Putney Town Rowing Club

We are planning to show some World Cup 2010 games in the PTRC Bar this year. Please come down and support England and your club by giving us your custom instead of your extremely busy and loud local pub!

The first scheduled match is England Vs USA on Saturday 12th June - KO 19:30 (Bar open from 18:30) and others will be scheduled depending on England’s progress! Next round games take place on the weekend of 26/27 June.

Bar open for every listed game (other games may be shown according to demand)

Family and Friends welcome!

Enjoy the best seat in town, with a 42″ Plasma Screen and no waiting at the bar!

We will also be operating a BBQ in expectation of hot weather - please bring your own food and feel free to grill at your leisure!

Hope to see you there- any queries please email: bar@putneytownrc.co.uk

Larry Eggleton,
PTRC Bar Manager

The Putney Town women had a very successful day at Poplar Regatta, May 16, 2010. The racing crew was winning the Greenwich Challenge Cup, WIM2 8+ and the WIM3 8+ category. These wins build on a season of consistent training and a very enjoyable training camp in perfect conditions in Brive la Gaillard, Bordeaux, France, April 2010.

Putney Town winners of the Greenwich Challenge Cup, WIM2 8+ at Poplar Regatta, May 2010. From left: Sofia Nilsson, Amelia Smith, Louise Bartlett, Tuyet Wu (cox), Hayley Cripps, Julie Lewis, Elizabeth McLoughlin, Kelly Thomas and Kate de Bruyn.

The Putney Town men and women’s squads this year visited beautiful Brive la Gaillard in Bordeaux, France for its annual training camp in perfect rowing conditions. The venue and training facilities proved a success. The camp was conditioning both squads for the competitive season with races in regattas such as Wallingford, Metropolitan, Marlow and Reading. The men’s squad is looking to qualify again this year for the Thames Cup 8 at Royal Henley and the women focus on success at Henley Women’s Regatta and the National Championships.

Putney Town Men and Women on Training Camp 2010

Training Camp 2010, Brive la Gaillard

Putney Town entered two crews in the Head of the River Race 2010 and both had great performance with one in the top one hundred and the other crew less than four seconds behind!

Congratulations to both crews – either equalling or bettering the best club performance in recent years.

HORR 2010 - Crew #180 finished 92nd

HORR 2010 - Crew #340 finished 107th

In a recent article in The Times (”You need brass to go for gold“), Matthew Syed claims that sports such as rowing are not as competitive as other sports because you need to have a lot of financial backing to participate in them.

We like to kid ourselves that Sir Steve Redgrave is the greatest British sportsman in history so far, for winning five successive golds in rowing — a sport so elitist that it is virtually non-existent across much of the planet. I suspect that Redgrave would not have qualified for a single Olympic final, let alone won any, had rowing been accessible to, say, 1 per cent of the population of Africa — a continent that dominates running, for which the only equipment needed is decent shoes.

Member Peter Rossi, who learned to row on Putney Town’s beginners course wrote to The Times (”Success, not diversity“) to set the record straight. (continue reading…)

The first race of 2010 (that wasn’t cancelled due to poor weather) took place at the weekend, and we had good representation, and some notable success.

Well done to the girls – retaining the IM3 pennant for the 3rd year.

Pennant Winners - Women's IM3

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Enjoy the best seat in town, with a 42″ Plasma Screen and no waiting at the bar!

• Food available
• Bar open for every listed game (other games may be shown according to demand)
• Family and Friends welcome!

Saturday 6th February 2010

Ireland - Italy 14:30
England - Wales 17:00

Saturday, 27 February 2010

Italy - Scotland 13:30
England - Ireland 16:00

Saturday, 13 March 2010

(Women’s Head Day – Starts 15:00)
Ireland - Wales 14:30
Scotland - England 17:00

See you there!  flyer.pdf

In late December, Putney Town spent a weekend training on the river Avon in Bath as guests of University of Bristol Boat Club. The cold weather didn’t dampen the spirits of the training group and lots of good work was done on the fantastic water, culminating in a piece with UBBC.

Saturday 23 January 6.30pm

Och aye the noo, it’s here again the PTRC Burns night pub quiz and supper!

The full on Burn’s night experience with supper of Haggis, tatties and neeps, as well as a quiz which will be the usual great mix of picture, music and traditional question rounds! With prizes for each round and an overall Champion Team prize!

Quiz kicks off promptly at 7pm and supper will be in the interval. Table service during the quiz means there is no need for you to miss questions whilst you go for a drink.

Supper will have Meat & Vegetarian options for only £5!

Quiz

Team sizes of up to 6 people and don’t worry despite using Burns night as an excuse for having the quiz it’s general knowledge not a Burns or Scottish quiz!
£2.50 per person to enter.

If you wish to attend can you please email your team name and members to ben.melham@gmail.com and if you don’t have a team just email us anyway and we can sort you out with one.

IMPORTANT: Email team details ASAP to guarantee table!

(In previous years we have been overbooked with 100+ people in attendance so get in early!)

PTRC MEMBERS: If you would like to volunteer to help out (club events can only take place with volunteers!) for table service, bar service, food preparation or anything else  please contact lucybrennan7@hotmail.com

View Poster (pdf)

Pairs Head 2009 - Ants and Simo

Putney Town had a good turnout for the race that is for many the first significant race of the Head season.

The weather before the race had looked like truly epic head weather, with the wind whipping up the water and some predicting some involuntary swimming sessions. However, the tide turned and things calmed down a lot much to the relief of all the participants.

The club was well represented and had some good results:-

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