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Minerva Bath Rowing Club is a rowing club in Bath, England

The club

The club was founded in 1914 as Bath Ladies Boat Club (BLBC). It is one of the earliest women's rowing clubs in England and had strong links with the suffragette movement in the city. This association is still represented with the club's colours of violet and gold. In 1992 it merged with City of Bath Rowing Club to bring the club into its present form.

Minerva Bath Rowing gained a great deal of positive publicity during the London 2012 Olympic Games when Helen Glover; a product of the British Rowing START program who learnt to row at Minerva won a gold medal with Heather Stanning in the Women's Coxless Pairs at Eton Dorney. Other rowers through the START program include Vicky Thornley who won a silver medal at the 2016 Olympic Games. Minerva also counts among its active members Olympians Arnold Cooke who competed at Tokyo 1964 and Klaus Riekemann who competed at Rome 1960. They are still rowing and have competed in the World Masters in 2012. Minerva is Sport England Clubmark accredited which means it has demonstrated awareness of child protection and safety, along with providing quality coaching, equal opportunities and good management. The club is also a participant in the Mentoring Plus, a youth crime prevention project working with vulnerable young people, living in Bath and North East Somerset.

Location

Minerva Bath is based in Newbridge, Bath in Bath, Somerset, England with its home water on the River Avon. The club moved to its present site in 2005, putting in place a boathouse built entirely by its membership. A second boathouse was built in 2010 and named after Arnold Cooke. The club shares its facilities with the University of Bath Boat Club and the British Rowing START Program.

Notable members

Notable members include:

• Helen Glover
• Arnold Cooke
• Klaus Riekemann

Honours

National champions

Henley Royal Regatta

References

1. "Minerva Bath History". Minerva Rowing Club. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
2. "Minerva members mark veterans' golden outing". Bath Chronicle. 25 October 2012. Retrieved 31 August 2013.
3. "Clubmark". British Rowing. 24 May 2010. Retrieved 31 August 2013.
4. "WAGS News" (PDF). British Rowing. Retrieved 31 August 2013.
5. "Welcome". Minerva Rowing Club. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
6. Rose, Neil (24 March 2013). "Minerva Bath rower Helen Glover wins gold at Sydney World Cup meet". This is Bath. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
7. "Cooke serves up a record rowing performance". This is Bath. 28 April 2011. Retrieved 25 July 2013.
8. "Full archive of results". Web Archive. Archived from the original on 13 March 2017.
9. "2014 British Rowing Championships Race Centre". British Rowing. 17 October 2014.

• 1914 establishments in England
• Sports clubs and teams established in 1914
• History of rowing
• Boathouses in the United Kingdom
• Clubs and societies in Somerset
• Sport in Bath, Somerset
• Rowing clubs of the River Avon