Lent Bumps 2007

The Lent Bumps 2007 was a series of rowing races held at Cambridge University from Tuesday February 27, 2007 until Saturday March 3, 2007. The event was run as a bumps race and was the last set in the series of Lent Bumps which have been held annually in late-February or early March in this form since 1887. See Lent Bumps for the format of the races. This year, a total of 121 crews took part (69 men's crews and 52 women's crews), with around 1000 participants in total.

Head of the River crews

Camb|TR men took the Headship for the third time since 1998, ending Camb|CA's 19-day defence of the Headship by bumping them on the 1st day in a strong headwind, and then held the position for the remaining 3 days.

Camb|TR women bumped Camb|EM, Camb|CA and Camb|CL to take the headship for the first ever time.

This is the only time in Cambridge bumps history that any club other than Camb|CA has held a double-headship.

Highest 2nd VIIIs

Camb|LM|2 were the highest 2nd VIII at the end of the week for the 2nd consecutive year, rowing over in front of Camb|CA|2 on the last two days.

The highest women's 2nd VIII at the end of the week for the 7th consecutive year was Camb|JE|2.

Links to races in other years

The Getting-on Race

The Getting-on Race (GoR) allows a number of crews which did not already have a place from last year's races to compete for the right to race this year. Up to ten crews are removed from the bottom of last year's finishing order, who must then race alongside new entrants to decide which crews gain a place (with one bumps place per 3 crews competing, subject to the maximum of 10 available places).

The 2007 Lent Bumps Getting-on Race took place on 23 February 2007.

A total of 17 men's and 24 women's crews took part, competing for the bottom 6 men's spaces and bottom 8 women's spaces in the main bumps races.

uccessful crews

The successful crews were (in the order that they were put onto the main start order);

Men

*Camb|CC|2
*Camb|TR|5
*Camb|CR|3
*Camb|GI|3
*Camb|HO|2
*Camb|CH|4

Women

*Camb|TH|2
*Camb|CC|2
*Camb|SE|2
*Camb|PM|3
*Camb|EM|3
*Camb|TR|3
*Camb|CH|2
*Camb|PM|4