Current Activities
Thames Rowing Club's stated focus is on racing and competition but it is also open to complete beginners. Thames appears to have one of the largest active memberships of any UK rowing club; this membership being split approximately equally between male and female.
Since first admitting women in 1973, the club has gained a strong reputation in women's rowing, and is recognised by British Rowing as a High Performance Centre for women, with a programme to help top club oarswomen reach the British national squad. However Thames men have also won the Wyfold Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta twice in recent years (in 2003 and 2006). Thames has a junior squad and additionally provides facilities to London Youth Rowing. Veteran Rowing at Thames is very strong, at all veteran levels, both men and women, regularly competing and winning at the FISA World Masters Regatta.
As at July 2009, Thames had won events at Henley Royal Regatta 75 times. The most recent wins were the Wyfold Challenge Cup for men's coxless fours in 2006 and the Remenham Challenge Cup for women's eights in 2005. The club also had a member in the composite crew which won the Remenham Challenge Cup in 2009.
In September 2010, the club announced the appointment of Tony Larkman as Head Coach.
Thames was one of only five clubs which retained the right to directly appoint representatives to the Council of British Rowing. The others were Leander Club, London Rowing Club, Oxford University Boat Club and Cambridge University Boat Club. This right was, however, removed from those five clubs in September 2012.
Thames is one of the Founding Clubs of Remenham Club.
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