Upcoming Welsh Rowing Event:
Welsh Junior Development Training Day - The King's School Chester - Sunday 22nd February 2026
All registration and further information for the camp are on the link here: CAMP REGISTRATION & FURTHER INFORMATION
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Please see below on how to represent the Welsh Rowing National Squad as a Junior, Senior, U23 and Para Athlete, at the Home International River Rowing & Beach Sprint Regattas in 2026.
The Home International Regatta is an event contested by Wales, Ireland, Scotland and England, in both senior and junior teams. The event has a long history and developed from the Empire Games. Welsh Rowing is responsible for the selection and delivery of a team to the event each Summer.
The next Home International River Regatta will be hosted by England, July 2026
The next Home International Beach Sprints Regatta will be hosted by Scotland, Sept 2026
Futher details will be posted on the event website once ther become available https://www.homeinternationalrowing.org/home
To represent Wales at the Home International Regatta you must fulfil one of the requirements below and be able to provide evidence in support of your eligibility:
• Having been born in Wales.
• Having a parent or grandparent born in Wales.
• Be a resident in Wales for 6 of the 12 months prior to the HIRR and be a member of a club in Wales during that time.
• Having had 5 years of primary or secondary education in that country.
• Having competed for that country previously, subject to the requirement associated with competing for different countries in subsequent years.
Junior Athletes:
To register as a Welsh Identfied Junior Athlete for the 2025-26 season, interested in representing Wales please click HERE to register.
Once registered, the athlete, coach & parent will be added to the 'Identified Athlete Group' and will recieve any communications from the U19 National Coach: William King - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Junior athletes will have the oppurtunity to join one of our U19 squads (Welsh U19 National Squad, Welsh Junior Talent Pool & Welsh Identified Athlete) all of which will have the oppurtunity to attend training days and camps with other Welsh athletes within the pathway. The aim of this is to not only raise the standard of our Welsh athlete's across the UK, but also give these athletes the chance to train together in crews, along with further oppurtunties to develop their rowing, in advance of potential HIR selection. For further information on the Welsh U19 Pathway Squads please click HERE
The Junior event Calendar for 2025-26 can be found at the following link: JUNIOR TRIALS & EVENTS CALENDAR
The deadline to register is Monday 1st December 2025. Entries made after this date may not be included.
The fee to attend the camp is £25 per day. Athlete’s selected to attend will be sent the details after having their entry confirmed.
For this training weekend, we will be looking to build on our December camp from the previous year, where we focussed more on performance crews. This year, if the entries are of a high standard, we will be selecting a maximum of 8 sweep rowers & 6 scullers for men and women. The selection for this camp will be performance based, judged on the information submitted on your entry form, so please make sure you fill this out as proficiently as possible. The expectation is we will have at least a 4x for men and women (if there is a good entry we may expand to a 2x as well) and at least a 4-/+ or an 8+ for the sweep rowers, depending on the level of athlete able to attend.
Further information can be found on the PDF link here: Cardiff Junior Camp Information Circular
Senior, U23 and Para Athletes:
To represent Wales as a Senior athlete you must fulfil one of the requirements below and be able to provide evidence in support of your eligibility:
• Having been born in Wales.
• Having a parent or grandparent born in Wales.
• Be a resident in Wales for 6 of the 12 months prior to the HIRR and be a member of a club in Wales during that time.
• Having had 5 years of primary or secondary education in that Wales.
• Having competed for Wales previously, subject to the requirement associated with competing for different countries in subsequent years
U23 Athletes must have been born on or after 1 January 2004
Para athletes will need to have been officially classified and will need to provide documentation
2026 HIR-R Selection Policy (TBC - awaiting venue confirmation)
To register your interest in representing Wales in 2026 for River and/or Beach Sprints please fill in this form Wales Senior & U23 Athlete Registration 2026
If you have any questions please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more information.
