Glasgow University Boat Club (GUBC) is the

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of the

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. The club is affiliated to

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. GUBC is one of the most active and successful clubs within the university, producing rowers and crews that have and continue to compete successfully at local, national and international levels. Club members have frequently been chosen to represent Scotland at both the Home Countries International Regatta and Great Britain at the

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and World Rowing Under-23 Championships. Until 2005, the club was the last independently funded sports club at the University, before being joining

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, formerly the GU Athletic Club.

History

The club was founded as Glasgow University Rowing Club (GURC) in 1867. The club first competed at

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in 1936, sending a four-man crew to compete in the Wyfold cup. In 1960 the crew of a GURC boat rescued a young child who had fallen into the Clyde. GUBC was an all-male club until 2004, when a historic merger with Glasgow University Ladies Boat Club meant that female students were accepted into the club.

Training facilities

The club trains on the

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, boating from the East Boathouse. Built in 1924 the building is home to the club's boats and member's private singles. Rowers have access to 6km of non-tidal water between the weir at Glasgow Green and Belvidere Straight adjacent to Cuningar Woodland Park. The club also has its own land training space equipped with rowing ergometer and free weights. This is shared with a few other sports clubs within the University of Glasgow but the club also has access to the University's main gym facilities in the Stevenson Building.

Scottish Boat Race

Glasgow University Boat Club competes against

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in the

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, an annual boat race featuring competing eights on the

. It is the second oldest University Boat Race in the United Kingdom after the

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and the third oldest in the world. In 2013 the course for the

was changed from above the weir at

to below the weir with the finish in line with the

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at the

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. Currently Glasgow hold neither trophy, however the Glasgow men's first VIII had won the trophy thirteen times consecutively from 2000 to 2012.

Honours

British champions

References

* https://web.archive.org/web/20130315120353/http://www.gla.ac.uk/clubs/Boat/boatrace/ *http://www.sapphire.ac.uk/assets/images/Wayzgoose_Exhibition_Panel10.pdf

External links

* {{United Kingdom rowing clubs 1877 establishments in Scotland Sports clubs and teams established in 1877 Sports clubs and teams in Glasgow Clubs and societies of the University of Glasgow University and college rowing clubs in Scotland Glasgow Green Rowing clubs in Scotland Rowing clubs of the River Clyde Sport at the University of Glasgow