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Koninklijke Roeivereniging Club Gent (English: Royal Rowing Club of Ghent / French: Royal Club Nautique de Gand) is a rowing club from the Belgian city of Ghent founded in 1871. The association is located at the Ghent urban Watersportbaan rowing course. It has an extensive international track record.
The club organises the annual Ghent May Regatta on the Watersportbaan in Ghent. It should not be confused with the other Ghent-based regattas, such as the annual Spring Regatta in April, organised by the Gentse Roei- en Sportvereniging or the International Regatta KRC Ghent, which is organised in late September by Royal Club Nautique de Gand.
The club was founded in the late nineteenth century with the fusion between Athletic Club Gantois (Gantois means "from Ghent" in French), F.C. Gantois and Sport Pédestre Gantois. The new club named Racing Club de Gand registered to the Belgian Football Association in the late 1890s and received the matricule n°11.
It was organised by Royal Club Nautique de Gand together with Royal Sport Nautique de Gand on the Belgian - Dutch Ghent–Terneuzen Canal. From 1906 to 1909, the sport of rowing became extremely popular in Ghent. This was after Ghent rowing associations where the first foreign teams to win the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta in ...
Watersportbaan, finish tower, clubhouse Royal Club Nautique de Gand. The Watersportbaan, official name: Nationale Watersportbaan Georges Nachez, is a five lane rowing race course in the Belgian city of Ghent. It is 2300 metres long and 76m wide and was first used in 1954.
Royal Club Nautique de Gand rowers (22 P) Pages in category "Sport in Ghent" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.
This team was created on 1 April 1899 when the teams Athletic Club Gantois, Sport Pédestre Gantois, and Football Club Gantois merged and became a member of the UBSSA as Racing Club de Gand. In the period before 2010, this team has changed its name after some later developments into KRC-Gent-Zeehaven and it plays its matches in Oostakker. The ...
Ghent (Dutch: Gent ⓘ; French: Gand ⓘ; historically known as Gaunt in English) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the province of East Flanders, and the third largest in the country, after Brussels and Antwerp. [2] It is a port and university city.