Successes
KRCG won (under its old name) a silver medal at the Rowing at the 1900 Summer Olympics and at the Rowing at the 1908 Summer Olympics and where the finalist teams took the worldrecord in the heavy mens eights and at the Rowing at the 1912 Summer Olympics this club won in the single sculls. Club de Gand was 3 times winner of the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley-on-Thames on the famous Henley Royal Regatta. Club Presidents of that time were members of well-known offspring Ghent families.
The club won the first ever victory of a foreign club at the Grand in a mix with the docks foremans couple Visser - Molmans of the former Royal Sport Nautique de Gand during the first years of the 20th century.
Club Ghent and their upper class relations where also the founders of the internationally famous Regatta for these days at the Cluysen - Ter Donck Regatta on the Ghent-Terneuzen Canal. It was a good reason and for the first time the leading English Clubs where making the trip to the continent, looking for a fair revenge.
This was in the United Kingdom known May - Regatta, which was much later reinvigorated with new energy by the friends of KR Sport Gent and their Chairmans generation Rombaut sr. and jr. and their team, a few days earlier on the calendar, on the current Watersportbaan.
Until the second world war and by good weather conditions, the Regatta locally named Bootjesvaring was good for 20 up to 25.000 visitors!
In the early nineties of the twentieth century Club de Gand won also the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley with the former lightweight world champion Wim van Belleghem. It was the very first time a lightweight sculler won that race.
National and more recent
The club won eight consecutive national championships in the eight men open category at Hazewinkel This generation was dominating from the mid-nineties up to early 21st century Belgians heavyweight men's rowing. In this period they were also not really ignored on the Heineken Roeivierkamp on the River Amstel in Amsterdam
The so called crown on that performance was gold at the 2001 Thames Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta. A Belgian rowing crew who once won that race was the Antwerpse Roeivereniging or Sculling, who now is permanently active in Hazewinkel, where the British A.R.A. organises his annual trials, usually.
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