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Olympic champion appointed Captain of Leander
20 December 07: Steve Williams, the only member of the GB gold medal four to continue rowing after the Athens Olympics, has been appointed Club Captain, to succeed Mark Hunter, who has occupied that role with distinction for the last three years. More details here. |
Reed and Hodge dominate Boston ice
16 December 07: Leander's Pete Reed and Molesey's Andy Hodge once again finished top of the men's pairs at the GB trials in Lincolnshire after safety boats had earlier been used to crack the ice. More details and results here. |
More medals at British Indoor Championships
19 November 07: Three gold medals, a silver and a bronze was the medal tally for Leander athletes at this year's British Indoor Championships in Birmingham, but reigning champion Graham Benton smashed the British record by taking fourth successive gold. Report and results here. |
GB Women's Quad crowned 'Crew of the Year'
12 November 07: Debbie Flood had cause to celebrate yet again last weekend after the world champion GB women's quad scull in which she won a gold medal in August, received the Female Crew of the Year award from FISA, the international rowing federation. More details here. |
Five crews in top ten at Fours Head
3 November 07: With two pennants to their credit and five crews in the top ten Leander athletes bettered their 2006 total at this year's Fours Head, but it was Tideway Scullers who took top honours with a thirteen second winning margin at the head of the field. Report, results and pictures here. |
Laverick and Drysdale take Wingfield titles
25 October 07: World champion Debbie Flood was beaten to the line by Olympic bronze medallist Elise Laverick in the first-ever Wingfield Sculls women's race over the Championship course on the Thames, while world champion Mahe Drysdale sculled over to take the men's trophy. More details here. |
First win for Loveridge at Boston trials
22 October 07: Leander's Rachel Loveridge won the heavyweight women's event and six of our heavyweight men recorded personal bests at the weekend's assessment trials in Boston.
More details here. |
Favourites win on Kiel Canal
30 September 07: The German world silver medallists capitalised on the home advantage this weekend over the 7.9 mile course on the Kiel Canal, winning the EON Hansa Cup more than four seconds clear of the USA, with Great Britain in fifth place. Details and crew lists here. |
European bronze for Myers and Cook
23 September 07: Leander's Jo Cook and Vicky Myers marked their international debuts with bronze medals as members of the GB women's eight at the European Championships in Poland. Full details, including race reports and crew lists here. |
Gold for women's quad leads clutch of medals for Leander
2 September 07: The GB women's quad - Leander's Debbie Flood, together with Katharine Grainger, Fran Houghton and Annie Vernon - scored an emphatic win today to retain the world title in Munich, where ten other Leander athletes brought home medals from the world championships, including a silver for Jane Hall in the lightweight women's quad. Full details, including race reports and crew lists here. |
Wilkinson and Burkitt win bronze at World Under-23s
29 July 07: Tom Wilkinson and Charlie Burkitt placed third in the final of the men's pairs at the Under-23 World Championships in Strathclyde, Scotland, but there was disappointment for Nick Clark and Josh Davidson in the GB men's eight which trailed in sixth place. Full details here. |
Six golds at the National Championships
23 July 07: Leander athletes, sponsored by Invesco Perpetual, brought home a record six gold medals and a silver from this year's National Championships in Nottingham, and many will now go on represent England at next weekend's Home Countries International in Ireland. More details here. |
Medals galore but Dutch four beat GB world champions to gold
15 July 07: Medals came thick and fast for Leander athletes in the finals at Lucerne but the world champion GB men's four took an unaccustomed silver, beaten to the line for the first time in more than two years. Full reports, crew lists and photos here. |
Four Henley trophies and seventeen medals!
9 July 07: Seventeen Leander athletes won medals on finals day at Henley. Full reports of all the day's races, with pictures and crew listings in our special Regatta section here. |
'Super Eight' dominant in Amsterdam
25 June 07: Leander athletes, sponsored by Invesco Perpetual, came home from the second World Cup regatta in Amsterdam with eight gold medals to their credit, having created history on their visit to the Dutch capital. Full report and photos here. |
Clutch of medals at World Cup in Austria
3 June 07: Leander athletes brought home eight gold medals, two silver and a bronze from the opening World Cup regatta of the season in Linz, Austria. The world champion men's four and women's quad won in convincing style, but the big surprises came when Colin Smith and Matt Langridge triumphed in the pair, as did Matt Wells and Steve Rowbotham in the double scull. Full report, photos and crew details here. |
Belgian success for development athletes
14 May 07: The squad came home from Belgium with three gold medals and a clutch of silver and bronze, with the men's senior A eight, coached by Ben Lewis, coming in for special praise after their win on the second day of Ghent International Regatta. Report, results and crew lists available here. |
Clean sweep for elite men at Wallingford
6 May 07: A clean sweep in the men’s elite events got the regatta season off to a cracking start for Leander, sponsored by Invesco Perpetual, at Wallingford this weekend. Report, results and pictures here. |
Gold medal four unchanged for first World Cup
26 April 07: Eight Leander athletes are among six crews named today to contest the first World Cup regatta of the season in Austria in early June. The men's four stays unchanged from the line up which won the world title for the last two years, and Debbie Flood retains her place in the gold medal women's quad. Further announcements regarding the GB squad for Linz will follow. Crew details and report here. |
Hat trick for Reed leads Leander charge in Belgium
17 April 07: Pete Reed won his third successive GB pairs trial with Molesey's Andy Hodge at Senior Trials in Hazewinkel, Belgium, this weekend where the Leander squad, sponsored by Invesco Perpetual, produced some impressive results that bode well for the international season ahead.
Report, pictures and athletes' listing here. |
Sinking conditions force Head cancellation
4 April 07: A stiff north-easterly wind blowing against the falling tide caused sinking conditions for Saturday's Head of the River Race where more than 15 of the lead boats, including Leander II, failed to get as far as Hammersmith - the event was cancelled after just 45 crews had started. Race report available here. |
Leander rule the waves against Oxford
24 March 07: Our annual fixture against a Boat Race crew resulted this year in a three and a half length defeat for Oxford on the Tideway and meant a welcome boost the powerful Leander crew as they prepare to defend their title in next Saturday's Head of the River Race. Full report here. |
Women's eight maintain third place on the Tideway
20 March 07: The Leander eight matched last year's third place in the Women's Eights Head held over the Championship Course in blustery conditions last weekend, when the GB national squad eight took the top honours. Race report from world champion Debbie Flood here. |
Winter virus fails to dent strength on the Trent
18 February 07: While their GB international clubmates were notching up the wins in sunny Spain the Leander development squad were putting in class performances of their own in Nottingham, with a win for the elite coxless four and a second place for the Senior 1 eight. Details here. |
GB crews secure FISA Team Cup in Seville
18 February 07: With five wins to their credit in the second day's sprint regatta in Spain the British men's squad were comfortable winners of the 'friendly' international regatta on the Guadalquivir regatta course in Seville. Full details, results and crew lists here. |
Bad weather forces cancellation of Boston Trials
8 February 07: Adverse weather conditions this weekend have forced the cancellation of the third winter assessment trials at Boston, Lincs, where 25mph winds have been forecast to add further misery to the snow and ice which are already widespread. Selections for the early season international regattas will depend on further assessments culminating in final trials at Hazewinkel, Belgium, in May. |
GB crew become World Champions after Russian fails drug test
4 February 07: Leander's Debbie Flood and her crewmates in the GB women's quad scull received their gold medals at a star-studded night to remember, surrounded by their families and friends at the GB Annual Rowing Team Dinner. The awards to the second-placed crew at Eton came five months late, after it was announced that one member of the winning Russian boat had failed a drugs test. Full details here. |
CBE for former Leander Chairman
2 January 07: Christopher Rodrigues, Chairman of Leander 1993-2000, has been created CBE in the New Year Honours. Mr Rodrigues, a Cambridge Blue and Steward of Henley Royal Regatta, has recently been appointed to the chairmanship of the national tourism body, VisitBritain. |
New Vice-Captains now in post
1 January 07: Steve Williams and Laura Gater today take up their new positions as Vice-Captains at Leander. Steve is the only member of the Athens gold medal Olympic four to continue rowing, while Laura, who won the double sculls with Debbie Flood at the Pairs Head in the autumn, is a member of the Leander development squad. Mark Hunter continues as Captain, the post he has held for the last two years. |
