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The Club's ResultsMay Bumps 1997The famous Cambridge University May Bumps on the River Cam At the bottom of this page there is a link to Cambridge weather. Club members, please go here to add (or correct) results, crews or race reports. Results OverviewClick a symbol or crew name to be taken to the relevant part of the page.
1st men's VIII1st women's VIII2nd men's VIII3rd men's VIIIWednesday Rowed over 3rd Men's VIII were a kick-arse crew in '97 (at least we thought so, having netted the most womens crews during the season). Famous for our ridiculously tight "Beat Me" Tshirts... Didnt get off to a good start on day 1, and rowed over. :-( Thursday Bumped Jesus III Took off at a cracking pace and caught Jesus III with ease Friday Bumped Selwyn II Another good start, a tougher race but still bumped Selwyn II hard enough to need repairs that night. Saturday Bumped Magdalene II Toughest race of the Bumps, pushed out hard and ground down Magdalene II with a well-steered race from our sexy Cox. If only we'd gone out harder on the 1st day, there might've been Blades.... 2nd women's VIII3rd women's VIII4th men's VIIIWednesday Bumped Clare IV Clare were simply dreadful. They had barely spun by the 1 minute gun and their bank party had to throw the bung out to the crew. They started not pointing straight and had to call a corner to avoid the bank. However, we hit them before they could even do this. The race had lasted maybe 15 strokes and we had not even reached New corner. The speed differential on impact forced them into the bank and we were right behind them. Downing IV (behind us) were unable to avoid the carnage and ploughed into us prompting a rare outburst of obscenities from Emma. The crew in front of Clare were also dreadful and, bizarrely, [and against all standard procedure] Downing were awarded a technical overbump. I may be misremembering this after all the intervening years, but was it not the case that Downing were awarded the technical overbump because the crew two in front of us either weren't there or weren't spun by the one minute gun? Unless I am wrong (which happens frequently), Clare only had to pass the station in front to get their bump, but we managed to get them before they did so; this was partly due to our superior speed, but mainly due to their inept start. I can't think of any other valid reason to award a technical overbump to Downing. Anyway, it certainly was over very quickly, and 15 strokes may even be an overestimate. Thursday Overbumped St. Catharine's III We made a solid start and moved up on Downing IV. When we were at about half a length they bumped leaving us to chase for the overbump. We moved up rapidly on Catz III gaining a huge amount with a vastly superior cornering performance round First Post and Grassy. We got the Hooters down Plough Reach and hit them by Ditton putting us back ahead of Downing. Friday Bumped King's II We were substantially better than Kings II and closed from the start of the race until the end which occurred on First Post Reach. Saturday Bumped Sidney Sussex III We were sufficiently confident that 3 of the crew (Ingram, Blaukopf, Spencer) actually raced wearing a T-shirt proclaiming our blades and listing Disney as the final crew! Possibly as a result of the pressure this arrogance had put upon us, we were very nervous (especially me!) and made a slightly below par start. However, we found our rhythm fairly soon and closed to hit them on First Post corner. This was probably our hardest race, although like all the non-overbumps did not even involve a single corner!!! 5th men's VIII6th men's VIII7th men's VIIIWhilst every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the following information, note that the results are unofficial. Men's bumps charts
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