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The Annual Dinner of the York City Rowing Club took place at the Merchant Adventurers Hall York on the evening of Saturday2nd December 2000.
A glamorous and lively evening was enjoyed by 100 members and former members of this august body.
Report Nearly 100 past and present members of York City Rowing Club gathered at the Merchant Adventures Hall on Saturday 2nd December for their annual dinner. The Club's special guest this year was Hugh Mattheson, the ex Great Britain Oarsman and Rowing Correspondent of the Independent. He gave a gripping account of the time he covered the Rowing at the Sidney Olympics and the excitement at watching the British crews winning their gold medals. Mattheson went on to present the Whitmore Trophy for the most improved junior sculler to 14 year old Freya Porteous. Club Captain, Steve Noble, presented Chris Jones with a bottle of champagne for the most improved oarsman. The presentation of the Golden Flipper award (a light-hearted award to the person who most embarrassingly fell into the Ouse) went to Eddie Bacon who managed the feat without the aid of a boat! Congratulations were extended to David Tinkler a last season junior sculler who has reached the final selection for the Cambridge Lightweight blue boat, no mean feat for a first term trialist. 68 year old Dick Gradley represented York City Rowing Club at the British Indoor Rowing Championships in Reading. Rowing on a Concept ergometer, Gradley picked up a bronze medal in a time of 7 minutes 54 seconds for the 2000 meter distance. The Championships also attracted Olympic oarsmen including James Cracknell, from the British gold medal winning coxless four, who took the top honours in the permier event, beating two Italian oarsmen from the silver medal crew. The club is looking forward to another challenging and exciting year of competition in 2001.
The Caption Competition is now finished and the Winners can be found here. Click on title below.
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Friday November 17th 2000
It always had been the intention of Prince Charles to attend the York Small Boats Head but unfortunately he had not checked his emails recently and when he arrived today to check the course out he was disappointed to discover that it had been moved to next weekend.
This did, however , give him the opportunity to visit the riverside after the floods and to meet some of those who had been most affected. Joking apart a nice gesture - as indeed is the interest and help that is being given by dear old Jimmy Saville
Club members hope that there may well be boats out and at again tomorrow and training will recommence.
Clifton Green in 1947 and we still have the boat !!
Isn't this just the greatest picture ?? ( it takes a little time to load but well worth the wait )
click picture to enlarge Our thanks to Steph Gant who was just in the right place at the right time !! MONDAY 13th NOVEMBER The start of the big clean up. Members down tonight the clear up the devastation and to work towards the Small Boats Head in a couple of weeks. The water continues to drop and any time now we will be able to get back to some normality. The entries for the Flood Caption Competition are "Flooding" in. Have you sent yours yet ??? Click here OUR WEB SITE IS STILL NUMBER 3 IN THE TOP 100 SITES THIS EVENING !! KEEP CLICKING AND VOTING.
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