CITY of Oxford and Falcon clubs were celebrating after helping Thames Upriver to victory in the Junior Inter-Regional Regatta at Nottingham, writes John Wiggins.

Falcon’s J14 single-scullers shone in the A final, Ed Sharp finishing with a silver medal and May Carter coming fifth.

City’s under 14 scullers Josie Nash and Eilish Turner-Frick in their new boat, won the bronze medal.

This helped the team win by one point to the delight of team manager, Lorna Hermes, Falcon RC’s head junior coach.

There was joy for Oxfordshire crews in the British junior small boats regatta, also at Nottingham.

Adam Teece and Tom Digby, from Abingdon School, followed their win at the February long-distance trials with fifth place in the A final, putting them in line for the final trials in July.

Headington School’s girls were also prominent with four in A finals.

Danielle Semple and Katie King-Smith were fourth and fifth respectively in the single sculls, while the pair of Lydia Currie and Isabel Rundle finished fifth.

For St Edward’s, Tilly Catlin did well in a pair, finishing second in the B final.

St Edward’s younger rowers returned from the Birmingham Regatta with victories in five events.

Maxi Madrian, James McKnight, Jackson Head, Edgar van Es and cox, Sascha Clark-Jones who won in the J14 A quad.

The B octuple of Arun Grewal, Felix Pickering, Ben Deutsch, Harvey Westby, George Eckert, Cameron King, Matthew Colson Lake and Max Morris, plus Oliver Meredith, won their final.

This was matched by the girls’ J15 four of Rebecca Barden, Holly Prower, Amy Waghorn and Sybilla Hamilton with cox, Octavia Hamilton.

The same four, together with Annabel MacDonald-Smith, Katinka Hughes, Ilana Cope, Alex Hearn but with Eleanor Lowther coxing won the J15 eights event.

The last win came from the J16 coxed four of Huw Neville. Pasha Tinkov, George Hayter, Bradley McCarthy and Jamie Galbraith.

Meanwhile, Malcolm Nisbet and Pete Kerswell-Jensen (City of Oxford RC) won IM1 coxless pairs at the Hammersmith Regatta.