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The victorious MBC rowing crew, who won a national title. (L-R) Coxswain Walter Wickham (14), Stroke Fred Vavasour (17), Sam Feltham (17), Dylan Burton (17), Leon Poswillo (16), and Ashley-James Fitzgerald (16). Vavasour and Burton won a second gold in Pairs. Absent; Rhys Salvador.
A group of Marlborough schoolboys, rowing in an eight together for the very first time, squeezed out older and more experienced competition to snatch a national title and gold medal in Twizel. Despite never having trained together the chemistry of the composite crew “just clicked” the triumphant Marlborough Boys College rowing team said about their gold medal win at the rowing nationals.