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Christ Church and Magdalen challenge for dominance

The college rowing season got off to a belated start due to the cancellation of the Christ Church regatta, but needed no time to warm up. Oriel’s rule of torpids was guillotined by two superior crews. Especially in the mens torpids Oriels dominance has been staggering, having been head of the river for 34 of the last 36 years (and in one of the years they weren’t head they were penalty bumped 4 places). Their humanity was proved not only by Magdalen who bumped them early on, but also by Pembroke who rose from 4th to 2nd position and will consider themselves serious challengers come Trinity term to Magdalen’s head of the river title. Christ Church also looked strong, moving from 10th to 4th in mens division 1 during the week whereas Worcester had the most torid torpids starting out 5th in division 1 and ending up 3rd in division 2. In the womens racing Oriel falied to regain their headship being bumped on friday by a St Catz crew who had already bumped Queen’s. The performance of the Christ Church women complimented that of their men, moving from 6th to 3rd. New college were the other big climbers, from head of division 2 to 9th in division 1. These climbers were helped by the freefall of the post-grad Osler/Green partnership who shipped 7 places from 4th to 11th.by Jeremy Kelly

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