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MBC Olympians: Latest from Beijing

Andy Hodge News

Tom James and I are in the group A of races. To split the racing and spread it out through the week, the whole program is split into two sections, which race every other day. See attached pdf. This gives us a bit of a plus as we finish racing the day before the Eight and some other boats, not only giving us a day to get ahead in the bar, but also a day to support the rest of the team!

Watch the OLYMPIC FINALS LIVE on the Big Screen at Molesey!

Tom Courtney News

Come watch Molesey athletes Andy Hodge, Tom James, Tom Solesbury and Acer Nethercott as well as Steve Rowbotham represent Great Britain at the Olympic Games on the club's New Big Screen. To find out more about each of our athletes, click on their names above.

All finals will be shown on Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th August with refreshments available in the club room. Races will be shown from 8.30am until 11am. Stay tuned for details of semi finals and heats.

Come on down and cheer our boys to Olympic Success and be part of the action! Everyone is welcome.

In future years you can say you were cheering at Molesey when our boys did the business!

Off to Beijing

Andy Hodge News

We’re leaving in 2 hours from the hotel and this pretty much marks the beginning of the end of the last four years! Our physiology is now sealed in the effectiveness of the training over the last few years. We have our rhythm that we hope will make the journey too, but 90% of that is done, with just the last bit of ‘tweaking’ to do. And finally four years of preparation and my mind is a little like... ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! HOLY COW THE OLYMPICS ARE HERE! Only joking, I know we have another year to go! But I’m sure it’s going to go quickly, I recon it’s going to feel more like 10 days. This is kind of lucky, there are still a few things to work on and this year is going to really help to get it right!

First Molesey silverware in Surf Rowing

Ed Boyns Squads

UKSRL Open Championship
26th July 2008, Saunton Sands, North Devon

Conditions:
Surf – 2ft
Visibility – clear
Temperature – 26oC
Wind – Onshore breeze
Water – hot!

After the difficulties encountered in Round 2 of the league with swell and Round 3 with surf skills the Molesey Maruaders surf rowing crew was determined to prove their worth in the Open Championship.

National Champs success for Molesey

Tom Courtney Squads

MBC was well represented at the National Rowing Championships of Great Britain 18-20 July in Nottingham (www.natchamps.org.uk).

The club came away with the following medals and results:

SILVER - Men's Open Eight (Richard Ockendon, James Foad, Henry Ellender, Luke Carey + 4 Ortner lads and coxed by Renae Domaschenz)

BRONZE - Men's Open Coxed Four (Richard Ockendon, James Foad, Mike Valli, Henry Ellender cox - Renae Domaschenz)

BRONZE - Women's Open Single (Jenny Farmer)

4th - U23 Men's Single - Luke Carey
5th - Open Women's Pair - Michelle Vazzie

Some great results to finish off a great season by all Molesey Athletes!

A Giant Season

Jake Lea-Wilson Squads

What a fantastic day to finish our first season with. The last few months have been a rollercoaster of hard work, racing and training. There have been high points and very low points but on Saturday, 19 July, everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves. The Molesey Amateur Regatta was an enormous success and if you were rowing for Molesey Boat Club then it was doubtless more successful. Every few minutes on the tannoy there was another announcement exclaiming yet another Molesey win.

Thames Cup A (Who was in it when the music stopped)

Douglas Bull Squads

As you probably gathered from Ben's report, preparations for the Molesey Henley crews was not quite straightforward and the Thames Cup A was no exception.

Having lost Ben to the coxed four, due to Georges ‘bridge accident’ (a week before Marlow), we thought that would be the last crew change until Henley. How wrong we were. Just two days later we were hit with the news that Dan had been diagnosed with shingles and was not going to be able to race at Marlow and would be unlikely to join us for Henley.

It's Not About the Points...

Mike Trotman Squads

Novice 8 Receiving Trophy at Molesey Regatta At Molesey Regatta, the Men’s Novice 8 entered the event having had just one late evening outing. It was the second time this composite crew (with the exception of stroke man Josh) had raced and was made up of the Novice 4 (Tony Gilbert, Nick Hallwood, Mike Trotman and Jonathan Cotterill) and half of the squad 8 which qualified for the Thames Challenge Cup at Henley this year (Josh Kerman, Tom Westcott, Neil Wands, Lee Turner and cox Bruno Hallwood).

With the whole crew doubling up for other events, this was to be hard day’s racing, not to mention a logistical nightmare!

Men In Black

Ian McNuff Squads

To cries of "bring out your dead" from umpire Matthew Pinsent the Molesey Composite 8 of Roberts, McNuff, Redgrave, Dennis, O'Brien, Garratt, Beattie and Clift - cox Ellison, started it's Henley Vets campaign to win Vet B and Vet C 8s. Every crew member is an Olympian spanning 6 Olympiads from 1980 - 2000.

Weight of experience was matched by weight in the boat. As the sleek, black Resolute shell pushed away

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