Henley Women's Regatta

Henley Women’s Regatta is the premier regatta for women in the United Kingdom. Each year more than 2,000 rowers travel from all over the UK and from across the world to compete in this prestigious event.

Held on the rowing world’s most iconic stretch of the River Thames, HWR offers exciting side-by-side match racing for a wide range of competitors, from juniors to university and club to international level. Spectators are welcome to watch and enjoy the racing along the full length of the course – no tickets required!

The 2025 Henley Women’s Regatta and Qualification rules are now available at Compete. Competitors and coaches should read these carefully; changes from previous years are shown in red font.

The growth in entries over recent years is exciting for women’s rowing, but as an event this has created significant timetabling pressure.  To continue to run a successful premier women’s regatta our programme of events is reviewed annually.

A significant change for the 2025 regatta entails the age restrictions for competitors entering the junior events being relaxed. J15 and J16 competitors will now be permitted to race in the junior (J18) events (but excluding the Di Ellis Trophy for junior single sculls), subject to restrictions on the number of J15 competitors in a crew.

As a result the 2025 junior programme will see the removal of the Nina Padwick Trophy for J16 quadruple sculls, and the West End Amateur Rowing Association Trophy for J16 coxed fours.

Please note that our age restrictions still remain tighter than the British Rowing rules, so please read the updated rules carefully to determine your crew’s eligibility to race.

Any queries on competitor eligibility should be sent to entries@hwr.org.uk.

The HWR committee look forward to another year of excellent racing on the Henley reach from 20-22 June 2025.

The three winning designs on a theme of ‘What Henley Women’s Regatta means to me’ have been announced.

Packs of 12 cards with the desugns are available to order through our HWR SHOP for delivery from the 13th December
The card with the first place design will be sent by HWR to our key sponsors and supporters this festive season. 

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Henley Women’s Regatta 2024 Live Stream – Sunday – Presentations from 09:06:00

Henley Women’s Regatta 2024 Live Stream – Saturday

Henley Women’s Regatta 2024 Live Stream – Friday

Results – Results 2024

HWR is a unique event where our competitors and spectators come first. The regatta has run every year since 1988 except 2020, with the help, support, commitment and hard work of a huge team of volunteers, the generosity of the Copas family, our Friends of Henley Women’s Regatta and goodwill of a few sponsors, local businesses and supporters. HWR were proud to be at the forefront and the early adopter of providing a live stream of our racing, but as costs of this provision increases along with increasing general running costs, we would be grateful for any donations.

Could you make a donation to HWR? Your support will help secure our future. Or support us by purchasing items from the HWR Shop, or help us by volunteering.

Leicester Rowing Club is a thriving and friendly provincial rowing club based on a straight mile of the Grand Union Canal in the heart of the City of Leicester. Leicester RC have a long history of success at Henley Women’s Regatta. This year they are planning to make more history there.

Eleanor Gough is a promising junior sculler at Leicester Rowing Club. She’s aspiring to race at Henley Women’s Regatta for the first time in 2024. The HWR film crew had an exciting day out at Leicester Regatta filming Eleanor’s progress in junior single sculls. We also found time to talk to Leicester senior women Sophie Connolly and Molly Vardy (coxless pair) and Leicester RC’s successful coach Howard Marsh.