Vesta Scullers Head

Sep 19, 2026

Sixteen Quintin scullers took part in this year’s Vesta Scullers Head, which is raced over the full championship course from Mortlake to Putney. Conditions were dry and bright but with a strong SW breeze. Our best results were with our mature open masters where Tom Bishop finished second in the IJK category, three seconds behind Rod Stewart of Upper Thames, and Slavo Radosevic finished second in the H category, fourteen seconds behind Thomas Moisley of Vesta. Graham Bagnall was third behind Tom in the IJK category.

Our results are summarised in the table below:

Finish Bow No. Sculler Category Time Adj. Time Cat. Posn.
134 66 Nathan Russell Thompson Op Senior 24:21.12 – 13
222 484 Simon Hunt Op Mas Lwt 25:14.55 23:20.55 6 of 16
232 516 Mark O’Brien Op Mas E 25:19.66 – 10
250 557 Tom Bishop Op Mas IJK 25:34.08 21:51.08 2 of 8
273 514 Ken Creighton Op Mas E 25:45.36 – 14
335 587 Maurizio Conza Op Mas Novice 26:14.54 26:01.54 12 of 21
359 553 Slavo Radosevic Op Mas H 26:29.01 – 2
374 594 Giles Crown Op Mas Novice 26:42.17 25:17.17 7 of 21
395 420 Kirsty Russell-Duff W Mas D 26:56.30 – 7
423 334 Lorna Anderson W Mas C 27:22.15 – 8
428 584 James Spicer Op Mas Novice 27:29.77 25:35.77 9 of 21
435 406 Ainslie Rimmer W Mas Lwt 27:34.22 26:58.22 7 of 13
450 560 Graham Bagnall Op Mas IJK 27:50.90 23:28.90 3 of 8
484 405 Roberta Gargiulo W Mas Lwt 28:44.77 28:30.77 11 of 13
491 409 Jacqui Sutherland W Mas Lwt 29:09.78 27:39.78 10 of 13
492 408 Kira Vermang W Mas Lwt 29:11.89 28:35.89 12 of 13

 

The full results may be found at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17p2pgURa_Pie6bUBVzbWnTF6Zu1ZRBYJBrjZQNpHeLk/edit?gid=0#gid=0.

Photographs of our scullers may be found at https://quintinboatclub.org/gallery/index.php?ref=3772.

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