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.
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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, and the Junior Squad parents will be selling hot food (always delicious!) outside the City boat house. All funds raised from the food go towards improving the equipment and training available to the Juniors.
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 are now closed.
Prizes
Events will be banded as follows:
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Championship – crews containing members who in the past have rowed at national level events such as HRR, HWR, Wallingford and Met regattas or College bumps 1st Division crews
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Club – College bumps 2nd Division crews or town crews that are neither Championship or Novice
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Novice – any crew where all of the members of the crew have not started rowing prior to May 2024 or student crews rowing in the College Bumps 3rd division or below
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Masters – Categories from Masters A to G as defined by British Rowing
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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
Please find detailed competitor instructions here.
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The risk assessment can be found here.​
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The safety and marshal instructions can be found here.
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Numbers can be collected on the day from the CCRC boathouse from 9:00am.
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Boats must be at the marshalling area near New CRA/Combined boathouse at least 30 minutes before the start of the division.​​
Draw
The draft draw can be found here.
Results
Results will be posted here.
Contact and row-through requests
If you would like to request a row though please contact the Events Secretary.