King's College Boat Club
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King's College Boat Club is the rowing club for members of King's College, Cambridge. King's is a reasonably large college, but it has been fairly rare to find a King's crew near the top of the Lent or May Bumps.
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[edit] Men's results
The King's 1st men's VIII have spent most of their history in the 2nd division of the Lent and May Bumps. In 1897, King's reached 4th in the Lent Bumps, but subsided back into the 2nd division just four years later. A few brief periods in the 1st division have followed, but in the mid-1980s, the 1st VIII found themselves in the 3rd division for the first time ever. In 2005, King's managed to reach the 1st division for the first time since 1976. This position was consolidated in 2006 with a further 3 bumps and a finishing position of 14th.
In the May Bumps, performance has largely been similar to that of the Lent Bumps. From 1912 until 1930, King's was in the 1st division, reaching 5th in 1923. In 1982, the 1st VIII dropped into the 3rd division and since 1989 has had a continuous existence in the 2nd division.
[edit] Women's results
[edit] Queen Margaret of Anjou Boat Club (QMABC)
A women's boat club for members of King's College formed in 1970, but chose to row under the name Queen Margaret of Anjou Boat Club or QMABC as it was often abbreviated. Queen Margaret of Anjou was the Queen Consort to King Henry VI, who founded King's College.
The 1st women's VIII rowed in the Lent Bumps from the first ever women's race in 1976 and May Bumps from the 2nd ever women's race in 1975.
In the Lent Bumps, the women started in 2nd position in 1976, but did not race in 1979. In the 1980 race, they were put on at the bottom of the 1st division and fell into the 2nd, where they have remained since.
In the May Bumps, the 1st women's IV started in 7th and rose as high as 3rd in 1977 but had fallen into the 2nd division by 1986. When the bumps were reorganised in 1990, the QMABC 1st women's VIII started and maintained a position in the 2nd division.
[edit] King's College Boat Club
The name QMABC was dropped in 1996, and all King's women's crews since have rowed under the same name as that of the men. In the 1996 bumps races, King's women's crews inherited the positions that QMABC crews held in 1995. The King's women's 1st VIII held a position in the 2nd division in both the Lent and May Bumps until the May Bumps 2005, where they managed to break into the 1st division for the first time since the May Bumps were rowed in eight-oared boats.
