Laleham has a local hero. Tom Barras shows off his silver medal from the Men’s Quadruple Sculls at the Tokyo Olympics. Tom was coached by Burway’s Jim Mathiesen when he was a teenager. He started at Burway when he was only 11.
John Biddle, Burway’s club president was lucky to be working at the Olympic regatta and is photographed below with the team in Tokyo.