W1 rounded off their Lent term in style today with a fantastic result at the Women\\’s Eights Head of the River Race, rowed on the Tideway in London. The 6.8km (4.25 mile) race runs from Mortlake to Putney, over the Boat Race course in reverse, and presents a stiff challenge for any crew, let alone one whose main training this term has been for much shorter bumps races!
Despite this, the girls posted an impressive time of 21:05.21, ranking 113th overall. This represented an improvement of 39 places on last year\\’s result, and saw Sidney finishing third of all the Cambridge crews racing today, with only Pembroke and First and Third posting quicker times. What\\’s more, W1 were within a second of (and only one place behind) the fastest Oxford college of the day.
Congratulations to the girls on a fantastic end to yet another strong term!
SSBC would like to thank Tideway Scullers School for allowing us to boat from their boathouse.
Full results are available on the WEHORR web site.
