Ardingly Rowing Club videos (training & racing), and archives of rowing over the last 50 years from 8 people My archives over 40 years mainly recorded from British television and kept on 28 VHS tapes for 30+ years. The tapes have now been thrown out Rusty Williams collection of rowing videos, which includes training & races from the 80s for UL & Tyrian. Other sources: Stuart Wilson (ex GB lightweight international & world champion) races from the 1979 & 81 World champs Simon Hames of Rob Roy BC (ex GB lightweight), his collection of 14 VHS tapes of the late 80's & 90's Paul Stuart-Bennett (ex GB lightweight international & world champion) 1977 Lwt 8 at World Champs Cath Bishop (ex GB international, world champion & Olympic silver medallist) 1998 races Lucius H Biglow (father of US sculler John Biglow) 1979 & 80 HRR, 82 and 83 Worlds Nat Upton 8 VHS tapes and 9 disks, 1993 to 2012, mainly Boat Races Whilst waiting for crews I was coaching at Head races, I'd often film other crews.
Does anyone have an upload of this that's in anywhere near watchable quality? What the heck is with the video uploads of this race, all in total potato quality. This was broadcast in 2004, it should at least be available in HD somewhere.
I'd never watched rowing before, im remember watching this live at the time and bursting into tears when gb got over the line. Was truly amazing and absolutely brilliant commentary.
Exceptional win by Yale in that semifinal to come from behind against TCD, and well done on winning the Ladies Plate. I was in the Wits University crew that got the drubbing in the final - we got there by getting past Harvard in the morning semi final by a couple of feet, and a win over Ridley College, Canada the day before, also by about a canvass. I was hoping to find some video of those races, so while it was nice to see our crew in action it wasn't the ideal race to see from my perspective ; ) Any idea if there is some video out there of the Wits University crew v Harvard or Ridley HRR Ladies Plate 1980?
If you find anymore HRR 1980 coverage let me know. There is video of the National Championships when Wits raced as Thames RC on this channel ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-F5MT8JfFbFM.html
@@MostynARC Thanks - yes I did see the National Champs footage when we rowed as Thames RC. I was the stroke of that crew. The commentator mentioned that the Thames crew had quite strong South African accents. That was our last race as a crew - for most of us it was our final year at university and our domestic season was over. In 1981 Wits crashed their truck and boat trailer wiping out just about all their boats and severely injuring a few guys. Four of us from 1980 regrouped a few years later and 3 went to HRR in 1984 - raced as Cantabrigian RC, 2 in the boat that won the Thames Cup (made a lot of people justifiably unhappy ) and myself in a lightweight crew, also Cantabrigian - losing semifinalists to one of the Brit lightweight squads in the Wyfold. Those 3 blokes will be at HRR this year for a small reunion. Thanks for the memories - if I find any other video I will let you know. Please do the same.
@@russellbruton164 If I remember correctly you were coached by Peter Jones in 1980 (my old school coach in the UK). Which is why we (UL) had a practice outing with you in the week before the regatta
@@MostynARC Indeed! Lovely guy and a superb coach. Peter came out to SA as coach of a touring Emanuel School crew in 1976 - my final year at school. Were you part of that, and do you know if Peter is still around - he became a bit of a recluse? He was persuaded to come back to coach by some of the parents of guys in the St Stithian's College set up. Turned St Stithians into the premier rowing school in SA, so when we figured we had a half decent crew at Wits in 1980 we asked him to coach us and tell us if we were good enough to compete at HRR. So we got there with his help. I remember that outing with UL, great experience for us. I'm guessing you were the #6 in the UL boat? Incidentally Imperial College came to SA in 1980, rowed in InterVarsity in Cape Town as well as SA champs (I think). Then we drew them in the second round at HRR and raced against them in the heat at Nottingham. See you at HRR?
@@russellbruton164 Peter is indeed a recluse, but we exchange Christmas cards and we met up at HRR a few years ago (he doesnt normally come). Yes I was in the Emanuel crew in 1976 and at 6 in the 1980 UL crew
This is incredible! Gully is my great great uncle. I am so proud of what my ancestors achieved and to actually hear his voice is amazing! If there is anything else out there relating to the Nickalls family I would love to know.
Agreed, the Oxbridge coxes generally become obsessed about fighting for the stream and dont have the nous to understand that the tideway is a complicated place. Looks likes Oxford's fault to me, maybe not in the first 15 secs but after that when they clash. But then I might be biased as I had Christian Cormack coxing UL crews I coached on the tideway.
grandstand ended with the being shown again - my brother in law stated a rather obvious reason why it happened - everybody carried on rowing instead of one or more of them deciding to bail out the water - but i suppose that is rowing for you.
One of THE most emotional and spectacular sporting achievements ever - along with fantastic commentary I remember watching it live in 2000 with tears in my eyes, and 24 years on - it still makes me cry Totally amazing 👍🏼
Do you have the 2008 4- Olympic Final race? I can't seem to find a version of that race anywhere other than the very short low quality documentary edit
Personally, the 1993 Cambridge crew were my favourite Boat Race crew ever. There was a real magic about them that year and they were like heroes to me. Some were saying that they were the first Olympic standard crew ever. I'd only been rowing a few years by then, was 19, and remember seeing them train from the Goldie boathouse. Will Mason's legs were massive! Interesting what they were saying about the late great Harry Mahon from about 10:24. I met him a couple of times in Cambridge and, while I was never coached by him, it was clear that he was the perfect technician. I also suspect that he was from the Arthur Lydiard (a fellow kiwi) school of endurance training - getting the extra miles in!
The tall blonde Cambridge bow man Toby Wallace was tragically killed in 2013 along with a colleague Andrew McMenigall while doing a cycle ride in aid of charity. He competed in the World Rowing Championships, the Coolangatta Gold Surf Ironman Race in 2009 on the Gold Coast of Australia; the world 24-hour solo mountain bike championships in 2009; and also came 10th in the Expeditionary Adventure Race in 2010. He also encouraged and inspired young people to get into sports. A very sad ending.
The hatchet style blades that Cambridge is using were pretty new in 1993, and they surely accounted for some of the difference in this race. Oxford was crazy to not use them.
