The numbers behind the British Rowing Indoor Championships 2025

Dozens of records broken and plenty more awesome bits of data to unpick from the British Rowing Indoor Championships

Rowers love their data and they love their numbers. The British Rowing Indoor Championships was packed full of numbers. Let’s run you through some of the best ones.

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Four World Records were smashed at BRIC 2025, two of which were broken by Edward Owen-Smith of Stratford-upon-Avon BC. He broke the 13-14 500m and 1 minute with a time of 1:34.2 and a distance of 319m. Outstanding. Jeremy Martin took 0.6s off the masters Open 75-79 200m World Record while Vár Guriardóttir Hansen broke her own 1 minute World Record, travelling 366m in the 60s.

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71

Across the two days of racing, 71 British Championship records were broken. This included records from just about every time and distance that was raced over last weekend. John Porter broke one of the longest standing Championship Records. His time of 9:03.3 broke the record in the Masters 85-89 Open 2000m that had been standing since 2015.

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Nine new British Records were set at BRIC 2205.

6:39.8

Lauren Henry‘s win in the Women’s 2000m was 0.2s quicker than her time last year. As a result, she broke her own Championship record. Henry smashed through the Sub 7 barrier along with 11 other members of the GB Rowing Team.

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5:47.9

Just like the women, the men of the GB Rowing Team travelled to Birmingham to complete their 2000m tests. Tobias Schröder led the way, finishing in a time of 5:47.9. Archie Drummond also went sub 5:50 in a time of 5:49.3, while 14 others broke went quicker than six minutes.

1050 volunteer hours

A huge thank you to the 50 volunteers who gave up their time to ensure BRIC could happen. British Rowing is incredibly grateful for all of the support of volunteers at BRIC and other British Rowing events, thank you. Over the BRIC weekend there were more than 1050 volunteer hours worked to help the event run smoothly.

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3000

More than 3000 race entries were submitted for 241 categories which took place over 82 races. Competitors came from 30 different countries to race at the NEC in Birmingham with the largest event being the masters 40-49 Open 2000m, with 96 entries. The oldest competitors were 90-years-old.

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During the Open 100m, which Loïc Schalbetter won in just 12.7s, seven men went below 15s. In her demolition of the Women’s 100m, Hansen clocked 14.9s.

680

680 medals checked and double checked before presentations. Hundreds of gold, silver, and bronze medals awarded to competitors. Countless unforgettable podium celebrations.

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11:23.9

The new record for the Adult Mixed 4000m Relay. What a quartet it was that came together for this. Tug Hard II: Tug Harder was formed of Elizabeth Gilmore, Rachel Fisher, Frazer Brent, and Chris Scott. The Adult Open 4000m Relay record still stands from 2018, set by Cam Nichol and his RowingWOD Black team in a time of 10:09.8. Erg Power Series, who set the Women’s record last year were seven seconds off their own record which they set last year.

2026

Entries are now open for the 2026 edition of the British Rowing Indoor Championships. We can’t wait to see you back at the NEC in Birmingham 5-6 December next year.