Jun 11th to 14th, 2008:
| Results | Crews | Reports | Pictures | Videos |
After one year of hard training, the May Bumps are finally here! Everything you need to know is on the May Bumps 2008 page.
| Women's | ||||||
| CREW | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Overall | |
| 1st VIII | +1 | +1 | +1 | 0 | +3 | |
| 2nd VIII | -1 | 0 | -1 | -1 | -3 | |
| Men's | ||||||
| CREW | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Overall | |
| 1st VIII | 0 | +1 | +1 | +1 | +3 | |
| 2nd VIII | -1 | 0 / 0 | 0 / +1 | 0 | 0 | |
| 3rd VIII | -3 | +1 | -3 | +1 | -4 | |
See the DCBC Gallery and the DCBC YouTube account for the last pictures and videos available. If you want to upload your pictures/movies, send me an email.
May 18th, 2008:
1.4 km only, upstream, from the Plough Pub to the Penny Ferry... with a special prize for the best start, the most imaginative start and for the best line in Ditton corner.
The results for W1, M1, W2 and M3 are:
| Crew | Time |
| W1 | 5:31.9 |
| M1 | 4:54.4 |
| W2 | 6:34.0 |
| M3 | 5:53.4 |
Results for the three divisions can be found here.
Crew: Russ Glenn (cox), Evgenia Ilyinskaya, Jenny Robison, Devin Yagel, Emily Shuckburgh, Carol Baltar, Judith Zaugg, Jessie Hohmann, Vanessa Brown.
Watch the video directly on YouTube for a high quality version, more pictures of W1 here.
NO PICTURE because they only finished at the 29th position! BOOOOH!
Ruth McKnight (cox), Sebastian Müller, Andreas Lintz, James Minshull, Stéphane Forsik, Dominic Schmidt, Oliver Holmes, Daniel Zerbino, Mark Barber.
Maddy Raju, Anna Mieczakowski, Christina Soromani, Eric Chiang (cox), Nittai Madrid, Florence Cavalli, Katerina Bilitou, Rebecca Rancourt (coach), Catherine Brewster.
Ignacio Pisso, Sebastian von Wuthenau, Greg White, Dominic Chai, Barasa Idris-Goudraz (cox), Sven Sewitz, Moritz Baumstark, Stefan Tumpel, Pietro De Matteis, Mark Barber (coach).
May 11th, 2008:
Crew: Katerina Bilitou, Jenny Robison, Daniel Zerbino, Vanessa Brown, Marloes Bagijn, Russ Glenn (cox), Jessie Hohmann, Evgenia Ilyinskaya, Florence Cavalli.
Darwin W1 were victorious during the first race against Selwyn. Darwin took an early lead and worked to create further distance winning the race by a length.
Darwin W1 started their final race with a great start and powered through the clashing blades to row faster than St. Eddies but in the end losing the battle with the disqualifying marshals.
See a high quality version of this video on Youtube.
More results can be found here.
May 11th, 2008:
They covered the first race (downstream) in 7 min 02 and the second one (upstream) in 7 min 05 (more results here).
Russ Glenn (cox), Sebastian Müller, Richard Darby, James Minshull, Stéphane Forsik, Dominic Schmidt, Bodhi Rader, Oliver Holmes, Mark Barber.
All the pictures.
May 3rd, 2008:
A big thank you to Jessie who filmed the whole race.
A high quality version can be seen on Youtube and a couple of pictures here.
Apr 27th, 2008:
After a month long break, Darwin M1 is back on the river and they covered the 1600 meters in 5 min 32, beating all the town VIIIs and finishing at the 4th position in the University boat category... 24 seconds ahead of Girton M1, our main enemy in Bumps! (More results can be found here.)
Daniel Zerbino, Adrian Tan, Oliver Holmes, Dominic Schmidt, Sebastian Müller, Stéphane Forsik, Russ Glenn (super cox), Andreas Lintz, James Minshull.
Well done guys for the performance, the face paint and the sexy socks and a big thank you to Jessie who supported us and took some pictures. A video of the complete race will be uploaded on Youtube soon.
All the pictures can be found here and a video of the race on Youtube.
Mar 15nd, 2008:
Every year, the HORR attracts 420 clubs, including the best clubs in the UK as well as several foreign clubs, that compete over 6.8 km on the Thames, during the ebb tide, from Mortlake to Putney.
Darwin covered that distance in 21 min 8 sec and finished at the 327th position. The complete results can be found here.
Darwin M1, about to boat from Furnival.
Four awesome DCBC members also joined M1 for that day and shouted at us, with the boat club flag, from Hammersmith Bridge.
Crew, coach and bank party: James Fowler, Sarah, Stéphane Forsik, Amyas Phillips, Rebecca Rancourt, Bodhi Rader, Richard Darby, Dominic Schmidt, Sebastian Müller, Mark de Rond (coach), Ruth McKnight (cox), Claudia Crovace, Daniel Zerbino, Olivia Lewis.
Thanks to Ruth and Sebastian for organising everything, to Mark for his precious advice and to all the bank party for making that trip to London a very fun day!
All the pictures can be found here.
Mar 13nd, 2008:
A German-speaking coach and chocolate, flowers, sweets & fruits for the marshalls allowed them to have a slight head start but they were facing Downing, which were definitely stronger and more experienced. Darwin fought hard right from the start but Dowing were slowly catching up on them and finaly beat them.
Downing were maybe the fastest but our Darwin cheerleaders were the sexiest!
Stephanie Trojan, Veronika Trojan
Olivia Lewis (cox), Anna Mieczakowski, Vanessa Brown
Mark Barber, Brandan Cooney, Ignacio Pisso, Pietro de Matteis
See more pictures of the race here.
Our sexy cheersleaders just before their first race against Downing.
D... A... R... W... I... N... DARWIN!
Thanks to the bank party!
Feb 26th to Mar 1st, 2008:
| Results | Crews | Reports | Pictures |
Darwin W1 and M1 raced in the Lent Bumps from Tuesday 26 February to Saturday 1 March.
The results, crew composition and reports from captains can be found on the Lent Bumps 2008 page.
| Women's | ||||||
| CREW | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Overall |
| 1st VIII | -1 | rest | -1 | 0 | -1 | -3 |
| Men's | ||||||
| CREW | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Overall |
| 1st VIII | 0 | rest | -1 | -1 | -1 | -3 |
More pictures here.
Feb 22nd, 2008:
They began their race with a good start and were constantly pushing away the boat behind them. Their cox Barasa took the best line in First Post, Grassy and Ditton corners and she managed to keep her crew focused on a very windy Reach.
Waves and strong wind gusts didn't prevent Darwin from gaining at least 4 or 5 lengths on the boat they were chasing but, unfortunately, they finished the race at the 7th position, shortly missing the last qualifying position. They nonetheless beat 11 other boats!
Feb 17th, 2008:
The Head of the Trent is 6 km long race organised by the Nottingham & Union Rowing Club and the Nottingham Rowing Club, where more than 200 boats usually compete every year.
After an early awakening at 4am, a meeting at the boat house at 5am, a 2.5 hour drive and a cheap (but disgusting) coffee at the Nottingham National Water Sports Centre, the crew discovered a wide and cold river and had to row 7 km up to the starting line. Darwin competed in the first division, in which Cambridge University, Oxford University, Leander and many other big crews were also racing. Darwin performed very well and, with a time of 19 min 29 sec (despite a crash with a goose), managed to beat 6 town crews and was on par with some University boats.
| Rank | Time | |
| 1 | Cambridge University Blue Boat | 15.47 |
| 2 | Cambridge University Goldie Boat | 16:02 |
| 36 | Leeds University | 19.21 |
| 37 | Warwick University 2 | 19.22 |
| 38 | Bangor University | 19:25 |
| 39 | Darwin College Boat Club | 19.29 |
| 40 | Liverpool Victoria | 19:31 |
| 41 | Peterborough City | 19.47 |
| 42 | Royal Chester | 19.48 |
| 43 | Nottingam Rowing Club | 19.57 |
| 44 | Sheffield City | 20.17 |
Click here to see more pictures.
Congratulations to the crew for this excellent result and a very big thank you to Mark de Rond (coach) for sacrificing his Sunday. It is very much appreciated to hear a familiar voice cheering you up during such a long and painful race!
Feb 16th, 2008:
Darwin M2 v Wolfson M2: 9:05am
Darwin W1 began the race with a powerful start and some great pieces and was soon well ahead of the Newnham boat. Excellent coxing and real determination from the Darwin ladies were their strong points, but unfortunately they were unable to come through in the winning position.
M2 didn't have a very good start and were soon distanced by Wolfson but the Darwin experience and power allowed them to catch up quite rapidely. Darwin easily surpassed Wolfson in the second part of the race and indisputably won their first-round race.
In the second round, Darwin M2 was facing King's M2 and had a much better start but this was not sufficient. After a suspensful first half of the race, King's slowly surpassed Darwin and finally won by half a length.
The official results can be found here. Click here to see more pictures.
Thank you to the bank party and congratulations to both crews... Sprinting in regattas is the best way to practice for Lent Bumps! GO DARWIN!
Feb 8th, 2008:
Congratulations guys!
Thank you to those who cycled along to support M1!
Feb 2nd, 2008:
The first women's boat finished the race in 9 minutes and the first men's boat in 6 min 30. More results are available here.
Thanks to the brave ones who cycled along to support Darwin!
Some pictures can be found here. If you have more, please send them to me.
Jan 19th, 2008:
On Saturday 19 Jan 2008, three Darwin crews (W1, M1 and M2) did 2 x 2.7 km.
| Cox | |||
| Stroke | |||
| 7 | |||
| 6 | |||
| 5 | |||
| 4 | |||
| 3 | |||
| 2 | |||
| Bow |
The results are:
| W1 | 8:33.0 | 9:52.0 | 18:25.0 |
| M1 | 7:09.0 | 8:01.0 | 15:10.0 |
| M2 | 8:00.0 | 9:25.0 | 17:25.0 |
The full results can be found here.
Thanks to everyone who came to support Darwin.
Dec 15th, 2007:
The mixed crew, dressed up as snowmen, finished the race in 8 min 47.
Nov 29th and 30th, 2007:
Almost 280 boats (IVs and VIIIs) raced on Thursday 29 and Friday 30 November and Darwin College Boat Club was represented by 5 boats. Two men's and one women's boats competed in the senior division over 4 300 m, from Jesus College to the Little Bridge. One men's and one women's boats competed in the novice division over 2 700 m, from Jesus College Boat Club to the Railings. The five boats performed very well. Congratulations to all crews for their efforts and great times!
| W1 (4 300 m) | 19:03.16 |
| M1 (4 300 m) | 15:48.05 |
| W2 (2 700 m) | 13:11.08 |
| M2 (4 300 m) | 16:44.26 |
| M3 (2 700 m) | 13:00.72 |
Nov 18th, 2007:
Nov 17th, 2007:
Oct 30th, 2007:
Darwin entered two novice crews. The women came in 18th in their division (better then the previous year!) with an average 500m split of 2:01.97 and the men put up an average split of 1:40.83 to come 27th.
| Seat | Rower | Time | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vanessa Brown | 1:52.62 | ||
| Christine Boehner | 2:08.18 | ||
| Simone Cooper | 2:06.34 | ||
| Debbie Wright | 2:04.90 | ||
| Carol Baltar | 2:11.15 | ||
| Lucy Butcher | 1:51.43 | ||
| Cathy Mitchell | 2:13.00 | ||
| Olivia Lewis | 1:48.12 |
| Seat | Rower | Time | |
|---|---|---|---|
| James Fowler | 1:38.03 | ||
| Philip Haycock | 1:53.45 | ||
| Qian Miao | 1:46.18 | ||
| Sebastian von Wuthenau | 1:36.10 | ||
| Raphael Hephron | 1:37.89 | ||
| Tomokazu Ogawa | 1:40.50 | ||
| Brendan Cooney | 1:41.56 | ||
| Nicky Grant | 1:32.95 |
Oct 27th, 2007:
Oct 20th, 2007:
A big thank you to those who came to support Darwin and to all the novices, rowers, ex-rowers, fellows who attended the barbecue.
Sep 9th, 2007:
Our men put a valiant effort in their first sprint against Champs of the Thames but the other crew living up to their name were "champs" in that race and won by a canvas. A big thank to all who came out to support Darwin.
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