May 19, 2020 News British Rowing NewsBritish Rowing EventsRowing CommunityGB Rowing TeamIndoor RowingRowing & RegattaPartners#YourStoriesArchive Winners of the 5,000m and 500m Online Races Indoor Rowing Following the success of the One Minute Challenge, British Rowing last week launched a series of online races and challenges for indoor rowers to compete in from home in association with SAS, British Rowing’s Official Analytics Partner The first week saw the focus on 5,000m and 500m races, and the results are now available! The winners of each category are as follows: 5,000m Concept2 Open Men – James Saxton Open Women – Louise Wymer Lightweight Men – Adrian Nelson Lightweight Women – Louise Barber Junior Men – Lucas Grillot Junior Women – Mattie Sizer WaterRower Men – David Dwyer Other Men – Kenneth Pryor Click here for full 5,000m results 500m Concept2 Open Men – Jamie Langley Open Women – Sophie Gallagher Lightweight Men – Adrian Nelson Lightweight Women – Isabella Pexioto Bertozzi Hanin Junior Men – Teddy Gannon Junior Women – Eleanor Morris WaterRower Open Women – Harriet White Other Men – Steven Mattocks Click here for full 500m results Want to try out some virtual indoor rowing yourself? Check out the British Rowing Virtual Championships - click here to find out more. The next online race is a 1,000m test which will be open for entries between 30-31 May. Before then, however, we are encouraging indoor rowers worldwide to log their training metres on our platform with the shared goal of accumulating, as one singular community, 384.4 million metres – the distance from Earth to the Moon. The challenge was announced yesterday alongside Rowing Canada Aviron, Rowing Australia and Rowing NZ and is open for pre-registrations now! More details here.
