Sporting Digest: Rowing

FIVE German Olympic medallists helped Munster von 1882 become the first foreign club to win the Tideway Head of the River Race on Saturday.

HEAD OF THE RIVER RACE (Putney): 1 Munster (Ger) 17min 02sec; 2 Molesey 17.10; 3 Leander 17:16; 4= Univ of London, Nottinghamshire County 17:23; 6 London 17:36; 7 Imperial College 17.36; 8 Nottinghamshire County II 17:38; 9 Tideway Scullers 17:42; 10 Mulheim (Ger) 17:43.

HENLEY BOAT RACES: Women's Reserves: Blondie bt Osiris 1 1/2 lengths, 6min 22sec. Women's lightweights: Cambridge bt Oxford easily, 6:18. Women's Boat Race: Cambridge bt Oxford 4 1/2 l, 6:10. Men's lightweights: Cambridge bt Oxford 1/2 l, 5:39.