University rowing in the United Kingdom is widespread, with competitions organised by British Universities and Colleges Sport and between and within universities in the United Kingdom.
Crews can get very close to each other when overtaking at BUCS Head
The start of a race at BUCS Regatta
GB Pair at Henley 2004
Eights Week
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Eights Week, also known as Summer Eights, is a four-day regatta of bumps races which constitutes the University of Oxford's main intercollegiate rowing event of the year. The regatta takes place in Ma
Summer Eights May 2009 Men's Division 1, showing racing between (from front) Keble College, New College, St Edmund Hall
A busy riverbank scene as a boat is returned to one of the college boathouses in Summer Eights 1982
The scene at Boathouse Island during Summer Eights 2005, crammed with spectators awaiting the next race
The earliest-known scene of a race between two eight-oared boats at Oxford University. It has been suggested that the picture shows the "disputed bump" of 1822 in a race between Jesus College and Brasenose College, but this is uncertain.