ROWING

Many congratulations to Oliver Wroe who recently won the inaugural Wilford Sculls on the River Deben, hosted by the Deben Rowing Club. The course of a little over 2km demanded both speed and expert navigation, weaving in and out of the various natural and manmade obstructions the river invariably provides. Oliver won with the fastest time of the day: 11 minutes 29 seconds, just ahead of Steve Fowler whose masters rowing adjusted time of 11 minutes 31 based on his actual time of 11:51 was not quite good enough. To put Oliver’s achievement in context, Steve rowed twice for Cambridge in the early nineties and continues to train and compete at very a high level.