Easter 2002
May Bumps 2002 (June 7th-15th '02)
Nines Regatta (May 26th '02)
Cam Head to Head (May 12th '02)
Men's Head of the River (Mar 23rd '02)
Women's Head of the River (Mar 9th '02)
Lent Bumps 2002 (Feb 26th - 2nd Mar 2nd '02)
Bumps Getting on Race (Feb 22nd '02)
Robinson Head (Feb 8th '02)
Head to Head (Jan 26th '02)
Fairbairns Cup (Nov. 29th & 30th '01)
Clare Sprints Novice Regatta (Nov. 22nd-24th '01)
2.5km Winter Head (Nov. 17th '01)
Queen's 1k Ergo Competition (Nov. 14th '01)
Head of the River Fours (Nov. 10th '01)
Autumn Head (Oct. 27th '01)
Bedford Small Boats Head (Oct. 14th '01)For results prior to Michaelmas 2001, check out the archives.
Michaelmas 2001
Fairbairns Cup (Nov. 29th & 30th '01)
Churchill Crews excelled in Fairbairns this year with both Novices and Seniors finishing well up the league table of colleges.
Senior Men:
The men's 1st boat finished an excellent 11th with a time of 13mins58secs. They were the 6th Cambridge college boat! Nice one!
Men's 2nd boat finished 36th with a time of 15mins39secs.Senior Women:
The women's 1st IV came 10th out of 20 with a time of 13mins20secs. Women's 2nd IV came 16th with a time of 13mins38secs.
The women's '1st VIII' (seniors with a few novices sprinkled in!) came 31st in the VIII's division with a time of 18mins29secs. A fair result considering the lack of experience in the crew-some of the crew having never done a head race before let alone a full Fairbairns course!Novice Men:
The men's novice A crew kicked ass and finished 11th out of more than 70 crews with a time of 10mins35secs. Men's novice B finished as the 6th fastest B boat (47th overall) with a time of 12mins6secs. Not to be out done novice C did fantastically too and finished the 8th fastest C boat and 54th overall,with a time of 12mins42secs.Novice Women:
Churchill's novice women crew finished joint 13th overall beating over 50 other crews. They also creamed some of the men's crews with a time of 12mins32secs! Go girls!For more results from Fairbairns visit www.fairbairns.com
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Clare Sprints Novice Regatta (Nov. 22nd - 24th '01)
Women: The novice women's crew rowed well to beat off Cauis A in the first round of the Cup competition. They were unlucky to be beaten in the 2nd round by Jesus A. Photo's here.
Men: Novice A men beat Queen's B easily in the first round but were very unfortunate to be disqualified in the 2nd round. The crew went a bit wonky after a nasty crab was caught and although Churchill were well in the lead by this time and in no way impeded Sidney Sussex A, the rules state that if you cross into another crews space then you must be disqualified. See the photo of the crew racing here to see how far they were in front of Sidney only half way down the reach!
Novice B beat LMBC C in the first round but were knocked out of the competition in the 2nd round by Magdalene B. Novice C were knocked out by Downing D in the first round.Final results:
Women's Cup: LMBC
Women's Plate: Cauis B
Men's Cup: LMBC A
Men's Plate: Selwyn BFor more results see Clare College Boat Club web site.
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2.5km Winter Head (Nov. 17th '01)
The women's 1st IV competed in the Cam Winter Head and WON THEIR DIVISION!!! With an excellent time of 11mins23secs over the course they beat off competition from Queen's, Cauis, Trinity Hall and the University of Hertfordshore. Excellent!
For more details of the race click here.
Queen's 1km ergo competition (Nov. 14th '01)
2 of CCBC's men's novice crews went along to Queen's ergo competition. The novice A crew came 33rd in their division with an aggregate time of 822.9 seconds (ave: 1min42secs/person). The novice B crew came 2nd in their division with an aggregate time of 784.2 seconds (ave: 1min38secs/person). Figure that one out?!
For results of other crews in Queen's ergo comp. visit the CUCBC web site and follow their links to the ergo competition results.
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Head of the River Fours (Nov. 10th '01)
CCBC's men's and women's 1st and 2nd crews travelled to London to race the 4 mile Mortlake to Putney (reverse of varsity boat race course) Head of the River Fours race. The weather was ideal without too much wind to make the water choppy and without rain to chill the rowers before they raced.
For full results to see how we compared with other Cambridge crews and for more information about the race check out the Head of the River Fours web site.
Break down of results:
Overall out of 517 crews;
Men's 1st came 316th, Men's 2nd came 458th, Women's 1st came 506th and Women's 2nd came 513th.
Division results:
The men's 1st and 2nd boats rowed in the S3+A division in which there were 47 competing crews.
Men's 1st boat came 23rd with a time of 21mins 49 seconds.
Men's 2nd boat came 43rd with a time of 23mins 47 seconds.The women's crews rowed in the WS3+A division in which there were 33 competing crews.
The women's 1st boat came 29th with a time of 25mins 19 seconds.
The women's 2nd boat came 31st with a time of 26mins 07 seconds.And after 4 miles of power and pain the journey home was a quiet one for the men:
Mmmm...something smell's good in this bag!
I'm sooo hungry after all that rowing - maybe I could catch a few flies!
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Autumn Head (Oct.27th '01)
Bedford Small Boats Head (Oct.14th
'01) Three of Churchill's
senior crews made an early start (6:45 on a Sunday!) to travel to Bedford
and row in the Bedford Small Boats Head. On a very foggy day which made
steering a good course difficult for coxes - visibilty was down to 50m!
- all the crews put up great performances with the potential for further
successes this term, very evident. To see photo's
from the event go to the web site gallery.
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The men's 1st IV rowed in the Senior 4 division and rowed an excellent
race to finish 7th out of 16 in their division - just 21seconds behind
the division winners. They were also the fastest Cambridge College Crew
there so that is an encouraging start to the term!
Men's 2nd
IV finished 9th in the Novice division and the Women's 1st IV finished
9th in the ladies Senior 4 division. For full results click here.
Lent
Head to Head (Jan 26th '02)
Men's 1st came an admirable 4th in Division 1, with a time of 9mins 2secs for the first Head piece and only 2 mins more for the second Head piece. They were beaten only by Emma, Christ's and Jesus.
Men's 2nd and 3rd boats are currently working a squad system so crews aren't set yet so a crew made up from the squad was entered as the 2nd boat. The crew acheived a time of 10mins 23secs for the first leg and 12mins 42 secs for the 2nd leg. After a close look at Men's 4th time it was obvious something was a bit amiss with the crew somehow managing to take 42 mins to row the first leg!!! After a few words with the organisers, the mistake was rectified and the crews time was corrected to12 mins for the first leg and 13 mins 2 secs for the second leg resulting in the crew winning their division - pennants all round for 4th boat!The women's 1st boat welcomed 4 new seniors into the crew this term and they have started the term well coming 6th in the women's first division with a time of 10mins 29secs for the first leg and then going against the tide on the 2nd leg they rowed the course in a time of 14mins and 44 secs.
For more results click here.
Robinson Head (Feb 8th '02)
The second big race of the term was a time to check our crews progress against the other college's and allow Pete Convey to start making his Bumps predictions!
Men's 1st were missing a few of the full Bumps crew but rowed a great race to finish 11th overall with a time of 9mins and 1 sec. (1 second off their first leg Head to Head time) Still unbeaten by Robinson and Clare (two crews set to feature heavily in Churchill Men's 1st's Bump) this term, fingers are crossed for a successful Bumps.
Men's 2nd and 3rd also performed well finishing 25th and 26th respectively and only 1second apart!?
The women's first crew rowed the 2200m course in 11mins and 1 second - a great performance.If you want to know more about the Robinson Head or view more of the results, take a look at the web site for Robinson College Boat Club.
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Churchill had two crews trying to 'Get On' to the 2002 Lent Bumps - Men's 3rd and 4th. The weather wasn't ideal with gusting winds ready to catch crews out. However, excellent rowing from Men's 3rd secured them a position as the 2nd fastest men's crew to get on but an unfortunate sequence of events in the last 50 metres of the race just pushed Men's 4th out of the top 10 - bad luck guys - but watch out for them in the May's!
Men's 3rd start 3 from the bottom of the 4th division and will be chasing Christ's IV and will be chased by Magdalene II. Could be a good Bumps for them - good luck!To see them photo's of the crews in action click here!
For more Getting on Race results click here.
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Easter 2002
Women's VIII's Head of the River (Mar. 9th '02)
Unfortunately due to high winds the women's Head of the River was cancelled this year. But ever determined to put their training to use, our crew tried a new sport - rowing on the grass!
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Men's VIII's Head of the River (Mar 23rd '02)Christ's came top out of the Cambridge colleges, coming a credible 74th. Downing were next, 1.85 seconds behind in 81st. Then a bit of a gap to Goldie (dev squad) in 99th. Caius in 154th. Emma 163rd. Black Prince 180th. FAT 193rd. Maggie 205th. Clare 243rd. Catz 259th. Binson 261st. Kings' 262nd. Jesus 268th. Wolfson 273rd. Emma 2 289th. Churchill 316th. Girton 352nd. Corpus 360th. Clare 2 376th. Black Prince 2 382nd. CCAT 399th.
Churchill's men suffered an unfortunate seat breaking crab within the first half mile of the course which slowed their progress significantly, but they had a lot of fun and all said it was a good experience to row in such a big race.
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Nine's Regatta (May 26th '02)
The Nine's regatta is run by The Cambridge '99 Rowing Club. It is a side-by-side knock-out competition from the top of the reach to Peter's Posts.
The women's 1st boat competed: Here's a report of how they got on, by Zoe Jones
In the first race of the cup Churchill ladies first boat were up against Christs, rivals from last May term. After a shakey start, with Christs pulling 1/3 of a length ahead, we strode into our rhythym and were starting to row through them before they hit the insdie of the bend at the railway bridge. They used the corner to full adavantage and began to pull away. Once we rounded the corner they never gained ground but we never pulled it back on them either.
This put is in the plate competition, where we were facing Girton who had had excellent results all lent term. Our coach told us to expect a tough race and he was right. Again our opposition took it away from us at the start but we moved quickly up on them, and with some excellent coxing and calls from Jenny, we reached the bend before Girton. We then powered it home off the bridge, not allowing Girton to use their advantage of the inside bend, and winning by 3/4 of a length.
In the final of the plate we were up against Pembroke who lie 5 places ahead of us in the first division. This time though we had the advantage of the inside bend at the railway bridge and were on a high from our previous victory. We had an absolutely flying start, and our best stride out. Pembroke moved up 1/3 length immediately though, and whilst we didn't let go of them, we didn't manage to start rowing through them.At the bridge we put in a surge of power to take full advantage of the inside line. Pembroke did some clever coxing of their own however, forcing Jenny to take a slightly tighter line than she'd have liked. Our sprint for the finish was very close though, with their cox having to push them the whole way to guarantee them victory. The final was by far our best row of the day though, and put a smile on everyone's face even in the midst of exams!
Cam Head to Head (May 12th '02)The Cam Head to Head is organised by the City of Cambridge Rowing Club. The race was held over two legs, first downstream and then upstream, between the top finish and the motorway bridge (2800 metres) on the Cam.
Results:
Times are in mins and secs. The finishing positions are those compared with all other men's or women's VIII's competing. For more results from the race go to the City of Cambridge Rowing Club website.
For results from 2000-2001, including our May Bumps results, and for all results prior to 2000, go to archives.
URL: http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/boatclub/results.html
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