WALLINGFORD RC won four gold medals, three silver and one bronze before strong winds halted proceedings in the British Masters Championship at Nottingham on Sunday.

Their D category coxless four of Mike Edge, Pete King, Steve Pearson and Richard Smith won gold and were semi-final winners in the coxed event just before racing was suspended.

The previous day there were silver medals in the men’s H single and women’s C quad.

There was also gold in the non-championship women’s D/F fours through Eleanor Bates, Lisa Wardle, Heather Ralphs and Edel McGurk, whose daughter Aoife coxed the crew.

The club’s D quad of Jenny Taylor, Julia Wilks, Rachel Edge and Helen Casey also took gold.

Taylor, Wilks and Edge joined with Laura Forrest, Karen Walker, Alice Brown, Katie Kapernaros, Alison Boyes and Cox Rachel Haycock to win the D eights event.

Abingdon RC’s Bev Ashton won a silver medal in the B singles, while there was a gold for Dennis Engelke in a composite double with Falcon RC’s Naomi Sharma.

There was another gold in the F age category for Abingdon’s coxed four of Simon Keogh, Cuan Ryan, Tim Baker and Andrew Troup with cox, Karen Baker.

The Abingdon RC juniors raced at Marlow Town, where there was a win for the WJ15 quad of Amy Ware, Eleanor Sykes, Leonie Watson and Emily Twinn, coxed by Pippa Mentzel.

Mentzel’s sister, Hetty, coxed the winning women’s Masters C four (Rachel Horner, Sharon Webber, Sarah Leeming and Corinna Demmar), while their father, Kevin, steered the novice four of Alice Rayner, Hannah Greenwood, Elena Georgakopoulou and Kate Walker to victory.Wallingford RC’s Ted Garlick and Ken Houston had a win in the Masters H double sculls.

Abingdon School travelled to Bedford for the Star Regatta reaching five finals and winning each of them – J15 quad, J14 quad and J14 B octuple as well both novice four and eight.

Wallingford RC also featured at the Reading Amateur Regatta with a victory in the School Junior quad sculls for Cosmo Hearnden, James Willcox, Jack Halsall and Matt Aplin.