WORCESTER Rowing Club followed up their success in winning the Victor Ludorum for the most successful club at Bewdley Regatta with another top club trophy at Peterbor-ough Regatta.

This gave the Pitchcroft club a total of 24 wins in the two regattas.

At Peterborough, the men's senior squad of James Davis, Peter Crozier, Mark Johnson, Gareth Hooper, Jon Hayward, Tim Oswin, Ian Townsend, Chris Farr, Jeremy Richard-son, Matt Norman, and cox Letty Lam won the premier event, the senior one eights title on both days.

They also took the open fours title against York City in a nail-biting photo-finish.

These wins were made even more remarkable as six of the squad did not fly in from holidays until 4am in the morning.

The Worcester novice four team of Richard Lee, Dan Rutherford, Chris James, Jon Roberts, Ben Morris and cox Anne O'Connell, racing at their first regatta, lost out on the first day.

Unluckily, they drew the least favoured lane which meant they raced into a strong head-wind.

After leading the race off the start they hit the head-wind at the 250-metre mark and were unable to sustain their lead and lost by a length.

The next day, however, the four won their first heat, taking them straight into the final where they met the strong Broxbourne crew, City of Cambridge and Nottingham Rowing Clubs to make a strong four-lane final.

Although Worcester won by only three feet, they were always in control of the race and, with some excellent coxing from O'Connell, they never looked like losing .

The women's squad of Alexa Taylor, An Van Hefte, Gina Packwood, Kate Atwood, Lau-ra Williams, Miriam Culver, Natalie Tomms, Serena Car-michael, Tracy Jukes, Sarah Thick, Rachel Pratley, Laura Neath, Miriam Lemon also impressed.

After storming Bewdley Regatta with wins on both days, they had to move up a class at Peterborough.

They acquitted themselves well but were unable to match the speed of the Auriol Ken-sington crew.

The following day in a straight final against crews from Newark, Nottingham and St Neot's, Worcester put up their best effort and made the silver position their own, losing by just one second to the winners St Neot's.

Jane Fisher with Jill Salvin competed in the double sculls event and were unlucky not to make the final.

Fisher made up for that disappointment by winning the women's senior two event, beating opponents from Lon-don and Norwich.

Claire Crozier continued her outstanding form this year.

After returning from the Commonwealth Champion-ships where she represented Wales in the pairs and eights, finishing second to England, Crozier won the elite sculls on both days beating scullers from Molesey and the Tideway club comfortably.

She has now become the most successful woman rower in the Worcester club's 135- year history, winning three Henley medals, three gold medals at the home countries international matches and also representing Great Brit-ain at U23 level, while continuing to win elite pairs and sculling events at regattas throughout the country.