Parkside Rowing Challenge

The Parkside Rowing Challenge is a collaborative, 14-week project in which the six participants will learn proficiency skills in all aspects of rowing and boat maintenance, and help to repair the boat used by Anton and co-pilot Mark de Rond (Judge Business School) on their Amazonian adventure. Finally, the team will take the boat out on a challenge of their own, in which they aim to row a 176-mile stretch of the River Thames.

The Team

The Parkside Rowing Challenge Team

Clare College boatman and CBC head coach, Anton Wright, has teamed up with the Parkside Community School in Cambridge to offer six of its Year 10 students the opportunity to become expert rowers.

Antony Wright

Anton Wright is Head Coach/Boatman for Clare College, Cambridge and Coach for the University Lightweights at the University of Cambridge. An active rower and adventurer, Anton has undertaken several previous endeavours, such as the Great River Amazon Raft Race, rowing across the Irish Sea, and an Atlantic sailing crossing. He holds the Guinness World Record for being the first to row the lenght of the Amazon River together with Mark de Rond.