David Biddulph's rowing pages
www.biddulph.org.uk

: 1 - 30 Apr 2025 : Updates to 2025 calendar, to 2026 calendar, to 2025 international calendar, to FISA links, & to notes re British Rowing rules of racing.

Previously updated : 1 - 31 Mar 2025 : Updates to 2025 calendar, to 2026 calendar, to 2025 international calendar, & to notes re British Rowing rules of racing (which change as of 1st April).

1 - 28 Feb 2025 : Updates to 2025 calendar, to 2025 international calendar, to 2026 calendar, to 2027 calendar, to FISA links, to River Thames information page, & to skiff racing pages.
Sad news of the death of Mike Walker.

1 - 31 Jan 2025 : Updates to 2025 calendar, to 2025 international calendar, to 2026 international calendar, to 2027 international calendar, to FISA links, to skiff racing pages, to list of club websites, & to River Thames information page.

1 - 31 Dec 2024 : Updates to 2024 calendar, to 2025 calendar, to 2025 international calendar, to 2026 international calendar, to 2027 international calendar, to FISA links, to list of championship venues for the 2020s, & to unofficial summaries of Junior & Veteran age groups ready for 2025. Notes on DJB's rowing activities updated at the end of my 45 years of umpiring.
Five new Stewards of HRR: Gerritjan Eggenkamp, Cameron Nichol, Grace Prendergast, Elise Sherwell, and Lord Camoys. Congratulations also to the winners of this year's BR awards. And then a list of rowers in the 2025 New Year Honours list.

See also earlier updates to these pages, listed separately.

Garton calendar, for those trying to work out the British Rowing calendar.
List of venues for international championships in the 2020s [] (with links to earlier years)
Olympic links page (not recently updated)

British Rowing rules of racing:

• Unofficial links re British Rowing rules of racing now on a separate page.

Links to websites of:

• Rowing Clubs (UK & Ireland)
• University & College Boat Clubs (UK & Ireland)
• School Boat Clubs (UK & Ireland).
• Also lists of other links to Scottish Rowing, Welsh Rowing, regional councils, national rowing federations, and
  • to various lists of club websites abroad

Links to other Rowing sites :

• The Rowing Service
  • Rachel Quarrell's Rowing news page [no longer updated]
    • News archive
  • ARA Water Safety Code [also link on ARA website]
  • Results from Regatta Online
• British Rowing [website January 2016, so some links below may no longer be working] (previously ARA)
  • BR national news
  • Unofficial links re BR rules of racing
  • Row Safe guidance [formerly the ARA Water Safety Code]
  • Safety alert archive
  • HRSA monthly report archive
  • RoSPA review 2008 (archived copy)
  • British Rowing have issued a reminder of the guidance on reducing the risk of water-borne diseases.
  • Rowing & Regatta
  • ARA Council reports & papers
  • From Div 5 div rep prior to publication on the ARA website
  • More recent minutes on the BR website (but no longer available)
  • BROE (British Rowing Online Entry), formerly Online ARA
  • Umpiring page
  • BR regatta calendar (if you can't find a link to an event, you might also try my calendar)
  • Competition Review:
    • Information on the ARA Competition Review as of June 2008 for further consultation.
      • Changes agreed in principle at September 2008 ARA Council
    • Competition Review in 2013 [link no longer available, but archived version from 2014]
    • BR statement after November 2013 Council meeting
    • Workshops early in 2014
    • Further info November 2014, and onwards to 2016, including FAQ
    • BROE2 help page
    • Detailed information, now available outside members' login):
      • Personal Ranking Index reference handbook (now v3.0)
      • Explanatory notes to Personal Ranking Index system
  • Map of ARA divisions and regions [link no longer available, but archived version from 2007]
  • Guide to Tideway Navigation & Steering [now for PLA changes from 1.5.02] [links no longer available]
  • GB Rowing team
    • GB Rowing team news
    • Team selection
    • Athlete biographies
  • BR meetings calendar for 2014
  • Glossary of rowing terms
• The Rowing Vortal - another source of rowing information, courtesy of The Rowing Service & Supersprint Rowing (may no longer be working)
• row2k.com
  • row2k links page
• rec.sport.rowing newsgroup (for those with newsgroup software)
  • Rowing FAQ [no longer available]
  • Charter for RSR, also at this alternative url, and ftp archive of charter
  • Faces of RSR [ link, but no longer available]
  • RSR statistics
  • Web interfaces to RSR
    • Google (ex-Deja) archive of RSR
    • RSR on 1001annonces
• FISA links and related sites, including:
  • FISA official website
    • FISA news page
  • FISA rules links
• River & Rowing Museum [I can heartily recommend a visit]
  • Museum of the Year 1999
  • Architecture report from "The Times" at the time of the official opening
  • Programme of temporary exhibitions
  • River Thames distance calculator
• Henley Royal Regatta
  • Constitution & Rules ( Jan 2024 version) available for download
  • Results of HRR finals 1839-1939 (no longer available directly, but archived)
  • Results of HRR finals 1946-2009 (no longer available directly, but archived)
  • Now HRR finals only to 2000 [ link]; later results on HRR website
• WWW Virtual Library: Rowing
  • Alternative address and previous address for WWW Virtual Library : Rowing
  • Virtual River Thames (mirror of Lisa Osta's site, but the latter is currently being updated and will hopefully reappear as a working link from the new server at OstaVizn.)
• Thames Strategy (Kew - Chelsea) [no longer available]
• Condition of River Thames [link previously on Thames regional unofficial pages]
• Rowing Safety links from Richard Packer [changed url]
• National Rowing League [operation suspended]
• FAQ: Physics of Rowing [changed url]
• 2004 rowing calendar, supporting The Rowing Foundation
• www.coxless4.com - link for GB 4-, also see links for members of the 4 :
  • Steve Redgrave [www.steveredgrave.com]
    • The Sir Steve Redgrave Charitable Trust
  • Matthew Pinsent [www.matthewpinsent.co.uk or www.matthewpinsent.com]
• OnStream [web facilities for rowing clubs]
  • UK address list
• Go Rowing [website for the rowing traveller]
• Blade colours:
  • Blade colours [link from Blades Galore]
    • also Cambridge, Oxford, & UL blade colours
  • Blade colours [RowingBLADES, hosted by St Stithians College]
  • Blades & links from Roosendaalse RV
  • Blade colours of the River Cam from Queens'
  • Clubs on the Cam from 1st&3rd
  • Blade colours (UK) from Bedford RC
  • Blade colours from OarSpotter.com [replacing rathburn.net]
• Eton College's Dorney Lake course
  • Location map
  • Alternative map courtesy of Met regatta
  • Plans for new bridge
• National Water Sports Centre, Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham
  • Nottinghamshire County Council survey on future of NWSC
  • BBC Report - April 2006
  • Report from ThisisNottingham (Jun 07) on future plans for NWSC
  • NWSC event calendar
  • Lesiure Connection
  • Location map [see also this from streetmap.co.uk]
  • Old url
  • Link from National Sports Centres (but info may be outdated)
  • Results service for NWSC events
• Strathclyde Country Park
  • Watersports Centre
  • Maps:
    • Streetmap
    • Mapquest
• Potential future rowing courses:
  • Bedford Rowing Lake
  • Cambridge Rowing Lake [replacing old url]
  • CamToo project
• Google (web search) rowing directory, including the related:
  • Open Directory: Rowing :
    • ... which in turn includes: Rowing Info & eMagazines
• GoTo.com rowing search
• Keith Ticehurst cartoons
• Languages: links to rowing terms in different languages
• Michael Jones Books
• Mikrotime event timing [+ alternative url]
• Netlinks for rowing, from about.com
• Netscape search index for rowing
• onlinerowing - on-line magazine (but may not work with Netscape)
• Open-Water Rowing - Forum
• A Pathfinder of rowing reference sources
• Phone-Soft Internet directory - Rowing
• Rowing Photos:
  • BigBlade
  • JET Photographic
  • Nature's Images
  • RowPhoto
  • PhotoRow
• Rock The Boat
• Rowers Reunited putting you in touch with your old clubmates
• Rower's World
• Friends of Rowing History
• RowingLinks.com
• Rowing links from British Sports Museums
• More rowing links from The Mother of All Maritime Links
• Rowing.net [database of Championship results 1948 - 1985, + more to be added]
• Rowing search results from www.geometry.net
• Rowing Source
• Rowing pages from The Mining Co.
• RowingTalk.com
• Lists of rowing terms in different languages
• Rowing Wiki (based in Cambridge)
• rowing-x.pert (bibliography) [replacing previous url]
• RowTime results service
• RowTV streaming video
• Sportquest, including rowing links
• Sport Info Central - Rowing
• Sports123 - archive of medallists from Olympics & World Championships
• World & Olympic medallists
• The Coxswain Café [replacing old url]
• theMassive.com [site closed, for now at least]
  • theMassive's news page
  • ... but there is now a new message board at http://www.talkrowing.cjb.net/
  • ... and another new one at http://www.easyforums.co.uk/rowtalk/
• The Trireme Trust (previously on the website of The Kit Stop, holder of the kit franchise for the Nat Champs)
• Tidal predictions
  • Tidal predictions from the UK Hydrographic Office
  • Tide & Current Predictor
    • UK data not currently available because of copyright problems
• Tom Aston's coxing guide
• List of Twitter accounts of British rowing clubs
• UK Rowing address book (equipment suppliers, etc.)
• Veteran Rowing - Handicap system (courtesy of Staines BC)
• Worldrowers.com [database on previous performances of competitors in Olympic crews, & predictions for the races, also at www.WorldRowers.com]
• Ocean Rowing Society - for statistics of ocean rowing and news of recent and upcoming ocean rows, including Atlantic Rowing Race 2011.
  • Among the crews in the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge were:
    • Richard & Helena Smalman-Smith
  • News from the race
• Henk Schrik's international reports [unfortunately no longer available, nor is Henk's farewell notice, but see also his new site and this alternative url.]
  Sadly news has been received of Henk's death.
• University Rowing League [replacing old url & older url]
• Wikipedia article on rowing
• WIRe (Women In Rowing)
  • Olympic WIRe
• Women's Sports Federation
• Women's Eights Head :
  • Further details (1996 onwards)
• The Head of The River Race
  • Official website
  • Previous results which may no longer be available on the HoRR official website:
    • 2003: finish order, in start order, alphabetic, status, + trophies
    • 2002: finish order, in start order, alphabetic, status, + trophies
    • 2001: finish order, in start order, alphabetic, status, + trophies
    • 2000, & in alphabetic order
    • 1999, & in alphabetic order, + split times
    • 1998, & in alphabetic order, in start order, + splits
    • 1997, & in alphabetic order
  • Intermediate times & statistics
• British Rowing Championships (formerly National Championships) [official pages, replacing old url]
  • Further details, some unofficial (1997 - 2011)
• Other events in previous years, including:
  • World Championships 1997
• The Row Ring:

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