Location | Walton on Thames, Surrey, |
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Coordinates | 51°23′44″N0°25′01″W / 51.3955°N 0.417°W |
Home water | Reach above Sunbury Lock, River Thames |
Founded | 1927 |
Affiliations | British Rowing boat & composite crew code: WLT |
Website | www |
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Walton Rowing Club is an amateur rowing club, on the River Thames in England. Its large, modern, combined club and boat house is on the Surrey bank of the Thames, facing the Walton Mile straight, at Walton-on-Thames about 400 metres above Sunbury Lock cut. [1] The club organises several rowing events, and members have competed at international level.
The initial establishment of a club and affiliation to the Amateur Rowing Association took place in 1927 with the contribution of members of Thames Rowing Club and Kingston Rowing Club and including active members of Thames Valley Skiff Club and the now defunct Oatlands Rowing Club. The club's first President was Steve Fairbairn. Activities ceased during World War II and in the postwar period much effort was spent on establishing a clubhouse and boat house. This was the forerunner to the present building at the end of Sunbury Lane, 1953 to 2011.
The Club incepted Walton Amateur Regatta, and co-organises its merged-with-Weybridge Regatta successor Walton and Weybridge Regatta. It organises in its own right since 1978 Walton Small Boats Head, a major December event in the rowing calendar.
The club was the first to have competed at National Schools Regatta as a non-school club – this was in 1976. [2]
The most successful Senior international rower who trained almost contemporaneously at the club was Steve Trapmore, who stroked the winning Great Britain men's eight at the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics and won a World Championship title two years later in a GB four. [3] [4] He went on to retire with a back injury in 2003 and become a longstanding Olympic Rowing Programme and head Cambridge University coach. [4] The club has for many decades taught to row and scull many juniors and adults.
After the setting up of the Bisham and Caversham Lakes training centres, and advent of lottery funding, only a very small number of clubs in England see any training from the Great Britain squad members.
Many former members, after Walton Rowing Club experience at national championship level and/or international events, have become part of the Great Britain squads, some having secured a university rowing scholarship or access to the regional elite start programmes. While members or recently re-affiliated, nine men's juniors between 2007 and 2013 were selected for World Juniors, or World U23s. [3]
Year | Winning crew/s |
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1976 | Men 2- [5] |
1977 | Men J16 2x [6] |
1992 | Men J18 1x [7] |
1996 | Men 4x, Men L4x [8] |
1997 | Men L4x [9] |
2003 | Men L1x, Men J14 1x [10] |
2004 | Open J15 1x, Open J14 1x [11] |
2007 | Women J15 4x+ [12] |
2009 | Open J16 4- [9] |
2010 | Open J15 4x+, Open J14 2x [13] |
2011 | Open J18 2x, Open J16 2x, Open J16 4- [9] |
2012 | Women J14 1x, Women J14 4x+ [14] |
2014 | Women J16 2- [15] |
2015 | Open J14 1x [16] |
2017 | Open J16 2- [17] |
2018 | Open J18 4- [18] |
Year | Races won | (for) | notes |
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1971 | Double Sculls Challenge Cup | M 2x | MA & CA Brigden |
1993 | Fawley Challenge Cup | MJ 4x1 | 2 |
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