Royal Sport Nautique de Gand

Royal Sport Nautique de Gand (Dutch: Sport Gent)

Location	Ghent, Belgium
Home water	Watersportbaan
Founded	1883 (1883)
Website	Sport Gent webstek
Events
Ghent May Regatta
Distinctions
Grand Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta in 1907

Royal Sport Nautique de Gand, today named Koninklijke Roeivereniging Sport Gent, is a rowing club from Ghent, Belgium established back in 1883 as the 4th club founded in that city in that period.

Eveline Peleman

Eveline Peleman , ruling world champion single scull lightweight woman 2014 is among their members. She also got bronze on the world top U23 in single scull.

Ghent May regatta / Belgian International Open regatta

They also organise the annual Ghent May Regatta on the Watersportbaan of Ghent. Belgiums absolute top regatta and the Belgian International Open Rowing Regatta.

Not to mix up with the other Ghent based Regatta also named May Regatta = International Regatta KRC Ghent but actually organised late ..september or the annual Spring Regatta in April ( easter holidays ) . Member Rita Defauw was several time vice world champion single scull lightweight women in the nineties..

Henley

The club was one of the first foreign winners of the famous Grand Challenge Cup. First in a mix with Royal Club Nautique de Gand and some years later in a homogene crew. Sport Gent is still one of the biggest and for sure most important clubs of Belgium, today. 'Sport' participated several times to the Thames Challenge Cup finals, back in 1983 and 2008 ( 125 years ) .

Their President Patrick Rombaut is also well established at FISA. The actual President of the Belgian Rowing Federation is Gwenda Stevens, Vice President and youth coach of ' De Sport van Gent ' as the famous club is named in Flanders and the Netherlands. The clubs and his rowing blade motive and colours are azure blue and white. Almost similar the national rowing blade of Argentina.

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