 KRCG won (under its old name) a silver medal at the Rowing at the 1900 Summer Olympics and at the Rowing at the 1908 Summer Olympics and where the finalist teams took the world-record in the heavy men's eights and at the Rowing at the 1912 Summer Olympics where the club won in the single sculls.In a mix with Royal Sport Nautique de Gand and one time in a homogene crew this club was 3 times winner of the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta.The club won the first ever victory of a foreign club at the Grand in a composite boat with the docks foreman's couple Visser – Molmans of the former Royal Sport Nautique de Gand, during the first years of the 20th century.