 In the early 1990s, Club de Gand won the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley with the former lightweight world champion Wim Van Belleghem.It was the very first time a lightweight sculler had won this race.Club Ghent and Sport Ghent and their relations were also the co – founders of the three-day international regatta from 1897, the Cluysen - Ter Donck Regatta on the Ghent–Terneuzen Canal.