JIRR and Leicester Regatta
The event took place over 1500 metres at the National Watersports Centre in Nottingham, where the fastest junior crews from all over the country took part, with the 6 fastest crews progressing to the A finals.
The Women’s J15 double of Emma Dennis and Evelina Xanthopoulou did extremely well to place 4th overall in the time trials with a time of 7:01, just 3 seconds behind the fastest crew.
They then went on to place 4th overall in the A final, just 2 seconds behind bronze medal position.
Young sculler Jasmin Chesher also did exceptionally well to reach the A final of the Womens J14 single event, after placing 6th overall in the time trial, and then 6th place in the final.
A few Peterborough crews also raced at Leicester regatta at the weekend and came away with 4 wins.
Bianca Manganiello and Sarah Watson came away with 2 wins, after winning the Women’s band 1 double against De Monfort University boat club and then joined Keely Watson and Gina Gould to win the Womens band 1 Coxless quad.
They went through 2 heat rounds in the quad to then win the final against Lincoln Rowing Centre.
Debbie Hunt-Pain and Julie Evison-Williams won the Masters D doubles event against fellow club members Emma Coxall and Susan Genever-Jones, in a close final where there were just a boat length ahead.
The final win came from Ian Palmer and Dave Smith (Leicester rowing club) who won the Masters D doubles final comfortably against Hollingworth lake rowing club.