ABOVE Abingdon
School 1st VIII. RIGHT Alan Campbell at
the recent European Championships in
Belgrade. FAR RIGHT Henley’s traditional progress board
Abingdon school looking for a
record-breaking
fourth successive Princess Elizabeth Challenge Cup victory
T
he delight of Henley Royal is that behind the big international names are hundreds of club, student and junior rowers, all intent upon making their own
reputations. Top of the heap this year will be Abingdon School, who are going for an unprecedented fourth successive victory in the Princess Elizabeth Challenge Cup for school eights. The difficulty of this challenge lies in the rapid turnover of school students, so that many of the top rowing schools have won twice in a row, but until last year’s Abingdon hat-trick, never three times let alone four. There is a chance Abingdon can pull it
off — they won National Schools in May, albeit from Eton by only two seconds —
and coach Alex Henshilwood, himself a multiple PE winning coach, is now back in charge at the Windsor college. There are only four overseas entries this year: two US high-school crews, Canadian school championship finalists Shawnigan Lake, and a German champion crew which are the latest winners from a programme started by former world champion Peter Holzenbein to encourage rowing in schools.
In the equally fiercely contested
Temple Challenge Cup for student eights, overseas entries include five Dutch crews, the University of Western Ontario (Canada), Cornell’s Eastern-Sprints winning lightweights and the Brown and Cel Berkeley (USA) freshmen. Hopes will be riding very high at Oxford Brookes University, which has had a love affair with this event since the club won its first Henley trophy in the Temple 21 years ago.
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