Agecroft Rowing Club

The club regularly hosts a small boats head race in the winter and supports a British Rowing world class start coach.

Both Brendan (England) and Graeme (Wales) have also won National Championship gold medals in 1x and Home Countries Internationals.Graeme has gone on to represent GB at 3 successive Worlds, winning silver and Bronze.

He missed the Rio Olympics due to ill health, but was named as part of the GB Rowing Team for Tokyo 2021[4] after winning a bronze medal in the 2021 European Championships held in Varese.

[5] Zak Lee Green is another successful Agecroft graduate and was part of the GB Lightweight team, having been to 5 World Championships winning a silver in LM4x.

At HRR, under the coaching of Denis O'Neill, the club, in successive years lost a semi-final by one foot, then a Final, then a semifinal, after which Agecroft won for the first time The Britannia Challenge Cup[n 3] in 2009.