BUCS Champions.
🥇 Open Championship 8+
🥇 Open Championship 4+
🥇 Open Championship 4-
🥇 Open Intermediate 8+
🥇 Women’s Intermediate 8+
More podium finishes for Brookes with:
🥈 Women’s Championship 8+
🥈 Women’s Championship 4+
🥈 Open Intermediate 8+
🥈 Open Intermediate 4x
🥉 Open Championship 8+
🥉 Women’s Championship 4-
🥉 Open Intermediate 8+
A huge BUCS weekend of racing and performances across the squad.
#brookesrowing #highperformance #bucs
GB Rowing Team Trials 2026 🇬🇧
This weekend, 19 Brookes athletes (17 rowers, 2 coxswains) alongside 10 Taurus athletes lined up against the very best in the country at the Great Britain National Team Trials. Representing across all boat classes, our crews and alumni took on both sculling and sweep events in a full test of depth, versatility, and resilience.
Across the rounds, the racing was fierce. Each step brought a new level of intensity, with performances building as the stakes rose.
A standout result saw Brookes athletes Kai and Sal (alumni of @llandaffrc and @gms_boatclub ) secure the fastest U23 men’s pair of the regatta, delivering a composed and competitive performance. They narrowly missed out on the B final win in a tight race against our own Olympic and World medallists; a strong marker of the standard being set.
Plenty to take forward, and an exciting start as the season unfolds.
#brookesrowing #gbtrials #rowing #highperformance
Over the past two weekends, Brookes women have raced in a series of fixtures against Oxford University Boat Club women, as they prepare for The Boat Race this weekend.
Close racing against both lightweight and Osiris crews, on the tideway in London and back home in Wallingford, saw Brookes women come out on top in some close match ups.
We wish all Boat Race crews good luck
Fastest University winning the Academic Pennant at the 100th Head of the River Race.
Brookes put 4 crews in the top 9.
Provisional results:
2nd
4th
7th
9th
19th
27th
35th
57th (Taurus)
69th
103rd
Thank you to @eightshead and all the volunteers for an amazing event and to @stpaulsschoollondon for hosting us.
#brookesrowing #centenaryyear #horr
The Centurion.
Brookes will be taking on the Championship Course with 9 eights and one alumni eight (Taurus) at the 100th year of the Head of the River Race.
See you there.
#centenaryyear #100years #horr #brookesrowing
Two Days to go until Brookes Rowing take nine men’s eights to the Tideway, with the 1st Eight starting Bow #2.
Wilf and Rory from AllMarkOne spent a morning at their boathouse in Cholsey with the new coaching team of Ali Brown and Morgan Baynham-Williams as they prepare for their first HORR at the helm of Brookes Rowing’s Men’s Squad.
WEHORR
36 Brookes women took on the Tideway at the Women’s Eights Head of the River Race. They raced among an incredible 314 crews, the biggest celebration of women’s rowing on the Thames.
Brookes crews crossed the line placing 9th (time only), 24th, 33rd and 53rd (time only).
Racing at the sharp end, against Olympians and world medalists, while developing the next wave of athletes is exactly what the Brookes Women are about.
#BrookesRowing #wehorr #womeninsport
1 day out from Women’s Head of the River Regatta. Final preparations complete for our 5 8s in Wallingford, as we look to finish off the winter racing season on a high.
#BrookesRowing @wehorr
Derby Day: Brookes versus Oxford
After a two-year wait, the Oxford Derby returned to the Tideway, with three crews on either side fighting it out across two half-course pieces.
In the Blue Boat versus Brookes 1 lineup, Oxford got off to a quick start, moving out to three-quarters of a length. Brookes rowed back to a quarter of a length down around the first bend and were still moving through, before an unfortunate crab ended the Brookes fight. On the second piece, crews were level at the Bandstand before aggressive steering and warnings from Oxford approaching Barnes Bridge saw Oxford come off second best, with Brookes winning by clear water at Chiswick.
Isis versus Brookes II: Brookes got off to a good start, taking a quick half-length in the first minute. This margin was maintained all the way to Hammersmith before Brookes gradually moved away past St Paul’s on the outside station, to win the first piece by three lengths. In the second piece, crews remained level for the first couple of minutes before the advantage switched in favour of Brookes, who went on to win by two lengths again.
Lightweights versus Brookes III saw Brookes dominate both pieces from the start, taking clear water early and controlling the races to the finish.
These fixtures form a key part of our preparation for the Head of the River Race in three weeks time. We look forward to another fixture with Oxford next year.
#BrookesRowing
Happy International Women’s Day
Today we celebrate the dedication, resilience, and achievements of Brookes women, past, present, and future. As training continues for our current squad, our focus turns to the Women's Eights Head of the River Race next weekend, the largest women’s rowing race in the world and a major milestone in our racing calendar.
A huge thank you to the family, friends, and supporters who continue to back our women’s squad as the programme grows stronger each year.
#InternationalWomensDay #BrookesRowing
