Magdalen College Boat Club

Magdalen College Boat Club
Image showing the rowing club's blade colours
Boathouse (building shared with Linacre, LMH & Trinity)
LocationBoathouse Island, Christ Church Meadow, Oxford, Oxford
Coordinates51°44′34″N 1°14′55″W / 51.742683°N 1.248536°W / 51.742683; -1.248536
Home waterThe Isis
Founded1859 (1859)
UniversityUniversity of Oxford
AffiliationsBritish Rowing (boat code MAG)
Magdalene Boat Club (Sister college)
Websitewww.magdalenboatclub.co.uk/index.html

Magdalen College Boat Club (MCBC) is a rowing club for members of Magdalen College, Oxford.[1] It is based on the Isis at Boathouse Island, Christ Church Meadow, Oxford.[2]

History

MCBC was founded in 1859 and shares a boathouse (built 1939) with the college boat clubs of Linacre, Lady Margaret Hall and Trinity. The club has produced two Olympic Gold medal winners and has a very successful record of providing rowers for The Boat Races.[3][4]

The boat club also represents All Souls College, Oxford[5] but there is only one recorded rower from All Souls having participated in The Boat Race and that was Dick Eason[6] in The Boat Race 1924.[7]

Magdalen have won the men's Eights Week regatta 20 times, the last being in 2007.[7]

Honours

Henley Royal Regatta

Year Races won
1846Diamond Challenge Sculls
1865Diamond Challenge Sculls
1866Diamond Challenge Sculls
1872Diamond Challenge Sculls
1884Diamond Challenge Sculls
1885Diamond Challenge Sculls
1888Diamond Challenge Sculls
1889Diamond Challenge Sculls
1890Diamond Challenge Sculls
1891Diamond Challenge Sculls
1893Stewards' Challenge Cup, Diamond Challenge Sculls
1899Stewards' Challenge Cup
1903Ladies' Challenge Plate
1907Stewards' Challenge Cup, Wyfold Challenge Cup, Visitors' Challenge Cup
1908Stewards' Challenge Cup, Visitors' Challenge Cup
1910Grand Challenge Cup
1911Grand Challenge Cup
1920Grand Challenge Cup, Stewards' Challenge Cup, Silver Goblets & Nickalls' Challenge Cup
1921Grand Challenge Cup, Stewards' Challenge Cup
1922Silver Goblets & Nickalls' Challenge Cup
1923Visitors' Challenge Cup
1948Visitors' Challenge Cup
1953Visitors' Challenge Cup
1960Silver Goblets & Nickalls' Challenge Cup

Boat Race representatives

The following rowers were part of the rowing club at the time of their participation in The Boat Race.[8][4][9]

Men

Women

Year Name
2015Maxie Scheske
2023Freya Willis

Key

  • + = Coxswain
  • ^ = represented All Souls College

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Sport". Magdalen College.
  2. ↑ "Club details". British Rowing.
  3. ↑ "Club details". Magdalen College Boat Club. Archived from the original on 20 January 2018.
  4. 1 2 Dodd, Christopher (1983). The Oxford & Cambridge Boat Race. Stanley Paul & Co Ltd. ISBN 0-948955-61-9.
  5. ↑ "b.Respective college". OURC. Retrieved 1 April 2026.
  6. ↑ "Rowing University Boat Race". The Sportsman. 7 February 1924. p. 3. Retrieved 1 April 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. 1 2 "Oxford Bumps Charts". Earth Observation Data Group. Retrieved 30 March 2026.
  8. ↑ "Crews & Results". Oxford University Boat Club. Retrieved 30 March 2026.
  9. ↑ Drinkwater/Sanders, G.C./T.R.B. (1929). The University Boat Race Official Centenary History. Cassell & Company Ltd.
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