Our international season is all finished once again and we are all officially on holiday until the 28th September. It’s been a great year for the team and personally, it was great to finish it off with the most successful World Championships New Zealand has ever had. It was a credit to the team that [...]

The last three days all the kiwi crews have raced their respective repechages and semi finals and we are now down to the business end of the regatta. Its been a bit of a mixed bag with some very promising results as well as a few disappointments. The Lightweight Men’s Four is the first crew [...]

Yesterday and today we had all the crews race their respective heats to try and advance directly to A finals or Semi finals. If there are less than 12 entries in an event and you win your heat, you go straight to A final. If there are more than 12 entries, there will be a [...]

Since the world cup in Lucerne we have been based in Aegeri in Switzerland training and preparing for the World Champs that start on the 23rd of August. Aergeri is a very pretty Swiss town on a lake that is about 5K long and upto 2K wide. The first week or so wasn’t the best [...]

© Zofka Its been a crazy few weeks with four different Cities/Countries, four different regattas and four drug tests just for good measure. Lucerne is always nice to come back to. It is a very pretty city and the Rotsee is a nice place to row, they call it Gods gift to rowing as it [...]

We have just started into our fourth week of our European ‘holiday’ and just arrived in our fourth different country being Switzerland for the World Cup starting in Lucerne on Friday. The last four days have been spent at the Henley Royal Regatta in the UK and it has been great to go back to [...]

Well we have now been in Europe for three weeks and already I am competing in my third regatta. After the teams success in Munich there was a great feeling in the team and everyone was straight back into knuckling down to make sure we continue or results throughout the season. I stayed with the [...]

Its been a great day here in Munich. The weather was fine, light head wind (if anything) and the New Zealand Crews all performed with distinction. The B finals were yesterday afternoon and after our womans double took the win (7th overall) our mens four could only manage 3rd (9th overall) The A finals started [...]

Day one finished yesterday with some promising results. Our woman’s quad finished 3rd in their race for lanes and Robin finished 4th in his adaptive single to get good lanes for the finals and show they both are medal chances in the finals. Day two of the world cup, we awoke to a slightly brighter [...]

Day 1 has been a successful one for the kiwis at the world cup in Munich. As I said yesterday this is the first chance we have had to see how our training has been going and testing our speed in competition. It is still very early days (being the heats of the second world [...]