Waihopai Rowing Club
Invercargill, Southland
Rows from Sandy Point Road in Invercargill, with novice, club, masters and social or recreational rowers.
Visit the club websiteAbout this club
Waihopai Rowing Club is based at 97 Sandy Point Road, Invercargill, in Southland. The club was established in 1887 and marked its 125th anniversary in 2012.
It caters for novice, club, masters and social or recreational rowers, with novice training every Sunday at 9am. Social and recreational members can race in the Presidents grade at local regattas.
Racing includes five local regattas from November to March, monthly winter long-distance races on the Oreti River leading to the 16 km Cromwell to Clyde race on Lake Dunstan, the Otago, Canterbury and South Island Championships, and the New Zealand club and secondary school championships.
Waihopai was named New Zealand Rowing Club of the Year in 2012 and won the NZ Centennial Scull in 2011-12. The club states that it has won the aggregate trophy for most points at local regattas for 34 of the past 35 years, and that two of its rowers competed at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games and three at the 2012 Games.
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