Dry, sunny but windy conditions challenged rowers from Bideford Blues this weekend at Paignton Regatta.
The women’s novice fours of Jess Myers, Freya Heddison, Shelby May, Shannon Monaghan and Annie Cook (cox) put in a very strong performance and came home with a very convincing win, (photo to the left)
Jess Myers and Freya Heddison teamed up with Annie Cook, Zoe Robertson with Tina Robertson (cox) for the women’s Senior C fours. This time the girls had to settle for second place.
Jess and Annie joined up with Dave Byrnes and Milo George for the mixed senior C fours and came a very respectable third.
A disastrous start for the women junior 16 fours quads meant the crew of Kirsty Snow, Shannon Monaghan, Jo Moulder, Shelby May and Zoe Robertson (cox) were two to three lengths down off the start. A gate on one of the riggers came undone which made the oar come out causing the boat to become shipwrecked. The girls held their nerve and fought hard to get back in the race and sheer determination pulled them up the field and they narrowly missed out on third place.
It was second place for Declan Monaghan who teamed up with rowers from Bideford Reds, Paignton and Totnes to form a composite crew in the men’s novice race.
Jo Moulder and Kirsty Snow took first place in the women’s junior 16 doubles whilst Jess Myers and Annie Cook teamed up again for the women’s senior C doubles coming home second.
In the men’s senior B sculling race it was first place for Milo George with Dave Byrnes coming home third.
Due to the conditions as the day went on the decision was made to cancel all junior sculling events.