Scullers Head of the River Race

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Scullers Head of the River Race
FrequencyAnnual
Location(s) Championship Course, River Thames in London, England
Years active1954-Present
Previous event7 December 2019
Next eventNovember/December 2020
Participants500 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.

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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 1990

Men

DateWinnerClubTime
1990Rory HendersonLeander22:51
1991Steven RedgraveMarlow21:32
1992Guy PooleyLeander20:56
1993Peter HainingAuriol Kensington23:13
1994Peter HainingAuriol Kensington19:53
1995Niall O'TooleCommercial RC, Dublin21:16
1996Peter HainingAuriol Kensington21:49
1997Martin KettleQueens Tower20:31
1998Greg SearleMolesey21:18
1999Giles MonnickendamNotts County21:29
2000Rod ChisholmTideway Scullers
2001 Guy Pooley Leander Leander Club Rowing Blade.svg 20:03.94
2003cancelled due to exceptional weather conditions
2004 Mark Hunter Leander Leander Club Rowing Blade.svg 21:22.13
2005Tom Gale Tideway Scullers Tideway Scullers School Rowing Blade.svg 22:05.18
2006 Mahé Drysdale Tideway Scullers Tideway Scullers School Rowing Blade.svg 19:55.26
2007 George Whittaker Imperial College BC Imperial College Boat Club Rowing Blade.svg 20:58.76
2008 Alan Campbell Tideway Scullers Tideway Scullers School Rowing Blade.svg 20:30.57
2009Jamie KirkwoodImperial College BC Imperial College Boat Club Rowing Blade.svg 20:55.38
2010Stephen Feeney [3] London RC London Rowing Club Rowing Blade.svg 21:31.20
2011Adam Freeman-Pask Imperial College BC Imperial College Boat Club Rowing Blade.svg 21:09.02
2012 Alan Campbell Tideway Scullers Tideway Scullers School Rowing Blade.svg 20:43.32
2013Sigmund Verstraete Walton RC Walton Rowing Club Rowing Blade.svg 21:06.99
2014Jamie Copus Oxford Brookes University BC 21:03.55
2015cancelled due to exceptional weather conditions

Women

DateWinnerClubTime
Results missing
2009 Hester Goodsell [4] Reading University BC Reading University Boat Club Rowing Blade.svg 22:21.92
2010 Beth Rodford [5] Gloucester RC Gloucester Rowing Club Rowing Blade.gif 22:54.06
2011 Imogen Walsh London RC London Rowing Club Rowing Blade.svg 22:35.9
2012 Georgina Phillips Imperial College BC Imperial College Boat Club Rowing Blade.svg 22:40.24
2013 Lou Reeve Leander Club Leander Club Rowing Blade.svg 22:14:41 [6]
2014Brianna Stubbs Wallingford RC 22:41.31
2015cancelled due to exceptional weather conditions

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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. "Stephen Feeney | British Rowing". Archived from the original on 23 March 2010. Retrieved 10 May 2011.
  4. "Scullers' Head".
  5. "Scullers' Head".
  6. Scullers Head 2013 Results (pdf) Vesta Rowing Club. Retrieved 2014-17-11.