ABINGDON School produced a stunning performance to win four trophies in the Bedford Regatta on Saturday.

It was the perfect tonic with the National Schools Regatta and the Oxford Summer Eights just around the corner.

Abingdon's first eight collected two first prizes, winning both the senior 1 eights the premier event where they beat Magdalen College in the final and the junior eights, where both St Edward's and Eton were among their victims.

Abingdon's two other wins they entered only nine events came for their junior 15's in an eight and a four.

Pembroke featured fully on the Bedford course, their men winning the senior 2 eights while their women, in a composite with St Catherine's College, won the women's senior 3 eights and were losing finalists to Balliol in the women's novice eights.

Radley and St Edward's both took large contingents of rowers, but achieved just one win apiece.

The St Edward's first eight won four races in the senior 3 eights to take the trophy, and Radley's youngest members won the junior 14 octuples second event.

The two City of Oxford junior crews selected to represent the Thames Upriver Region in the Junior Inter-Regional Championships at Nottingham last Sunday both came home with medals.

The men's J14 double took a bronze and the women's J14 double winning silver.

A J14 double scull came fifth out of 34 crews, setting the fastest time for a British boat.

This followed the gold medal won by the men's coxed four at the Belgium Championships at Ghent on the previous Saturday, the first time the City men's squad has won a medal there for 20 years.