The Boustead Cup races are the February or March rowing races held over

the Championship Course The Championship Course is a stretch of the River Thames between Mortlake and Putney in London, England. It is a well-established course for sport rowing, rowing races, particularly the The Boat Race, Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race. The course ...

in London, England. It is held between certain men's eights from

Thames Rowing Club The Thames Rowing Club (TRC) is a rowing club based on the tidal Thames as it flows through the western suburbs of London. The TRC clubhouse stands on Putney Embankment. The club was founded in 1860. As at July 2022, Thames had won events at He ...

and

London Rowing Club London Rowing Club (LRC, or colloquially, 'London') is the second-oldest of the non-academic active rowing clubs on the Thames in London, United Kingdom. It was founded in 1856 by members of the long-disbanded Argonauts Club wishing to compete at ...

and has been supplemented by two races (and cups) for women's crews. The Boustead was first held in 1947, with the cup given by the Boustead family.

won in 2019. In that year the linked cup races for women, the Casey and Rayner Cups, were inaugurated. The course is almost the same course of the famous

the boat race The Boat Race is an annual set of rowing races between the Cambridge University Boat Club and the Oxford University Boat Club, traditionally rowed between open-weight eights on the River Thames in London, England. There are separate men's ...

but starts in the east.

External links

Past results
Rowing in the United Kingdom {{sports-award-stub