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Tough Competition at BUCS Regatta
A record breaking 1099 crews from 68 Universities entered the 2015 BUCS Regatta, with the trophy for the overall winner changing hands once again. The event began with all crews competing a time trial in the morning and moved on […]
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Hat-trick for Thames Upriver at JIRR
Despite tricky conditions, the 2015 Junior Inter-Regional Regatta provided a spectacle of racing for over 900 junior rowers from around the country on Saturday. Thames Upriver won the overall trophy for the third consecutive year, winning both the boys’ and […]
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Osiris lead on Tideway
A little bit of history was made on Friday, 10th April when the first Oxbridge women’s boat race took place on the full championship course as Osiris, the Oxford women’s reserves, took on Blondie, the Cambridge women’s reserves. All this, […]
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The Clash of the Veterans
The start of the 20th Oxford-Cambridge Veterans’ Boat Race, held the day before the clash of the younger Blues, saw the score standing at 13-6 in favour of Cambridge, victors for the last three years. It was to be Oxford’s […]
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Oxford win Boat Races
Even before they started, the 2015 Boat Races had written their name into the very fabric of British sport. The world had rightly sat up and taken notice that the Newton’s Women’s Boat Race had at last, taken its rightful […]
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Cambridge Wins at Henley Boat Races.
Cambridge took an early two-nil lead in the 2015 series, winning both the men’s and women’s lightweight boat races at Henley on Easter Sunday and claiming the Francombe Cup, the Henley Boat Races’ Victor Ludorum trophy. It was a chilly […]
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Cornish gig rowers star in BBC’s Poldark
Forty years after the first Poldark TV series, a new adaptation is currently showing on BBC One and gig rowers from Charlestown Rowing Club are involved. Adapted from Winston Graham’s epic tales set in Cornwall during the 18th Century, the […]
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Vesta host quality Veterans Head
Over 200 crews took to the Thames on Saturday morning for the 2015 edition of the Vesta Veterans’ Head of the River. Despite concerns that the event may not go ahead owing to a forecast of inclement weather, competitors were […]
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Head of the River success
It was third time lucky for the Head of the River Race on Sunday as 327 crews made it safely from Mortlake to Putney, defying a terrible weather forecast which did not quite come to pass. The Head was cancelled […]
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3 days to go…HoRR History
With three days until this year’s Head of the River race, we’re looking back today at the history of the race. The Head of the River was founded in 1925 by Steve Fairbairn, an influential rower and coach in the […]
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