COASTAL ROWING AND GB AND WORLDS RACES
The World Rowing Coastal Championships is getting bigger,
better and more competitive each year. It now attracts Olympic rowers from all
over the world to take part in what is often described as like mountain-biking
compared to cycling.
It is a tough sport on courses from 4000 to 6000 meters and
demanding that athletes cope with wind, waves, tides and close combat in a
series of heats and races that are mentally demanding, physically taxing and full
of incidents as the battle around a tightly marked course of buoys.
The events is held close to shore for spectators, and both
televised and broadcast on the internet. There are many followers around the
world and it presents a great sponsorship opportunity.
The sport is set to grow with the aim of being a
Commonwealth Games sport and FISAs aim that it should be an Olympic sport soon.
Jersey has already had considerable success in GB and World
Rowing Coastal Championships. Jersey has consistently placed teams in the top
20 of each event and in 2017 had two gold medal teams in the GB Rowing Coastal
Championships and two in the top 20 of World Rowing Coastal Championships.
The Jersey Men’s Quad will be competing to win the British
Coastal Championships this year and place in the Top Ten for the World Rowing
Coastal Championships in Canada in October.