Henley Royal Regatta Draws Another Record Field

Henley Royal Regatta, rowing’s grandest event, has attracted 768 total entries—four fewer than last year, but a record number from the UK—to the six-day regatta featuring single-elimination racing in front of huge crowds on England’s River Thames. This year’s regatta introduces a new women’s event, the Bridge Challenge Plate, for “intermediate” women’s eights, crews not quite national-team level, but too good for the university-level event.

“This new event reinforces Henley Royal Regatta’s commitment to achieving gender parity on the water,” said first-year regatta chair Richard Phelps. “This provides a much-needed bridge between the top premier events and our club/student events.”

The two most recent Olympic champions in the men’s single, Olli Zeidler (Paris, 2024) and Stefanos Ntouskos, (Tokyo, 2020), will race in a packed Diamond Challenge Sculls field that also includes Olympic medalists Melvin Twellaar, Simon Van Dorp, and Logan Ullrich. In the Princess Royal Challenge Cup for women’s singles, Lithuania’s Viktorija Senkuté, who won bronze in the single in Paris, headlines the field that includes Great Britain’s Lauren Henry, who just won the World Rowing Cup event in Varese, Italy.

College, club, and student rowers from 44 U.S. and seven Canadian clubs, including elite scullers, will race across the regatta’s 27 events, with all finals on Sunday, July 6.

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