
The Fours Head of the River 2023 – Open Academic Coxed Fours Preview
Fours Head is the first opportunity of the season for most university clubs to race against their national competition. Taking to the tideway, most universities
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Fours Head is the first opportunity of the season for most university clubs to race against their national competition. Taking to the tideway, most universities

This weekend marks the return of one of the most anticipated autumn head races: Fours Head. Crews from all corners of the UK will gather

In years past, the championship sweep events have been hotly contested battles between some of the best fours in the country, with athletes from the

The Fours Head sees head season truly get underway, with hundreds of fours and quads flocking to the Tideway. This category is always intriguing, with

This Sunday is the season’s first opportunity for most club rowers to hit the water against their national competition. For this reason, it’s nigh-on-impossible to

With the term now well underway, the student athletes are packing up their lecture notes for the weekend and heading back to the Tideway for

Yet again we find ourselves on the tideway, anticipating another 6.8km down the championship course, from Chiswick to Putney. Student rowers, fresh or returning, will

With a total of nine entries into this years women’s championship coxless four and some impressive competition, the 2023 edition of the Fours Head will

The absence of the National Team squad from the Fours Head and no Oxford Brookes or Leander in this event mean that the Championship Coxless

Fours Head is perhaps the premier sculling head race on the Tideway. With no Head of the River race for sculling crew boats this is

The tradition of The Fours Head has been going on since the 1950s and has only grown in popularity since it started. First held over

The Fours Head is held on the famous racing stretch of the Thames, The Tideway, a 6.8km route from Chiswick Bridge finishing at Putney Pier.

Not all of us are blessed with the coordination to handle two blades at once, and us sweep rowers hear time and time again from

We have a small but strong pack of athletes hitting the water in the Women’s Championship Quad category. Unlike last year, where the women’s championship

The apex of the pre-Christmas run is here. The Fours Head is the earliest indicator of speed we have to take with us into the
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