Oxford University Boat Club
Image showing the rowing club's emblem
Image showing the rowing club's blade colours
LocationWallingford, Oxford
Home waterRiver Thames
Founded1829 (1829)
UniversityUniversity of Oxford
AffiliationsBritish Rowing
Websitewww.oubc.org.uk

Oxford University Boat Club (OUBC) is the rowing club for the University of Oxford, England, located on the River Thames at Oxford. The club was founded in 1829.

The prime constitutional aim of OUBC is to beat Cambridge University Boat Club, Cambridge University Women's Boat Club, Cambridge University Lightweight Rowing Club and Cambridge University Women's Lightweight Rowing Club in the annual University Boat Race and Lightweight Boat Races on the River Thames.[1] OUBC's openweight men's squad currently trail CUBC in the series by 86 races to 81, with 1 dead heat in The Boat Race 1877, while the openweight women's squad trail CUWBC by 45 races to 30.[2] The lightweight men's squad trail CULRC by 29 races to 19, and the lightweight women's squad trail CUWLRC by 22 races to 17.[3]

The Boat Race

The club races against the Cambridge University Boat Club in The Boat Race on the Thames in London each year, with the Oxford boat based at the Westminster School Boat Club.[4] The club also selects a reserve crew, Isis, to race the Cambridge reserve crew, Goldie, earlier on Boat Race day.

OUBC was one of five clubs which retained the right until 2012 to appoint representatives to the Council of British Rowing. The others were Leander Club, London Rowing Club, Thames Rowing Club and Cambridge University Boat Club.[5]

College boat clubs

Facilities

OUBC's boat house on the Isis (as the Thames is known at Oxford) burnt down in 1999 and much archival material, including photographs, was lost. OUBC now rows from its new purpose-built boat house in Wallingford, south of Oxford, following a successful fundraising appeal from 2004 to 2007. The boathouse was designed following a limited competition by Tuke Manton Architects LLP.[6] The club has the use of the Redgrave Pinsent Rowing Lake in south Oxfordshire for training purposes, along with the GB Rowing squad and University College Oxford Boat Club.

Honours

British champions

Year Winning crew/s
1983Men 8+
1995Men 2+ (Isis)
1996Men 2+
1997Men 4x
1998Men 4x (Isis)
2001Men 4-, Men 8+ (with Isis) [7]
2011Open lightweight 2x (Isis) [8]
2016Open 4- (Isis) [9]

Key = 2, 4, 8 (crew size), x (sculls), - (coxless), + (coxed)

Henley Royal Regatta

Year Races won
1843Grand Challenge Cup
1844Stewards' Challenge Cup
1845Stewards' Challenge Cup
1846Stewards' Challenge Cup
1847Grand Challenge Cup
1848Grand Challenge Cup
1850Grand Challenge Cup, Stewards' Challenge Cup, Silver Goblets
1851Grand Challenge Cup
1852Grand Challenge Cup, Stewards' Challenge Cup
1853Grand Challenge Cup, Stewards' Challenge Cup
1888Silver Goblets
1890Silver Goblets
1892Silver Goblets
1893Silver Goblets
1965Thames Challenge Cup (Isis)
1968Ladies' Challenge Plate (Cherwell)
1973Britannia Challenge Cup (Isis)
1981Grand Challenge Cup
1989Stewards' Challenge Cup, Visitors' Challenge Cup (Isis)
1995Visitors' Challenge Cup (Isis)
1997Stewards' Challenge Cup
1998Visitors' Challenge Cup (Isis)
2004Visitors' Challenge Cup
2005Stewards' Challenge Cup
2006Silver Goblets & Nickalls' Challenge Cup
2009Visitors' Challenge Cup (Isis)

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Sports Yearbook 2012" (PDF). University of Cambridge Sport. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  2. ↑ "The Boat Race: Results". Boat Race Company Ltd. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  3. ↑ "The Lightweight Boat Races: Results". Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  4. ↑ "The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race — Official Website". The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race. Archived from the original on 30 April 2011. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  5. ↑ "Corporate Governance Structure". British Rowing. Archived from the original on 20 January 2013. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  6. ↑ Tuke Manton Architects. Accessed 2010-09-02
  7. ↑ ""The Daily results service." Times, 23 July 2001, p. 10". The Times. 23 July 2001. pp. 10[S].
  8. ↑ "2011 Championships - Results of Sunday Racing". British Rowing Championships. Archived from the original on 6 December 2016.
  9. ↑ "2016 British Rowing Senior Championships" (PDF). British Rowing.
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