Buffalo Regatta 2014 – Women’s Results

Women’s A 1x (Single scull)

1^st – Kirsten McCann

2^nd – Naydene Smith

3^rd – Kate Johnstone

4^th – Ursula Grobler

Women’s B 1x

2^nd – Krizia Giammartini

Women’s A 2x (Doubles)

1^st – Kirsten McCann & Ursula Grobler

2^nd – Kate Johnstone & Naydene Smith

Women’s A 2- (Pair)

3^rd – Ciara Nutter & Ashleigh Nicholas

Women’s A 4-

2^nd – Leighann Norton, Robyn Phillips, Krizia Giammartini & Imogen Mackie

Women’s A 8-

1^st – Leighann Norton, Naydene Smith, Robyn Phillips, Imogen Mackie, Ciara Nutter, Kritzia Giammartini, Rochelle van Coller & Ashleigh Nicholas

Buffalo Regatta 2014 – Men’s Results

Men’s B 1x (Single scull)

3^rd Charles Stevens

Men’s B 2x (Doubles)

1^st – Charles Stevens & Ben Johnston

2^nd – Darren Venter & Stuart Chamberlain

Men’s A 2- (Pair)

2^nd – David Hunt & Jake Green

This was an extremely closely contested race, and David and Jake performed admirably in their first race together for the season.

Men’s A 2x (Doubles)

1^st – Sizwe Ndlovu & John Smith

2^nd – Shaun Keeling & Lawrence Brittain

3^rd – James Brittain & KG Sotsaka

Men’s A 1x (Single sculls)

1^st – Lloyd Bemelman

2^nd – James Thompson

3^rd – Devon Miller

6^th – Stuart Chamberlain

This event is named the Silver Sculls and holds the highest prestige in sculling in South Africa. Tuks dominated in this event as well. We got all three podium finishes and also 6th place. Lloyd Bemelman won the race in impressive style for the second year in a row.

Men’s A 4- (Coxless four)

1^st – Sizwe Ndlovu, Gareth Maybery, John Smith & James Thompson

2^nd – Lawrence Brittain, Shaun Keeling, David Hunt, & Lloyd Bemelman

3^rd – Michael Voerman, Devon Miller, Jake Green & KG Sotsaka

This event is named the Grand Challenge and is one of the oldest races in the country. We had three Tuks crews on the start line and they took the top three places. The event was very close between the light weight four and heavy weight four but in the end it was the light weight four who took gold

Men’s A 8+

1^st – Tuks Men A Crew

This is the race in which the other Universities had been putting their best work into. We knew that if we were to take home the gold, we couldn't row anything less than brilliantly. With the 8 being made up of the younger guys in the club the pressure was on. The guys came down rowing a relentless rhythm and took 1st place convincingly.