Castleconnell Boat Club’s annual Head of the River Competition will take place on Saturday October 29th. Preparations are already well underway. We look forward to welcoming back old friends and also hope to meet some new competitors this year at Worlds End!
On August 20th we ran our annual World’s End Triathlon. It was great success and thanks very much to everyone for their positive feedback.
Special thanks to all our competitors, sponsors, marshalls, safety backup teams, helpers and committee members who helped make this year’s World’s End Triathlon a huge success.
See below for link to the race results and timings.
Click image below for some nice photos of the 2016 event
We would like to wish Stephen O’Connor the very best of luck when he competes in the 2016 World Rowing Under 23 Championships 21 – 28 Aug.
Stephen began his successful rowing career in Castleconnell. He moved to Cork to study at UCC and joined UCC BC. Stephen is rowing next week in the LM4X. with the below rowers
Shane O’Connell (UCD), Colm Hennessy (Shandon) and Fintan McCarthy (Skibbereen).
Make sure you tune in and cheer them on next week!
On August 20th 2016, Castleconnell BC is hosting its 7th annual World’s End Triathlon in the picturesque village of Castleconnell Co. Limerick.
We are expecting over 300 competitors from all over the country to compete in this triple event- 750m swim, 20km cycle and 5km run.
We are sure it will be another fantastic day out so spread the word!
Congratulations to the winning Castleconnell WJ14 4x+ and MJ15 4x+ crews for finishing top of the 2016 Waterways Ireland ‘Row For It’ League.
The Waterways Ireland Row for it League took place over six events and involved races for men & women’s Junior 15 and Junior 14 coxed quads on inland waterways managed by Waterways Ireland.
The Participating Regattas were:
Limerick Regatta
Castleconnell Sprint Regatta
Carlow Regatta
Athlone Regatta
Fermoy Sprint Regatta
Carrick on Shannon Sprints
The winning Castleconnell crews were presented with their winning Waterways Ireland medals at the recent Carrick on Shannon Regatta. Well done to the crews and to their coaches for a great season!
For the first time in many years Castleconnell Junior crews took part in the Carrick-on- Shannon Sprint Regatta over the August Bank Holiday Weekend. Around 50 Club Members travelled to Carrick-on Shannon for the weekend and celebrated the end of a successful season and took part in the lightning fast sprint event.
Castleconnell juniors didn’t let the side down and came away with wins in MJ12 1x, MJ16 2x, MJ16 4x+, MJ15 4x+, WJ14 2x but the race of the day was undoubtedly, The Inaugural Dragon Boat Invitational Race!
Despite some dodgy helmsmanship J….Castleconnell managed to finish ahead of their friends in the Shandon-Fermoy composite boat. It was a wonderful spectacle and epitomised the excellent and friendly spirit of the Regatta and clubs involved.
Many thanks to Carrick Boat Club for welcoming us and for a great regatta.
Castleconnell Boat Club are very proud of Andrew O’Connor and Julia Vascotto who made the 2016 Home international squad. Andrew competed in the Senior LWT 2X event and Julia competed on the Junior women’s sculling team. Well done Andrew and Julia! Great Achievement!
Congratulations to all club crews and coaches who took part in the 2016 Irish Rowing Championships at the NRC in July. Everyone who took part gave it their all and we are very proud of how everyone represented Castleconnell BC over the 3 day event.
The strong club spirit was very much in evidence throughout the weekend with excellent support from our extended Castleconnell BC Family!
Congratulations to our crews & to their coaches who won medals at Champs:
Fionan Crowley & Eoin Whittle who came 3rd in the Men’s Senior 2x and 2nd in the Men’s intermediate 2x
Andrew O’ Connor and James Quinlan took Silver in the Men’s Junior Double
Ruth Kilkenny came 3rd in the Women’s Club 1x Final
Lauryn O’Brien won her WJ15 1x Final
Congrats to the winning WJ14 4x+ crew
(Ciara Kiely, Niamh Kiely, Roisin O’Connor, Rachel Nolan & Cox Rueben Mulligan)
Congrats to the winning Mj15 4X+ crew
(Rory O’Neill, James O’Donovan, Ben Christie, Ben Frohburg & Cox Rueben Mulligan)
John Dillon, Colin Byrne and Brian O’Shaughnessy were part of a winning composite Masters 8+ along with Shandon and UL.
Click the link below to view provisonal results for HOR.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B35RPGdT44TWMkVYcHdRNnR0RGc/view?usp=sharing
