Chester-le-Street Amateur Rowing Club

17/06/2026

We are delighted to announce we are working with British Rowing for another year of supported Learn to Row Courses at CLS ARC, each of our courses are 6 weeks long for any children 10+!

A new course will start every month for the next 18 months thanks to the brilliant support of British Rowing and we can’t wait to get started, July link below:

https://britishrowing.justgo.com/weblets/load/Events/77778f3b-1e94-44fc-8217-e70f15953333/details/246B7904AAB46572AA5995F0F6F44AF9347BF42D

16/06/2026

Let’s go Lauren! June 26th World Cup III

16/06/2026

Durham Regatta 2026 ✅

As always Durham Regatta delivered a weekend filled with high quality racing with our athletes bringing home some excellent wins across the weekend! A big thank you to all volunteers, coaches and parents who pitched in over what is a long weekend with a lot of hands needed to make it a success!

CLS event winners are as follows:
WJ18 1x: Olivia Tute
WJ16 1x: Beau Gritton
WElite 1x: Susie Youlton
WJ Champ 2x: Beau Gritton, Olivia Lewis CBS
J14 8x+:Tom Howard,Isaac Johnson +CBS & TYN
J14 4x+: Tom Howard, Isaac Johnson +TYN
WChamp 1x: Susie Youlton

Great work team….Next stop Talkin Tarn Amateur Rowing Club

09/06/2026

Scottish Championship 2026 - it was great to see 2 of our members winning medals rowing for their universities.

🥇 W4- Maya Matheson-Smith (University Rowing Aberdeen)

🥇 Op Nov 4x+ Lewis Allinson (Sunderland University)

🥈 Op Nov 2x Lewis Allinson (Sunderland University)

Maya & Lewis are both active members of our club and provide valuable support to our adult section - thank you 🤩❤️💙

08/06/2026

Scottish Champs ✅

What an amazing weekend for the team at Strathclyde park for the Scottish Rowing Championships, lots of medals to call out below so we will keep it short on the stats:
Out of 14 events entered we made the final in 13 of them while the junior squad converted 12 events into 12 podium finishes winning medals in 11 events.

A 92% event to medal win rate is simply outstanding and we are unbelievably proud of our juniors, seniors and masters representing the club this weekend! Medal list below:

Simon Graham +INF: J16 4+ Silver
Beau Gritton, Olivia Lewis CBS: WJ16 2x Gold
Nick Twinn: J16 1x Silver
Olivia Tute: WINT 1x Silver
Ben Hutchinson: J15 1x Silver
Elliot Flood: J15 1x Bronze
Isaac Johnson, Tom Howard: J14 2x Silver
Elliot Flood, Ben Hutchinson: J15 2x Gold
Simon Graham, Nick Twinn: J16 2x Silver
Tom Howard, Isaac Johnson +TYN: J14 4x Gold
Maya Smith +URA: W4- Gold
Lewis Allison +SUN: ONov 2x Silver
Lewis Allison+SUN: ONov 4x Gold

With special mentions to our masters women losing out at the semi final on Saturday and coming 4th overall Sunday.

06/06/2026

Day 1 of Scottish champs done! On a day where over 400 boats took to the water, team CLS had an epic day mirroring 2025’s super Scottish Saturday! We had entries across 6 different events and came home with 6 medals! A shout out to Tracy and Dawn our masters ladies who bravely took ok the open doubles category and had a great semi final race!

A big stat to call out is our juniors brought home more medals than events entered! Super effort!

Medal winners from day 1 are as follows:
Olivia Tute WINT1x Silver
Nick Twinn J161x Silver
Simon Graham +INF J16 4+ Silver
Beau Gritton, Olivia Lewis CBS WJ16 2x GOLD!
Ben Hutchinson J15 1x Silver
Elliot Flood J15 1x Bronze

We are back at it tomorrow with more of our members racing and ready to bring more medals home to CLS!

01/06/2026

What a weekend! With members racing across three different regattas we have had some great results! We had athletes at Wansbeck Regatta, The Met and the Rowing World Cup, unbelievably the weather was comparable across all three locations!

At Wansbeck, a delayed start didn’t slow down a great days racing with wins in the following
-WJ18 2x
-WJ18 1x
-WJ13 1x
-Mx 2x
-J14 4x+
-J16 2x
-Op 2x

Then in Eton we had Susie Youlton racing on both Saturday and Sunday coming in 4th and 3rd respectively in the WU23 1x!

Finally in Seville, club lifetime member Lauren Irwin competing in the women’s 8 came home with a World Cup bronze medal in an incredibly close race only 0.5s from Silver and less than 2s from Gold!

Thanks to our amazing volunteers helping across all events while running 4 sessions at the club at the same time!

Cambois Rowing Club

Image credit to Benedict Tufnell/British Rowing

31/05/2026

Wooooo! Go Lauren! Bronze medal at the Rowing World Cup, Seville

🥉Bronze for the Women’s Eight🥉

Lizzie Witt (Leander Club / Imperial College BC)
Jade Lindo (Molesey BC / Twickenham RC)
Lauren Irwin (Leander Club / Durham University / Chester-le-Street ARC)
Katherine George (Leander Club)
Amelia Standing (Oxford University BC)
Megan Slabbert (Molesey BC)
Heidi Long (Oxford University BC / Leander Club)
Annie Campbell-Orde (Marlow RC/Leander Club)
Jack Tottem (cox) (Leander Club / Oxford University BC)

Coach: Andrew Randell

Full results 👇

https://www.britishrowing.org/world-rowing-cup-series/

29/05/2026

Good luck to CLSARCs favourite GB athlete Lauren Irwin, Lauren will be racing in Seville as part of World Cup 1 in the women’s 8+.

racing at:

1:27 today in the prelim
12:19 Sunday in the final

Good luck to all of team GB across the event!

Credit to Benedict Tufnell/British Rowing for images

26/05/2026

That’s a wrap for National Schools Regatta 2026! With three of our members competing across the weekend we had Olivia Tute in the women’s championship singles, Simon Graham in the championship singles and Dana Simpson in the Championship women’s eights.

Olivia in her second year at NSR finished 22nd overall with some great performances including a semi final win.

Simon then came home with a win in the D final, as a J16 this is a great start to his junior NSR years

Finally Dana Simpson rowing as part of St Edward’s School women’s first 8 came home with a silver medal!

Amazing work kids and keep it going through the summer