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event for junior boys

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s at the annual

Henley Royal Regatta Henley Royal Regatta (or Henley Regatta, its original name pre-dating Royal patronage) is a rowing event held annually on the River Thames by the town of Henley-on-Thames, England. It was established on 26 March 1839. It differs from the thre ...

on the

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, at

Henley-on-Thames Henley-on-Thames ( ) is a town and civil parish on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, England, northeast of Reading, west of Maidenhead, southeast of Oxford and west of London (by road), near the tripoint of Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buc ...

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open to those who have not attained 18 years of age by 1 September of the year before the regatta and is open to individual crews from boat clubs and schools; an event offered for the first time at the 1992 Regatta. The trophy presented for this event is the cup given to the Regatta by his family in memory of Nicholas Young who rowed for

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and

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Winners

References

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