Welcome to Milton Keynes Rowing Club

Milton Keynes Rowing Club (MKRC) is based at Caldecotte Lake on the south side of the city, at the Water Sports Centre on Monellan Grove (map). We share access to the lake (which gives us around a 1 kilometre straight run) and a clubhouse with the Milton Keynes Sailing and Canoe Clubs.

We have an active Summer and Winter Programme of races, events and training schedules, weekends and mid-week, as well as social functions. This covers both water training (both rowing and sculling) and land based training (circuits and rowing machines).

Membership is varied and we encourage all levels of rowing and sculling ability, from experienced rowers to complete newcomers to the sport (for whom we run Learn to Row courses). We welcome people of all ages, now including a thriving junior section. We also welcome supporters who perhaps may wish to take their sport a little less seriously or just help with the club's activities.

So if you want to try out a new sport or rediscover the enjoyment of rowing and sculling, just come on down to the club during one of the training sessions where you will receive a friendly welcome or contact us by e-mail.

If you do intend dropping in, please check our race schedule first, to make sure we will be there!

To find out more about the club, please browse the site - to find directions to the club, please click here.

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Cross Channel Row 2013

Cross Channel Row 2013

Massive congratulations to the two MK crews who completed the grueling 22 mile row across the Channel on Sunday 28th April.

Both crews contained rowers from Milton Keynes Rowing Club and our charity partners at MK Dons Sports Education Trust. The all ladies crew completed the row in an amazing 5 hours 14 minutes, taking a huge 10 minutes of the previous fastest time for an all female crew, becoming record holders. The second, mixed, crew were just a minute behind, finishing with a time of 5 hours 15 minutes.

So far, the crews have raised a wonderful £12,300 between them - there's still time to donate and you can do so on-line here Record breaking MKRC crew

MK Regatta 2013 date

Date for 2013 Milton Keynes Regatta

The date for this year's Milton Keynes Regatta has been announced. This year's event will take place on Saturday 14th September. Please put this in your diary now!

Tim wins BR Award

Congratulations to Club Captain Tim Grossey, who received a Regional Volunteer Award from British Rowing CEO Kate Burt at the recent Eastern Region meeting. Coincidentally, this was at the first British Rowing meeting to be held at Milton Keynes Rowing Club. This story, rightly, made the local press

Race Results

Peterborough Spring Regatta 2013

Congratulations to our Men's Novice squad, as both the 4+ and 2x- boats won their events on Saturday, de-novicing in the process. A really good set of races from Kevin saw him win in both crews to lose his novice status in both sweep and sculling in one day! The Sunday races wins came courtesy of the MKRC Juniors, with wins for the IM3 2- and WJ16A 2x- boats

Gold and Silver for MKRC

This year saw us build on last year's result at the British Rowing Masters Championship, coming home with a GOLD and SILVER medal. The Gold went to the Ladies' Coxed four of Lou, Heidi, Paula and Karen, coxed by Becks. Racing as a "C" crew against both "A" and "B" boats (with handicapping) they dominated the race from start to finish to really stamp their mark on this category. Helen and Jenny showed massive improvement, having missed out on the final last year, they powered through to take Silver in the "B" doubles. As well as the medal winners, there were other fine performances from many other Milton Keynes boats.

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