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2026 season kicks off with wins at home regatta

After making history last season by winning the South Coast Championships, Newport kicked off the 2026 Hants & Dorset regatta season in emphatic style with another historic win. Saturday saw the club host clubs from around the Solent, as well as Ryde and Shanklin in the Coastal Fours Regatta. The home club took the honours in the two most senior Open events. Fielding eight crews for the first time ever in any regatta, there were early signs of what was to follow, when the Masters 50 crew of Andrew Hyam, Chris Clarke, Ed Hopper, Harry Hare and coxed by Fiona Brookes held off a stro...

South Coast Champions!

Newport Junior Crew rounded of their amazing season with a nail-biting win at the South Coast Championships in Plymouth this September. Taking an early lead they looked to have the race comfortably won at half way, but Shoreham, the top CARA crew were not giving up on the race, and came back strongly in the second half. Newport held on though, and won by a canvas. The crew of Mariana Hare (cox) Boris Hare (stroke) Connor Garner, Jake Garner, and Nathaniel Hamilton collected their H&D championship trophy and medals at the November association dinner, along with Eric Williams, who rowe...

Newport clinch first ever Fours Championship

A thrilling season finale unfolded at Newport Regatta on Saturday 9th August. The regatta took place over the 1450m straight course on the River Medina, in perfect rowing conditions. With the home club's Junior status Fours level at four wins each with Southampton, a tight race between these crews was expected. The Newport crew had been looking forward to a good season, after wins in the winter time trial races, but early season sinkings at Shanklin and Southsea Regattas had put them on the back foot, trailing Southampton by 3-1, with 5 ...

Junior Four take the lead in the Championship

After a difficult start to the season, with two sinkings, and some bad luck, the Junior Four crew have started to put together a run of good form, taking three wins in two weeks, to add to their early season win at Christchurch. Close racing against fellow championship contenders Southampton in the last few weeks have seen Newport turn the tables on the early season leaders. They now need to clinch the championship by winning one of the final two regattas, one of which is on their home water on the River Medina. ...

Novices win at BTC

After four consecutive second places, the Novice crew finally got their hands on some silverware at BTC. After close racing, mishaps, and difficult conditions, they stormed to a three length victory on the Western Shore ...

Island Regattas 2025

The Hants & Dorset season got off to a stuttering start this weekend, with the double header of Shanklin and Ryde regattas. Unfortunately a moderate easterly wind curtailed both events. Shanklin Regatta was abandoned after three races. Newport Junior Men did compete, but were swamped by waves coming broadside over the boat, and were forced to retire. Sunday at Ryde promised better. All of the Newport fours were able to complete their races, before the regatta was cut short due to weather conditions. In particular our Novice crews stood up to the testing conditions, for most, it was thei...

Head Race success

Newport's preparation for the 2025 season has started well with a good showing in the Southamption and BTC Head of the River Races. A win by almost half a minute over their nearest rivals, Southampton, saw our Junior Men's crew win the Southanpton Head. Our Women's Novice crew were just pipped into second place by 2 seconds! Over the same 5k course, two weeks later our Women's Novice crew took second place again, but our Men's Novice crew, and the Junior Pair had wins in their categories. ...

First 2025 Time Trial on the Medina

The three island rowing clubs combined to run the first time trial on the River Medina of 2025 yesterday. The calm conditions were perfect for rowing. Division 1, over the 3400m distance, was rowed against the tide. The fastest men’s time of the day of 15.34 min came from the Newport coxless four. The best performance across the men’s crews, in terms of percentage of gold medal standard came from Ryde’s coxed four, at 64%, just beating the Newport crew by 1%. Newport’s Novice Women were the quickest women’s crew in a time of 18.30. Newport's Mens Masters crew ...

Novice win at Woolston August 2024

The Mens Novice Crew of Jake Garner, Ed Hopper, Chris Clarke and Carl Nordbruch, coxed by Mariana Hare, finally got their Novice win at Woolston regatta. They had been getting closer and closer every week, and led the race from start to finish - well done guys ...

Itchen Junior Regatta 2024

Three of our juniors competed at this event. Boris Hare and Isaac Gibson (from Ryde) competed in the J16 double sculls, winning convincingly. Fiona Brookes and Mariana Hare competing in the J13 Novice double sculls, won through to the final by the closest of margins. They rowed with composure to secure victory in the final - well done to all! ...

Newport Regatta 2024

Newport competed across Mens's Novice, Junior and Masters categories. The most succesful crew for the second year running were the Women's Master Crew of Julia Wilks, Julia Coulson, Julie Clarke, and Fran Ladd, coxed by Nick Salter won the Masters 50 event comfortably. ...

Head of the Medina 2023

A terrific day for the relaunch of the Head of the Medina. A time trial race that has not been run for many years. We were pleased to be joined by mainland clubs of Poole, Lymington and Southsea, as well as the crews of Ryde and Shanklin. Thankyou to everyone that competed. Our Newport men's coxless four had the fastest row of the day. Covering the 3.3k course in 14.01 minutes. Solid performances from men's Novice and Junior crews, as well as Chris and Toby in the double scull, and the Ladies Masters. ...

A win at Poole regatta 2023

NOVICE FOUR WIN The club's mens' novice four win at Poole regatta on the first weekend of September. Harry, Connor, Nathaniel and Boris won their heat and then went on the win the final with a commanding performace Well done. ...

Ladies masters four smash it at Newport regatta 2023

They've only gone and won it! In their first ever race and the first ladies masters four the club have had the crew of Julia Wilks, Juila Coulson, Julie Clarke and Fran Ladd won their semi final and then went on to win the final by 2 lengths. ...

Wins at home regatta

The Club's regatta weekend on 30/31st July was a resounding sucess and the club had two wins to celebrate as well. Matt Swiss won men's senior sculls for the 2nd year in a row. Toby Batchelor won men's novice sculls on his home stretch. ...

Chris Mullin

MEMBER SPOTLIGHT CHRIS MULLIN. (80) Chris joined the club in 1958 at the tender age of 16 and has been a member ever since. He spent his main racing years in fixed seat Solent galleys moving on to sliding seats as they became popular on the Hants and Dorset scene. One of his finest achievements was being in the winning crew for the Head of the Medina for fixed seats in 1963. The following year the crew came second in sliding seats. His racing career continued well into his 50’s when he raced at Shanklin regatta in 2000. Nowadays he happily sculls 10k m...

Hants and Dorset champions

A big well done to Ollie Coulson and Toby Batcheor who have this season (2021) become the clubs first Hants and Dorset champions in a crew boat. Wins at Poole, Southsea, BTC, Woolston and Itchen saw them clinch the points in mens junior pairs. ...

Easter newsletter

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IW sports achievement awards

The delayed 2019 IW sports acheivement awards were held this evening ( 25th March) online and our very own Mickey Westmore was an award winner. Well done Mickey. ...

Newsletter August 20

Please find attached the August '20 news letter ...

Row the Atlantic 2020

please click the link to see how we did it... https://www.newport-rowingclub.co.uk/atlantic/ ...

Festive fun fours

Santa hats were to the fore as the club's festive fun fours were held on Sunday the 29th December. Young and old (16 to 66) were drawn out of the hat for a round robin race series . ...

Club clothing

Club badged hoodies (£23) and polo shirts (£12) are now availabe some sizes are on display in the clubhouse if you want to try on before buying email secretary@newport-rowingclub.co.uk to place orders ...

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