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Questions
- Which rowing event held annually on the River Thames was established on 26 March 1839?
- An Olympic rowing race is always raced over what distance (in metres)?
- Who is the only person on a boat during a race who doesn't hold an oar?
- Who in April 2019, became the oldest rower in the University Boat Race's history by 10 years?
- When an oar gets stuck in the water and disrupts the flow of the boat it's called catching a what?
- Which rowing club describes itself as 'the most historic, prestigious and successful rowing club in the world'?
- Which student partnered Steve Redgrave in the coxless pair at the World Rowing Championships in 1990?
- What name is given to the rower closest to the stern of the boat?
- If Oxford's reserve boat is called Isis, what is Cambridge's called?
- What term means moving the boat with two oars per rower?
- Who made history in the Tokyo Olympics by becoming the first mother to compete for Team GB in rowing?
- What term is used for when the oar's blade is parallel with the water? It's the opposite of square.
- Sir Steve Redgrave won gold medals at how many consecutive Olympic Games?
- Which famous actor rowed for Cambridge University in 1980?
- The Boat Race of the North is an annual rowing event between the boat clubs of which two English universities?
- The Harvard–Yale Regatta is an annual rowing race hosted on which American river?
- The Pengwern Boat Club, which has hosted the Coracle World Championships, is on a stretch of which river?
- What is the voga alla veneta?
Answers
- Henley Royal Regatta
- 2,000 metres
- Cox
- James Cracknell
- Catching crabs
- Leander Club
- Matthew Pinsent
- Stroke
- Goldie
- Sculling
- Helen Glover
- Feather
- Five (from 1984 to 2000)
- Hugh Laurie
- Durham and Newcastle universities
- Thames River
- River Severn
- The rowing style used to propel a Venetian gondola