British Rowing Championships

British National Rowing Championships
Status	Senior (inactive) Junior (active)
Genre	rowing
Frequency	annual
Next event	2023
Organised by	British Rowing

The British Rowing Championships usually take place every year and are normally held at the National Water Sports Centre, Holme Pierrepont (Nottingham), with occasional championships held at the Strathclyde Country Park. The championships originally incorporated Senior and Junior crews but since 2013 have been held separately. However, since 2018 the senior championships have not been held. It is a major event for club rowers and schools and events are held for open, women, open junior, women's junior, under 23, lightweight, adaptive and coastal boats.

Each crew member of the first, second and third placed crews in each event receive gold, silver and bronze medals respectively. The club champion in each event (i.e. the highest placed non-composite crew) also receives a wooden club champions plaque to display in their clubhouse.

History

The Championships were inaugurated in 1972 and held at the National Watersports Centre in Nottingham, which had only been built the previous year.

In 2010, the Regatta adopted the title British Rowing Championships to reflect the change in name of the Amateur Rowing Association to British Rowing. The logo and branding now reflects that of British Rowing. The 40th anniversary of the Championships was celebrated in 2012. Although it has been the practice for the Championships to be held in Scotland at the Strathclyde Country Park every fourth year, the 2014 Championships was held in Nottingham. This was because Scotland hosted the 2014 Commonwealth Rowing Championships at Strathclyde Country Park. Since 2016, the Championships have only been held in Nottingham.

A decision was taken in 2012 that in order to raise the standard of senior competition, the senior events from the Championships would be moved to autumn from 2013. This resulted in the Championships splitting into the senior championships and junior championships, with the latter continuing to be held during July.

In 2019, the Senior Championships were cancelled due to insufficient entries and the 2020 edition was not scheduled, with British Rowing stating it was reviewing the dates and format following the lack of entries for the 2019 Championships. The event has not been scheduled since, with no official statementon the future plans of the Senior Championships.

Dates and locations of Championships

Senior and Junior combined

Year	Number	Dates	Location	Notes
1972	1	22–23 July 1972	Nottingham	Inaugural Championships
1973	2	21–22 July 1973	Nottingham
1974	3	20–21 July 1974	Nottingham	Record entry of 330 crews.
1975	4	19–20 July 1975	Nottingham
1976	5	16–18 July 1976	Nottingham	Entry affected by Olympic year.
1977	6	15–17 July 1977	Nottingham
1978	7	14–16 July 1978	Nottingham	Record entry of 428 crews.
1979	8	20–21 July 1979	Nottingham
1980	9	18–20 July 1980	Nottingham	Entry affected by Olympic year.
1981	10	17–19 July 1981	Nottingham
1982	11	17–18 July 1982	Nottingham
1983	12	16–17 July 1983	Nottingham
1984	13	14–15 July 1984	Nottingham	Entry affected by Olympic year.
1985	14	20–21 July 1985	Nottingham	Record entry of 517 crews.
1986	15	18–20 July 1986	Nottingham	Entry affected by Commonwealth Games year.
1987	16	17–19 July 1987	Nottingham
1988	17	15–17 July 1988	Nottingham	Record entry of 561 crews.
1989	18	14–16 July 1989	Strathclyde	First Championships away from Nottingham.
1990	19	20–22 July 1990	Nottingham	Record entry of 653 crews.
1991	20	19–21 July 1991	Nottingham
1992	21	17–19 July 1992	Nottingham
1993	22	16–18 July 1993	Strathclyde
1994	23	15–17 July 1994	Nottingham
1995	24	14–16 July 1995	Nottingham	Record entry of 741 crews.
1996	25	19–21 July 1996	Nottingham
1997	26	18–20 July 1997	Nottingham
1998	27	17–19 July 1998	Strathclyde
1999	28	16–18 July 1999	Nottingham
2000	29	14–16 July 2000	Nottingham
2001	30	20–22 July 2001	Nottingham
2002	31	19–21 July 2002	Nottingham
2003	32	18–20 July 2003	Strathclyde
2004	33	16–18 July 2004	Nottingham
2005	34	15–17 July 2005	Nottingham
2006	35	14–16 July 2006	Strathclyde
2007	36	20–22 July 2007	Nottingham
2008	37	18–20 July 2008	Nottingham
2009	38	17–19 July 2009	Nottingham
2010	39	16–18 July 2010	Strathclyde
2011	40	15–17 July 2011	Nottingham
2012	41	13–15 July 2012	Nottingham

Senior Championships

Year	Number	Dates	Location	Notes
2013	42	19–20 October 2013	Nottingham
2014	43	18–19 October 2014	Nottingham
2015	44	17–18 October 2015	Nottingham
2016	45	22–23 October 2016	Nottingham
2017	46	21–22 October 2017	Nottingham	cancelled; weather
2018	47	20–21 October 2018	Nottingham
2019	48	15–16 June 2019	Nottingham	cancelled; insufficient entries
2020	-	Not held	n/a	in order to give more time to review future dates and format.
2021-23	-	Not held	n/a	no official statement

Junior Championships

Year	Number	Dates	Location	Notes
2013	42	20–21 July 2013	Nottingham
2014	43	19–20 July 2014	Nottingham
2015	44	18–19 July 2015	Strathclyde
2016	45	15–17 July 2016	Nottingham
2017	46	14–16 July 2017	Nottingham
2018	47	19–21 July 2018	Nottingham
2019	48	19–21 July 2019	Nottingham
2020	49	17–19 July 2020	Nottingham	Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
2021	49	16-18 July 2021	Nottingham
2022	50	15-17 July 2022	Nottingham
2023	51	14-16 July 2023	Strathclyde