With a little over two months to go until student rowers converge for racing at the 2018 European University Games in Coimbra, Portugal (14-19 July), World Rowing takes a look at the lay of the land – or water -- for university rowing in mainland Europe’s western-most nation.
Racing was as fierce as ever for the thousands of student rowers who faced off at Great Britain’s National Water Sports Centre in Holme Pierrepont, at the 2018 British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) Regatta.
From the light and dark blue of Great Britain’s Cambridge and Oxford Universities to America’s Harvard crimson or New Zealand’s Otago University blue and gold, the sight of foreign university crews on Chinese waters is becoming a regular feature as the sport takes hold on campuses across the nation.
When Cambridge University won the Cancer Research UK men’s Boat Race in London on Saturday it sealed off a series of six wins for the first time in more than 20 years.
