Month: June 2017

As the regatta is drawing near, so is the excitement building: New Zealand’s Emma Twigg will race at this year’s regatta in an attempt to retain her Ladies’s Trophy. Twigg won the trophy last year over Lisa Scheenaard from the Netherlands, and evergreen Ekatarina Karsten from Belarus. This year, the 2014 World Champion racing for Hawkes Bay RC will have to battle it out against, among others, Inge Janssen and Karolien Florijn.

Twigg is one of the many antipodean (New Zealand and Australian) athletes racing at the Holland Beker, as there are entries from Sydney (UTS Haberfield RC, Sydney RC) and Melbourne (Banks RC, Mercantile RC, Melbourne UBC, and Scotch College). Most crews will race both the Holland Beker and next week’s Henley Royal Regatta during their European campaign.

-As the biggest international regatta in The Netherlands, we are once again proud of our large and diverse line-up of rowers from all over the world! Alongside Olympic medallists Ondřej Synek and Damir Martin, we welcomed two top women’s crews from Boston College and Olympic gold medallists Josh Booth and Josh Dunkley-Smith amongst others.

We can now confirm that Hans Gruhne and Karl Schulze, Olympic gold medallists in the German men’s quadruple sculls, will test their speed together in the men’s double sculls on the Bosbaan.

Along with Booth and Dunkley-Smith, a number of Australian college, university and club crews are coming all the way from Down Under to compete. A national selection of Czech elite rowers has also enrolled along with Ondřej Synek.

From Denmark, fifteen competitors from Bagsvaerd Rowing Club Kopenhagen , as well as ten from Craft Center Odense will come to race in Amsterdam. From the UK, we get five rowers from Nottingham Rowing Club. We also welcome entries from Benin, Puerto Rico, South Africa, Portugal and France. It’s always a treat to watch international athletes perform alongside Dutch rowers at the Holland Beker!

 

 

De pagina van de Holland-Beker Wedstrijd-Vereeniging is weer online.

Gegevens over de HBWV, de agenda voor de komende Algemene Vergadering en bijbehorende stukken kunt u vinden op www.hollandbeker.nl/hbwv

De HBWV is de vereniging achter de Holland Beker en de Ladies’  Trophy. De Holland-Beker Wedstrijd-Vereeniging (voorheen Comité voor het Championaat van Nederland voor Liefhebbers in Single Sculling Outriggers (Comité voor het Kampioenschap van Nederland voor Liefhebbers van Roeien in één-persoons gieken met buitendollen)) heeft een geschiedenis die terug voert tot 1886.

Lid worden van de HBWV is een manier om de Aegon Koninklijke – Holland Beker wedstrijden te steunen. En dat kan al met een lidmaatschap van 35 euro per jaar.

Wilt u een grotere bijdrage leveren, dan hebben wij het beschermersschap van de Holland Beker. Als beschermer kunt u ook aanschuiven tijdens de VIP lunch op zondag tijdens de wedstrijden en bij het dankdiner in het najaar.

Chef Ruud Kager’s tenth Holland Beker anniversary

With the preparations for this year’s KHB in full swing, the organizing board invited all committee members to the Key Figure dinner at Frenzi Cucina.

Head chef Ruud Kager has been a partner to the KHB for the past ten years, making sure every edition is catered with the most excellent Mediterranean cuisine. Ruud also serves a wide selection of authentic dishes and finger food at the VIP-lunch for the patrons during the Koninklijke – Holland Beker. At the Key Figure dinner, Ruud gave a taste of his cooking and made sure that committee members had a chance to interact with one another and discuss their progress in organizing the upcoming Holland Beker regatta over a glass of red wine.

 

Chef Ruud celebrating his tenth KHB anniversary at the Key Figure dinner

Chairman of the organizing committee Carel van Lynden spoke to those present: ‘’I look forward to this year’s Holland Beker Regatta and as our regatta keeps growing, I am very excited to look ahead at next year’s 125^th edition. I am confident we can continue to create the most prestigious rowing regatta in The Netherlands, as we have done in previous years.”

 

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