The Club's Results
Lent Bumps 2003
The famous Cambridge University Bumps on the River Cam
Tue 25th February - Sat 1st March
The event was organised by CUCBC. 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 Overview
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- Full bumps charts: Men's | Women's
- Michell Cup points
- Cambridge weather
Men's 1st Lent VIII |
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Women's 1st Lent VIII |
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2nd men's VIII |
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3rd men's VIII |
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4th men's VIII |
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Guide to the table
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![]() | Overbumped - hit the crew 3 in front |
![]() | Bumped the crew in front |
![]() | Row over head of division |
![]() | Row over - did not bump |
![]() | Got Bumped |
![]() | Got Overbumped |
![]() | Got Double overbumped |
![]() | Got Triple overbumped. D'oh. |
Men's 1st Lent VIII
Rowed over
by Martin - Wed 26th Feb 2003, 5:01pm
1st men row over after disaster.
by dw - Wed 26th Feb 2003, 5:45pm
Tantalising...
Any further info anyone?
by Mike - Wed 26th Feb 2003, 5:49pm
dw said: Any further info anyone?
Quarter of a length off Maggie coming into Ditton when crab at four effectively ended the race. They had a go at getting back at Maggie but the distance was too great. Emma closed to within a length but never looked like getting any closer. Roll on tomorrow.
Bumped LMBC
Rowed over
I know you will all be very disappointed. I know that this will be of no immediate consolation, but the whole club was very impressed by your effort today. You are indeed the fastest Lent VIII, and your performance today was worthy of the top boat of the best club on the Cam.
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1. Getting very close
2. Going hell-for-leath... 3. The Women's Captain ... [more...] |
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Women's 1st Lent VIII
Rowed over
Rowed over
Rowed over
We had Girton ahead of us who have kept us at bay for the last two days. Today they were chasing New Hall who have been bumped every day so far. Behind us, Sidney were chasing Catz (again...) This race was going to be all over by Ditton.
We got a pretty good start, and closed Girton down to about a length, but to no avail: Girton hit New Hall pretty swiftly. Sidney made fairly short work of Catz again.
Selwyn were never much of a threat as sandwich boat, and the overbump was never within our reach.
Another row-over, but tomorrow we are chasing New Hall. Bring it on!
Bumped New Hall
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1. Jubilant row home
2. Pushing Off ... Smil... 3. Queen Amelia [more...] |
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2nd men's VIII
Bumped by Peterhouse
A storming row saw us take half a length out of Maggie off the start, but they quickly closed on Downing ahead and bumped out on first post, leaving us going for the overbump on Magdalene.
Peterhouse were about on station at this point, but due to carnage avoidance and a slight spack, closed to a quarter of a length coming out of Grassy. They pushed to overlap coming past The Plough but we held firm and pushed them away round Ditton. They came right back at us coming out of Ditton corner onto the Long Reach and eventually managed to convert at The Railings.
Kings behind were absolutely nowhere to be seen, and it was heartening to hear that we had been closing on Magdalene ahead. On to day 2 ...
Rowed over
A slightly scrappy row around First Post presented Rachel with the only concern of the race: a Downing II crew resembling little more than a log drifting with the current. Downing had been bumped by Peterhouse, but were still in the middle of the river coming into Grassy. The Downing cox tried to pull in on the inside of the bend forcing us out wide. As the Downing stern drifted out, it was clear that whilst our nimble craft was up to the task of taking a sharpened corner, the King's' empacher, with the turning radius of a supertanker, came within a hair's breadth of the LMBC crew who were parked on the outside of grassy after bumping Magdalene.
The crew then proceeded to row over comfortably, well clear of Kings, to a round of applause from the Ladies at the finish. Day 3 tomorrow ...
Bumped by King's
... four seconds later a large gust of wind hit the bows. With no time to straighten properly, we started as best we could, but a combination of factors saw us parked on the bank before we could even think about winding it up. The wind blew us against the bank, thwarting all attempts to push back off and King's rowed past for the bump.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh. It's not even Friday the 13th today, no-one walked under a ladder on the way to the boathouse, and I haven't seen a black cat in weeks. It surely can't get any worse tomorrow (touch wood) ...
Rowed over
Roll on the Mays !!!
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1. Another row-over to ...
2. Coming past the Plou... 3. Rowing away from the... [more...] |
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3rd men's VIII
Bumped Selwyn II
A superb piece of determination from the whole crew, but it has to be said we were quite lucky - Selwyn would have almost certainly caught Girton if Clare hadn't crashed.
We closed about half a length off our start, but some panicked rowing saw us loosing boat speed once past the motorway bridge, and selwyn were able to hold us. We slowly clawed into their lead, however, and were getting two whistles by the exit of 1st post. This is where it got really messy-a number of bumps meant that boats were all over the place, and although I could hear Iain screaming for us to go wide around grassy, Andy couldnt, steering a mean tight line. He got the idea in the end, but by this time the only way we could avoid the boats ahead was by shooting straight across the corner. We weren't able to bring the boat around properly in the space left, but fortunately there was no sickening crunch of the bows hitting the bank. Then again, we weren't in Peter Brandt...
We did, however, find Catz II with our blades, and some nasty clashes saw us grind to a halt. Once we pushed off I thought Selwyn II would be miles ahead. Our rowing became a lot more relaxed, but it turned out to be very effective. We rapidly cut into Selwyn's lead, and hit them just after ditton.
A hard row, but very enjoyable.
Tomorrow we chase Girton II, who went past Clare II (who crashed) but were awarded a technical row over due to carnage.
Bumped Girton II
The real racing starts on Friday!
Rowed over
We had pulled away from Girton from the start, who were being reeled in by Selwyn, but sadly our entertainment was cut short by Clare II. Possibly the best boat at spannering in our division (although binson II got the awards in the first few days) they pulled in on the inside of grassy. Or at least, they stopped on the inside of grassy and then drifted out to block the entire river. We scraped through, but they closed the small gap that was left before anyone else could take advantage of it. We were left to row out the course with no-one ahead of us, and without a single sighting of a boat behind. A rather eerie experience...
The plan now is surely to hold Pembroke ahead until Clare II decide which bank/corner/barge they want to hit, let Pembroke bump them out and then go for the overbump on Catz ;-)
Technical row over
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1. View from the Motorw...
2. Coming past the outflow 3. First Post Corner wi... [more...] |
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4th men's VIII
Rowed over Head
Bumped Hughes Hall as sandwich boat
Bumped Corpus II
Bumped Clare Hall
Anyway, having offended most of the third division as it would seem, I'll keep this short (like our race, in fact). Today was Clare Hall, who managed to break a rigger off their practice start. Having fixed it just in time for the guns, we had them before the motorway bridge. This time we actually managed to clear the river and could watch the exciting race between Corpus and Peterhouse. Well rowed, both of you (am I forgiven yet?). I still can't believe anyone actually reads my reports anyway...
Overbumped by Caius III
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1. Catching the outflow
2. Three bumps in three... 3. Bow 5 with Greenery [more...] |
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Cambridge Evening News article
Monday, 3 March 2003: Caius unlock the route to success
Caius rule the roost after they finished Head of both the men's and women's divisions of the Lent Bumps on Saturday.
It means they now hold all the main college titles -- the Fairbairns last term, this term's Lent Headships and next term's May Headships. However, their men looked in serious danger when in a last-ditch attack, challengers 1st & 3rd Trinity stormed off from the gun and charged up the river steadily closing -- three quarters length in the Gut, half a length on Grassy Corner, and a quarter of a length at the Plough. Caius held their nerve, though, and started to match Trinity's speed on Ditton Corner, rowing away from them as they ran out of steam to finish five lengths clear. [...]
Whilst every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the following information, note that the results are unofficial.
Men's bumps charts
Women's bumps charts
Michell Cup points
Caius | 40.80 |
Peterhouse | 36.00 |
Queens' | 28.80 |
Robinson | 24.00 |
Magdalene | 20.00 |
Selwyn | 19.20 |
Churchill | 16.80 |
Clare | 16.80 |
Fitzwilliam | 9.00 |
1st and 3rd | 4.80 |
Newnham | 4.00 |
Girton | 3.00 |
Anglia Ruskin | 0.00 |
Wolfson | 0.00 |
Pembroke | -2.00 |
Jesus | -3.00 |
Sidney Sussex | -3.00 |
Downing | -4.80 |
LMBC | -17.00 |
Emmanuel | -19.20 |
King's | -21.00 |
Murray Edwards | -24.00 |
Trinity Hall | -24.00 |
St. Catharine's | -33.60 |
Christ's | -39.00 |
Ineligible after entering fewer than 3 crews:
Darwin | 42.00 |
St. Edmund's | 18.00 |
Addenbrookes | 12.00 |
Corpus | -6.00 |
Homerton | -6.00 |
Lucy Cavendish | -12.00 |
Clare Hall | -18.00 |
Hughes Hall | -36.00 |
Cambridge weather: | Tuesday | text |
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Saturday | text |