Archive for month: October, 2009

The official results of the Col Panton Memorial Rowing Marathon are now available
here.

The start list for this Sunday’s Col Panton Memorial Rowing Marathon can be found
here.  Competitor instructions are here, and general information is here.
Please note that the start will be next to the Boathouse Restaurant, not at
Kingston Boat Harbour as previously advised.

The second NTC time trial of this season will be held this Friday morning from the
AIS boatshed to Kingston Foreshore starting at 07:00. Non-participants are asked to
keep clear of the course, particularly coach boats.

The international adaptive rowing classification program has recently been revised,
and the impending changes that have been made will be effective January 1, 2010.
 In partnership with the Australian Paralympic Committee (APC) and in
collaboration with FISA, Rowing Australia will be conducting a Classification
Workshop from Friday 13th November till Sunday 15th November 2009 at the Australian
Institute of Sport, Canberra.

Download the:

• Bulletin #1 (pdf, 348kb)
• Workshop nomination form (pdf, 328kb), and
• FISA Classifier registration form (xls, 24kb)

All forms are due back to Rowing Australia by 23 October.

Racing tomorrow in the Disher Cup Regatta will commence at 08:00 and in a change
back to the original finish, it will finish by the Boathouse Restaurant, Grevilla
Park, East Basin. The regatta is being hosted by Royal Military College,
Duntroon.

• 08:00  Men’s 4+ 
• 08:15  Exhibition Dragon Boat race
• 08:30  Women’s 4+
• 08:50  Men’s 8+

The 5km Men’s eight course will start in the channel between Spinnaker Island
and Blue Gum Point and thence by the most direct route to the finish at The
Boathouse Restaurant in East Basin. The 2km fours course starts from the pontoon
outside the National Library in Central Basin to the finish at the Boathouse
Restaurant. The Anne Curtis Cup for women’s Eights is not being contested this
year.