Auriol Kensington Rowing Club
Image showing the rowing club's blade colours
LocationHammersmith, London, England
Coordinates51°29′22.6″N 0°13′51.6″W / 51.489611°N 0.231000°W / 51.489611; -0.231000 (Auriol Kensington Rowing Club)
Home waterTideway
Founded1981
AffiliationsBritish Rowing
boat code - AKN
Websitewww.akrowing.com
Events
Hammersmith Regatta, Hammersmith Head, Hammersmith Womens and Juniors Head
Notable members
Peter Haining, W.D. "Wally" Kinnear, Graham Hill, Hugh Mackworth-Praed

Auriol Kensington Rowing Club is a rowing club in Hammersmith, west London, England. The club was formed in 1981 by the amalgamation of Auriol Rowing Club which was founded in 1896 and Kensington Rowing Club which was founded in 1872. The clubhouse is on Lower Mall adjacent to Hammersmith Bridge.

Rowing is divided into senior squads for oarsmen and women, a novice group and a masters section for those 27+ not entering Senior (foremost adult) races.

Groups compete throughout the year at events such as the Fours Head, the Women's Eights Head of the River Race, the Head of the River Race, the Veterans Head during the winter and, on a different stretch of river in the summer, Henley Women's Regatta and Henley Royal Regatta. The club and its predecessors have a good record of winners of the Wingfield Sculls. The club also annually enters competitions in the Lea Valley, upstream to Reading, Berkshire, including multi-lane national events at Dorney Lake such as 'the Met' and Wallingford Regattas, manage to send crews to compete in the nearest weekly summer regattas elsewhere and leading oarsmen and women in most years find a competition in which to compete abroad.

Its nationally notable adult winners since 2010 have included trainee Olympic professional athletes and have won race categories including in the Wingfield Sculls, Weybridge Silver Sculls and the 2013 Masters British Championships.[1] It is a mid-ranking London club by high level success. Away from the highest categories of Senior and Junior, its crews tend to achieve alike success to other clubs in London including those on the Putney Embankment; plus some exceptional single scullers.[2]

Honours

Henley Royal Regatta

Year Races won
1910Diamond Challenge Sculls
1911Diamond Challenge Sculls

British champions

Year Winning crew/s
1990Men lightweight 4x[3]
1995Men 2x, Men lightweight 2x
1999Men 2x [4]
2001Men lightweight 1x [5]
2004Women lightweight 2- [6]
2005Women lightweight 1x [7]
2006Women 2x, Women lightweight 2x, Women U23 2x[8]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Masters Championships Archived March 4, 2014, at archive.today 2013 Results. Retrieved 2014-03-03
  2. ↑ Rowing and Regatta Magazine January - December Issues 2013, British Rowing.
  3. ↑ "Rosewell, Mike. "Duckings and diving are not permitted." Times, 21 July 1990, p. 32". Times Digital Archives.
  4. ↑ ""For the Record." Times, 19 July 1999, p. 40". Times Digital Archives.
  5. ↑ ""The Daily results service." Times, 23 July 2001, p. 10". Times Digital Archives.
  6. ↑ ""The Results Service." Times, 19 July 2004, p. 28". Times Digital Archives.
  7. ↑ ""Nautilus cruise." Times, 18 July 2005, p. 53". Times Digital Archives.
  8. ↑ ""Rowing." Times, 17 July 2006, p. 57". Times Digital Archives.
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