The Scullers Head of the River Race is a rowing race held annually on the River Thames Championship Course from Mortlake to Putney, open to single scullers only.
The race is held in November or early December each year on a week usually to suit the mid-morning or mid-afternoon timing of the ebb tide.
The Scullers Head was first raced in 1954 when it was won by John Marsden.
The race gains enough entries to organise the greatest number of marshalls for any singles event on the Thames and it draws considerably more overseas single scullers than the same race held in reverse usually three to four weeks before, the Wingfield Sculls, which dates to the middle of the 19th century.
[2] The race is organised by Vesta Rowing Club, Putney, London.