Balmain Para Rowing Program
Balmain Para-Rowing Program is a program specifically set up to provide opportunities for persons with disabilities to participate in the sport of rowing and become involved in the rowing community. The program provides support to para rowers from Balmain Rowing Club, and has provided invaluable assistance to para rowers over the past 10 years at all levels of the sport, from learn to row to Paralympic representation.
Our Targets
5 YEAR PLAN
- To be Australia’s pre-eminent para-rowing program, including both for elite representation and recreational rowers
- To pioneer ‘inclusive’ rowing whereby para-rowers integrate with able-bodied squads wherever their relative function and ability allows
- By 2020, have 80 para rowers vying for selection for the Paralympics
- To have an indigenous 8 crew competing in the NSW State Championship Regatta
- To have a community youth squad of 20 rowers
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News
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Christening and Training 2018
October 15, 2018
Wow - could we really fit anything more into one weekend? Last weekend the Para Program raced 9 crews at the Spring Regatta, 'springing' into action with 24 premiership points at the ...
Ruby Sutherland – Variety Heart Scholar
September 25, 2018
Congratulations to Ruby Sutherland who has been selected as a Variety Heart Scholar for 2018! At 90 years old, Variety has been assisting thousands of children who live with disadvantage...
Congratulations Jack – our Emerging Athlete!
September 21, 2018
Jack training on the Lane Cove River Congratulations to Jack Calderan for being selected as an Emerging Athlete by the prestigious University of Technology, Sydney. As an emerging athle
World Championships Wrap-Up – Congratulations Aussies!
September 19, 2018
The 2018 Rowing World Championships were held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria between 9 and 16 September 2018, and this year saw the Balmain Para-Rowing Program's James Talbot compete in an historic t...
Wednesday Wonder – Glen Farrawell
July 4, 2018
Celebrating An Amazing 40 Years of Service, Integrity, Courage and Mateship. I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to ste...
END OF SEASON WRAP UP
June 18, 2018
The 2017-18 rowing season was a successful one for the Program. We began the season with the aim of building on our points success from last season while also building members and ensuring p...Our Supporters
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About Us
Balmain Para-Rowing Program is a program specifically set up to provide opportunities for persons wi
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History
THE BEGINNING The program had its origins from 2007 when a young man who had lost both legs due to ...
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Training and Facilities
TRAINING During the week and on weekends training takes place on Iron Cove. Training camps are also...
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Achievements
The Program provides encouragement for experienced para-rowers to take their rowing to higher leve...
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Some Key Stats
...and they're always getting bigger!
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Rowers
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Coaches
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Volunteers
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Supporters
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