Thames Rowing Club
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Thames Rowing Club is based on the River Thames in Putney, London, United Kingdom and was founded in 1860. The club's colours are red, white and black in stripes, the white stripe lying between the red and black and being of half their width.
Of the three grand British rowing clubs (along with Leander Club and London Rowing Club), Thames has the largest active rowing membership and is the only one to welcome complete beginners. It has over 750 members, of which around 200 are in training for competition. Of these, approximately 60% are women, and almost 20% represent veteran oarsmen and women.
Thames is recognised by the UK Amateur Rowing Association as a High Performance Centre for women's rowing, with a programme to help top club rowers reach the British national squad. Many Thames women have competed for Great Britain since 1980; most recently Elise Laverick won Bronze in the double scull at the Athens Olympics in 2004 and sisters Guin Batten and Miriam Batten won Silver in the quadruple scull at the Sydney Olympics.
Thames has links with several local schools, of which Putney High School is the largest, to encourage junior rowing and attract young people into the sport. The junior programme is becoming increasingly successful, with juniors competing at many levels in the sport.
As at July 2006, Thames had won events at Henley Royal Regatta 73 times including the Wyfold Challenge Cup for men's coxless fours in 2006 and the Remenham Challenge Cup for women's eights in 2005.
The Thames RC clubhouse, situated on Putney Embankment is a treasure house of rowing history. In 2005, the club opened a large new building, named in memory of former Club President and benefactor Alan Burrough CBE, which provides extensive training facilities and boat storage.
Notable past members of Thames include Jack Beresford, medallist five times at successive Olympic Games from 1920 to 1936, and Steve Fairbairn, the Australian oarsman and coach widely acknowledged as "the father of modern rowing". Jamie Hamilton, founder of the publisher Hamish Hamilton was a Thames member and won Silver with the club, representing Great Britain at the 1928 Olympics.
Thames is one of the Founding Clubs of Remenham Club.
[edit] Olympians
The following Thames members have represented Great Britain at the Olympic Games:
1900
- St George Ashe (single scull)
1912
- Julius Beresford (coxed four - Silver medal)
- Geoffrey Carr (coxed four - Silver medal)
- Bruce Logan (coxed four - Silver medal)
- Charles Rought (coxed four - Silver medal)
- Karl Vernon (coxed four - Silver medal)
1920
- Jack Beresford (single scull - Silver medal)
1924
- Reginald Bare (eight)
- Jack Beresford (single scull - Gold medal)
- C.G. Chandler (eight)
- H.C. Debenham (eight)
- Hugh Dulley (eight)
- Ian Fairbairn (eight)
- Jack Godwin (eight)
- G.C. (Bill) Killick (coxless pair - Bronze medal)
- A.F. Long (eight)
- H. Morphy (eight)
- Charles Rew (eight)
- Cyril Southgate (coxless pair - Bronze medal)
1928
- J.C.(Felix) Badcock (eight - Silver medal)
- Jack Beresford (eight - Silver medal)
- Jamie Hamilton (eight - Silver medal)
- G.C. (Bill) Killick (eight - Silver medal)
- Donald Gollan (eight - Silver medal)
- H.M. Lane (eight - Silver medal)
- Gully Nickalls (eight - Silver medal)
- Arthur Sulley (eight - Silver medal)
- H.E. West (eight - Silver medal)
1932
- J.C.(Felix) Badcock (coxless four - Gold medal)
- Jack Beresford (coxless four - Gold medal)
- Hugh Edwards (coxless four - Gold medal)
- Rowland George (coxless four - Gold medal)
- L.F. (Dick) Southwood (single scull)
1936
- Jack Beresford (double scull - Gold medal)
- L.F. (Dick) Southwood (double scull - Gold medal)
1948
- Tony Butcher (coxless four)
- Tom Christie (coxless four)
- Jack Dearlove (eight - Silver medal)
- Bakie James (coxed pair)
- Peter Kirkpatrick (coxless four)
- Hank Rushmere (coxless four)
- Mark Scott (coxed pair)
1952
- Peter de Giles (coxed four)
- Graham Fisk (coxed four)
- Lawrence Guest (coxed four)
- R.A.F. (John) Macmillan (coxed four)
- Paul Massey (coxed four)
1956
- Alan Watson (eight)
1964
- John James (coxless four)
1980
- Malcom McGowan (eight - Silver medal)
- John Pritchard (eight - Silver medal)
1984
- Sarah Hunter Jones (women's eight)
- Malcolm McGowan (eight)
- Tessa Millar (women's coxed four)
- John Pritchard (eight)
1988
- Sally Andrea (women's double scull)
1992
- Miriam Batten (women's double scull)
- Dot Blackie (women's eight)
- Katie Browlow (women's eight)
- Phillippa Cross (women's eight)
1996
- Guin Batten (women's single scull)
- Miriam Batten (women's eight)
- Dot Blackie (women's eight)
- Phillippa Cross (women's pair)
- Susie Ellis (women's eight)
- Kate Mackenzie (women's coxless pair)
- Kate Pollitt (women's eight)
- Annamarie Stapleton (women's eight)
2000
- Guin Batten (women's quadruple scull - Silver medal)
- Dot Blackie (women's coxless pair)
- Miriam Batten (women's quadruple scull - Silver medal)
- Elise Laverick (women's eight)
- Kate Mackenzie (women's eight)
- Alison Mowbray (women's single scull)
2004
- Elise Laverick (women's double scull - Bronze medal)
