Royal Sport Nautique de Gand

Royal Sport Nautique de Gand
(Dutch: Sport Gent)
Image showing the rowing club's blade colours
Location Ghent, Belgium
Home water Watersportbaan
Founded 1883 (1883)
Website Sport Gent webstek
Events
Ghent May Regatta
Distinctions
Grand Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta in 1907


Royal Sport Nautique de Gand, today named Koninklijke Roeivereniging Sport Gent, is a rowing club from Ghent, Belgium established back in 1883 as the fourth club founded in that city in that period.

Eveline Peleman

Eveline Peleman, ruling world champion single scull lightweight woman 2014, is among its members. She also got bronze on the world top U23 in single scull.

Ghent May regatta and Belgian International Open regatta

The club organises the annual Ghent May Regatta on the Watersportbaan of Ghent, which is Belgium's top regatta, and the Belgian International Open Rowing Regatta.

It should not be confused with the other Ghent-based regatta which is also named May Regatta -- the International Regatta KRC Ghent, which is organised in late September, or the annual Spring Regatta in April (Easter holidays). Member Rita Defauw was several times vice world champion single scull lightweight women in the 1990s.

Henley

The club was one of the first foreign winners of the famous Grand Challenge Cup. First in a mix with Royal Club Nautique de Gand and some years later in a homogene crew. Sport Gent is still one of the biggest and for sure most important clubs of Belgium, today. 'Sport' participated several times to the Thames Challenge Cup finals, back in 1983 and 2008 (125 years).

Its President Patrick Rombaut is also well established at FISA. The actual President of the Belgian Rowing Federation is Gwenda Stevens, Vice President and youth coach of De Sport van Gent as the famous club is named in Flanders and the Netherlands. The club's and his rowing blade motif and colours are azure blue and white. Almost similar the national rowing blade of Argentina.

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