University of London Boat Club

University of London Boat Club
Image showing the rowing club's emblem
Image showing the rowing club's blade colours
Motto Rowing Through Excellence
Location Chiswick, London, UK United Kingdom
Coordinates 51°28′57″N 0°16′28″W / 51.4825°N 0.2745°WCoordinates: 51°28′57″N 0°16′28″W / 51.4825°N 0.2745°W
Home water Tideway
Founded 1864
Affiliations British Rowing
Website www.ulbc.co.uk
Distinctions
Henley Royal Regatta (33 wins)
Notable members

University of London Boat Club (ULBC or UL) is the rowing club at the University of London with membership open to students of all of its constituent Colleges (and of their own boat clubs). The club has its boat house on the River Thames in Chiswick, London, United Kingdom.

The club's crews were Winners of the Games in 2014 at the BUCS Regatta and routinely defeats individual colleges of Oxford and Cambridge. A number of its members are national-representative rowers and scullers.

History

The club was formed in the mid-1860s, and since 1950 has won 33 Henley Regatta finals, produced 125 full internationals winning 363 vests[n 1], achieving a total of 74 medals: 21 gold, 19 silver and 34 bronze. At U23 Internationals and World Student Games events the club has won 177 vests and produced 30 medal-winning crews (9 gold, 9 silver and 12 bronze).[1]

The club achieved the first non-Durham Winner of the Games Prize in 2014 at the BUCS University Rowing Competition and both Durham and UL tend to row more frequently together than Oxford or Cambridge combined colleges crews. A number of its members are national-representative rowers and scullers.

Alumni and wider participation

The club shares its facilities with an active and supportive rowing alumni club, Tyrian Club which began as a selective club but in common with various community-minded sports initiatives across British universities became open to a wide range of non-novice adults in the early 2010s with its own designated blades and training programme.[2]

Notable members

College boat clubs

As with other collegiate universities, the University of London's colleges have their own boat clubs.

Imperial College School of Medicine Boat Club[n 2]

London School of Economics Boat Club
Queen Mary, University of London Boat Club[n 4]
Royal Free and University College Medical School Boat Club
Royal Holloway College Boat Club[n 5]

St George's Hospital Medical School Boat Club
University College London Boat Club[n 7]

These colleges compete annually for the Allom Cup. Additionally, the medical schools take part in the United Hospitals Bumps races. Both contests take place on the Tideway.

See also

Notes and references

Notes
  1. ↑ Positions in national boats
  2. ↑ Land training of ICSMBC is at Imperial College Boat Club, Putney
  3. ↑ KCLBC inc. Guys and St Thomas' Hospitals. Boat at Tideway Scullers School (a club 100m downstream of the UL boathouse)
  4. ↑ Based at the London Regatta Centre, London Docklands
  5. ↑ Land training at Egham
  6. ↑ Land training in September at the London Regatta Centre, Docklands
  7. ↑ Land training of UCLBC is at Bloomsbury campus
References
  1. ↑ "Boat Club Wins prestigious cup, Alumni to compete in London 2012". ULU Student Union. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
  2. ↑ "Tyrian Club". Retrieved 10 February 2013.
  3. ↑ "Katie Greves". British Rowing. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
  4. ↑ "Maurice Hayes". British Rowing. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
  5. ↑ "Frances Houghton". British Rowing. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
  6. ↑ "Nathaniel Reilly-O'Donnell". British Rowing. Retrieved 10 February 2013.

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