- Corpus Christi College Boat Club (Cambridge)
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The blade colours of Corpus Christi Boat Club
Corpus Christi College Boat Club (often shortened to Corpus) is the rowing club for members of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. It represents one of the smallest colleges in Cambridge, meaning that as crews are selected from a small pool ability often varies from year to year.[1] It shares a boathouse with the boat clubs of Sidney Sussex, Girton and Wolfson colleges.
The club currently has five crews rowing in eights.[2] Both the men's and women's 1st VIIIs compete in Lent Bumps with a further 2nd men's VIII in the May Bumps. There are additional development crews for both men and women which race in other competitions and regattas and attempt to get on to the bump races yearly.
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History
FOUNDATION
Corpus Christi benefitted greatly when the Lent and May Bumps became separate events in 1887. The 1st VIII started 3rd in the first Lent Bumps in 1887 and managed to take the headship that year. They did again in 1891, but fell away into the 2nd division thereafter, although rising as high as 6th in 1953.[3] Due to how the May Bumps start order was derived in 1887, Corpus started relatively low down and has since spent all of its time in or around the 2nd division. To date, 1887 and 1891 are the only headships Corpus has achieved. A women's crew first appeared in 1984 and has spent most of their early years in the 2nd division of both the Lents and Mays, briefly making the 1st division in the 1987 Lents.
BOATHOUSE
Recent Form
OTHER BOATS AND COMPETITIONS
In the bumps, a periodic shortage of well-trained crews has meant Corpus is prone to yo-yo. In the extreme cases, winning blades one year followed by spoons the next has been known. For example in the 2005 Mays, the 1st women's VIII made their first bump since 1997. They had also only managed one bump in the Lents since 1997; a run of bad form which saw them drop to the middle of the 3rd division in both competitions. In the 2006 Lents, however, both male and female 1st VIIIs made 4 bumps, thus winning their blades. This was followed the same year in the Mays by the women's 1st VIII winning their second set of blades that year and the men's 2nd VIII moving up 9 places over the four days.[3]
The men's 1st VIII are currently in 32nd position in the Lents, getting spoons this year, and 36th in the Mays, with the 2nd VIII in 65th. The women's 1st VIII are 26th in the Lents and 35th in the Mays.[4][5]
Below are the results of the last 5 years of bumps races. Results given are for the 1st VIII and Women's 1st VIII only.
Lent Bumps
Men
Year Finish position 1st day 2nd day 3rd day 4th Day 2007 28th bumped Anglia Ruskin bumped Downing II bumped Darwin rowed-over 2008 25th rowed-over rowed-over bumped Sidney Sussex bumped St. Catharine's 2009 28th bumped by St. Catharine's bumped by Sidney Sussex rowed-over bumped by Homerton 2010 28th over-bumped by Downing II bumped Darwin bumped Pembroke II bumped Homerton 2011 32nd bumped by Homerton bumped by Pembroke II bumped by Queens' II bumped by Emmanuel II Women
Year Finish position 1st day 2nd day 3rd day 4th Day 2007 35th bumped by Homerton rowed-over rowed-over rowed-over 2008 35th bumped by Hughes Hall /Lucy Cavendish rowed-over bumped Newnham II rowed-over 2009 32nd bumped Wolfson bumped St. Edmund's rowed-over bumped Darwin 2010 28th bumped Hughes Hall /Lucy Cavendish bumped Caius II bumped Anglia Ruskin bumped Pembroke II 2011 26th bumped Homerton rowed-over bumped Robinson rowed-over May Bumps
Men
Year Finish position 1st day 2nd day 3rd day 4th Day 2006 28th rowed-over bumped by Jesus II rowed-over bumped Sidney Sussex 2007 28th bumped by Girton bumped by Wolfson bumped by Lady Margaret II bumped by CCAT 2008 31st bumped by Girton bumped by Darwin rowed-over bumped by Homerton 2009 35th bumped by bumped by Queens' II bumped by Sidney Sussex bumped by Selwyn II 2010 36th bumped Selwyn II bumped by Christ's II rowed-over bumped by Pembroke II Women
Year Finish position 1st day 2nd day 3rd day 4th Day 2006 40th bumped Churchill III bumped Murray Edwards II bumped Lady Margaret III bumped St. Catharine's II 2007 36th bumped Jesus III bumped Trinity Hall II bumped Clare II bumped Queens' II 2008 32nd bumped Newnham II bumped Wolfson II bumped Caius II bumped Girton II 2009 33rd rowed-over rowed over rowed-over bumped by Clare II 2010 35th rowed-over bumped by Newnham II rowed-over bumped by Hughes Hall II/Lucy Cavendish II See also
References
- ^ http://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/component/content/article/14-maps-a-tours/236-rowing
- ^ http://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/cccbc/
- ^ a b Durack, John; Gilbert, George; Marks, Dr. John (2000). The Bumps: An Account of the Cambridge University Bumping Races 1827-1999 ISBN 0-9538475-1-9
- ^ http://www.cucbc.org/mays/results
- ^ http://www.cucbc.org/lents/results
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