National Rowing Today
(N.Z. Press Association) WANGANUI. The main interest will be ’in the senior events when the biggest national rowing championships begin at Wanganui today. In the senior fours both the champion, Hutt Valley, and the main contender for the title, Whakatane, will be striving to qualify in the first heat and avert the need to row in repechage races on Thursday.
More than 1000 rowers have arrived at Wanganui, and fine weather is forecast. In the first heat of the pairs, the 1965-66 champions, J. C. Wilson and A. Ward (Riverton) will compete against an Olympic trialist, R. Satheriey, and his partner, J. Little (Union, Christchurch). T. Just and M. Brownlee (Canterbury) will meet another Olympic rower, J. Gibbons, and his bowman, D. Munro (Star). The single sculling rivals,
M. Watkinson (West End) and T. Bone (Hawke’s Bay) have drawn separate heats and both should be untroubled to win through to the final on Saturday. Auckland appears to have written off its chances of recapturing the champion fours and is making an all-out assault on retaining its eights title instead. Auckland has drawn the top South Island crews— Union (Canterbury) and Oamaru—in the last heat of the fours.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19690225.2.164
Bibliographic details
Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31922, 25 February 1969, Page 19
Word Count
200National Rowing Today Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31922, 25 February 1969, Page 19
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.