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Australian Rowing History

Past Additions & Updates to This Website

October 2026

For years this site has avoided maintaining videos given there remains so much undone work on rowing history documentation and still images. In October we broke this self imposed restriction and digitised a couple of boxes of rowing movies and put them on the Australian Rowing Images website where we have room to store them. Each video shows a 15 or 30 second preview.

From the Jack Parr collection, which have a focus on Victorian Interstate crews, videos of the following events are added:

  • 1962, 1964 and 1974 National Championships
  • 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968 and 1969 Interstate Championships
  • 1965 Trans Tasman Series - Penrith and Ballarat
  • 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games rowing
  • 1962 and 1963 Nagambie regattas and 1964 Yarrawonga regatta

Also

  • videos from the Ron March collection which cover similar years
  • a superb 8 minute video of 1932 Interstate Championships by the Late Ern Tindall, a Yarra Yarra member - from the Peter Gill collection
  • video of the final stages of 1970 King's Cup final from the David Boykett collection
  • three superb videos of 1970 Australian Rowing team including training, touring and racing from the David Boykett collection

We will also start linking rowing movies to the Australian Rowing History website from external sources such as YouTube.

We are happy to accept and digitise relevant home rowing movies (8mm and super8) and still photographs for inclusion on the Australian Rowing Images website. Have these memories preserved and made available to other rowers to see. Please contact Andrew Guerin at andrewguerin@bigpond.com

"The Story of Victorian Rowing" was launched in September in conjunction with Rowing Victoria's 150th commemorations. It is co-authored by Dr Judith Buckrich and Andrew Guerin. Copies can be purchased from Rowing Victoria.


September 2026

In September 2026 -

  • 2026 World Championships (and World Cup 3) Australian team and results webpage
  • Images of the Australian team at 2026 World Rowing Championships and World Cup 3 on the Australian Rowing Images website
  • Images of 2006 World Rowing Championships from the Hebfotos collection on the Australian Rowing Images website
  • Images of various Australian Universities Championships on the Australian Rowing Images website
  • More rower profiles
  • 1889 QLD GPS race - new research from William O'Chee
  • From the Adrian Maginn collection, images, missing crew names and regatta programs for the following Australian Universities Championships - 1928, 1929, 1930, 1935, 1956, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1982, 1985, 1987 and 1989. Also added is the program for the 1967 National Selection Test Races for the Canadian Centennial Regatta under the tab for Other Senior Australian Crews. Also 1987 Trans Tasman Junior regatta was updated.
  • Separately 1970 Australian Universities Championship was also extensively updated. 

This month a book "The Story of Victorian Rowing" was launched in conjunction with Rowing Victoria's 150th commemorations. It is co-authored by Dr Judith Buckrich and Andrew Guerin. Copies can be purchased from Rowing Victoria.


August 2026

During this peak of the international season, we are struggling to keep up with so much happening.

Additions this month include.

July 2026

This month we are focusing on images with the following image galleries added to the Australian Rowing Images website.

The following regatta programs have been added to this site:

  • Australian Rowing Championships - 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
  • World Championships - 2003, 2006, 2010
  • World Cups at Lucerne - 2000, 2009, 2011, 2014, 2017

And of course additions, corrections and more rower profiles.

June 2026

The month of June was filled with additional rower profiles and additions, much of which will appear later. Specifically most effort went into co-authoring a book on the Story of Victorian Rowing which will be published in September. For those wanting to be a subscriber for this book, please go to the Rowing Victoria website and apply.

May 2026

The May focus was on adding images for the Australian Rowing Images website and included comprehensive sets of images for:

Updated results and more rower profiles to this site are ongoing specifically with 1996 World Championships and World Juniors - detailed race results and images added

April 2026

This month we worked on updates to results as well as additions to rower profiles. No new sections have been added. 

On the australianrowingimages.com website, the following images have been added -

  • 2010 World Under 23 Championships images
  • 1996 Australian Rowing Championships - in progress

March 2026

The focus of March 2026 was to update results to this site and adding images to the Australian Rowing Images website. Of course more rowing profiles will be added as well as other additions.

Specifically, the new images to the Australian Rowing Images website included:

February 2026

During February we completed the chapter on Australian crews who have raced at Henley Royal Regatta. This section is intended to include Australians racing for Australian clubs. It is not intended to capture Australians racing for overseas clubs such as American Universities. The finished product is helpful for those wanting to relive past glories or research those who have raced at this great event. The major researcher for this chapter has been Flynn Snowden.

As per usual, more rower profiles are being added and updates to existing chapters, including -

  • 2103 and 2106 SA Head of the River details and results
  • 2025 Victorian Head of the Schoolgirls results

On the Australian Rowing Images website, more images are being added. Specifically:

  • 2026 Australian Henley Regatta
  • 2026 Victorian Championships
  • 1996 Nations Cup (subsequently World Under 23 Championships)

January 2026

In January ...

Considerable additional work on the History of Rowing Victoria specifically from 1930 to 2023 including history and images. With the 150th anniversary of the commencement of this association in 2026, this history will be completed over the next few months.

Updates to the Australians in The Boat Race with some excellent work from Alistair Taylor.

More information, mainly times and placings, on the WA and SA Heads of the River including:

Please note that we would welcome copies of school Heads of the River programs for all States. Once received, we scan them and include them on this website. Programs are returned to the owner.

More rower profiles as usual.

December 2025

In December -

Also as usual:

  • More rower profiles and additions made to others.
  • Numerous additions and corrections from kind people who alert me to these.

On the Australian Rowing Images website -

November 2025

November 1995 brought the following additions.

On this site:

And of course new rower profiles have been added as well as additions to existing profiles.

On the Australian Rowing Images website:

October 2025

This month ....

Images from Ben Tufnell of the 2025 World Championships have been added to the Australian Rowing Images website.

More comprehensive sets of historical images are also being added from the Hebfotos collection:

Other updates continued with the following additions:

And of course more rower profiles have been added including a very interesting profile on Matthew Draper, coach, high performance manager in two countries, international rowing events specialist, amongst many other skills and achievements.

September 2025

A quieter month in September with a start made on 1994 matters. Additions included:

  • 1994 Australian Championships regatta program

On the Australian Rowing Images website, the following are included:

  • 1994 Henley Royal Regatta images
  • 1994 Lucerne Regatta images
  • 1994 Trans Tasman Under 23 Regatta images
  • 1994 World Junior Championships images

Of course other work continues, including:

  • 2025 World Championships
  • 1994-97 SA Head of the River results
  • Correcting broken links on the site
  • More rower profiles added including past RA Deputy President, Bryan Draper

August 2025

Another busy month. A large amount of work was undertaken updating and correcting links throughout the site. Thanks to Hope Stewart and Alister Taylor for their assistance on this.

This month the following current and past additions have been added:

On the Australian Rowing Images website, the following regattas have been added:

Despite all this work, the focus this month was on 1993 with the following additions made to both websites:

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