THE perfect rowing conditions yesterday afternoon for the Scottish
Championships produced a session of excellent finals at Strathclyde
Park, including a first national title for Inverness Rowing Club when
Cathie Mordaunt confidently won the women's lightweight single sculls
event.
Earlier, Clydesdale's Gillian Lindsay took the women's open single
sculls title, one of a hat trick of wins for the Olympic team member,
who also stroked Clydesdale crews to gold in the women's coxless pairs
and women's eights.
Not to be outdone, the Clydesdale men's squad also had a successful
weekend. Mark Healy, David Nolan, Tony Hamilton, and Joe Kelly won both
the lightweight and open men's coxless fours titles before joining
clubmates Paul Gissen, Allan Watt, and Adrian Brannan, along with
Stirling's Willie Brown, to win the last race of the day, the men's
eights, ahead of an Edinburgh University/St Andrew crew who themselves
just pipped Aberdeen for second place on the line.
Alistair Warnock (Hutchesons' Grammar School) picked this weekend to
produce his best form of the season. First of all, in Saturday's junior
singles sculls final, he convincingly beat his main rival, Kevin Plank,
of Stirling, for the first time this year, and then sculled just about a
perfect race in the senior event to catch and pass Brown three strokes
short of the finish line.
Not content with these two outstanding wins, Warnock went on to take
the junior double sculls title yesterday along with crew mate Robert
Wilson, of Holyrood School.
In the senior double sculls, a faltering start by Clydesdale's Adrian
Brannan and Allan Watt gave the rest of the field a start of over a
length, but they quickly untangled their blades and set about rowing
down the rest of the field to win by less than a second, ahead of a
Glasgow University/Glasgow Argonauts composite crew.
Aberdeen's squad dominated the veteran events, and leading by example,
club president Bob Newton had victories in the coxed fours, coxless
pairs, and single sculls races.
The Bank of Scotland Scottish Schools Championships also took place
over the weekend and George Watson's dominated the girls' racing while
George Heriot's took most of the main boys' titles. Results:
Men's open single sculls: Hutchesons' Grammar School (Warnock). Men's
lightweight single sculls: Stirling (Plank). Junior single sculls:
Hutchesons' GS (Warnock). Women's open single sculls: Clydesdale
(Lindsay). Women's lightweight single sculls: Inverness (Mordaunt).
Women's junior singles sculls: Clyde (Lee). Men's double sculls:
Clydesdale. Women's double sculls: Clyde. Men's coxless pairs:
Clyde/Glasgow University. Women's coxless pairs: Clydesdale. Men's
coxless fours: Clydesdale. Men's lightweight coxless fours: Clydesdale.
Men's coxed fours: St Andrew/Edinburgh University. Women's coxed fours:
Edinburgh University. Men's eights: Clydesdale/Stirling. Women's eights:
Clydesdale.
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