Wallingford's veterans took on the best in the world and came away with five titles at the Henley Masters Regatta.

Raced over 1,000m of the royal regatta course, with nearly 70 events for men and women aged between 30 and 80, around 300 races are squeezed into two days.

Abingdon and City of Oxford crews also reached finals, but only those in the scarlet and light blue of Wallingford won medals.

Charles Parry (G class) and Sean Morris (H class for 70+) both won single sculls, beating finalists from America and Australia.

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Parry, partnered by Tom Bishop, also won the G category double scull, while Mike Edge and Pete King triumphed in the D age group double, beating City of Oxford in the final.

The Wallingford women completed the impressive medal haul with victory in the masters C eights to add to the national masters and veterans head titles.

A number of the current senior team won their first British vest at the annual J16 GB v France match – and the next generation was in action at the London Docklands for this year’s event.

Freddie Elwes and Joshua Bowesman-Jones, of Radley College, were selected in the coxless pair, but they struggled in the fierce headwind and just failed to beat their French opposition.

The GB team won overall with nine wins from 13 events.

City of Oxford’s intermediate men’s squad took themselves to Llandaff Regatta where there was a win in the IM3 coxed four.

Abingdon’s masters, Paul Godsafe and Dave Reeves wisely chose Llandaff over the Henley event and came away with a win in the Masters C double scull.

At Kingston Regatta, Wallingford’s Tori Bellamy and Kat Butler enjoyed success in the WIM2 double.

Meanwhile, local talent is on show this weekend at the British Junior Championships and the Under 23 World Championships.

The latter, in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, sees the Great Britain team containing eight athletes from Oxford Brookes Universitynd a number with Oxfordshire school heritage.

The women’s eight contains Brookes’ Annie Withers, while the men’s boat is built around the Brookes’ crew with Rory Gibbs, Will Hall, Henry Swarbrick, Morgan Holding and cox, Harry Brightmore supplemented by Oli Knight (Newcastle University and St Edward’s School) and coached by Brookes’ Henry Bailhache-Webb.

Tom George (Radley College) is paired with James Rudkin.

The remaining Brookes men are Ben Reeves, in the lightweight four, and Joel Cassells and Rory Copus (Abingdon School), who are in the quad scull.