Attracting high-caliber athletes from throughout the United States and Canada, Vesper Boat Club’s Elite Program has trained athletes who have earned Olympic, World and National medals. Today, under the coaching leadership of three-time Dutch Olympic medalist Michiel Bartman, Vesper Boat Club invites select athletes to participate in two outstanding Elite Programs: Year Round and Summer.
VESPER WINS MARINER POINT TROPHY AT INDEPENDENCE DAY REGATTA 2008!
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Ed Gribben at Henley
He lost in the fastest of the four quarterfinal races to a guy who went on to the final and lost by 3 feet!
SCHYULKILL NAVY REGATTA 2008: click images for more great photos...
Catch the Cooper VBC 2008! Click images for more photos!
Vesper Boat Club has one aim: to develop champions. Producing the first Olympic Gold Medal Men’s Eight in 1900, Vesper struck gold again in 1904 and once more 1964 (this was the last Club boat to win Olympic eight oared gold and the only one to win three times). Vesper Boat Club is the only club that can lay claim to such an illustrious Olympic tradition.
Vesper Boat Club provides the following Year Round Elite and development training programs:
• Men’s and Women’s Sweep and Sculling
• Heavyweight and Lightweight
Four Vesper athletes raced at the 2006 World Championships:
Josh Inman
US men’s eight, bronze medal Andrew Byrnes Canadian men’s coxed pair, bronze medal Chris Callaghan US men’s coxed four, 4th place Sam Stitt US men’s quad, 8th place
The Vesper Boat Club had its beginning in 1865– a decade into the flourishing of rowing clubs on Philadelphia’s Schuylkill River and quickly became one of the most celebrated rowing clubs in the United States and the world.
