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Australian Rowing History

Past Additions & Updates to This Website

December 2025

So far this month ....

The addition of the superb Black Mountain Rowing Club History written by Vincent McMahon in 2011

More rower profiles as usual and additions made to others.

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:

July 2025

The site was not dormant in the midst of an international rowing season. To pay tribute to these current regattas, our sites added:

Back to matters historical. The remaining work from last month on the Australian Masters Rowing Championships pages was completed. Also on the Australian Rowing Images website, a collection of images from 2022 Australian Masters Rowing Championships was added as part of this work.

The focus this month moved to 1992 where the following work was undertaken:

Never a dull moment.

June 2025

As usual June was another active month for the site with a masters rowing focus.

A comprehensive set of images for 2025 Australian Masters Rowing Championships were loaded onto the Australian Rowing Images website. Keeping with the masters theme, photo galleries were also added on to the Australian Rowing Images website for 2014, 2015, 2017 and many other Australian Masters Rowing Championships. Also on this website, the Australian Masters chapter has received a revamp with updates to the home page, and some pages for the regattas in the period 2015 to 2025 added.

Also added to the Australian Rowing Images website have been images for:

And as usual, more rower profiles added.

May 2025

The focus this month focused was 1991 with the following additions:

  • 1991 World Championships regatta program
  • 1991 World Under 19 Championships regatta program 
  • 1991 World Championships detailed results sheets by day
  • 1991 Lucerne Regatta program
  • 1991 Lucerne Regatta detailed results sheets by day
  • 1991 Australian Rowing Championships regatta program
  • 1991 Australian Rowing Championships detailed result sheets by day
  • On the Australian Rowing Images website -

Other additions this month to this site included:

More work has been undertaken on the history of the Australian Henley Regatta which is a fascinating story.

April 2025

Work on completing the 1990 results and images continued in April with the following images added to the Australian Rowing Images website for following regattas:

More rower profiles were added as usual and results for the following events added:

Thank you to Chris Shinners for these and other regatta programs. Thanks also to Jack Hargreaves for contemporary rower profiles.

Of note, there are now 100,000 historical rowing images now loaded on the Australian Rowing Images website and we are only getting started. Further, there are over 2000 rower profiles published on this site and now over 12,000 visitors regularly visit both these sites each month. There is clearly a healthy interest in rowing history.

March 2025

The focus this month was on the year 1990 with the following updates added.

Images from 1990 were also added to the Australian Rowing Images website for the 1990 Australian Rowing Championships.

Other images have been added to the Australian Rowing Images website for the following regattas:

Additional rower profiles and as usual more additions and corrections including the 1952 and 1953 Interstate Women's Regatta programs courtesy of the Coe family.

February 2025

No let up in productivity despite it being the peak of the rowing season.

This month our focus has been on 1989 with images scanned from negative film and added for:

These have been published on the Australian Rowing Images website. 

Also added to the this site have been:

As usual, new regattas are added such as the 2023 APS Head of the River regatta and other additions as received.

And as always, additional rower profiles have been added. Having exceeded 2,000 rower profiles, the aim is now for 2,500. Rower profile contributions are always welcomed. They will be published under the author's name.

Also images for 2025 Australian Henley regatta have been published on the Australian Rowing Images website.

January 2025

Happy New Year to all our readers. The New Year has not allowed the site to rest. The focus this month has been on 1988 with comprehensive sets of images added to the Australian Rowing Images website for the following regattas:

  • 1988 Australian Rowing Championships, the last ARC on the Nepean River
  • 1988 Olympic Games
  • 1988 Trans Tasman Series

1988 additions to this site include:

  • 1988 Australian Championships regatta program and available results sheets
  • 1988 World Lightweight and Junior Championships regatta program, participant list by country, and full results.

Over 2,000 rower profiles have now been published as we continue to add more. This is a significant milestone for this site given the time and effort involved in creating them.

Also added was was a short history of a long disbanded rowing club - Williamstown Rowing Club in Victoria.

December 2024

The focus this month was on the year 1987. This work included providing the Australian rowing community with historical images for that year. Specifically and all from the Hebfotos collection:

To complement this work, the regatta program for the 1987 Australian Championships and other information have been added.

Of course, other work continues including:

  • more contemporary rower profiles from Jack Hargreaves
  • more re-organisation of the back end of the site by web designer Hope Stewart and
  • updates from kind readers of the site.

Merry Christmas to all in the Australian rowing community. May every stroke you take be perfect.

November 2024

The focus this month was on 1986, with regatta program and result sheets added for both the Interstate and National Championships for that year and updated the information available on the 1986 regattas. The big task for 1986 was the scanning of the Hebfotos collections for the 1986 Australian Rowing Championships and the 1986 Australian Universities Championships. These are now available on the Australian Rowing Images website. We now have over 76,000 historical rowing images on this site covering over 400 major regattas.

We also managed to add 2006 National Championships images from the Hebfotos collection onto the Australian Rowing Images website. We are making good progress digitising the Hebfotos collection.

We have started to add annual reports of Rowing Australia and it's previous incarnations at: /rowing-associations/rowing-australia/07-annual-reports. Where we do not have reports, we will replicate extracts of the minutes of the annual conferences written by others of both the Australian Ladies' Rowing Council from 1920 to 1961 and of the Australian Amateur Rowing Council. These provide valuable insights. This work is continuing. We would welcome gaining copies of missing annual reports to replace these extracts.

Also, more contemporary rower profiles are being added through the good work of Jack Hargreaves. This work will gain pace in December as more of his work is published. Updates to other chapters and other new rower profiles continue to be added as usual.

October 2024

During October we continued to undertake updates to several chapters adding the 2023 Australian Rowing Championships, 2024 Australian Rowing Championships, 2023 BSRA Head of the River, 2024 BSRA Head of the River, 2017 Universities Championships, 2023 Universities Championships, 2024 Universities Championships, 2023 PSA Head of the River, 2024 PSA Head of the River, 2023 IGSSA Head of the River and 2024 IGSSA Head of the River. As usual, more rower profiles were added. 

We continued our walk through time scanning several thousand negatives from the Hebfotos collection focusing this month on the 1984 and 1985 years. Specifically images were added to the Australian Rowing Images website for the 1984 Australian Rowing Championships, 1984 Olympic team whilst training in Australia, 1985 Australian Rowing Championships and the 1985 SA Head of the River. This digitisation work will continue in November with now some 75,000 historical rowing images on the site covering over 400 regattas. 

Concurrently a review of the 1980-85 national events was undertaken with programs and result sheets added, where available. This will continue as we move into the second half of the 1980s in November.

Behind the scenes, work was undertaken by our web designer Hope Stewart to enhance speed and lower processor usage given the complexity and massive size of the site - there are tens of thousands of pages.

Whilst this Australian Rowing History website has always attracted many users during the active season, pleasingly it now has a large number of users regularly throughout the year. Also, whilst the Australian Rowing Images website is still in its infancy, it is building a growing and steady number of users. Pleasingly for the editor, these usage figures show a genuine need for such information rather than being just his historical folly.

Website by Hope Stewart—Website Design & Management