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February GB Trials Race Report
Last weekend saw Leander Club take 40 athletes from the men and women’s squads up to Boston, Lincolnshire for GBRT February Trials. With the first round of trials back in November being cancelled due to weather conditions, the athletes were eager to show what they...
Services to LIC
Leander President Dick Lester awarded the 'Investor of the Year' Trophy to Andrew Boyle at the recent Leander Investment Club AGM for services to LIC in 2023. Leander Investment Club meets at the Club every six weeks for a convivial and semi-serious look at the state...
New Junior Coach
We are delighted to welcome George Nottidge to the coaching team as our new High Performance Sculling Coach, focusing on the juniors. George comes from Kingston RC where he led the junior men's squad. George rowed at Tiffin School and the University of Nottingham....
Quintin Head Race Report
Leander’s development squad took three eights to Quintin Head on Saturday 20th January, racing on the Tideway for the first time this year. More than 270 crews raced from Chiswick Bridge to just past Hammersmith Bridge. Ross Hunter, Chief Coach of Leander women said:...
The First 200 Years
The first Leander Library Rowing Book Talk in 2024 was held on Thursday, 18 January with Andy Trotman, editor of The First 200 Years, a comprehensive account of the history of Leander - writes Irene Hewlett, Leander Club Librarian The book was published in 2018 to...
Careers Group
A new careers group for Leander has been set up by a team of athletes, Olympians, Members, and committee members. Please click to see more. They all bring something special to the crew in hopes of developing a program that has longevity to benefit both the athletes...
Turkey Sculls
The Turkey Sculls, held this year on on Thursday 21st December, is the traditional way we bring training to a close at the club. On a blustery day and a full river, 48 athletes were drawn in scratch mixed quads to battle it out for the prize turkey, kindly given by...
Leander Wine Club
Several members of Leander Club have suggested that we develop a wine club for the benefit of membership. Objectives would be to create a forum where those interested in enjoying wine together and learning more about it, can meet at the club to develop their wine...
Turkey Sculls
All Members are invited to watch the famous Turkey Sculls on Thursday 22nd December! We will be drawing the crews out of a hat in front of the crowd for the first time, so come on down and see the draw. This fast and furious scratch race starts at the HRR finish line...
I have finished my course. Leander.
Leander Member Sam Mainds has just returned from a tour of the Somme with recently retired Colonel Jeremy Pughe Morgan of the Royal Regiment of Wales (holding the photo). Here he visited the grave of Leander Member Captain Mervyn Richardson, who was killed in action...
Wrap up Christmas!
Everyone is invited to Leander’s first 'love local' Christmas market, to be held on Tuesday 12th December from 6pm-9pm in the Clubhouse! Nearly all our stallholders are local craftspeople and food producers, so come along and support our fantastic town's talent! The...
Water’s Gleaming Gold
On Thursday, 9 November 2023, the Leander Club had the pleasure of welcoming Gavin Jamieson, grandson-in-law of the remarkable oarsman, aviator and rowing coach Hugh ‘Jumbo’ Edwards and author of his biography, Water’s Gleaming Gold. He came to Leander to give a...
Greatest Rowing Stories
Several Members of Leander Club have been published in a new rowing anthology, ‘The Greatest Rowing Stories Ever Told’. The book collects articles and excerpts of classic rowing stories, from the inception of the sport on English waters in the 18th century,...
HOCR: the cox’s view
Race report by Sonya Gladstone, cox of the men’s eight The Leander club Men’s squad took a top eight and double over to Boston Massachusetts. The double had Oliver Costley at stroke and Rory Harris at bow. The eight was stroked by Iwan Hadfield, Dan Graham at seven,...
HOCR 2023
Leander’s Oliver Costley and Rory Harris came away with a win in the Championship Doubles at HOCR in Boston, Mass, this weekend. Other success in this event came from Leander’s Bryn Ellery, achieving 3rd place representing his old school Windsor Boys. Leander’s...
Full house for author
It was busy at Leander Club on a Thursday evening in early September for the first of a series of rowing book talks organised by Leander Club librarian Irene Hewlett to raise funds for the Leander Trust. Queues wrapped around the building to admit the 110 guests to...
Vesta Scullers Head
Leander athletes enjoyed an early season run out at Vesta Scullers Head on 23rd September. Well done to everyone who raced and huge thanks to Vesta Rowing volunteers for organising a great event, and to London Rowing Club for hosting us. Results 2nd Harris 3rd Costley...
Toughest race in the world
Congratulations to the four Leander rowers who were part of the crew that won the GB Men’s eight (M8+) in the 'toughest race in the world', the gruelling Schleswig-Holstein Netz Cup on the Kiel Canal in Rendsburg, Germany, this month. Miles Beeson, Douwe De...
World Rowing Champs
Great Britain finished with nine medals and qualified 13 boats for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, placing second on the medal table, and tied first on the number of golds at the 2023 World Rowing Championships in Belgrade this weekend. For the full news...
Jazz night at Deck Closing Party
All Leander Members and their guests are invited to celebrate the end of the season at our Deck Closing Party. We'll have a live jazz and blues band playing outside, on September 30th. A mouthwatering BBQ and pizzas will be available. In case of inclement weather, we...
King’s Cup medal ceremony
Sean Colgan represented Leander Club at the King’s Cup medal ceremony at Government House in Wellington, New Zealand recently. The event honoured the 1919 New Zealand Defence Force crew that helped build the peace after World War I, and celebrated women in the defence...
Rowing book series: Lessons in Chemistry
You are invited to hear best-selling author Bonnie Garmus discuss her brilliant novel, Lessons in Chemistry, in aid of the Leander Trust on Thursday 7th September at 6pm. This is the first in a series of three Leander Library Rowing Book Talks scheduled to be held in...
Fawley Cup win in Kanghua quad
Leander was delighted to win the Fawley Challenge Cup at this year’s HRR – its biggest win yet in the Kanghua quad delivered last year. As well as notching up some impressive race results, Leander athletes provide invaluable feedback to Kanghua, which has helped the...
Henley Royal Regatta 2023
104 Leander athletes competed at this year's Henley Royal Regatta - 73 athletes competed in the semi-finals and 60 reached finals day. An impressive 23 Leander athletes took home medals. The first win of the day was the Princess Grace Challenge Cup. This GB women’s...
Henley Women’s Regatta Results
Leander Club put forward a record entry for this year’s HWR. Nine crews were entered along with two composite entries in both the women’s double and women’s pair. This was also the first time Leander had crews entered across all women’s Championship...
Henley Women’s Regatta
We're pleased to announce a strong line-up of crews for this weekend's Henley Women's Regatta. They would appreciate your support on the riverbank! All HWR competitors are invited to visit Leander Club during the regatta, to enjoy pizza and drinks on the deck - please...
Colgan Foundation to sponsor Leander Club
The Leander Committee is delighted to announce a new sponsorship deal with Colgan Foundation, starting immediately and continuing for the next five years. This partnership is targeted directly at the Leander rowing programme, supporting the development of our young...
Crosswind fun at Met Regatta
Leander’s development squad returned from their annual training camp in Banyoles, Spain, last week and went straight into racing at The Metropolitan Regatta at Dorney Lake. With tough crosswind conditions, racing was challenging at times but very beneficial for all...
Banyoles training camp
The Leander Squad has completed finished their annual training camp in sunny Banyoles. They are looking forward to a packed racing schedule as we move towards HRR. As usual thank you to all our members, without your support training camps like these wouldn’t be...
Wallingford Regatta
Ali Brown writes Leander scullers lead the way. Wallingford Regatta at Dorney Lake was the venue for Leander's first domestic regatta of the season. The Development squad attended in force, boating 15 crews for the 2000m race. Testament to the successful sculling...
GB April Trials
Leander Club had an impressive 51 athletes invited to take part in this invitational GB small boat trial, at Caversham Lake. Out of 36 possible places in the A finals, Leander athletes filled 22. In the men’s pair event, Leander’s Tom George and Oliver Wynne- Griffith...
HRR 2023 in a nutshell
We are receiving lots of Henley Royal Regatta enquiries so here is a brief overview of what you can book, and when! Your HRR badge packs will arrive in April, containing everything you need to know about what's on offer at Leander Club and when you can book it....
The Head of the River Race
On Saturday 18th March, Leander men’s squad took three crews to race The Head of the River Race from Mortlake to Putney in London. Leander’s top boat set off 2nd behind a strong Oxford Brookes crew containing eight World Champions from last summer's World...
Leander Women vs CUBC
For the third weekend in a row the Leander women took two crews to the Tideway to complete a series of races on the Championship course which included fixtures and the Women’s Head of the River. This weekend it was an opportunity to race Cambridge as they prepare for...
Leander Men vs Oxford
Photo: Leander 1 Leander’s top club men’s eight took on the Oxford University Blue Boat this weekend on the Championship Course, with the fixture broadcast live on The Boat Race YouTube channel. It was a fantastic race where the lead changed hands three times over the...
