Home International Rowing Beach Sprints (HIR-BS) & Commonwealth Regatta Trials

The Trial:

The Welsh Home International Regatta Beach Sprint Trial & The Welsh Commonwealth Team trial will take place on the weekend of 9th- 10th August 2025 at Colwyn Bay Beach, North Wales.

To enter either trial, please use the following entry form link, which can be found here: https://forms.office.com/e/hfSEk9a2FMTrial Entry Deadline: Friday 1st August 2025.

Further information about the trial and selection for both teams can be found at the selection policy here: HIR-BS SELECTION POLICY 2025

Home International Beach Sprints - Ireland:
 
This regatta will take place at Loughrhos point, Donegal, Ireland on Saturday 20th September 2025. For this team we will be selecting two U19 males & U19 females, a male and female U23, and two male & female senior athletes. please see the above selection policy for any further information regarding selection for this team. 
 
Commonwealth Beach Sprint Regatta - Barbados:
 
This regatta will take place at Browne's Beach, Barbados, in the Caribbean on 21st - 23rd November 2025. We will only be selecting a senior team for this regatta which will consist of one Male and one Female Single Sculler and a Mixed Double Scull. However, Junior athletes who will be senior/U23 athletes from September 2025 are eligible to trial for this team. e.g. athletes born on 1st September 2006 or older. 
 
A separate selection policy for this event will be published in due course, however please note a slight change in the eligibility criteria for this event:
 
Athletes must meet one of the below criteria. To be eligible an athlete must:
  1. Be born in Wales
  2. Have one parent, or one grandparent born in Wales
  3. have lived in Wales for a continuous period of 3 years or more.
 
 

Please see the below for information, which details how you can represent Wales as a Junior, Senior & U23 Athlete, at both the Home International Rowing Regatta & Beach Sprint Regatta 2025. 

Home International Rowing Regatta (HIR-R)

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 July.

 The next Home International Regatta will be hosted by Wales on Saturday 26th July 2025 and will be held at Dorney Lake.

 

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 2024-25 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 U19 Talent Pool, Welsh Pathway Athletes) 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

Additional dates and the event calender for the 2024-25 season can be found HERE

  

Senior/U23 Athletes:

The Senior selection policy for 2025 can be accessed here Team Wales Senior & U23 HIR Selection Policy 2025

To register your interest to represent Wales in 2025 for both River and Beach Sprint HIRs please fill in this form https://forms.office.com/e/K9LPa6mAiE

Please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more information or with any questions.