Cambridge steps towards Boat Race

Cambridge coach Duncan Holland has decided his crew needs racing experience and with that got his Cambridge eight to face Germany last weekend. The German men’s eight are currently the World Champions and six of their squad that raced to gold last year, including longstanding coxswain Peter Thiede, came to Great Britain to give Cambridge a warm-up race.

Although Cambridge led at the start, Germany managed to catch up and overtake during the 4,000-metre race and go on to win by three seconds. Two members of Germany’s World Champion eight currently race in Cambridge’s boat. Sebastian Schulte and Thorsten Engelmann make up the stroke pair for Cambridge.

Oxford will race against an American crew as part of their Boat Race build-up this weekend.

Crew line-ups

Cambridge

Kip McDaniel
Dan O'Shaughnessy
Peter Champion
Jacob Cornelius
Tom James (President)
Kieran West
Sebastian Schulte
Thorsten Englemann
Russell Glenn (cox)

Germany

Joerg Diessner
Stephan Koltzk
Jan-Martin Broer
Matthias Flach
Ulf Siemes
Jan Tebruegge
Phillip Stueer
Bernd Heidicker
Peter Thiede (cox)