MORE records fell to Headington School and Oxford Brookes University as the heat was turned up ahead of Henley Royal Regatta, writes JOHN WIGGINS.

Headington School set times tumbling in two finals at Henley Women’s Regatta.

Their quadruple scull reached the final of the women’s Senior event and came within three feet of a famous victory.

In the process, the crew of Danielle Semple, Mattea Wuethrich, Rosanna Little and Katie King-Smith beat the old senior record, but also that for junior quads.

Meanwhile, the school’s junior eight (Hannah Hornby, Anna Lockhart, India Mattocks, Elizabeth Haskins, Tilly Burn, Lucy Pullinger, Frances Curtis, Isabel Rundel and cox, Annelise Perkins) triumphed for a fourth straight year in a record time of 4mins 51secs.

The winning senior eight from Molesey contained 2016 Oxford Blues Ëlo Luik and cox Morgan Baynham-Williams, while Leander’s victorious elite four included former St Edward’s School pupil, Sarah Fletcher.

The Oxford Brookes men were again in dominant form at Marlow Regatta on Dorney Lake where they spread their four eights across three events and won them all.

Robert Massey, Matthew Aldridge, Rory Gibbs, Josh Bugajski, Michael Glover, Morgan Bolding, Henry Swarbrick, James Stanhope and cox, Harry Brightmore broke a club and British record with a time of 5.30.8.

In addition, their second eight were runners-up, only four seconds behind and in a national student record time. The Brookes’ third eight won the T2 category and their fourth boat dominated Academic Eights.

St Edward’s won the school/junior eights and Radley College the junior second eights category, while Oxford Blue, Matt O’Leary, improving at each event as an individual sculler, won the championship singles.

l While British crews were hit by illness and injury at the second World Cup regatta in Poznan, Poland, some crew changes saw a step up in performance.

The men’s four, with Abingdon School’s former pupil Matt Rossiter joining Brookes’ Matt Tarrant, won silver.

Further silvers came from Brookes rowers Joel Cassells in the lightweight pair and Annie Withers in the women’s eight.

Wallingford RC lightweight’s Ellie Piggot and Gemma Hall won the double scull B final, while Oxford Blue Anastasia Chitty, in her first senior selection, was sixth in the pairs.