With the help of our food suppliers, we thought the rowing community would like to know that not everything went to waste this morning, with food being donated to a homeless shelter in Hammersmith 🥓🥪
Thank you
@FranksExpress
🙏🏻
👏 A HUGE thank-you to all of our umpires, launch drivers, time-keepers, marshals and all volunteers that will make sure the race runs, and everyone stays safe.
The team behind the race - we are so grateful for all of our volunteers 👏
From our umpires to our safety boats, marshals to timing team, thank you EVERYONE for making our race happen 🙏🏻
A huge THANK YOU to all of the competitors, officials, volunteers and spectators for making today such a success. We loved seeing you all back on the Tideway 🙌
Tonight is the night! 🥇our amazing winners will get their hands on these ⬇️
Thank you
@ThamesRC
for hosting us and
@flying_boatman
for the beautiful prize blades 👏
We are very excited to welcome
#Asahi
to the
#Headoftheriverfours
#HOR4s
event, and the wider rowing family. Whilst we take “Pride” in every race, we cannot confirm that every race will reflect their no.1 beer....”Super Dry”.
#excitingtimes
On Saturday there will be 150+ people making sure the race runs as smoothly as possible. This includes:
45 on-water & 15 on-land marshals/umpires
40+ launches & drivers
27 time keepers
10 administrators
10+ boating support
10 safety boats
2 RNLI boats
2 PLA launches
We hope the rowing community understand the difficult decisions we’ve made to keep our competitors, volunteers and host clubs safe.
A ‘local’, reduced entry was sadly our only option to achieve this.
We really hope to see everyone again with a full entry at
#fourshead
2021
Huge amounts of thanks go to those who have supported us. Whether that be volunteers, host clubs, supporting clubs from afar & clubs who entered this year.
With 200+ entries, we were set to stage a great race & we thank everyone that tried with us to make Fours Head happen.
Good morning - it’s race day! 🤩
The PLA flag is GREEN ✅🟢
We’ll be bringing you the build up action from the river banks here this morning.
Crew 1 sets off under Chiswick Bridge at 12 noon.
Please note that owing to a number of appeals and disputes (including some involving potential prize winners), the final results of yesterday’s race will not be available until lunchtime tomorrow (Monday). Thank you for bearing with us.
Crews should note that as there is no magic litter fairy, they are required to collect all their rubbish and put it in a bin or, if there isn't one that has space, TAKE IT HOME. Instructions of Officials must be followed in this regard.
Congratulations to all competitors & volunteers on an excellent race. Looking forward to seeing all the winners at prize giving in January at
@Fullers
Brewery 🍺🍺
Introducing our prize giver, Richard du Parq, our outgoing Entries Secretary 👏
Richard is also the
@BritishRowing
Thames region Lifetime achievement award winner.
That’s a wrap! The final crews over the line to conclude the Fuller’s Head of the River Fours 2019. Well done to everyone who raced, coached, volunteered and spectated 👏👏👏
@37rcdma
@SPSRowing
As far as I can tell this is the 1st time the same club/school have won both JM4+ & JM4X.
@HenleyRowing
have done it in JW but it’s a 1st for JM
41 years of sponsoring our event, HUGE thanks to
@Fullers
for your incredible, long-standing support. Richard Fuller pictures here addressing our winners 👏
A big thank-you to everyone who has responded to our update regarding the conditions, and taken opportunity to scratch if appropriate.
We’ll be getting more updates to you this week, so please keep an eye on the website and our social channels.
Merry Christmas to all our followers! 🎄🎅
We hope a picture from our Fours Head committee Nativity on Sunday will bring a smile to your face ✨
Wishing you all a happy and healthy 2021.
WEATHER UPDATE: the current forecast suggests a strong southerly wind which may affect the course downriver of Hammersmith. We are continuing to monitor & may decide to shorten the course. A decision will be made as soon as is practical & communicated here, on FB & the website.
An update from the committee.
* We remain committed to running an event if possible within guidance parameters.
* We are planning a smaller event, up-river of Hammersmith Bridge.
* Opening date for entries has pushed back.
All details in the link posted in next tweet: (1/2)
Please note that the Tideway is on PLA Yellow Flag – The Fours Head - the situation and Storm Ciaran is being monitored - there will be an update on Friday morning by which time Ciaran should have passed through:
A race like ours couldn’t possibly run without the tireless help of an army of volunteers. For example, did you know we have a total of 27 timekeepers along the course
#hor4s
#fourshead
#bestvolunteers
🗣 Richard Phelps, Chairman: “I want to thank all the competitors, coaches, club officials and the many volunteers who have showed great understanding and patience as we tried our best to navigate the various challenges we faced... (1/2)
We have faced, & overcome, a huge number of challenges organising this year’s event. Following the latest announcement by the UK PM, we do not think it will be feasible to run the event with the latest news 😔 We feel giving clubs the earliest possible notice is best.
A few stats about this Saturday’s race...we are expecting a total of 2118 competitors (including coxes), 59% men 41% women. Of these 640 (30%) are in junior events (60/40 boys/girls).
⚠️ We are saddened & disappointed that the current climate means we have to announce a limited number of crews for this years race. All with safety and fairness in mind.
Our framework for accepting entries is below with more info ⬇️
The committee is pleased to announce a new award for this year’s race in memory of Noel Davison, former Honorary Secretary of the Fuller’s Head of the River Fours. Full details here
Results are now all final (phew) and have been submitted to British Rowing. Thank you to all competitors and volunteers. We hope to see all the winners at the Prize Giving at the Fullers Brewery on Jan 10th and as many competitors as possible at the 2019 race on November 23rd.
We'll also miss some of our previous winners of our Championship categories, who unfortunately due to their distance away from the Tideway and our limited entry numbers won't be able to race with us this year 😭