Epic battles, surprise victories, and a stormy twist: It was a thrilling Lake Moodmere Rowing Regatta on the weekend with some great local results. Pictured is Corowa Rowing Club’s successful Female B Grade Quad with coxswain Edie, Sommers, Phoebe, Bella and Anastasia. Photo: Alastair Robb.
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Alastair Robb
The Murray Rowing Association held its very successful rowing regatta at Lake Moodemere last weekend.
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The regatta dates back to 1860 and is one of the most popular regattas on the Rowing Victoria calendar.
Over 500 athletes from around Victoria and New South Wales were in attendance, including most of the big clubs in Melbourne and Geelong.
Racing was conducted on both days with over 300 races in total in glorious weather conditions.
The three local clubs were well represented at the regatta. Corowa Rowing Club showed the results of its great rowing program by winning many events and being competitive in every event they entered.
Corowa Rowing Double gave it their all in this race.
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Alastair Robb
Rutherglen Lake chalked up many seconds over the weekend, just failing in several races to get the win.
Wahgunyah Rowing Club was strongly represented in the masters' events and like, Rutherglen Lake, just failed several times to notch up a win.
A sculler from Corio Bay getting ready to race in her event.
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Alastair Robb
A lightning storm went over Lake Moodemere on Sunday but two hours after the regatta had finished when all the competitors had left.
The highlights for the regatta were the Victorian Sprint Championships for all A grade events, conducted on the Sunday over the short course of 500m.
In these events, Essendon Rowing Club demonstrated its depth of talent and its rowing program by dominating many of the sprint championships.
They dominated many of the female races and they won the female double scull and quad races.
The men singles saw some great racing in the heats. The competition was very strong just to even qualify for the final with two of the previous winners of this event failing to get through to the final. In the final, Charlie Wallis of Richmond surprised the field with a great start and then hung on the concluding stages of the race to take out the title.
In the A grade female single scull final, Julie Finnigan of Nagambie Rowing Club and the local sculler Lily Rose Krause cleared out from the field and traded blows for the last 200m of the race.
In almost the last stroke of the race, Lily Rose was coming home the strongest but just failed to hit the lead on the line to give a well-deserved win to her Nagambie competitor.
One of the features of any rowing regatta is the eights’ races with eight people straining at the oar to produce incredible watts to propel their boat forward. The men’s eights was a great race with the Melbourne High School crew storming home on the outside of the course to take the title on the line.
Essendon Rowing Club won the Redgum trophy for the most successful club at the regatta followed by Yarra Yarra and then Corowa Rowing Club.
Over 500 athletes from around Victoria and New South Wales were in attendance at the Murray Rowing Association’s annual Lake Moodemere Regatta.
A spokesperson of The Murray Rowing Association thanked all clubs in attendance and the Indigo Shire Council for their assistance in staging the regatta.
“Once again, the feedback from all competitors was extremely complimentary.
“Many of the clubs in Melbourne, Geelong and Ballarat love coming up to the region for the regatta and making it a weekend of it. For many clubs, this regatta is pencilled in as their must-attend regatta.
“Together with our sponsors and the volunteers at all three clubs who worked tirelessly over the weekend to make the event a great success,” the spokesperson said.
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