NEC Birmingham

The British Rowing Indoor Championships will take place on Saturday, 6 December 2025 at the NEC, Birmingham. BRIC events and categories Saturday Individual events will be offered over 2,000m and 500m across categories for Open and Women’s, further subdivided into: Under 23 Open (open to anyone aged 18+) Lightweight Masters (aged 30+) age categories Junior, Adaptive and Para events are offered and will race over 2,000m, 4 minutes and 1 minute as follows: Para IAR 1-7 7 Further Junior categories offered will be as follows: Year 7: 2 minutes Year 8: 3 minutes Year 9: 4 minutes Year 10: 5 minutes Year 11: 6 minutes Sixth form: 2,000m Team Relays will be available to enter on Sunday Sunday Participants can enter one or multiple of Super Sprint Sunday’s challenges: 1-minute sprint 100m sprint 250m sprint 1000m The Chase What is The Chase? In The Chase, your challenge is to stay ahead of a pace boat that gradually speeds up every 20 seconds for 6 minutes. If the boat catches you, you’re out of the race and your result will be based on your distance covered. Your goal is to avoid the pace boat as long as possible, with final rankings based on maximum distance achieved. If you stay ahead of the pace boat for the full 6 minutes, the person with the furthest distance covered will win the gold medal! The following categories will be available for each challenge: Open/Female (aged 18+) Masters 1 (aged 30-59) Open/Female Masters 2 (aged 60+) Open/Female Adaptive Open/Female Junior 1 (aged 11-14) Open/Female Junior 2 (aged 15-18) Open/Female Team Pairs (aged 18+) – Available for the 1000m and The Chase Relay races will take place over: 4km for adults 8 minutes for Juniors and Adaptive