City of Oxford's women and two Headington School youngsters were celebrating after striking gold in the National Championships at Nottingham.

The City crew of Rachel Luxton, Clare Major, Becky Slater and Elizabeth Southey won the women's coxless fours.

Headingrton's Claire Innes and Maud Vam Den Broecke won the junior coxless pairs and were subsequently named as the crew which will represent England in this event in the Home Countries International.

Oxfordshire's third gold came from a composite Oxford Brookes and Oxford University in the women's eights City of Oxford also captured two silvers - one in the men's quad scull and the other for Cloudy Carnegie and Anne Robinson in the women's J14 doubles.

The club completed an impressive weekend with a bronze from the women's J15 quad.

Wallingford won two sets of bronze medals - one for their women's coxless four and another, combined with Oxford University lightweights, in the women's lightweight quads.

Three young scullers - Julia Van Campen, of Abingdon, Simon Steele, of Magdalen College School, and Sophie Vellacott of Headington - won silver, bronze and bronze respectively in their junior classes.

Steele also took a silver medal in the junior quad with some Wallingford support.