{"id":210644,"date":"2025-12-31T22:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T22:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/210644\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T22:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T22:29:08","slug":"club-patron-emma-twigg-returns-for-hawkes-bay-rowings-150-years-new-year-regatta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/210644\/","title":{"rendered":"Club patron Emma Twigg returns for Hawke\u2019s Bay rowing\u2019s 150 years New Year regatta"},"content":{"rendered":"

It comes seven weeks after she celebrated success in that new venture, a World Rowing Beach Sprint title<\/a>, scored on November 6-9 at Sorgun Camici beach, Antalya, on the Turkish Mediterranean coast.<\/p>\n

That was a test of the potential for a second Olympic Games gold medal for Twigg, with beach rowing included for the first time at the Los Angeles games in 2028.<\/p>\n

On the flat water she won the women\u2019s single sculls gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, and the silver as runner-up defending the title in France last year.<\/p>\n

At the World Rowing Championships she won the gold medal in Amsterdam in 2014, and has been runner-up four times.<\/p>\n

\"InIn Tokyo in 2021 and reaching the dream of an Olympic Games gold medal. This weekend she returns to her Hawke’s Bay Rowing Club for it’s New Year Regatta. Photo \/ Steve McArthur, www.photosport.nz<\/p>\n

Unlike traditional flat-water rowing, the beach sprint format starts with a 50-metre beach sprint, followed by a 250-metre slalom-style row in coastal boats, and ends with a final dash up the sand to the finish line.<\/p>\n

The two Olympic classes included for LA will be a mixed double scull (M2x) and the men\u2019s and women\u2019s solo (CM1x & CW1x) events.<\/p>\n

As well as her rowing skills, she reckons she was able to draw a little on her experience as a \u201cnipper\u201d at the Westshore Surf Lifesaving Club.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the first time she\u2019s tried something new, having in September last year formed a crew in the club name<\/a>, with fellow club member Bibi Colgan, double sculls Olympic gold medallists Brooke Francis and Lucy Spoors and London-based Dutch coxswain Jonna De Vries to finish third on a 4km course in the World Coastal Rowing Championships off Genoa, Italy. <\/p>\n

About 150 rowers and scullers are expected at Clive at the weekend, for a programme based around the standard regatta events, from Novice to Masters, involving at least four clubs.<\/p>\n

But to kick the 150th anniversary off, the club is encouraging all past club competitors for the \u201cHas-Beens\u201d events, with competitors possibly aged into the 70s.<\/p>\n

Racing starts at 2pm on Saturday, with a break at 5-5.30pm, including the Has-Been racing, and the day\u2019s programme will close about 8pm. Sunday racing starts at 8am and finishes soon after midday.<\/p>\n

The club, which stages its full anniversary celebrations on April 17-19, has been to two regattas this season, both on Lake Karapiro.<\/p>\n

There were promising results in the Christmas Regatta on December 11, including A-final wins for the women\u2019s Novice coxed quadruple sculls and the men\u2019s novice double sculls.<\/p>\n

The North Island championships on January 23-25 and the national championships on February 18-21 are both on Lake Karapiro, and the Maadi Cup secondary schools championships are on Lake Ruataniwha, Twizel, on March 26-28.<\/p>\n

Doug Laing is a Hawke\u2019s Bay Today reporter, based in Napier with more than 50 years\u2019 experience in the new industry, including covering sports at local, national and international level. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It comes seven weeks after she celebrated success in that new venture, a World Rowing Beach Sprint title,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[22124,64787,4765,1561,75031,24000,18836,2837,790,2082,1976,3223,128117,117,111,139,69,128115,41140,1527,6443,38404,128116,1534,213,1569,10809,94216,1533,379,1530],"class_list":["post-210644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-22124","tag-150th","tag-annual","tag-bay","tag-celebrations","tag-clive","tag-club","tag-during","tag-emma","tag-for","tag-hawkes","tag-legend","tag-mokotraro","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-patron","tag-regatta","tag-return","tag-returns","tag-rowing","tag-rowings","tag-saturday","tag-sports","tag-starts","tag-sunday","tag-twigg","tag-will","tag-year","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}