Home International Regatta
SportRowing
Founded1962
No. of teams4
CountryRepublic of Ireland IRL
England ENG
Scotland SCO
Wales WAL

The Home International Regatta is a rowing regatta held every year for the countries of the British Isles - England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Events are held for both men and women at junior (under 18) and senior levels, including Para-rowing events. The race has been held since 1962 and each country takes it in turns to host the event. Prior to moving to Cardiff Bay, Welsh Rowing hosted the event outside Wales on a number of occasions in both Strathclyde and Ghent.[1][2]

History

At The News of the World sponsored regatta on the Serpentine Regatta in Hyde Park, a Home International or "Quadrangular" was held between 1962 and 1964. The sponsorship was dropped and the competition lapsed, but in 1966 however the competition was revived with a match in Monmouth in Wales. The following year the competition was expanded to include a junior men's match. Women's rowing followed in 1969 and finally a women's junior match in 1984.

In December 2019 a new format was introduced, to reduce the overall team size, improve competition for places, ensuring that the best rowers get the opportunity to represent their country, and helping to support a more aspirational performance pathway event. This requires all rowers will double up from small boats into either a coxless quad or eight. There are also additional sprint races over 500m in coxless quads and eights.[3]

In December 2021, with the growth of the Beach Sprint format internationally and the prospect of the format being introduced to the 2028 LA Olympics it was agreed amongst the Home Nations to introduce a new event the Home International Rowing Beach Sprints (HIRBS). The first event being held by Scotland at St Andrews. [4]

Trophies

The trophies competed for are as follows (brackets designate the donating country):

Home Nation Racing colours

The racing colours of each country are as follows:

Country Blade All-in-one
England White with the England Rowing logo White with two red hoops and the England Rowing logo
Ireland Green Green with shamrock emblem
Scotland Blue with white saltire Blue with white thistle
Wales Red with white Welsh Dragon Red with Prince of Wales feathers

Home International Rowing Regatta Results

Year Venue Date SM SW JM JW
2024 Strathclyde Park, Scotland ??
2023 Lough Rynn, Ireland 22 July ENG ENG ENG ENG
2022 London Docklands, England 23 July ENG ENG ENG ENG
2021 hosted by Wales 24 July [cancelled - COVID-19] - - - -
2020 Strathclyde Park, Scotland ** 25 July [cancelled - COVID-19] - - - -
2019 Strathclyde Park, Scotland 27 July SCO SCO SCO ENG
2018 Inniscarra, Cork, Ireland 21 July IRL ENG ENG ENG
2017 Strathclyde Park, Scotland # 22 July ENG SCO ENG ENG
2016[6] Cardiff Bay, Cardiff, Wales 23 July ENG SCO ENG ENG
2015[7] Strathclyde Park, Scotland 25 July SCO ENG IRL ENG
2014[8] Inniscarra, Cork, Ireland 26 July SCO SCO ENG ENG
2013[9] Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham, England   27 July ENG ENG ENG ENG
2012[10] Cardiff Bay, Cardiff, Wales 21 July WAL ENG ENG ENG
2011 Strathclyde Park, Scotland 23 July ENG ENG ENG IRL
2010 Inniscarra, Cork, Ireland 24 July ENG IRL WAL IRL
2009 Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham, England 25 July ENG ENG ENG IRL
2008 Cardiff Bay, Cardiff, Wales 26 July ENG ENG SCO ENG
2007 Inniscarra, Cork, Ireland 28 July ENG ENG IRL IRL
2006 Strathclyde Park, Scotland 22 July ENG ENG SCO IRL
2005 Cardiff Bay, Cardiff, Wales 23 July ENG ENG ENG ENG
2004 Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham, England 24 July ENG ENG ENG IRL
2003 Inniscarra, Cork, Ireland 26 July ENG ENG IRL ENG
2002 Strathclyde Park, Scotland 27 July SCO ENG IRL ENG
2001 Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham, England 28 July ENG ENG ENG ENG
2000 Ghent, Belgium ** 22 July ENG ENG ENG IRL
1999 Inniscarra, Cork, Ireland 24 July IRL IRL IRL ENG
1998 Strathclyde Park, Scotland 25 July SCO ENG ENG SCO
1997 Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham, England 26 July SCO ENG ENG ENG
1996 Strathclyde Park, Scotland ** 27 July ENG ENG IRL IRL
1995 Inniscarra, Cork, Ireland 29 July ENG ENG IRL IRL
1994 Royal Albert Dock, England 30 July - - ENG ENG
1993 Strathclyde Park, Scotland 31 July IRL ENG IRL SCO
1992 Strathclyde Park, Scotland ** 25 July SCO IRL IRL IRL
1991 Blessington, Ireland 3 July IRL SCO IRL SCO
1990 Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham, England 28 July SCO SCO IRL IRL
1989 Strathclyde Park, Scotland 29 July ENG ENG ENG SCO
1988 Blessington, Ireland 23 July ENG ENG IRL SCO
1987 Talybont, Wales 25 July ENG ENG IRL IRL
1986 Strathclyde Park, Scotland 27 July - - ENG ENG
1985 Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham, England 28 July IRL IRL IRL IRL
1984 Blessington, Ireland 21 July ENG ENG IRL SCO
1983 Strathclyde Park, Scotland 23 July IRL IRL IRL -
1982 Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham, England 24 July ENG ENG ENG -
1981 Llandegfedd Reservoir, Wales 25 July IRL ENG ENG -
1980 Athlone, Ireland 26 July ENG ENG ENG -
1979 Strathclyde Park, Scotland 28 July ENG ENG ENG -
1978 Llandegfedd Reservoir, Wales 28 July ENG ENG ENG -
1977 The Serpentine, London, England 23 July ENG IRL ENG -
1976 Inniscarra, Cork, Ireland 24 July ENG ENG ENG -
1975 Castle Semple Loch, Scotland 26 July ENG ENG ENG -
1974 Llandegfedd Reservoir, Wales 27 July ENG IRL ENG -
1973 Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham, England 21 July ENG ENG ENG -
1972 Blessington, Ireland 15 July ENG ENG IRL -
1971 Castle Semple Loch, Scotland 17 July ENG ENG ENG -
1970 Molesey, London, England 18 July ENG ENG ENG -
1969 Monmouth, Wales 19 July ENG ENG ENG -
1968 Blessington, Ireland 20 July ENG - IRL -
1967 Loch Lomond, Scotland 15 July IRL - IRL -
1966 Monmouth, Wales 19 July SCO - - -
1965 - - - - - -
1964 The Serpentine, London, England 8 August ENG - - -
1963 The Serpentine, London, England 10 August SCO - - -
1962 The Serpentine, London, England 11 August ENG - - -

'** Hosted by Welsh Rowing.

'# Hosted by English Rowing

The last 4 columns refer to the overall winner in each of the event categories: Senior Men (SM), Senior Women (SW), Junior Men (JM), and Junior Women (JW).

The match winners are found from calculating the total number of points won by each country in each section (e.g. Junior Women). Countries receive 4 points for 1st place, 3 points for 2nd place, 2 points for 3rd place and 1 point for 4th.

Home International Rowing Beach Sprints

Year Venue Date Winner
2024 TBC, England TBC
2023 Saundersfoot, Wales 9 September WAL
2022 St Andrews, Scotland 20 August SCO

See also

References

  1. ^ Home International Rowing official website
  2. ^ Irish Rowing Archives - Home International Programmes
  3. ^ "Exciting New Race Format for Home International Regatta". British Rowing. 16 December 2019. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  4. ^ "Home International Rowing announces exciting new Beach Sprints event". British Rowing. 7 December 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  5. ^ "Scotland's women awarded Dame Katherine Grainger Quaich". Scottish Rowing. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  6. ^ "Home International Regatta Cardiff Bay 2016" (PDF). homeinternationalregatta.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2018.
  7. ^ "Home International Regatta Stratchclyde Park 25th July, 2015" (PDF). homeinternationalregatta.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2018.
  8. ^ "HIR Results 2014 - Google Sheets". Archived from the original on 15 April 2016. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  9. ^ "Home International Regatta 2013". HIR. Retrieved 2014-06-19.
  10. ^ "HIR 2012 Results". Home International Regatta (homeinternationalregatta.org) (HIR). Retrieved 2014-06-19.

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