The first weekend of September sees the special Macgregor Cup Interclubs sprint regatta in Nottingham, a key racing date in the year. We were delighted this year to field a team of 26, competing in 70 races. That took quite some organisation – well done Team Leader, Julia Mazur!

We had two members new to sprint competing – brothers Balazs and Benedek Nagy – and three returnees – Amber Owen, Immi Collins and Evan Shephard.

Great team work from all, with some superb racing meant Reading Canoe Club came second overall, with 442 points, out of a total of 50+ clubs. A phenomenal result. Well done Reading sprinters.