Alex Woods was the star as the host club's members shone at the Wallingford Sculls on Saturday.

Eight wins were recorded by local clubs with Wallingford taking the lion’s share with five.

Woods excelled by winning the elite class in the fastest singles time of the day – 15mins 22secs.

Clubmate Briony Cavell clocked 17.25 in winning the women’s senior 1 singles.

The Wallingford club’s concentration on young scullers continued to pay off and the local club won both the well-supported junior 18 singles events.

The men’s class was won by Simon Steele, 11 seconds ahead of his nearest rival, while Lydia Parsons took the female division with a four-second leeway.

The Wallingford tally was completed by their winning junior 16 quad scull by more than half-a-minute.

Two other youngsters, Holly Holden from City of Oxford and Stewart Innes, from St Edward’s School, also went home with trophies.

Holden took the women’s junior 17 singles, and Innes landed the men’s senior 4 singles with an overall eighth place, the highest ever achieved by a Teddies sculler at Wallingford.

Oxford University's Sarah Cornick, already with three appearances in the women’s lightweight Boat Race behind her, won the women’s senior 2 singles.