Robinson College Boat Club is the rowing

Sport rowing

Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, on lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water...

 club for members of Robinson College, Cambridge

Robinson College, Cambridge

Robinson College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.Robinson is the newest of the Cambridge colleges, and is unique in being the only one to have been intended, from its inception, for both undergraduate and graduate students of either sex.- History :The college was founded...

. Robinson is one of the most recent colleges of Cambridge University

University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...

 and its men's and women's crews both appeared in 1981 for the first time. The men's 1st VIII rose steadily in the Lent Bumps

Lent Bumps

The Lent Bumps are a set of rowing races held annually on the River Cam in Cambridge. They began in 1887, after separating from the May Bumps, the equivalent bumping races held in mid-June. Prior to the separation there had been a single set of annual bumps dating from its inception in 1827...

 and has been in the 1st division continuously since 1998, rising as high as 9th in 2001. In the May Bumps

May Bumps

The May Bumps are a set of rowing races, held annually on the River Cam in Cambridge. They began in 1887 after separating from the Lent Bumps, the equivalent bumping races held at the end of February or start of March. Prior to the separation there had been a single set of annual bumps dating from...

, the men's 1st VIII has been continuously in the 1st division since 1995, rising as high as 4th in 2003. The women's 1st VIII have had a continuous existence in the 2nd division since 1982, apart from a brief visit to the 1st division in 1992. In the May Bumps, the 1st women's IV dropped into the 3rd division by 1987 after being double-overbumped (dropping five places in a single day) on three occasions since 1982. Robinson's 1st women's VIII were positioned at the bottom of the 1st division following the reorganisation of the start order in 1990 when the May Bumps changed to eight-oared boats, and have spent most of the time since then in the top half of the 2nd division or the bottom few crews of the 1st, rising as high as 13th in 2000.

Sponsorship

In 2009/10 academic year and 2010/11 Robinson College Boat Club has been sponsored by Centrica

Centrica

Centrica plc is a multinational utility company, based in the United Kingdom but also with interests in North America. Centrica is the largest supplier of gas to domestic customers in the UK, and one of the largest suppliers of electricity, operating under the trading names "Scottish Gas" in...

. With it's headquarters in Windsor, Centrica is a large multinational utlity company and the largest supplier of gas to domestic customers in the UK, and one of the largest suppliers of electricity, operating under the trading names "Scottish Gas" in Scotland and "British Gas" in the rest of the UK. Operating under the name "Direct Energy" in the United States, it is the largest energy and home services retailer in North America. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.

Recent Form

Below are the results of the last decade of bumps race

Bumps race

A bumps race is a form of rowing race in which a number of boats chase each other in single file, each boat attempting to catch and "bump" the boat in front without being caught by the boat behind....

s. Results given are for the 1st VIII and Women's 1st VIII only.

Men

Year	Finish position	1st day	2nd day	3rd day	4th Day
1998	14th	rowed-over	bumped	bumped	rowed-over
1999	11th	bumped	rowed-over	bumped	bumped
2000	10th	bumped	rowed-over	rowed-over	rowed-over
2001	9th	bumped	rowed-over	(cancelled)	(cancelled)
2002	10th	rowed-over	rowed-over	rowed-over	bumped by
2003	12th	bumped by	rowed-over	rowed-over	bumped by
2004	10th	bumped	bumped	rowed-over	rowed-over
2005	13th	bumped by	bumped by	bumped by	rowed-over
2006	16th	bumped by	rowed-over	bumped by	bumped by
2007	17th	rowed-over	bumped by	rowed-over	rowed-over

Women

Year	Finish position	1st day	2nd day	3rd day	4th Day
1998	29th	bumped by	bumped by	rowed-over	rowed-over
1999	25th	bumped	bumped	bumped	bumped
2000	24th	rowed-over	bumped	rowed-over	rowed-over
2001	24th	rowed-over	rowed-over	(cancelled)	(cancelled)
2002	25th	(cancelled)	rowed-over	rowed-over	bumped by
2003	21st	bumped	bumped	bumped	bumped
2004	19th	rowed-over	bumped	rowed-over	bumped
2005	19th	bumped	rowed-over	rowed-over	bumped by
2006	18th	rowed-over	rowed-over	bumped	rowed-over
2007	20th	rowed-over	bumped by	bumped by	rowed-over

Men

Year	Finish position	1st day	2nd day	3rd day	4th Day
1998	12th	bumped by	bumped by	bumped by	bumped by
1999	15th	bumped by	bumped by	bumped by	rowed-over
2000	12th	bumped	bumped	rowed-over	bumped
2001	8th	bumped	bumped	bumped	bumped
2002	7th	bumped	rowed-over	rowed-over	rowed-over
2003	4th	bumped	bumped	bumped	rowed-over
2004	6th	bumped by	rowed-over	rowed-over	bumped by
2005	9th	bumped by	bumped by	rowed-over	bumped by
2006	13th	bumped by	bumped by	bumped by	bumped by
2007	13th	bumped by	rowed-over	bumped	rowed-over

Women

Year	Finish position	1st day	2nd day	3rd day	4th Day
1998	17th	bumped	bumped	bumped	bumped
1999	16th	rowed-over	bumped	bumped by	bumped
2000	13th	bumped	rowed-over	bumped	bumped
2001	17th	bumped by	bumped by	bumped by	bumped by
2002	21st	bumped by	bumped by	bumped by	bumped by
2003	23rd	bumped by	rowed-over	rowed-over	bumped by
2004	24th	bumped by	bumped by	rowed-over	bumped
2005	28th	bumped by	bumped by	bumped by	bumped by
2006	31st	bumped by	bumped by	bumped by	rowed-over
2007	28th	bumped	rowed-over	bumped	bumped

See also

Robinson College Boat Club