Henley Royal Regatta 2012: paralympians get feel for Games Henley was also the setting for Thursday's Paralympic rowing announcement, in which the 2011 line-ups were confirmed as this year's team. The three crews - coxed four, double scull and defending Paralympic champion sculler Tom Aggar - rowed up the final segment of the famous course, which hosted the Olympic regatta in 1948, to the applause of a packed crowd. "A taste of what the Paralympics may be like," said Pamela Relph from the four, who had met the Queen two days earlier during the royal visit to Henley. On the water, even coxed crews were finding themselves pushed around by the swirling waters, with Oxford Brookes" second eight hitting the wooden booms which line the course. So did Münchener's coxless four in the Wyfold event, but they still won against the Oratory Cardinals. Latymer Upper School believe the 14-year-old bow-man of their schoolboy eight, Orlando Nixon, may be the youngest ever rower at the regatta. Latymer rowed through King's School Chester in a nail-biting contest in which the crews were still level after a mile of racing, until the London school's final push gave them victory by clear water. Later, St Paul's School's second eight beat Nottingham University by three feet in the Temple student eights, but will meet Dutch champions, Nereus, today. There were two disqualifications: Potomac Boat Club were knocked out after clashing with London's B-crew in the Wyfold coxless fours event. and Quintin's Britannia Cup coxed four handed London a row-over after being on the course at a prohibited time. Most of the selected crews managed to survive the first day but, in the Britannia, the Eton Vikings, boasting previous winners, lost to Star, who should probably have been selected after winning at the Metropolitan Regatta in May