University of Bath alumni Becky Wilde and Cedol Dafydd both won gold during a historic day for Great Britain at the 2025 European Rowing Championships in Plovdiv, Poland. Five titles were won by GB during a thrilling 90-minute spell on Sunday, including a first-ever European gold in the men’s quadruple sculls. Dafydd was part of
It was a successful weekend for University of Bath-based rowers past and present when they contested the 2025 GB Rowing Team Senior and U23 Selection Trials at Caversham. And there was another magical moment for Paris 2024 medallist Becky Wilde when she was named as rowing’s BOA Female Olympic Athlete of the Year during the
Queen’s College Taunton has proudly announced that alumna Rebecca Wilde has achieved a bronze medal in the Women’s Double Sculls Rowing event at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Wilde, partnering with Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne, they secured their place on the podium with an impressive time of 6:53.22. After their remarkable race, Wilde and Hodgkins-Byrne looked satisfied with
University of Bath Rowing Club’s Becky Wilde is set to compete at Paris 2024 after successfully securing a women’s double scull space for Team GB at the Final Olympic Qualifying Regatta in Lucerne, Switzerland. Wilde, in her first full season with the senior GB Rowing Team, and partner Mathilda Hodgkins Byrne needed a top-two finish
Sisters Maria and Helen Nielson-Scott are throwing love out in the boat as they compete against each other in the world’s oldest rowing rivalry. The sisters make history on Easter Saturday by being the first to row in different boats in the Oxford versus Cambridge race on the Thames. It will be the first time
Study finds LYR’s Active Row programme provides large improvements in all measures of individual wellbeing whilst young people are more physically active with better attitudes to physical activity and are more resilient. Social benefits generated by the Active Row programme could be more than £17 million per year, and £69 million over the four years
The successful British Rowing Start talent development programme based at the University of Bath is holding trials for aspiring Olympians this month. Taking place at the Team Bath Sports Training Village on Tuesday 30th and Wednesday 31st May, they are open to women aged 14-22 who are 178cm or taller and men aged 14-20 who
Lauren Rowles and Laurence Whiteley set a Paralympic best time as they got the defence of their mixed double sculls rowing title off to the best possible start. The experienced pair finished seven seconds clear of Ukraine in Heat 2 to qualify automatically for Sunday’s A final in a time of 8:42:27. Since Rio, the
Eight rowers, including three reigning Paralympic champions and five Paralympic debutants, have been selected to compete for ParalympicsGB at the rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games this summer. James Fox was part of the gold medal-winning crew that won the mixed coxed four (PR3 Mix 4+) at Rio 2016. This time around, he will race alongside
University of Bath alumna Sara Parfett will make her Olympic debut this summer alongside history-making Helen Glover and Rio medallist Vicky Thornley after the trio were today named in the Team GB rowing squad for Tokyo 2020. All three began their rowing careers on the British Rowing World Class Start talent identification and development programme
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