European Universities Silver

This Saturday saw great success for GUBC as our Men’s Lightweight Pair of Ethan Matthews and Duarte Menezes won Silver representing Glasgow at the European University Rowing Championships. Here is what they had to say about their incredible end to a fantastic summer of rowing.

” Following our win at HIR we travelled to Porto, Portugal where we had a very successful training camp, where we were kindly allowed access to the amazing facilities at Infante Remo rowing club, Duartes home club. The Infante coach Ricardo, also dedicated his time to helping us through our final block of training! Afterwards, we flew to the beautiful city of Jönköping, Sweden to compete. 

“Coming into this event we were confident in our own abilities, having raced together in this category successfully at several events throughout this season. However, we were unfamiliar with the competition and so came reservedly hopeful.

“We spent a day on the course training and adjusting to new equipment before the racing kicked off on the Thursday.

” The Thursday involved racing in a Heat against 4 other crews, we were second in tough condition, a result which saw us face the reperchage the following day.

On Friday we won the reperchage and secured our place in the finals and our hopes of a medal began growing as we analysed our race and times.

Despite the very harsh weather conditions, we were un-phased as we prepared to race our final on the Saturday and we were ecstatic to secure a silver medal.  We were beyond proud of our achievement due to the strength of the field and the long summer of training and organising it took to get there.

“Overall this has been an excellent experience for us both, especially to represent our university to such a degree. We hope that Glasgow University Boat Club can continue to bring such amazing experiences for its athletes and we’d like to thank everyone who helped us along the way”