Students Rowing in Flanders is a rowing association in Flanders, Belgium. Only in 2004 the first students rowing club started up in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is envisaged that it will become an association in the near future. Below is a list of any student club or institution of higher education that operates as a students rowing club in Flanders.
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Limburg County
Xios Rowing Team of XIOS University College Limburg, the Rowing Club of the University of Hasselt, the team of Catholic University College Limburg and the Provincial University College Limburg are active since 2004 on the Albert Canal connecting Liège, and Antwerp near Hasselt in the Belgian province of Limburg. In 2005, they bought their own boats and the rowers have their own home in the Royal Yachting Club of Hasselt. Each year the Student Regatta Hasselt (HSR) has massive and still growing public interest. The University of Hasselt also works closely together across borders with the University of Maastricht.
Ghent Students Rowing
In East Flanders the association Ghent Students Rowing, built a network with the University. In Ghent, the non-profit organization works together with host clubs. They introduce many Erasmus Students to rowing and they cooperate well will the Dutch Federation, with support from the European Union or the Benelux is helping them until today. They were established in 2004 at the Royal Club Nautique de Gand with the mayor support of Akhenaton Rowing School Foundation from Brussels and there are still regular extra - sporting activities of S.R.G. at Club de Gand. The second and main host club and sponsor today is the Veterans Rowers Association.
Royal Club Nautique de Gand
This club offered students rowing since the 1960s. They promoted the sport at four local colleges, including the School of Arts and Architecture, the Catholic University College Saint-Lieven, the Ghent University College, the Artevelde University College, the University of Ghent, Ghent Students Rowing and Leuven, the MBA institute and all the Alumni associations. They row on the local urban rowing race court Watersportbaan and also in the many adjoining rivers and canals such as the Coupure, Portus Ganda and Graslei, which has urban features.
Neighboring countries
In the Netherlands, the Dutch Students Rowing Federation (Member of the Royal Dutch Rowing Federation) NSRF is supplier of 80% of the international top athletes. But with the northern neighbors of Flanders, there is also much attention to the so-called 'non fanatical' - fun - competition of the National Discussion Organ Competition Rowing (NOOC) with its annual Opening Contest by TSR Vidar on the Rowing race Court Watersportbaan in Tilburg end of March. End of June is the Orca Students Competition Final Races and Company Eights Regatta on the Bosbaan. Another important association is close to Belgium MSRV Saurus from Maastricht. There is also the classic Varsity.