Australian Rowing Championships

Rowers at the National Regatta race in their local club colours with composite crews permitted.

Watchorn, donated the President's Cup in 1925 as the perpetual trophy for the annual Australian Interstate Single Sculling Championship.

In 1999 the women's interstate race was changed to an event for VIIIs with the Queen's Cup as the prize.

Of the seventy-eight occasions between 1920 and 1999 that the race was held in IVs, New South Wales won thirty-one times with eleven of those victories consecutive between 1955 and 1965.

From 1968 until 1998 the premier women's lightweight interstate event was the Victoria Cup competed for by coxless IVs.

[7] Since 1974 men's youth crews have competed at the state representative level for the Noel Wilkinson Cup.

In the first thirty-seven years of competition for the title up till 2011, Victoria were the most consistent winners with seventeen wins, followed by New South Wales with ten victories.

In the sixteen regattas at which it was presented up till 2014, the Zurich Cup was won on eleven occasions by Victoria, thrice by New South Wales and by Queensland in 2003 and 2014.

[11] The National Regatta currently includes a diverse program of club and school events.

A separate National Regatta was held with distinct dates and venue from the Interstate Championships as follows: