Glasgow Rowing Club is a

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club, based in the

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area of

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. It is a private club, with no direct public funding. Application for membership is open to all. The club is affiliated to

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History

The club was formed on 4 December 1983 by the amalgamation of Glasgow Argonauts Boat Club (GABC), founded in 1924 and City of Glasgow Amateur Rowing Club (CGARC), founded in 1965. GABC was originally a club for the Alumni of

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, and CGARC was formerly The Printers Rowing Club founded early 1900s. Both clubs had for some years resided as tenants of other clubs and part of the reason for the merger was the shared desire to build new premises. The boathouse, which was officially opened by the

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in May 1997, is located in Silverfir Place on the south bank of the River Clyde, just along from

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. The club colours are yellow and red. These were chosen to reflect the club's origins and were the minor colours of the predecessor clubs: GABC colours were pale blue, black and gold (not yellow) and CGARC were dark blue and red. The oar design has changed from the original yellow with red collar and red tip, through the design displayed, to the current design.

Major successes

In the 2004 UK

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in Nottingham member Lindsay Dick won the women's single sculls event, while her fellow member and partner Alastair Warnock won the equivalent men's event. Warnock also made good progress in the

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at Henley Royal Regatta that year, with one particularly noteworthy scalp in the first round, only to be beaten in the semi-final by the eventual winner of the event. Lindsay Dick won a Bronze medal at the 2006 World Rowing Championships at

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in the Women's Lightweight Quadruple Sculls. At Henley Royal Regatta in 2009 the club set a precedent for Scottish rowing clubs by having crews race in quarter-finals of two different events (the

Britannia Challenge Cup The Britannia Challenge Cup is a rowing event for men's coxed fours at the annual Henley Royal Regatta on the River Thames at Henley-on-Thames in England. It is open to male crews from a single rowing club A rowing club is a club for people i ...

and the

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), although neither crew progressed to the semi-final stage. Previous Henley participation has included Fran Jacob racing in the

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in 2008 and Alastair Warnock who reached the semi-final stage of the

in successive years; in 2004 and 2005. Later in 2009, at the

, Glasgow crews won Men's Lightweight Fours (C. Logan, K. Docherty, J. Logan and S. Scrimgeour) and Men's Lightweight Pairs (C. Logan and J. Logan).Scots excel in Nottingham
''Press and Journal'', 2009-07-20. Retrieved on 2010-03-16 Glasgow also had a share in the composite crew that won the Silver medal in Women's eights. In March 2010, Glasgow members provided the core of a composite crew, along with rowers from

and

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Universities, that won the Novice Academic category at the

Women's Eights Head of the River Race The Women's Eights Head of the River Race (WEHoRR) is a processional rowing race held annually on the Tideway of the River Thames in London on the Championship Course from Mortlake to Putney. A mirror of the Eights Head of the River for mal ...

(WEHoRR).

Honours

British champions

References

External links

Glasgow Rowing Club website
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