16th July 2021

Dear [[FIRST_NAME]],

Hello & welcome to an exciting edition of Oar Talk! It's the final countdown to Tokyo 2020 & we are all SO EXCITED!  Rowing WA's function room is set to be decked out in the green & gold of Australia in support of our Australian Rowing Team.

Tomorrow is the first pennant regatta for WA since 2019 & it's awesome to be kicking it off at Champion Lakes Regatta Centre. Nominees have been announced for the Coles Community Rowing Hero - there is still time to nominate your hero. Want to win $1,500 worth of equipment for your club? Then read on to find out how!

All this & more below!  Happy reading!

On This Weekend!
Pennant Regatta #1 - It's Going to be HUGE!

Wear your winter woolies & join us for the first pennant regatta since 2019! Come on out to Champion Lakes Regatta Centre tomorrow to cheer on your crews.

Curtin University Boat Club are hosting & have some AWESOME prize hampers up for raffle! Not to mention the yummy treats that will be on offer!

Click HERE for your up-to-date Race Schedule & Live Results!

Get set everybody! We're on our way to the Olympics!

Rowing WA's "Olympics Live Site" for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics is set & ready to go! Experience the rowing at the Tokyo Olympic Games live, as you cheer on our WA athletes on the big screen from the comfort of our function room!

We invite everyone to dress in your best green & gold & come on down to show your support for our local, home-grown talent.

Rowing WA's Olympic Live Site will be open from 7am to Lunchtime each day of the rowing.

"Olympics Live presented by Westpac"

Check out the preliminary race schedule here.

Coles Community Rowing Hero - Nominations Close Wednesday, 21.07.2021

Have you nominated YOUR Coles Community Rowing Hero yet! No? Well get in quick as nominations close next week & then voting begins!

The top nominee will receive a $200 Coles Gift Card with a $100 gift card for the runner up. Nominees from each State / Territory with the most votes will go the running to be winner of the Coles Community Rowing Hero of the Year!

Click here to nominate your hero!

Our Olympic Rowers Need You WA!

When our WA rowers head to Tokyo, they won't have their usual vocal rowing support in the stands - so we want them to have it in written or pictorial form around them in the tent at the boat park!

Send your messages of support (fitted to an A4 page) direct to Rowing Australia at: info@rowingaustralia.com.au

The message can be written, a drawing, an image with words on it - anything that you'd like to send - to let our WA Olympic rowers know you're supporting them from home!

Rowing Australia is ready to receive your messages for our team!

Everything You Need to Know about Olympic Rowing at Tokyo 2020

Who are the top rowers at the Tokyo 2020 Games in 2021? When and where will Olympic Rowing take place?

Find out this and more right here!

Para-Rowers Overcome Adversity to Secure Tokyo Berth

On 12th July, Paralympics Australia announced the eight-strong para-rowing team set to compete at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics Games.

Congratulations to Erik Horrie, Kathryn Ross, Simon Albury, Nikki Ayers, Alexandra Viney, James Talbot, Thomas Birtwhistle & Renae Domaschenz.

Click HERE for the full media release from Rowing Australia.

2021 World Rowing Masters Regatta, Linz-Ottensheim, is CANCELLED

The Linz-Ottensheim Organising Committee (OC) has cancelled the 2021 World Rowing Masters Regatta. This decision was reluctantly supported by the World Rowing Masters Rowing Commission and confirmed by the World Rowing Executive Committee.

The 2021 WRMR was set to be held from 1-5 September 2021 in Austria. Due to the continuing pandemic and, in particular, the emergence of the Delta variant, it is now expected that the cross-border and intercontinental travel will continue to be difficult, resulting in very low attendance.

Click HERE for the full story from World Rowing

Win Equipment for Your Club!

Enter the 2021 Australian Masters Games for your chance to win sporting equipment to the value of $1,500 for your club!

To celebrate the clubs that bring our sporting communities together across Australia, the 2021 Australian Masters Games is giving participants who enter by the close of the Early Bird entry period (30 July 2021) the chance to win sporting equipment up to the value of $1,500 for their club. Rally your clubmates and spread the word that Early Bird entries are open for Rowing as part of Australia’s best multisport festival.

Find out more and view the competition terms and conditions HERE!