Reading came away with rare double by winning both men’s and women’s single sculls title. The junior crews couldn’t quite match this winning gold in the women’s and silver in the men’s.
Reading’s Director of Rowing, Will Rand said “It was a great overall team performance, as all of the crews that made the final scored points for the overall championships”
A number of Reading’s rowers are part of the Great Britain squads and Debbie Flood, who won a silver medal at the Athens Olympics, was delighted to take part and row for Reading: “It was fantastic to be able to support my University at the BUSA Championships. There’s a great team spirit at the boat club and I’m sure we’ll go from strength to strength”.
Reading literally left many
of the top rowing universities such as Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial
College in their wake. In total Reading made it into 17 finals and all
the crews felt their months of hard training and dedication paid off.
| Medal
table for the 2005 BUSA regatta
|
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Club |
Gold |
Silver |
Bronze |
Total |
| Durham | 10 |
4 |
7 |
21 |
| Reading | 7 |
4 |
1 |
12 |
| University of London | 3 |
5 |
1 |
9 |
| Imperial College | 3 |
3 |
||
| Oxford | 2 |
2 |
3 |
7 |
| Bath | 2 |
2 |
2 |
6 |
| Loughborough | 2 |
2 |
4 |
|
| Oxford Brookes | 2 |
2 |
4 |
|
| Glasgow | 2 |
1 |
3 |
|
| Cambridge | 1 |
2 |
3 |
|
| Kings London | 1 |
1 |
2 |
|
| Uni of West of England | 5 |
1 |
6 |
|
| Nottingham | 3 |
2 |
5 |
|
| Bristol | 1 |
3 |
4 |
|
| Sheffield Hallam | 1 |
2 |
3 |
|
| Glasgow Cal | 1 |
1 |
2 |
|
| Newcastle | 1 |
1 |
2 |
|
| Strathclyde | 1 |
1 |
2 |
|
| Sussex | 1 |
1 |
||
| Imperial Medics | 1 |
1 |
||
| Exeter | 2 |
2 |
||
| Southampton | 1 |
1 |
||
| Bournmouth | 1 |
1 |
||
| Birmingham | 1 |
1 |
||
Medals
for RUBC at the 2005 BUSA regatta |
||
| Championship Womens 1x | Debbie Flood | Gold |
| Junior Womens 1x | Tash Page | Gold |
| Championship Womens 2x | Tash Page & Debbie Flood | Gold |
| Championship Lightweights Mens 2- | Chris Callow & James Bishop | Gold |
| Junior Mens 2- | Simon Haberly-Smith & Con Sullivan | Gold |
| Championship Mens 1x | Alex Gregory | Gold |
| Championship Womens 2- | Debbie Flood & Tash Page | Gold |
| Championship Mens 4x | Ben Tipney, David Read, John Brownlow & Chris Callow | Silver |
| Championship Lightweight Mens 1x | Ben Tipney | Silver |
| Championship Mens 4- | Simon Haberly-Smith, Mark Symmons, Con Sullivan & Will Robins | Silver |
| Mens Junior 1x | John Brownlow | Silver |
| Junior Mens 2- | Jono Radcliffe & Garry Pike | 4th
in Final |
| Mens Junior 1x | James Bishop | 4th
in Final |
| Mens Junior 1x | Chris Callow | 6th
in Final |
| Championship Mens 2- | John Brownlow & David Read | 6th
in Final |
| Junior Mens 4+ | Tom Grange, Oli Brown, Garry Pike, Jono Radcliffe & Rachel Eyre | 6th
in Final |
