Katy Smith and Rachael Davies represented Wales in the women's lightweight doubles. They were very pleased with their race, and built on their performance at  Nat Champs. Despite being a length down with 250m to go, a big push and a 'Tom Gale' sprint finish meant that they took third place, just ahead of the Scottish double who had won the bronze medal at Nat Champs.

Will Suthers and Richard Twyman, representing England, finished third in the men's doubles, but were again pleased by their performance. Will and Richard, along with Graham Benton, also raced in the men's quads, finishing fourth.

The TSS quad (Anthony Yates, Francis Pinkerton, Anthony Jones and Peter Watts), in a borrowed London boat, paddled down to Westminster from Putney on appalling water at the top of the tide. We then raced a Vesta 4x only a couple of years older and beat them, still in very rough conditions, by three-quarters of a length. We then retired to the House of Lords terrace for a glass of bubbly and a bun, and were given a medal each. Finally we paddled back to Putney on water now glassy smooth, thank goodness - it's quite long way.

The crew - Sebastian, Matthew, Peter and Robert, coxed by Ginnie - were pulled together late in the season when another group member, Ethan, went out for the summer on injury time. When coach Stevo had to up his training for Henley, Kaarin stepped in and set an intensive training regime through the last few weeks, with early morning and midweek sessions that clearly paid off.

Nick S, another member of the intermediate group, won his heat of Junior singles, then came second in the three-boat final.

There was also success for the junior girls: Rachel won WJ14 singles, with Eleanor also reaching the final.

All are J15s except Jonathan, but we thought it worth a try. The trial was a one-off race over 1500m between the five best quads over this summer, and was a really close race. TSS led off the start with York (Nat Schools winners) challenging and briefly taking the lead. TSS pushed away from the 500 to the 1000, where they led by about quarter of a length. Over the next 250 TSS and Peterborough traded pushes, and drew away from the other crews, only for Peterborough to pull away over the last 250 to win by half a length. TSS were second, York third, Tiffin (National Junior Sculling Head winners) fourth and King's Ely fifth. Some five seconds separated the crews. The Peterborough crew had four J15s so performed really well to win, but the TSS crew raced really well to beat the other three crews, who were all J16s.

Rachel, who rows for both TSS and the American School in London, will race at the World Rowing Senior and Junior Championships in Linz, from 22nd to 27th July.

Tash Howard has been named in a nine-athlete group from which the women's eight and spare will be selected, while Alan Campbell retains his berth in the single.