ANOTHER weekend and another crop of gold medals for the Evesham club's junior boys.

The venue last Saturday was Wycliffe Sculling Centre for the Wycliffe Small Boats Head, rowed on the Gloucester Berkeley Canal.

Race times were extremely slow this year, with one notable exception. Evesham's Junior 14 crew shaved a massive 23 seconds off the previous record in the J14 coxed quad event.

The stunning row by Jordan Bunyan, Ben Farrar, Jon Farrar and Tom Noble, coxed by Adam Shirra, was almost perfect in terms of technique and the boys paced themselves well over the 2,500m course to finish more than a minute ahead of their nearest rivals from Gloucester RC.

The Farrar twins also picked up silver in their J14 double after an exciting race between five excellent crews.

The Farrars clocked a time of 12 minutes and two seconds only to narrowly miss out on sharing first place with Gloucester and City of Oxford who rowed 12.01 in a dead heat for gold.

Tom Walker continued his winning streak when bringing home two gold medals. He overcame 16 rowers in the J16 single sculls clocking 10.21, eight seconds ahead of a rival from Kings School Worcester.

In the J16 double sculls, Walker teamed up with Will Tew to win gold in a time of 9.51 almost a minute faster than the silver medallists from Worcester.

Evesham also claimed gold in the J15 double sculls with a strong row from Rory Sullivan and Oli Staite, who have only recently paired up.

In an event that attracted six crews, the Evesham boys rowed the course in 10.06, well ahead of the 10.27 silver medal time for Gloucester's double.

Staite also picked up a bronze in the J15 single sculls, while Tew and Sullivan had to be content with fourth and fifth place respectively in a field of 14 scullers.

There was silver for the women's Senior II double of Teresa Roberts and Tina Bonham who finished behind Hereford.

The coxed four of James Crumpton, Tom Parry, Huw Davies and Fred Hardman, coxed by Tom Noble, rowed a good race in the Open Senior IV event to finish fifth in 11.39.

The boys, aged 15 and 16, have only recently started to row sweep oar - that's with one oar not two - and, with little competition in their own age group, have had to row against men with more experience and strength.

l IN last week's submitted report it was implied that the Senior III Bedford crew had beaten the Evesham course record set by Matthew Pinsent and Steve Redgrave in a pair.

In fact, while they did row a sub-15 minute time, a record for a senior III crew, they were still five seconds behind the Olympians' time which remains the overall course best.