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Tropical Tide Turns Tartan – Scottish Success on the Beaches of Barbados
Posted: 08 December 2025
The Scotland Rowing Team saw great success at the CRA Beach Sprint Championships. The team was comprised of 7 athletes, four senior athletes, and three under 21 athletes, who took to the Caribbean waters to test themselves against the best from the Commonwealth nations.
Scotland Rowing Team | Christian Taylor
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Junior Indoor League and Championships 2025
Posted: 02 December 2025
On Friday 21st November, junior participants from 15 different schools, rowing clubs, and youth groups gathered at Fettes College in Edinburgh for the first in-person Scottish Rowing Junior Indoor Championship under its new name.
Scottish Sport is "Running on Empty"
Posted: 01 December 2025
Sport in Scotland is at breaking point.
Despite a pledge in 2021 to double annual funding for sport to £100m, that commitment remains unmet with less than six months of this Parliament left.
Two milestones, one event - Inverness Autumn Head hosts GBRT U19 benchmarking event and a para-rowing first.
Posted: 12 November 2025
For many rowers in Scotland, Inverness’ Caley Cruisers Autumn Head is an exciting opportunity for crews to race against Scotland’s best athletes in the early stages of each season; and this time round it also saw two historic firsts for the Scottish Rowing Performance Pathway.
The first milestone was hosting a GB Rowing Team U19 Trials event, and the second being the first B1 Visually Impaired athlete (fully blind) to race a single scull down a head-race course (to our knowledge).
Caley Cruisers Autumn Head 2025 – Race Report
Posted: 13 November 2025
Written by Andrea Byrne, Scottish Student Sport Communications Officer & Glasgow Uni BC Member
For many Scottish rowers, the November trip to Inverness marks the first major head race of the season and a chance to test early-season speed. This year’s Caley Cruisers Autumn Head delivered everything competitors could have hoped for, with calm water and tight racing across all divisions.
Inaugural World Champions and a Solo Bronze – Scottish Rowers shine in Antalya at the World Rowing Beach Sprint Finals
After a record 8 Scottish athletes were selected to represent Great Britain at the first World Championships in the LA28 Olympiad, we were treated to another thrilling long weekend of racing in Türkiye.
A record eight Scots selected to represent Great Britain at World Beach Sprint Finals in Turkey
Posted: 04 November 2025
Following on from the three Scots who raced at the European Rowing Beach Sprint Championships in October, GB Rowing recently announced a massive eight Scottish athletes have been selected to race at the World Beach Sprint Finals this coming weekend donning the coveted red and blue ‘hoops’ of a GB World Championship team for the first time at the beach.
Twenty Scottish athletes travel south to take part in first round of 2026 GB Rowing Team trials for U23’s, Seniors & Para athletes.
Posted: 04 November 2025
18 Scottish athletes travelled to Boston last weekend to take part in the first of this season’s GB Trials for Seniors, U23 & FISU athletes.
Image: Scottish Rowing. Boats lined up on the River Witham at Boston.
Your Scottish Rowing Award Winners 2024-25
Posted: 05 October 2025
Thank you to everyone who played a part in the Scottish Rowing Awards.
With a significant increase in nominations this year—and the quality of each submission so impressively high—our staff and board panels faced an incredibly difficult task in selecting the winners!
A huge congratulations to all who were nominated, shortlisted, and awarded.
Your achievements reflect the outstanding talent and dedication within the Scottish Rowing community. We’re proud to celebrate such exceptional individuals and groups who continue to inspire and elevate our sport.
Scots Master the World in Banyoles
Posted: 08 October 2025
Written by Andy Dobson.
For many of us, the season culminates in a small town in Oxfordshire – in one regatta or another – but the sense of an ending here is deceptive. Henley has the history and the Pimms – not to mention a few hundred hectares of blazer-cloth, and more hats than a millinery catalogue – yet in terms of participation, it’s a rather trifling backwater. Rumbling into view at the start of each September is the largest regatta by far: World Masters. The numbers speak for themselves; this year, almost 4,000 athletes aged from 26 to 96 converged on the little town of Banyoles, Spain, forming 5,171 crews to contest 763 races over five days.