The sixteenth Welsh Indoor Rowing Championships attracted an excellent entry of over 400 individual competitors and nearly 30 teams and battled it out over seven and half hours of competition to become crowned Welsh Champions. Commencing at 9.20am and finishing on time with the University Team race at 4.45pm.

It all kicked off with the Men's Fresher event, which is for 1st year rowers in University and which boasted the highest number of participants with 49 doing battle over three heats. Charlie Davis lead home his colleague from Cardiff University Jona Lloyd in a time of 6:37.9 with Leo Butt from Southampton Solent University picking up the third place medal.

The fastest 2k race of the day was the last and what a race it was, Graham Benton set a new championship record overall in the 30+ category in a tremendous time of 5:55.0. His splits for the race were 1:29.1, 1:29.8, 1:28.4 & 1:27.7. A right battle took place behind Graham, but Craig Petersen got the better of Adam Scrivner with both competitors in under 6:10.0.

For a full report and results please see the Welsh IRC section of the site.