Weekend Preview: Busy Weekend Ahead in Ontario Rowing Circles

A total of three regattas will take place during a busy regatta weekend in Ontario, with two running in the Niagara region and one in London. Elsewhere in the rowing world, the third and final World Rowing Cup of the season will be held in Lucerne, Switzerland with many of Canada’s top rowers competing.

One of the regattas in Ontario this weekend is the Row Ontario Masters Championship, which will take place on Sunday, July 10 from the North Course of the Welland International Flatwater Centre. The regatta will be the third Row Ontario hosts this year, after running the Small Boat Regatta in May and the Tony Biernacki Sr. Memorial Regatta in June. The Masters Championships will be a six-lane 1000m sprint race for masters rowers 21+ across all different boat classes from singles to eights.

Competitors from across the province will compete in the Masters Championships, with 14 Ontario clubs scheduled to be in attendance. The Don Rowing Club has the most entries with 24, followed by the Argonaut Rowing Club with 19 and the Leander Boat Club and South Niagara Rowing Club with 16. Four clubs from the United States will also be in attendance. The action will start at 9am on Sunday morning.

The CORA Championship Regatta will be hosted a day prior to the Masters Championships on Saturday, July 9 in St. Catharines. A strong field of over 300 entries from 16 clubs will take part in the CORA Championships, with the Argonaut Rowing Club leading the way with 63 entries, followed by the St. Catharines Rowing Club with 53. The action from Martindale Pond will feature U17, U19, U23, senior, and masters races across all boat classes.

The first regatta to hit the water in Ontario this weekend will be the CanAmMex International Regatta, which will run from the Doug Wells Rowing Centre on Fanshawe Lake in London on Friday, July 8 and Saturday, July 9. National Federations from Canada, the United States, Mexico and the Bahamas selected team members to compete in the event which will feature men’s and women’s junior races in the single, pair, double, quad, four and eight. Two Ontario NextGen Performance Centre rowers, Clara Van Dyk (Notre Dame Rowing Club) and Julia Teixeira (Argonaut Rowing Club), were selected to the Canadian team and will compete in both the women’s quad and single. Eight of the races, which are all straight finals, will be run on Friday morning and the remaining four will take place on Saturday morning.

World Rowing Cup III will begin on Friday morning local time in Lucerne on the Rotsee and run over the course of three days. Canada will send boats to the start line in the men’s single, men’s eight, lightweight women’s double sculls, women’s pair, women’s double sculls (two boats), and women’s eight. At the last World Rowing Cup in Poznan, Poland in June, the Canadian team achieved four top-6 finishes in their return to the World Cup circuit for the first time since 2019.

For more information on the Row Ontario Masters Championships, visit RegattaCentral.
For more information on the CanAmMex International Regatta, visit RegattaCentral.
For more information on the CORA Regatta, visit RegattaCentral.
For more information on the World Rowing Cup III, visit World Rowing.

For the full regatta schedule in Ontario, visit the Row Ontario website.