinTech athlete from Newark claimed the silver).

Mark Wilkinson’s program won six events across the weekend and five of those golds were in WinTech boats. Other wins included Junior 14 and 15 Boys Coxed Quads, Junior 18 Boys Doubles, Junior 16 Boys Quads and Junior 18 Boys Quads. This rounded off a sensational season for the Windsor Boys School, who won every single Championship Sculling event at the National Schools’ Regatta (all in WinTechs) before claiming both spots in the Fawley Challenge Cup final (again, in two WinTechs).

We claimed four golds in total on the Friday – two for the aforementioned Windsor Boys and one each for Shanklin Sandown Rowing Club and Marlow Rowing Club. Shanklin were winners of the Junior 14 Boys Doubles (in a final which also included a bronze medal-winning Windsor Boys crew) whilst Marlow claimed gold in the Junior 15 Girl’s Coxed Quads (completing the sweep in this category for WinTech).

Our Sunday got off to the best possible start as Shanklin Sandown Rowing Club claimed their second win of the weekend in the Junior 16 Girl’s Single in the first ‘A’ final of the day. We also picked up the silver medal in this category via Henley Rowing Club.

Race 311 saw Nottingham County Rowing Association – under the impressive stewardship of Declan Gamble – triumph in the Junior 18 Boy’s Single. Read more about that program via our club spotlight series.

After a 45-minute pause, the gold rush restarted in earnest. From Race 318 until the end of the day, WinTech were responsible for nine of the remaining 14 gold medals on offer. Winners included Marlow Rowing Club in the Junior 16 Girl’s Double, Newark Rowing Club in the Junior 16 Men’s Double, Claires Court in the Junior 18 Girl’s Double (freshly minted from their historic win in the Diamond Jubilee Challenge Cup), NCRA in the Junior 18 Girl’s Pair, Great Marlow School Boat Club in the Junior 18 Boy’s Pair and Hereford Rowing Club in the Junior 18 Boy’s Coxless Four.

Our spread of clubs was another hugely rewarding theme throughout the weekend; a full breakdown of all medals won in WinTech Racing boats can be seen below:

Event	Club	Medal
O J15 1x	The Windsor Boys’ School	Gold
O J14 2x	Shanklin Sandown RC	Gold
W J15 4x+	Marlow RC	Gold
O J15 4x+	The Windsor Boys’ School	Gold
WJ16 1x	Shanklin Sandown RC	Gold
OJ18 1x	Notts County RA	Gold
WJ16 2x	Marlow RC	Gold
OJ16 2x	Newark RC	Gold
WJ18 2x	Claires Court School	Gold
OJ18 2x	The Windsor Boys’ School	Gold
WJ18 2-	Notts County RA	Gold
OJ18 2-	Great Marlow School	Gold
OJ16 4x	The Windsor Boys’ School	Gold
OJ18 4x-	The Windsor Boys’ School	Gold
OJ18 4-	Hereford RC	Gold
W J14 1x	Wallingford RC	Silver
O J14 1x	Wycliffe Junior RC	Silver
O J15 1x	Newark RC	Silver
O J15 2x	Tideway Scullers School	Silver
O J14 4x+	Guildford RC	Silver
WJ16 1x	Henley RC	Silver
OJ16 2-	Tideway Scullers School	Silver
WJ16 2x	Sir William Perkins School	Silver
OJ16 2x	Bristol	Silver
OJ18 2x	Nottingham & Union RC	Silver
OJ16 4+	Claires Court School	Silver
WJ18 2-	Newark RC	Silver
W J14 2x	Gloucester RC	Bronze
O J14 2x	The Windsor Boys’ School	Bronze
W J15 2x	Wallingford RC	Bronze
O J14 4x+	Hinksey Sculling School	Bronze
WJ16 2-	Calpe RC	Bronze
OJ16 2-	Notts County RA	Bronze
OJ16 2x	The Windsor Boys’ School	Bronze
WJ16 4+	Sir William Perkins School	Bronze
OJ16 4+	Great Marlow School	Bronze
WJ18 2-	Hinksey Sculling School	Bronze
OJ18 2-	Llandaff RC	Bronze
OJ16 4x	Lea RC	Bronze

Team WinTech have enjoyed an incredible season of racing, which has felt especially significant after nearly two years away from the conventional schedule. A 39-medal haul from the British Rowing Junior Championships felt like a suitably satisfying way to end the year, in an event that gave us ample opportunity to meet with so many clubs and schools and discuss their season and how we can set them up for even brighter success in 2023.

Enjoy your summers and we will see you next year!

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