RECORDS were broken as Isle of Wight rowing clubs took part in the annual Itchen Imperial Amateur Rowing Club Junior Regatta in Southampton on Saturday.
The event was staged on a straight 300m course on the River Itchen, in a range of boat types and ages for boys, girls and mixed crews.
Shanklin-Sandown Rowing Club winner, Kayleigh Batchelor.
Shanklin Sandown Rowing Club boasted nine victories — a club record for a single regatta.
Ethan Walters and Riley Horrix continued their successful season by winning both the J14 and J15 double sculls, with Walters also winning the J14 single sculls race, with Horrix second.
Rachael Debenham celebrated three wins — in the J14 double with Scarlett Phelan, the J15 double with Scarlett’s sister, Mia, and, as part of the J15 quad, with the Phelan sisters and Yasmin Wright.
Kayleigh Batchelor won the girls’ J13 single and double titles, with the latter giving Scarlett Phelan her third win of the day.
Ethan Walters and Riley Horrix, who continued their successful season with Shanklin-Sandown Rowing Club by winning both the J14 and J15 double sculls.
Lottie Tapsell completed the club’s remarkable day by winning the J15 single sculls, just beating club-mate, Wright.
A large contingent from Ryde Rowing Club looked to make their mark, with some making their competitive debuts.
Ryde Rowing Club enjoyed success in the boys' J16 double sculls, Austin Smith, left, and Tom Starkey.
The club produced two winning performances, both from their successful boys’ J16 squad, where Austin Smith and Tom Starkey won the double sculls.
Smith and Starkey were part of the J16 coxed four, which also comprised Tye Cameron, Ben Sanderson and coxswain, Dan Sanderson, who won the closest race of the day, beating host club, Itchen, by less than a foot.
Ryde Rowing Club's successful boys' J16 coxed four team, from left: Ben Sanderson, Tom Starkey, Austin Smith, Danny Sanderson (coxswain) and Tye Cameron.
It was the perfect way for them to bow out in their final race in the age group.
The mixed J12-J13 coxed quad of Dan Sanderson, Frankie Leftley, Poppy Starkey and Bonita Hunnybun, with Smith, their experienced coxswain, came second in their final, as did a mixed J15 coxed quad of Paddy Kearney, Freya Drage, Jonah Lewin, and Gully Roghan, coxed by Sanderson once again.
Newport Rowing Club's Toby Batchelor.
Newport Rowing Club also had their share of successes with Bethany Walpole-Davis first in the novice girls J16 single scull, while Toby Batchelor won the boys’ J15 single scull final.
Jonjo Findley, in the boys’ J16 single sculls, came second, as did Dominic Batchelor in the novice boys’ J14.
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