Sprint ‘Wild Card’ Series – Friday 12th November

The “Wild Card Night Sprints” provides an opportunity for rowers to qualify to compete in the main event.

This year’s event is shaping up to be a cracker with many of the top scullers already signalling an interest to be there. If predictions are anything to go by it looks likely that 20 of the world’s top single scullers will do battle on the Whanganui River. Accordingly, we want to see these athletes lock oars as much as possible so we have built in a new event this year called the Sprint ‘Wild Card’ Series. This year there will be elimination races for BOTH Men and Women rowers. All crews will compete over approximately 500m in a knock out competition, with the winners of the respective races earning the right to compete for a $6000 prize pool in “The Prospace Billy Webb Challenge” on Sunday 14th November, 2010. Click here for application details.

It’ll be fun and frantic watching the rower blitz the course with oars frothing the water in a frenzied blur. We can’t wait!