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Trinity Hall Boat Club is the rowing

Sport rowing

Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, on lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water...

club of Trinity Hall

Trinity Hall, Cambridge

Trinity Hall is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. It is the fifth-oldest college of the university, having been founded in 1350 by William Bateman, Bishop of Norwich.- Foundation :...

, a college of the University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...

. Founded in 1827 it is amongst the oldest college boat club

Boat club

A boat club is a sports club based around boats, especially rowing and yachting, but also canoeing, motor boats and other small boats....

s in Cambridge

Cambridge

The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...

, England.

Historically, it is the most successful Cambridge college at Henley Royal Regatta

Henley Royal Regatta

Henley Royal Regatta is a rowing event held every year on the River Thames by the town of Henley-on-Thames, England. The Royal Regatta is sometimes referred to as Henley Regatta, its original name pre-dating Royal patronage...

with dozens of wins, including winning all the events but one in 1887.

The college first boats, both men and women have been Head of the Lent

Lent Bumps

The Lent Bumps are a set of rowing races held annually on the River Cam in Cambridge. They began in 1887, after separating from the May Bumps, the equivalent bumping races held in mid-June. Prior to the separation there had been a single set of annual bumps dating from its inception in 1827...

and May Bumps

May Bumps

The May Bumps are a set of rowing races, held annually on the River Cam in Cambridge. They began in 1887 after separating from the Lent Bumps, the equivalent bumping races held at the end of February or start of March. Prior to the separation there had been a single set of annual bumps dating from...

on numerous occasions in the history of the races, dominating the Mays in the 1890s and both events in the early 1990s. From 1890 until 1898, Trinity Hall stayed Head of the Mays for 33 consecutive days, which remains to this day the longest continuous defence by a single club of the bumps headship since the Lent and May Bumps became separate events. Trinity Hall were eventually deposed from the top spot in 1898 by First Trinity, who held the headship for 10 days, then Third Trinity who held the headship for a further 24 days, then again by First Trinity for 2 more days, meaning that boats from Trinity College

Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduates, and over 170 Fellows...

held the headship for 36 consecutive days, but until the 1940s, Trinity maintained more than one boatclub.

Recently, the men's first boat were awarded blades for bumping up 4 times out of 4 in the 2009 Lent Bumps. This was the first blades awarded to a THBC men's first boat for over 10 years.

THBC has also supplied numerous rowers for the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race and various national teams, including Tom James

Tom James

Thomas James MBE is a Welsh rower, Olympic Champion, and victorious Cambridge Blue.-Education:James was educated at The King's School, Chester, where he took up the sport of rowing...

, who stroked the 8+ from Great Britain to the B-final in the 2004 Olympics in Athens

Athens

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and won gold with the 4- at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

THBC's colours are black and white, its nickname is "Black and White army", its motto "Our power's a crescent" (the college crest showing a crescent ermine. The motto used to be "Our powers are crescent" taking the old meaning for crescent meaning growing – i.e. a crescent moon is a waxing moon), and its supporters shout "Row Hall" to encourage the rowers. Unlike other boat clubs, whose scarves

Scarf

A scarf is a piece of fabric worn around the neck, or near the head or around the waist for warmth, cleanliness, fashion or for religious reasons. They can come in a variety of different colours.-History:...

are derived from their college scarves, its scarf is made in a black and white tartan.

THBC has a senior rowers' club called The Black and White Society.

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The main competitions for Cambridge College rowing crews are the two annual bumps races

Bumps race

A bumps race is a form of rowing race in which a number of boats chase each other in single file, each boat attempting to catch and "bump" the boat in front without being caught by the boat behind....

: The Lent Bumps

Lent Bumps

, held at the end of Lent term

Lent term

Lent term is the name of the spring academic term at the following British universities:*University of Cambridge*Kings College London*London School of Economics and Political Science*Exeter University*University of Lancaster...

and the May Bumps

May Bumps

, held at the end of Easter term

Easter term

Easter term is the name of the summer term at the University of Cambridge, the University of Wales, Lampeter, University of Durham, and formerly University of Newcastle upon Tyne , in the United Kingdom...

. The following are tables of the last decade of results for the Trinity Hall first boat, i.e. the fastest of the club's boats. In these results 'bumped' means to move up a place and 'bumped by' means to move down a place.

Women

Year	Finish position	1st day	2nd day	3rd day	4th Day
1998	2nd	bumped by	rowed-over	bumped	rowed-over
1999	Head	bumped	rowed-over head	rowed-over head	rowed-over head
2000	4th	bumped by	bumped by	bumped by	rowed-over
2001	2nd	bumped	bumped	(cancelled)	(cancelled)
2002	6th	bumped by	bumped by	bumped by	bumped by
2003	9th	bumped by	rowed-over	bumped by	bumped by
2004	7th	bumped	bumped	rowed-over	rowed-over
2005	11th	bumped by	bumped by	bumped by	bumped by
2006	9th	rowed-over	bumped	bumped	rowed-over
2007	13th	bumped by	bumped by	bumped by	bumped by
2008	16th	rowed-over	bumped by	bumped by	bumped by
2009	14th	rowed-over	bumped	bumped	rowed-over
2010	11th	rowed-over	bumped	bumped	bumped
2011	11th	bumped	bumped	bumped	rowed over

Men

Year	Finish position	1st day	2nd day	3rd day	4th Day
1998	7th	bumped by	bumped by	bumped by	bumped by
1999	9th	bumped by	rowed-over	bumped by	rowed-over
2000	6th	bumped	bumped	bumped	rowed-over
2001	7th	rowed-over	bumped by	(cancelled)	(cancelled)
2002	8th	bumped by	rowed-over	rowed-over	rowed-over
2003	6th	rowed-over	rowed-over	bumped	bumped
2004	4th	bumped	bumped	rowed-over	rowed-over
2005	8th	bumped by	bumped by	bumped by	bumped by
2006	9th	rowed-over	rowed-over	rowed-over	bumped by
2007	7th	bumped	rowed-over	bumped	rowed-over
2008	11th	bumped by	bumped by	bumped by	bumped by
2009	7th	bumped	bumped	bumped	bumped
2010	9th	rowed-over	bumped by	bumped by	rowed-over

Women

Year	Finish position	1st day	2nd day	3rd day	4th Day
1998	8th	rowed-over	bumped by	bumped by	bumped by
1999	7th	rowed-over	bumped	rowed-over	rowed-over
2000	8th	rowed-over	rowed-over	bumped by	rowed-over
2001	6th	rowed-over	bumped	bumped	rowed-over
2002	8th	rowed-over	rowed-over	bumped by	bumped by
2003	8th	bumped by	rowed-over	bumped	rowed-over
2004	10th	bumped by	rowed-over	rowed-over	bumped by
2005	8th	rowed-over	bumped	rowed-over	bumped
2006	5th	bumped	rowed over	bumped	bumped
2007	8th	rowed-over	bumped by	bumped by	bumped by
2008	12th	bumped by	bumped by	bumped by	bumped by
2009	16th	bumped by	bumped by	bumped by	bumped by
2010	14th	rowed over	bumped	technical row-over	bumped

Men

Year	Finish position	1st day	2nd day	3rd day	4th Day
1998	8th	bumped by	rowed-over	bumped by	bumped by
1999	8th	bumped by	rowed-over	bumped	rowed-over
2000	7th	bumped	rowed-over	rowed-over	rowed-over
2001	6th	rowed-over	bumped	rowed-over	rowed-over
2002	5th	rowed-over	rowed-over	rowed-over	bumped
2003	2nd	bumped	bumped	bumped	rowed-over
2004	3rd	rowed-over	rowed-over	bumped by	rowed-over
2005	3rd	bumped	rowed-over	rowed-over	bumped by
2006	7th	bumped by	bumped by	bumped by	bumped by
2007	4th	bumped	bumped	bumped	rowed-over
2008	8th	bumped by	bumped by	bumped by	bumped by
2009	8th	bumped by	rowed-over	bumped	rowed-over
2010	11th	rowed-over	bumped by	bumped by	bumped by

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