Durham School Boat Club
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| Motto | Mileage Makes Champions |
| Location | Durham School Durham |
| Coordinates | 54°46′19.39″N 1°34′48.29″W / 54.7720528°N 1.5800806°W |
| Home water | River Wear |
| Founded | 1847 |
| Affiliations | Northern Rowing Council |
| Website | dsbc.synthasite.com/ |
Durham School Boat Club is a school club offering rowing to students, parents, friends and other local schools. Based at Durham School in the city of Durham, England.
Durham School Boat Club (DSBC) was founded in 1847. However, there was rowing at Durham School before that - the club was a founder of Durham Regatta in 1834 and it is, therefore, one of the oldest clubs on the River Wear in Durham. Record keeping in the early days was non-existent and the first reference to a School boat was to the four oared wherry Argo in 1838. At the regatta, the Club went on to win its first Challenge Cup in 1865. The first Club rower to win a blue for Oxford or Cambridge rowing in The Boat Race was W. King who rowed for Oxford in 1854.
The Club operates from its own boathouse situated just downstream of Prebends Bridge, this was built in 1892.
The Club has a range of boats ranging in size from singles to eights and octuples. Durham School boats use the three letter boat code DUS.
The Club is not selective, that is it is open to all students: "All year groups at the school have the opportunity to row at the appropriate level for their physiological and physical development".
The Club also offers rowing to The Chorister School and parents and friends of Durham School.
The Club has been successful at international level, the athletes having represented their home countries and Great Britain at olympic, world, university and junior level, most recently being GB representation, winning a silver medal in the junior women's 8, at the 2010 Coupe de la Jeunesse in Hazewinkel, Belgium; England in the 2010 Home International Regatta in Cork, Ireland; the World Rowing Junior Championships in Brive-la-Gaillarde, France in August 2009; the Coupe de la Jeunesse in Cork, Ireland in 2008 and England representation at the Home International Regatta in 2006.
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