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 England on Saturday 25th July 2025.
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 next Junior Develpment Camp is taking place in Cardiff on Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th December. To register for the next upcoming Junior Development Camp please see the below information and PDF link:
The registration & entry form for the camp is available here: WELSH ROWING JUNIOR TRAINING DAY - CARDIFF 13TH & 14TH DECEMBER 2025 – Fill in form
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 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.
