Molesey Boat Club

Molesey Boat Club
Location	Graburn Way (informally on Barge Walk), East Molesey, Surrey England
Coordinates	51°24′26″N 0°21′4.5″W / 51.40722°N 0.351250°W
Home water	River Thames
Founded	1866
Membership	700
Affiliations	British Rowing; boat code - MBC
Website	www.moleseyboatclub.org
Events
	Molesey Regatta, Molesey Junior Regatta, Molesey Veterans Head
Distinctions
	Head of the River Race (1st 2010), Henley Royal Regatta (numerous wins)
Notable members
	Martin Cross, Chris Martin, Ian McNuff, Greg Searle, Jonny Searle, Phil Simmons, Andrew Triggs Hodge

Molesey Boat Club is a rowing club between Molesey Lock and Sunbury Lock on the River Thames in England. The club was founded in 1866 where its boathouse stands with hardstanding next to the Thames Path.

Molesey has been the organising or support club for Molesey Regatta since its inception in 1867.

Results

Head of the River Race

2015: 2nd

2014: 1st (of 70. Unofficial as race was abandoned as wind increased.)

2013: Race Cancelled

2012: 2nd^{[n 1]}

2011: 2nd^{[n 2]}

2010: 1st^{[n 3]}

2009: 4th^{[n 4]}

2008: 8th^{[n 5]}

2007: 3rd (of unknown number. Unofficial as race was abandoned after several crews sank.)

2006: 3rd

2005: 4th

2004: Race Cancelled

2003: 2nd

2002: 4th

2001: 4th

2000: 5th

Henley Royal Regatta

Grand Challenge Cup: 1960, 2009†, 2013†^[1] 2015†
Thames Challenge Cup: 1999, 2000, 2009, 2012, 2016, 2022^[1]
Stewards' Challenge Cup: 1963, 1991†, 2007†, 2011†, 2014†^[1] 2017†
Wyfold Challenge Cup: 1892, 1893, 1959, 1978, 1985, 1997, 2015, 2018^[1]
Visitors' Challenge Cup: 2012†^[1]
Ladies' Challenge Plate: 1991†, 2013†^[1]
Prince of Wales Challenge Cup: 2004^[1]
Prince Philip Challenge Cup: 1964, 1993†, 2002^{[n 6]}^[1]
Britannia Challenge Cup: 1999, 2004, 2008, 2019^[1]
Silver Goblets & Nickalls Challenge Cup: 1984†, 1985†, 2000, 2011†,^[1] 2015†
Diamond Challenge Sculls: 1997^[1]

Women's events, most not integrated into main regatta - expanded to three in total in 2014

no wins to date

Henley Women's Regatta wins since 1991. † = composite (with other club)

Ron Needs Challenge Cup:^{[n 7]} 2018†
The GP Jeffries Cup:^{[n 8]} 2017^[2]
Avril Vellacott Cup:^{[n 9]} 2011†, 2009†,^[2] 2018
Vesta Cup:^{[n 10]} 2011^[2]
Sports Council Cup:^{[n 11]} 2008†, 1999†^[2]
Frank Harry Cup:^{[n 12]} 2007^[2]
FISA Senior B Category 1x: 2005
Chairman's Trophy:^{[n 13]} 2018
Bea Langridge Trophy:^{[n 14]} 2003†^[2]
Rayner Cup:^{[n 15]} 2018

Recent British Championships

2009 Women L4-
2011 Open 2x, Open 4+, Women L1x^[3]
2014 Open 4- ^[4]

National Schools' Regatta

2023 GOLD: Championship Boys 4-, Championship Girls 2x, SILVER: J16 Boys 4x, J15 Boys 4x+, BRONZE: J16 Girls 4x
2022 GOLD: J16 Girls 2x SILVER: J14 Boys 4x+
2018 GOLD: Championship Girls 1x, SILVER: Championship Boys 4-, Championship Girls 2-
2017 GOLD: Boys 1st Eights, BRONZE: Championship Girls 2x

Squads and management

The club consists of approximately 700 members, consisting of juniors, novices, seniors, veterans and Great Britain internationals of both genders.

Senior squad. Approximately 140 members. Molesey has been identified as and designated a "High Performance Club" for senior heavyweight men by British Rowing due to the breadth and extent of high standards among this group and professional coaching being available. With women and lightweight categories for both sexes, this is the club's largest active rowing group.
Junior squad. Approximately 70-80 athletes. Closely linked to a number of local schools. The junior system offers rowing from the age of 13. The Junior programme's objective is to build towards success at J18 level domestically and internationally.
Adult development or 'Explore Recreational Rowing'. Approximately 60 members, offers rowing and sculling for people who want to take up the sport later in life with transition to the senior or masters categories possible.
Masters (formerly this category was known in rowing as Veterans) is the largest group in numbers whether or not including the club's discounted-fees Social Members. Masters categories A to H, men's and women's have representatives in most years at local, national and/or international events.

The club is run by a committee of 16 elected members, including the five officers of the club, Captain, Deputy Captain, Vice Captain, Secretary and Treasurer.

Notable members (past & present)

Martin Cross: Olympic bronze and gold: 4- 1980, 4+ 1984
Rowley Douglas: Monkton Combe 2nd 8+, Olympic gold medallist: 8+ 2000
Simon Fieldhouse: World Championships GBR 4+ 2006, 4x 2007
James Foad: World Championships GBR 8+ 2010, 2011
Fred Gill: Cambridge University Blue 2010
Andrew Holmes: Junior World Champion GBR 4- 2009
Tom James: Olympic gold medallist: 4- 2008, 4- 2012
Peter Marsland: Cambridge University Blue 2008, 2009
Ian McNuff: Olympic bronze: 4- 1980
Rebecca Muzerie: 2020 Olympian
George Nash: Olympic bronze: 2- 2012, World Championships gold 8+ 2013, Cambridge Blue 2010, 2011, 2013.
Cameron Nichol: World Championships GBR 8+ 2010, 2011
Dan Ouseley: Olympian 8+ 2004
Tom Ransley: World Championships GBR 8+ 2009–2011; Cambridge University Blue 2008, 2009
Moe Sbihi: World Championships GBR 8+ 2010, 2011, Olympic bronze medallist: 8+ 2012, Olympic gold medallist: 4- 2016, Olympic bronze medallist: 8+ 2020 ^[5]
Greg Searle: Olympic gold and bronze: 2+ 1992, 4- 1996
Jonny Searle: Olympic gold and bronze: 2+ 1992, 4- 1996
Phil Simmons: Olympian GBR 8+ 2004
Ben Smith: Oxford University Blue 2008
Tom Solesbury: World Championships GBR 8+ 2006, 2007, Olympian 2- 2008
Richard Stanhope: Olympic silver: 8+ 1980
Andrew Triggs Hodge: Olympic gold medallist: 4- 2008, 4- 2012
Jim Walker: Olympic Games GBR 8+ 1992, 8+ 1996; World Championships GBR 8+ 1989 (Bronze); Junior World Championships GBR 4- 1986 (Silver)

Attractions

The Molesey stretch allows a 4.5 km navigation from main weir to main weir and is shared with two other boat clubs, the Sunbury Skiff and Punting Club and the Millennium Boat House of Hampton and Lady Eleanor Holles Schools.^[6] The second non-tidal reach above Teddington Lock, banks lack the funnelling walls at many points along the widening reach below, factors which lead to fewer waves on windy days. The club has organised or been the main supporting club for the organising of Molesey Regatta since it was founded, a year after the club.^[7]

The club was the first place that Queen guitarist Brian May used his Red Special guitar live on stage with his group 1984.

Notes and references

Notes

^ of 404 eights to finish.
^ of 393 eights to finish.
^ of 388 eights to finish.
^ of 409 eights to finish.
^ No Molesey international members present
^ Elite international men's coxed fours. Replaced in 2004 to narrow the Britannia Challenge Cup to clubs and so to create the Prince Albert Challenge Cup for students
^ Championship (heavyweight) eights.
^ Senior coxed (heavyweight) eights.
^ Elite coxless (heavyweight) fours.
^ Elite coxless lightweight fours
^ Elite eights
^ Senior coxed fours
^ Aspirational 4x
^ Junior 4x
^ Junior 2x

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Henley Royal Regatta Retrieved 2014-11-14
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Henley Women's Regatta Retrieved 2014-11-14
^ "Full archive of results". Web Archive. Archived from the original on 13 March 2017.
^ "2014 British Rowing Championships Race Centre". British Rowing. 17 October 2014.
^ https://olympics.com/en/olympic-games/tokyo-2020/results/rowing/men-s-eight ^{[bare URL]}
^ Grid Reference Finder distance tools
^ Baker, Rowland G M (1989). "Molesey Boat Club page from "Thameside Molesey"". Retrieved 31 March 2010.

External links

http://www.moleseyboatclub.org/

[1] 404 eights to finish.

[2] 393 eights to finish.

[3] 388 eights to finish.

[4] 409 eights to finish.

[5] No Molesey international members present

[7] Elite international men's coxed fours. Replaced in 2004 to narrow the Britannia Challenge Cup to clubs and so to create the Prince Albert Challenge Cup for students

[8] Championship (heavyweight) eights.

[9] Senior coxed (heavyweight) eights.

[11] Elite coxless (heavyweight) fours.

[12] Elite coxless lightweight fours

[13] Elite eights

[14] Senior coxed fours

[15] Aspirational 4x

[16] Junior 4x

[17] Junior 2x

[h-6] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Henley Royal Regatta Retrieved 2014-11-14

[w-10] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Henley Women's Regatta Retrieved 2014-11-14

[18] "Full archive of results". Web Archive. Archived from the original on 13 March 2017.

[19] "2014 British Rowing Championships Race Centre". British Rowing. 17 October 2014.

[20] ttps://olympics.com/en/olympic-games/tokyo-2020/results/rowing/men-s-eight ^{[bare URL]}

[21] Grid Reference Finder distance tools

[22] Baker, Rowland G M (1989). "Molesey Boat Club page from "Thameside Molesey"". Retrieved 31 March 2010.

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