Imperial College Boat Club

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Imperial College Boat Club is the rowing club for Imperial College London and has its boat house on the River Thames in Putney, London, United Kingdom. It was originally housed in Thames Rowing Club but has had its own boathouse for more than fifty years. The club has been highly successful, with many wins at Henley Royal Regatta including most recently in 2006 with victory in The Prince Albert Challenge Cup event. The club has been home to numerous National Squad oarsmen and women and is open to all rowers not just students at Imperial College London. The Gold medal winning GB 8+ at the 2000 Sydney Olympics had been based at Imperial College's recently refurbished boathouse and included 3 alumni of the college along with their coach Martin McElroy.

The most famous of Imperial College Boat Club's coaches is Bill Mason. Bill is a former Olympic oarsman himself and for many years was head coach and director of rowing at Imperial College Boat Club. In that time he was responsible for numerous Henley Royal Regatta and Henley Women's Regatta wins. He coached athletes at the club from novices up to international and developed the club substantially during his time in charge. The current head coach is Simon Cox who after taking over from Simon Dennis is 2005 went on to coach the Henley Royal Regatta winning crew in 2006.

[edit] Henley Royal Regatta wins

2006 Prince Albert Challenge Cup (B. Smith, O. Moore, W. Laughton, O. Tietz, cox:A.Williams)
2004 Men's Student Coxed Fours (S.Hislop, G. Whittaker, H. Mackenzie, E. Johnson, cox:S. Pierce)
1998 Temple Challenge Cup
1996 Grand Challenge Cup
1995 Thames Challenge Cup (new record time)
1994 Temple Challenge Cup, Visitors Challenge Cup
1992 Ladies Plate Challenge Cup (new record time), Temple Challenge Cup (new record time)
1990 Henley Prize (later renamed Temple Challenge Cup)

[edit] Henley Women's Regatta wins

2006 Senior Eights, Elite Lightweight Singles (M. Pauls)
2005 Intermeidate Coxed Fours (S. Supponen, C. Greenhalgh, N. Smith, N. Evans, cox:L. Sutcliffe), FISA Senior B Lwt 1x (R. Davies)
2001 Club Coxed Fours (T. King, E. Williams, J. Taylor, P. Keegan, cox:J. Ellis), Elite Lightweight Singles (A. Eastman)
2000 College Eights
1997 College Eights
1996 Club Eights