Santa’s Revenge Triathlon Results 2011

The final results for WSBH 2011 in overall order are here

The final results by event including handicap events are here. The WMA / WMB handicap event should have read WMANOV / WMBNOV.

Those of you who have won pots (highlighted in yellow) please contact to arrange collection/delivery

There are photos for the event here

In an effort to increase his winter mileage club member Richard Smallman-Smith has gone to the unusual lengths of rowing across the Atlantic Ocean. Even more unusually his wife Helena is in the crew as well.

Along with 17 other crews they have entered The Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge 2011, which is scheduled to start on Sunday, 4th December 2011 just outside the harbour of San Sebastian de La Gomera, a small island just west of Tenerife in the Canary Islands.

The finish is just outside Port St Charles, Barbados, some 2,549 nautical miles away as the petrel flies. They are rowing a big cat not a bird so the actual route will be up to 1,000nm longer, as they will initially head south to pick up the trade winds, and they are also likely be blown backwards from time to time.

They are doing so in aid of St Mungo's and the Huntington's Disease-Association.

To visit their website and follow their progress click here

Team Tiger is "Dream It Do It" on the race chart, to view click here

Last year club member Dave Hosking's crew set a world record for a trans Atlantic row
For his website click here

The Junior Quad of Richard Clarke and Oli Knight in a composite with Westminster took top honours at the Fours Head on Saturday and our other junior quad was 4th, showing great strength in depth. Walton's Elite Lightweights started an incredible 3rd on the river, and only Leander's second boat got past them as they finished 5th in their division. That gave us two boats in the top 25, firmly putting Walton in the Premier League with Leander, London, Molesey, Scullers and Imperial. The girls junior quad came 10th.

In the Masters Fours Head, we had 3 wins. The D quad won their division by nearly a minute, but the coxless four agonisingly lost out by just over 1 second to a very good Quintin crew. The mixed quad of Steve Heywood, Carol Cornell, Mike Bishop and Ali Jackson stormed through the field, overtaking many of the men's crews to win their division. It was a first time coxing on the Tideway for Izzy Fish, but she coped well with the rough conditions to steer her crew of Anna Lass, Megan Addis, Nicola Jordan and Katherine Tonks to a win in Novice quads too. The men's Novice quad came 2nd in their class.