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The Bull Taurus Boat Club Newsletter TaurusThe Boat Club Bull Newsletter Issue 6 of the 21st century — February 2011 Richard Chambers (right), celebrates winning the lightweight fours at the world championships, Karapiro New Zealand, with Chris Bartley, Rob Williams and Paul Mattick Dates for the Diary Taurus on Facebook http://brookes.facebook.com/group. Social Sat 6 March TAURUS TRAINING DAY php?gid=2459861924 Sat 2 July HRR BBQ Sat 1 October TAURUS DINNER Taurus on Twitter http://twitter.com/taurusboatclub/ Rowing 12-13 Febuary GB Trials (Dorney) Taurus is also on LinkedIn 19 February Henley 4’s & 8’s Head as Taurus Boat Club (in Groups) 12 March Reading Uni HORR 19 March Women’s Head To sign up for Taurus membership: 2 April Head of the River visit www.taurusboatclub.co.uk/downloads/ 3 April Vets Head of the River taurusform.xls and send the completed form 16-18 April GB Trials (Dorney) to Simon Speirs. Only £20 a year, a bargain. 17-19 June Henley Womens Regatta 29 June — 3 July Henley Royal Regatta Club website www.taurusboatclub.co.uk The Bull February 2011 Chairman’s thoughts s I sit on the train writing this, I wish I banished by the 100-plus attendees. Now was on the water rather than commuting we have such a following for the event I am Ato London. However as I look back at confident that we will stick with the venue for 2009/10 I am proud of Taurus and what we the future. And if the booze runs out we can go have achieved. to the HCC bar, what could be better? Dinner at the River and Rowing Museum last Following Henley and the frantic Taurus season spring was an outstanding success. Three it is time for a bit of a lie down and preview of well-won Henley trophies on display, a speech the coming year: by Steve Williams followed by awards to James Brown (for services to Taurus) and Pete We are looking to spread the events a bit more Chambers (Taurus Prize). And to finish — as evenly through 2011, and aim to end the year I have become accustomed to at the end of with the annual dinner. a Taurus event — me defusing a potentially tricky moment by apologising for an element of In particular we will be aiming to celebrate wheelchair action. Enough said. the achievements of the year, welcome our internationals home and look forward to the The dinner was closely followed in March by 2012 Olympics and Brookes’ involvement. the London Heads, of which more later in this newsletter. Thanks go to Will Bryant (later a I have of course not forgotten to mention Henley Royal 2010 winner) for rallying the members achieving all sorts through 2010, troops for a ‘young(er)’ Taurus VIII to run over often sporting Taurus colours. Our members the marks at the men’s Head: they finished in have been competing at the Blenheim Triathlon, the top 50. The Veterans Head the next day the Henley Swim (official and unofficial), found a crew seeking revenge for the defeat Wargrave Regatta and various members the previous year. Joe Von M pulled together continue to compete at HRR and Women’s a strong Taurus T1 eight which stormed home Henley. to victory (our 6th in 7 years!) T2 and T3 both made it to the finish without major incidents... So it is all good in the Taurus camp. Thank you for the hard work of the committee members The meeting afterwards at the Spencer Arms without whom we otherwise wouldn’t achieve pub (Lower Richmond Road, near Putney the events. Also thanks to the support of Common) is now a regular fixture and I enjoy Richard Spratley, Henry Bailhache-Webb and seeing Oxford Poly leavers from the ‘80’s mixing Paul Moss, especially when it comes to the with recent Brookes leavers. There may be a London Heads. And of course, thanks for the difference in age but we all have a common support of the members who continue to attend interest in rowing and in Taurus. the events that we organise. The summer brought the Henley barbecue. I look back at the year’s achievements, the A change of venue was sought, following train journey is behind me and I’m really proud the difficulties we experienced last year of Taurus. with a certain Secretary of HRR, oops! [See the November 2009 newsletter for a full Keep doing it, confession.....] Pete Lowe Initial concerns that the Henley Cricket Club, just behind the Little Angel, was going to be too far away from the regatta site were soon 2 The Bull February 2011 Conquering the world - 2010 team in NZ t has been a very unusual year for the British squad: racing for world gold medals Iin New Zealand in November as the rest of rowing in the UK was wrapping up warm and preparing for the head race season. As always there were several athletes very close to Brookes and Taurus involved with the British squad, and we stayed up into the night to watch their races live on TV! Losing out on precious sleep and taking on serious amounts of caffeine was undoubtedly the women’s eight. She was in third position worth it to see Richard Chambers (left with 500m to go, but the late surge of the in picture) win his second senior world experienced Romanian crew proved too much championships in the lightweight coxless fours; for the British girls. No doubt both Alex and the same event that saw him on the top step Caroline will already be focusing on the Olympic of the podium in 2007. It was an incredible qualifying world championships next summer. race that climaxed with the British pipping the Australians by 0.07 seconds, and the first We also had interest in the adaptive categories: five crews finishing in just over a second. James Roe, whose time at Brookes was After taking a year out this was a fantastic followed by him establishing himself in the GB way to return to the scene for Richard and adaptive squad, finished a very commendable we are delighted to congratulate him on his second in the LTAMx4+ behind a very fast achievement. Canadian outfit. Also in that race was Helen Arbuthnot, who was coxing the Irish crew Keeping it in the family, Richard’s younger which finished 5th. brother Peter Chambers, who is currently rowing and studying at Brookes, also made the After the regatta most of the team enjoyed a long trip to NZ. He raced in the lightweight well-deserved break in New Zealand. In our single, and after a very long season that next newsletter we hope to bring you a bit saw him also racing at the under-23 world more about the Chambers brothers and their championships, he finished an excellent sixth. achievements. For now we limit ourselves Pete will be surely pushing his big brother and to congratulating them, and all our former other lightweights during the 2011 selection Brookes athletes in the senior squad on their process. efforts and results, and we thank them, as always, for taking the Brookes rowing name to There was a bit of disappointment for our the highest level. representatives in the open categories. Alex Partridge in the coxless four, after dominating this season’s world cup series and the early races of the world championships, looked like Senior team dates for 2011: a good bet for gold. His crew led the final for three quarters of the way, establishing a * Feb 12th-13th, senior GB trials (Dorney) considerable lead, but unfortunately the difficult * Apr 16th-18th, final GB trials (Dorney) conditions of the Karapiro natural lake got the * May 27th-29th, World Cup I (Munich) best of the British and Alex only just missed * Jun 17th-19th, World Cup II (Hamburg) out on a medal. Also just missing out on a * Jul 8th-10th, World Cup III (Lucerne) podium finish was Caroline O’Connor, coxing * Aug 28th-Sep 4th, World champs (Bled) 3 The Bull February 2011 HORR 2010 - finishing the course Flying without wings — Taurus takes on the Head of the River Race in 2010 fter a successful return to the famous Taurus allowed to defend their place; much to Mortlake to Putney race for Taurus in the joy (disappointment) of some other crew A2009, several ‘survivors’ of that crew members who thought they’d got out of racing decided to prove it was no fluke and try and at the last moment. If they thought it was all make two years in a row. Will Bryant, whose over then… it was five minutes later, as the full time job gives him plenty of spare time, was crew realised the importance training, and charged with assembling a crew, organising being fit, had shown in 2009’s result. training times, and ensuring a valid entry was made, tasks that no doubt have heightened his It was a tough race, and involved a strong appreciation for the work Spratley and Henry battle against a Newcastle University crew, who put in during his time at Brookes. Taurus eventually decided to let through (being generous, you know). Still, our representatives Unfortunately the many commitments of made it all the way to the finish line with a each member made it very difficult, or in gutsy performance against all that adversity: fact impossible, to have any training with the the kind of performance that only a Taurus starting VIII in the weeks leading up to the crew can produce. race; so it wasn’t until D-Day that everyone was present for the roll-call, equipped with electric The most memorable moment for the boys blue lycra.
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