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Kingston Rowing Club (KRC) is a rowing club in England founded in 1858 and a member club of British Rowing. The club is on the River Thames at Kingston upon Thames in an outer borough of Greater London in England downstream and north-east of Kingston Bridge and Kingston Railway Bridge. On a long wide stretch, its rowers and scullers have the final and the second longest section of the weir-controlled river. The club caters for all levels, demonstrated by a large novice squad and social events calendar through to medalists in two consecutive Olympic Games. Kingston have produced a significant list of international level oarsmen and oarswomen throughout its history and has won events at the British Rowing Championships and Henley Royal Regatta through the years. The club has a growing Juniors squad, developed under the ongoing British Sport Project Oarsome initiative, the main aim of which is to introduce younger rowers to the sport and the subsidiary aim of which is find and prepare future Olympians. Kingston Rowing Club is the supporting club for Kingston Regatta which is held above Kingston Bridge. Kingston organizes Kingston Head of the River Race which is a warm-up for the national Head of the River Race on the Championship Course on the following weekend. == Facilities == The club is the racing shell rowing club in Kingston upon Thames, but also provides training boats for less competitive rowing. It is on the ''Kingston Reach'' which runs between Molesey Lock by Hampton Court down to Teddington Lock ; The reach is a long V-shaped stretch of the Thames and is the final and second longest section of the River Thames — the longest reach being Wallingford reach at in Oxfordshire.〔(Cruising guide of the Thames ) Visit Thames. Accessed 3 June 2015.〕 It shares the long, wide stretch with three sailing clubs upstream and downstream, the Royal Canoe Club (and The Skiff Club), Walbrook Rowing Club (the rowing club of Teddington), and school clubs of Tiffin, Kingston Grammar, and Surbiton High Schools. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kingston Rowing Club」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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