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Balmain Rowing Club

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Balmain Rowing Club was formed on 7 June 1882 at a meeting held at Dicks Hotel in Balmain. The meeting consisted of local citizens and the mayor and councillors of the then Balmain Municipal Council. That same year the site of Pritchard's Boatshed at the bottom of White Street was purchased and plans
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since the club's inception. BRC is a community based club with a primary focus of introducing juniors to the joys of rowing with a learn-to-row program for novice scullers as well as providing facilities for masters and social rowing .
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rowed in Balmain colours after being given a black-and-gold singlet when he stopped by the club to empty his scull on his way to an 1885 world title race on the Parramatta River. He maintained a life-long association with the
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In the 1910/11 and the 1911/12 seasons Balmain won the New South Wales Rowing Association's premiership pennant and was runner up in the following two seasons. When the premiership recommenced in 1919/20 after
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rowed as a member of the Australian LTA Mixed Coxed Four that finished first in the LTAMix4+ B Final at the
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made to build the rowing shed at a cost of £368. The club is on the same site today.
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by 1968 but was a Balmain member when he first represented in a double scull.
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winning a silver medal in Mexico City in the VIII. He had joined
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is the fourth oldest rowing club in continuous operation on
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Olympic and Paralympic representative members include:
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Balmain
Sydney
Australia
Iron Cove
Sydney Harbour
www.balmainrowingclub.com.au
Sydney Harbour
Balmain, Sydney
Balmain

World War I
Berlin 1936
Gary Pearce
Tokyo 1964
Mexico City 1968
Munich 1972
Sydney Rowing Club
Jeremy McGrath
Rio Paralympics
William Beach


Balmain Rowing Club website



"Early Club Histories"
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