Tideway Scullers School dominated the gold and silver medals in sculling events at the National Championships of Great Britain over the weekend.

The club, based next to Chiswick Bridge, is the most successful sculling medal winner in the UK.

Crews friom Tideway took home six gold medals, five silver medals and one bronze.

Leading the medal haul were the senior men's squad with three golds.

Seb Butter, Simon Suthers, Jamie Halliday and Nick Davenport won the lightweight quadruple.

Anglus MacAlister and Julian Geluk took the heavyweight double sculls, with Henry Pelly and John Moon earning bronze in the same event.

Alistair Leighton-Crawford won the lightweight single sculls, while Josh Davidson collected the junior single sculls title.

Danny Middleton was an outstanding performer in the junior 14 section, winning two gold medals in great style.

As well as claiming the junior 14 single scull title, Danny teamed up with Lenny Lambert to win the double sculls.

Gaining silver medals were the senior men's heavyweight quadruple sculls Toby Arbeid, Alex Palmer, John O'Leary and Toby Marshall, who were also declared club champions.

Andrea Finn was second along with three members of other clubs, including Sydney Olympics silver medallist Guin Batten in the women's quadruple scull.

Tom Gale won two silver medals from the pairs event and the coxless fours in com-bination with Imperial College athletes.

Alex Walker also took silver, in the junior 16 single scull.

Club chairman Chris Williams said: "I am delighted with the results.

"This is evidence of the strength in depth of the club across all the racing groups.

"Particular mention must go to Grant Craies, who has coached the senior men to five sculling medals.

"I am also proud of our junior section we expanded the membership down to age 10 three years ago and the results are now coming through at national level regattas.

"TSS will build on this success with their recent recognition by the Amateur Rowing Association as a High Performance Centre in the coming year."

The club will be running a sculling course from August 22 to 26. For further information, call Alec Hodges on 020 8894 2780.