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The rules are now designed to cater for the majority of the student crews,
but with a number of important restrictions. The intention here is 10 that
the first boats of the leading universities’ boat clubs should be racing in the
‘Ladies’ and not in the ‘Temple’.
Coxed Fours
In 2004 a new 16 boat event was inaugurated open only to crews from
universities, colleges and schools. In its first year the event was won by a crew
from Imperial College London. In 2006 this event was renamed THE PRINCE
ALBERT CHALLENGE CUP and a new trophy was commissioned and
donated by Imperial College London. H.R.H. Prince Albert determined
that profits from the Great Exhibition of 1851 in Hyde Park be used for the
purposes of art and science, leading directly to the establishment of National
Institutions, as well as Imperial College in 1907, in South Kensington. In 1851
the Prince also became the first Royal Patron of the Regatta. The trophy,
designed and executed by the silversmith, Hector Miller, was handed to the
Chairman and Secretary of the Regatta by the Rector of Imperial College at
a ceremony held at Buckingham Palace in the presence of Her Majesty The
Queen in June 2006.
THE TWO EVENTS FOR JUNIOR MEN
Eights
THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH CHALLENGE CUP was instituted in
1946 for public schools in the United Kingdom and was opened to entries from
overseas in 1964; the rules were later modified to include secondary schools.
The inauguration of this race coinciding, as it did, with the first visit to the
Regatta of Her Royal Highness The Princess Elizabeth (now Her Majesty The
Queen), permission was graciously given to name the trophy ‘The Princess
Elizabeth Challenge Cup’. The cup now used as the trophy was made in 1802
and given to the Regatta in 1957; the silver base was added in the same year.
Entries are restricted to just one crew per school. It is still open for schools to
enter further crews in The Temple Challenge Cup.
Quadruple Sculls
THE FAWLEY CHALLENGE CUP was offered for the first time at
the 1992 Regatta. This event is now only open to crews from any one club or
school, home and overseas, where no sculler will have attained his eighteenth
birthday before the first day of September preceding the event. The trophy
presented for this event is the cup given to the Regatta by his family in memory
of Nicholas Young who rowed for Westminster School and St. Catherine’s
College, Oxford.
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