Wallingford had a great time at the British Masters Championships with five gold medals, writes John Wiggins.

Charles Parry collected three gold and one silver medal as part of the composite club crew.

He won in the G (65+) quad, G eight and H (70+) double with former Wallingford RC sculler Tom Bishop.

Racing in his single (age 70+ category), Parry came home with silver.

Other multiple medallists were Wallingford’s Steve Pearson, Mike Edge, Pete King and Andy Hull who took gold medals in the D category quad scull.

Pearson and King had earlier won the D double scull while the former teamed up with Edgeto take silver in the E pair.

Hull just missed a medal in the C singles – by 0.01secs to Abingdon RC’s Dennis Engelke.

Abingdon’s Ross Fergus and Kath Hall took silver in the mixed A/B double, before Hall collected a second silver in the women’s A single.

The club’s older quartet of Simon Keogh, Cuan Ryan, Tim Baker and Andrew Troup, coxed by Karen Baker collected silver in the F category coxed four.

In the Marlow Town Regatta, Wallingford won the girls’ J15 eights over local rivals City of Oxford.

Cosmo Hearnden and Jack Halsall also landed the senior double sculls.

Radley College won the boys’ J15 eights and the J15 quad sculls.

The school’s first eight were looking for tough opposition at the Reading Amateur Regatta and came away delighted with victory in the premier event, the senior eights.