Cantabrigian Rowing Club

Cantabrigian Rowing Club
Location	Cambridge
Coordinates	52°21′53″N 0°14′38″E / 52.36472°N 0.24389°E / 52.36472; 0.24389 (Cantabrigian Rowing Club)Coordinates: 52°21′53″N 0°14′38″E / 52.36472°N 0.24389°E / 52.36472; 0.24389 (Cantabrigian Rowing Club)
Home water	River Cam
Founded	1950 (1950)
Affiliations	CRA, British Rowing
Website	www.cantabsrowing.org.uk

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 boat house in Chesterton on the banks of the River Cam. The boat house has a brand new purpose-built indoor training space upstairs and rack space for boats ranging from single sculls to eights downstairs. The club also makes use of the CRA boat house and Fitzwilliam College boat house in Cambridge.

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] (this pair went on to represent England at the Home International Regatta). 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] Cantabs have had the fastest Cambridge town first and second eights at WEHoRR for the past few years. In 2016, the senior squad won gold at the British Rowing Masters Championships in the women's A 1x and C 4-, and won the IM1 pairs event at Pairs Head, where they were also the 2nd fastest W2- overall.

See also

• Cambridgeshire Rowing Association

References

External links

• Official Site
• British Rowing's Cantabrigian RC page
• Cambridgeshire Rowing Association