Tag: rowing

"Both crews get ready please." Two boats sit on the Tideway, a flotilla of motorboats behind them, led by the umpire Matthew Pinsent giving orders...

After losing out in both the men's and women's lightweight races on Saturday 12th April, there were high hopes that Oxford would make amends...

Three Cambridge rowers have been told that they cannot compete in this year’s Boat Race due to a new condition on eligibility.

Torpids: the bringer of cult-collegiate support, un-ironic unitards, and this year: the first blue skies in what has felt like an eon. Torpids sees...

On December 18th during the vac, the Oxford University Boat Club took to the Tideway for their one dress rehearsal before the Boat Race...

He remembers the sound of 30,000 people cheering in the last 50m of his race as the best memory in Paris. “That feeling can only happen at the Olympics”.

After a formidable finish in the Lightweight Women’s double sculls at the 2024 Paris Olympics in August, Team GB’s Emily Craig and Imogen Grant...

Three-time Olympic medallist, World Champion rower, MBE, the first British Muslim Olympic flag bearer: the highly decorated Moe Sbihi seems to have done it...

Eights Week is part of the 200-year old Oxford tradition of ‘bumps’ racing.

This is Cambridge’s fifth victory out of the last six races for the men, and the seventh consecutive victory for Cambridge women.

"In anticipation of the Boat Race on 30th March 2024, Cherwell spoke to the women’s president of the OUBC, Ella Stadler, and the men’s president, Louis Corrigan."

St Peter’s Boat Club has received confirmation that it successfully broke the World Record for the Longest Continuous Row, after rowing for 10 consecutive days on a single rowing machine. The previous record of seven days had been set by Hull University Boat Club in 2019.

Summer eights has come and gone, and the highlight event of the Oxford rower’s trinity term card has left us for another year. How did the regatta unfold?

From the cancellation of regattas to health advisories against swimming due to sewage dumps, the once pristine rivers of Oxford are now increasingly unsafe....