The Scullers Head of the River Race is a rowing race held annually on the River Thames Championship Course from Mortlake to Putney, open to single scullers only. The race is held in November or early December each year on a week usually to suit the mid-morning or mid-afternoon timing of the ebb tide.
Scullers Head of the River Race | |
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Frequency | Annual |
Location(s) | Championship Course, River Thames in London, England |
Years active | 1954-Present |
Previous event | 7 December 2019 |
Next event | November/December 2020 |
Participants | 500 crews |
Website | www |
The Scullers Head was first raced in 1954 when it was won by John Marsden.[1] It now admits entries of over 500 scullers[2] and is the largest sculling race in the UK for a single class of racing shell. The race gains enough entries to organise the greatest number of marshalls for any singles event on the Thames and it draws considerably more overseas single scullers than the same race held in reverse usually three to four weeks before, the Wingfield Sculls, which dates to the middle of the 19th century.
In 2014 were the first admissions of categories for adaptive rowing for athletes with disabilities, in TA and LTA adaptive rowing classifications.[2]
The race is organised by Vesta Rowing Club, Putney, London.
Date | Winner | Club | Time |
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1990 | Rory Henderson | Leander | 22:51 |
1991 | Steven Redgrave | Marlow | 21:32 |
1992 | Guy Pooley | Leander | 20:56 |
1993 | Peter Haining | Auriol Kensington | 23:13 |
1994 | Peter Haining | Auriol Kensington | 19:53 |
1995 | Niall O'Toole | Commercial RC, Dublin | 21:16 |
1996 | Peter Haining | Auriol Kensington | 21:49 |
1997 | Martin Kettle | Queens Tower | 20:31 |
1998 | Greg Searle | Molesey | 21:18 |
1999 | Giles Monnickendam | Notts County | 21:29 |
2000 | Rod Chisholm | Tideway Scullers | |
2001 | Guy Pooley | Leander | 20:03.94 |
2003 | cancelled due to exceptional weather conditions | ||
2004 | Mark Hunter | Leander | 21:22.13 |
2005 | Tom Gale | Tideway Scullers | 22:05.18 |
2006 | Mahé Drysdale | Tideway Scullers | 19:55.26 |
2007 | George Whittaker | Imperial College BC | 20:58.76 |
2008 | Alan Campbell | Tideway Scullers | 20:30.57 |
2009 | Jamie Kirkwood | Imperial College BC | 20:55.38 |
2010 | Stephen Feeney[3] | London RC | 21:31.20 |
2011 | Adam Freeman-Pask | Imperial College BC | 21:09.02 |
2012 | Alan Campbell | Tideway Scullers | 20:43.32 |
2013 | Sigmund Verstraete | Walton RC | 21:06.99 |
2014 | Jamie Copus | Oxford Brookes University BC | 21:03.55 |
2015 | cancelled due to exceptional weather conditions |
Date | Winner | Club | Time |
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Results missing | |||
2009 | Hester Goodsell[4] | Reading University BC | 22:21.92 |
2010 | Beth Rodford[5] | Gloucester RC | 22:54.06 |
2011 | Imogen Walsh | London RC | 22:35.9 |
2012 | Georgina Phillips | Imperial College BC | 22:40.24 |
2013 | Lou Reeve | Leander Club | 22:14:41[6] |
2014 | Brianna Stubbs | Wallingford RC | 22:41.31 |
2015 | cancelled due to exceptional weather conditions |