for Disabled People in This fact sheet provides an overview of adaptive rowing in Scotland. It also provides useful contact details to signpost you to your local club to develop your skills in rowing or to coach disabled people in rowing.

Scottish Rowing how they aim to achieve this, their strategic plan for the four Whether it’s just the sensation of getting out years from 2013-2017 is available to on the water on a quiet morning or the thrill download on the website. of the race, Rowing is a sport that requires fitness, commitment and discipline. In The Scottish Rowing Centre at Strathclyde Scotland there are 27 affiliated clubs with an Country Park is the main centre for adaptive estimated total membership of around 2,500. rowing, offering regular coached sessions as Scottish Rowing represents rowing’s well as opportunities to come and try the interests with , , sport. For more information about getting government and nongovernmental involved, contact Sophie Warburton on organisations. As the governing body, 01698 250206 or email Scottish Rowing also: [email protected].  Provide racing licences to allow Para-rowing and the participants to compete in events; Paralympic Games  Run Strathclyde Park Regatta, the Scottish Rowing Championships and FISA, the international governing body for the Scottish Indoor Rowing rowing, recently agreed to rename adaptive Championships; rowing as Para -rowing.  Help clubs develop and grow their Scottish Rowing use the term Adaptive membership; Rowing for all rowing for disabled people and  Provide access to coach education Para-rowing for disabled athletes on the and volunteer training; performance pathway.  Support aspiring performance athletes Adaptive rowing provides opportunities for on the GB pathway through people with a physical, sensory or learning partnerships with sportscotland and disability to participate in rowing. Para- the Scottish Institute for Sport. rowing events were added to the World Scottish Rowing’s vision is to drive and Rowing Championships in 2002 and to the inspire people to take part and achieve their 2008 Summer Paralympic Games in Beijing, potential in rowing, making rowing Scotland’s China. Since rowing’s inclusion to the water sport of choice. For more details on Paralympic programme, the GB Rowing

Updated May 2017 Team has won gold medals in Beijing and in More information on these courses can be London and are now training towards Rio. found at: The Summer Paralympic Games take place For Level 2: http://www.scottish- once every four years and it is an elite, multi- rowing.org.uk/.../coaching/ukcccoachingcour sport event for athletes with physical ses impairments including those with mobility For Level 3: issues, amputations, blindness, and Cerebral http://www.britishrowing.org/education- Palsy. The Paralympics are a direct parallel training/coaching/level-3 to the Olympic Games - hence the name. The FISA Classifications Helpful Resources Para-rowing YouTube case study: Scottish Rowing welcome people with all www.youtube.com/watch?v=px8F8dIwgkk abilities to try and take up rowing, whether they would be classifiable under FISA Facts & Figures classification rules or not.  FISA, the first international sports Under FISA rules there are three categories federation, was founded in 1892. for para-rowers:  Rowers with a visual impairment race  LTA - Legs, Trunk, Arms: Use of at wearing black-out goggles. least one leg, trunk and arms. Also for  Rowing is the only sport where those with visual and intellectual competitors cross the finish line impairments. Rowed with standard backwards. boats and sliding seats;  Physiologists claim that rowing a  TA - Trunk and Arms: Only use of 2,000-meter race is equal to playing trunk muscles. Boat has fixed seat; back-to-back basketball games.  AS - Arms and Shoulders: Limited trunk control. Boat has fixed seat and rower is strapped at upper chest level to only allow shoulder and arm movements. At FISA events there are five boat events (standard nomenclature is used):  4+ Mixed LTA  2x Mixed LTA (not a Paralympic event)  2x Mixed TA  1x Men AS  1x Women AS Racing is held over 1,000 m (rather than the standard 2,000 m). In mixed events half the GB Rowing Team crew must be male and other half female At London 2012 the GB mixed coxed four of (coxswain may be of either gender and may Pam Relph, , David Smith, be able bodied). Single shells for the Arms and cox Lily van den Broecke and Shoulders category must have won gold, while four-times World Rowing stabilising pontoons attached to the riggers. Champion Tom Aggar and the mixed double scull of Nick Beighton and Sam Scowen Coach Education finished just outside the medals in fourth. UKCC endorsement for a sport means that Aggar and women's single sculler Helene the coach education programme meets a set Raynsford both won gold in Beijing 2008 of agreed industry wide standards. Rowing where Naomi Riches also won a bronze in offers a Level 2 and Level 3 coaching award. the mixed coxed four- the only member of Level 4 is currently under development. the crew to go on and compete at London 2012. The GB Rowing Team's Para-Rowing squad Scottish Rowing Head Office hold trials three times a year. For more Scottish Rowing information on attending trials, or if you think Scottish Rowing Centre you have potential to represent Great Britain 366 Hamilton Road in this sport, please contact Hannah Lawton: Motherwell ML1 3ED [email protected]. E: [email protected] T: 01698 250206 Key Contacts Regional Development Manager (West) & Adaptive Rowing Lead: Sophie Warburton [email protected] Tel: 01698 250206 Coaching & Development Manager Mark Senter [email protected] Tel: 01698 250206 Scottish Rowing Centre Manager John Blair [email protected] Talent Identification Coach Hannah Lawton [email protected] Key Websites Scottish Rowing www.scottish-rowing.org.uk British Rowing www.britishrowing.org World Rowing www.worldrowing.com/rowing/para-rowing Para-Sport parasport.org.uk IPC www.paralympic.org Concept 2 www.concept2.co.uk