Last week, the rowing world converged on Penrith and Australia’s first hosting of the Rowing World Cup, held in conjunction with the Australian Schools National Championships. This was a wonderful spectacle of rowing where boys from our 1st and 2nd VIII’s were able to compete in the same event as Olympic champions. Members of the 2nd VIII competed in the Schoolboy Four and the Schoolboy Quad Scull events.

The Schoolboy Four event was a hotly contested event and our crew was unfortunately knocked out in the repechage. The Quad Scull progressed through to the B-Final and put a great performance in to finish second, which was 10th place overall. The 1st VIII won their heat in fine style, then had the toughest semi-final where they were unfortunately relegated to the B-Final, despite having a very strong performance. In the B-Final, the crew put their best performance of the season together and finished in first place, well ahead of The King’s School and Melbourne Grammar. This ranked them 9th out of a total of 27 schools.

Several Old Newingtonian’s featured in the Interstate Regatta representing NSW.  James Chapman (ON ’97) won his sixth King’s Cup for NSW and also won Gold in the Men’s Coxless Four event at the World Cup! Theo Cominos (ON ’12) was a member of the victorious NSW Youth Eight who won the National Title.

Mr Simon Pennington
  Director of Rowing