Cantabrigian Rowing Club
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| Location | Cambridge |
| Coordinates | 52°21′53″N 0°14′38″E / 52.36472°N 0.24389°ECoordinates: 52°21′53″N 0°14′38″E / 52.36472°N 0.24389°E |
| Home water | River Cam |
| Founded | 1950 |
| Affiliations | CRA, British Rowing |
| Website | www |
Cantabrigian Rowing Club, known as Cantabs, is a rowing club in Cambridge.
Cantabs was founded in 1950 as a rowing club for the old boys of the Hills Road Sixth Form College, then the Cambridgeshire High School for Boys. It first accepted general membership in the 1960s and has been an open club since. The club is affiliated to the Cambridgeshire Rowing Association and British Rowing.
The club is currently one of the fastest on the River Cam, holding the men's headship in the Town Bumps for six of the last seven years and currently second on the river in the women's races.
The club runs the Cambridge Winter Head every November, an event that can attract over a thousand competitors.
The club is based out of its own boat house in Chesterton on the banks of the River Cam. The boat house has a brand new purpose-built indoor training space upstairs and rack space for boats ranging from single sculls to eights downstairs. The club also makes use of the CRA boat house and Fitzwilliam College boat house in Cambridge.
Financial support for this development includes Olympic legacy funding from Sport England’s Inspired Facilities Fund.
The club is open to rowers, scullers and coxes of all ages, from the junior level up to masters level. Cantabs runs a number of different men's, women's and junior squads which cater for the social rower to those who wish to train and race competitively at a high level. There are a number of different squads which mean that different commitment levels and aspirations can be catered for.
The men's squad has qualified at least one boat for Henley Royal Regatta in the majority of the last decade and in 2012 the men's senior squad qualified two eights for the Thames Challenge Cup, a first for any Cambridge town club. In addition, there has been substantial individual success, with John Hale winning silver in the lightweight sculls at the 2012 British Rowing Championships before representing England in the lightweight double at the Home International Regatta and Charlie Palmer reaching the finals of the Diamond Challenge Sculls in 2005 and 2006.
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