Cantabrigian Rowing Club
| Cantabrigian Rowing Club | |
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| Image showing the rowing club's emblem | |
| Location | Cambridge |
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| Home water | River Cam |
| Founded | 1950 |
| Affiliations | CRA, British Rowing |
| Website | www |
Cantabrigian Rowing Club, known as Cantabs, is a rowing club in Cambridge.
History
Cantabs was founded in 1950 as a rowing club for the old boys of the Hills Road Sixth Form College, then the Cambridgeshire High School for Boys.[1] It first accepted general membership in the 1960s and has been an open club since. The club is affiliated to the Cambridgeshire Rowing Association and British Rowing.
The club is currently one of the fastest on the River Cam,[2] holding the men's headship in the Town Bumps for six of the last seven years and currently second on the river in the women's races.[3]
The club runs the Cambridge Winter Head every November, an event that can attract over a thousand competitors.[4]
Facilities
The club is based out of its own boathouse in Chesterton on the banks of the River Cam. The current boathouse has room indoor training and rack space for boats ranging from single sculls to eights. The club also makes use of the CRA boathouse in Cambridge.
A new boathouse is under construction that will provide additional facilities that the current boathouse lacks such as dedicated changing rooms and a kitchen. Financial support for this development includes Olympic legacy funding from Sport England’s Inspired Facilities Fund.[5]
Squads
The club is open to rowers, scullers and coxes of all ages, from the junior level up to masters level. Cantabs runs a number of different men's, women's and junior squads which cater for the social rower to those who wish to train and race competitively at a high level. There are a number of different squads which mean that different commitment levels and aspirations can be catered for.
The men's squad has qualified at least one boat for Henley Royal Regatta in the majority of the last decade[6][7] and in 2012 the men's senior squad qualified two eights for the Thames Challenge Cup, a first for any Cambridge town club.[8] In addition, there has been substantial individual success, with John Hale winning silver in the lightweight sculls at the 2012 British Rowing Championships[9] before representing England in the lightweight double at the Home International Regatta[10] and Charlie Palmer reaching the finals of the Diamond Challenge Sculls in 2005 and 2006.[11][12]
The senior women's squad races competitively at the major Tideway heads, as well as local and national regattas and, in 2015, two crews raced at Ghent International Regatta, with the women's pair winning their event.[13] 2015 saw the women's squad produce club records in their finishing positions at the Scullers Head of the River Race,[14] Head of the River Fours,[15] Pairs Head[16] and the Women's Eights Head of the River Race,[17] where Cantabs were the fastest Cambridge town first and second eights.
See also
References
- ↑ Cantabrigian Rowing Club Home Page
- ↑ http://www.crarowing.co.uk/town-bumps/about-the-cra-town-bumps/results CRA Bumping Races
- ↑ http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Cantabs-City-stay-spots-Town-Bumps/story-27488316-detail/story.html/summary CRA bumps 2015
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- ↑ http://www.hrr.co.uk/results/live/ Henley Royal Regatta Results
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- ↑ http://www.britchamps.org/index.html British Rowing Championships
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- ↑ http://www.krsg.be/nl-NL/organisaties/international-may-regatta/engels.html
- ↑ http://www.vestarowing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Scullers-Head-2014-Results1.pdf
- ↑ http://hor4s.org.uk/docs/results-2014-event.pdf
- ↑ http://www.pairshead.co.uk/results-2014/
- ↑ http://www.wehorr.org/results/2015-results-Final.pdf
