Cure in the medals at National Rowing Champs

Kaiapoi’s Cure Boating Club picked up two medals at the New Zealand Rowing Championships at Lake Ruataniwha.

The five-day regatta had the top rowers in the country square off with the small club from Kaiapoi punching above its weight.

Lawson Morris-Whyte collected the bronze in the men’s senior single sculls with two-time world champion and Olympic gold medallist Nathan Cohen taking gold.

Morris-Whyte then went one better in the men’s senior quad alongside Russell Crampton and Nelson’s Wade Puklowski and David Knight, picking up silver.

In the double, Morris-Whyte and Crampton were fourth in the A final. The women’s quad of Rose McEwan, Holly Maxwell, Emily Christison and Lauren Sim won thier B final to be ninth out of 24 boats.

Former Rangiora High School student, Olympian Alex Kennedy, won two gold for the Waikato Regional Performance Crew (RPC), coming first in the men’s premier coxless four and the eight.

Another RHS alumni, George Howat, won gold in the U22 pair and a bronze in the premier coxed wight with the Southern RPC.

Also rowing out of the Southern RPC, Ella Greenslade won gold in the U22 pair and a silver in the women’s premier eight.

Cure Boating Club’s crew of 12 rowers and two coxswains that competed at the National Championships at Lake Ruataniwha.