Despite a five hour delay on Saturday, 166 races were completed at Lake Ruataniwha, including most of the finals.
Several of those were reduced to 1000m early on Sunday though, before returning to the full-length 2000m.
It was a welcome success, after last year’s championships saw very little racing due to high winds.
The Dunstan Arms, Avon and Timaru rowing clubs all featured prominently among the medals.
Meanwhile, both Otago Boys’ and Christchurch Boys’ High School both had plenty of success too, as did Columba College.Dunstan Arms came away with 12 medals, including three golds, in a strong performance at both masters, open and age-grade level.
Otago Boys’ High School claimed the boys’ double sculls title courtesy of Ben Mason and Thomas Ryan, as well as the intermediate double sculls title through Reuben McArley and Oliver Haig.
Alongside that, it claimed silver in the under-15 double sculls and third in the under-18 coxed quadruple sculls.
Columba claimed a gold in the under-16 coxed four, alongside silvers in the under-17 and under-18 coxed fours and under-16 coxed eight, as well as bronze in the novice coxed eight.
The Otago Rowing Club was another to have a successful regatta, taking home seven medals, including gold to Will Turner and Will Edwards in the under-16 boys’ double sculls.
Avon won the men’s open eight, rowing a time of 3min 11.48sec to win by 2.5sec. Meanwhile, the Nelson rowing club won the women’s eight, finishing in 7min 24.22sec to win the title by 7sec from Dunstan Arms.
The open single sculls finals were among those not raced.
However, Ari Palsson, of the Otago University Rowing Club, and Maeve Power, of Avon Rowing Club had the fastest heat times of 8min 27.93sec and 9min 05.23sec respectively.
There were several close races throughout the meeting, and seven finals were decided by a second or less.
