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City Sprints

City Sprints is an annual side-by-side 500m race in front of the boathouses, racing from Cutter Ferry footbridge to City of Cambridge Rowing Club.  This year the race will be on Sunday 4 May 2025 and planning is underway.

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The invitational regatta takes place on the Sunday before the May Day bank holiday.  There is a bar and spectator viewing area at the finish line.

2025
Race

Entries

Events will be held across Open, Women’s and Mixed categories and in: 8+, 8x+, 4-, 4+, 4x, 4x+, 2-, 2x, 1x.

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ENTRIES FOR 2024 ARE CLOSED.

Prizes

Events will be banded as follows:

  • Championship – crews containing members who in the past have rowed at national level events such as HRR, HWR, Wallingford and Met regattas or May’s 1st Division crews

  • Club – May’s 2nd Division crews or town crews that are neither Championship or Novice

  • Novice – any crew where all of the members of the crew have not started rowing prior to May 2022 or student crews rowing in the Mays 3rd division or below

  • Masters – Categories from Masters A to G as defined by British Rowing

  • Juniors – Categories from J13 to J18 as defined by British Rowing​

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Where an event has a large number of entries, the organising committee may band entries into student and CRA, or by creating bands based on past performance.  The organising committee reserves the right to change banding if they feel that a crew has been entered in a category that is too low.

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Where an event has under 4 entries, the organising committee will offer competitors the option of racing crews of a similar speed by combining classes in order to provide more competition.

Division Times

Racing takes place in divisions with first commencing at 11:00am.  Crews will stay on the water until they are knocked out.  It is expected that racing will finish by 6:00pm.

 

Any crew boat sharing must include the shell name on the entry form.  Wherever possible we would discourage significant boat sharing.

Competitor Information

  • The race draw will be published on this page when ready.

  • Competitor infomation can be found here: Sprint Regatta Competitor Instructions 2023

  • The risk assetsment can be found here: Sprint Regatta Risk Assessment

  • Numbers can be collected from the City of Cambridge Boathouse on the morning of racing.

  • Boats must be at the pre-division marshalling near New CRA/Combined boathouse at least 30 minutes before the division start time.

Draw

The final draw can be found here.

Results

Live results can be found here.

Contact and row-through requests

If you would like to request a row though please contact the Events Secretary.

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