THE HOME OF WORLD-CLASS STUDENT ROWING IN LONDON
Study at one of London's Leading Universites
The University of London Boat Club is open to students at any of the 17 University of London Member Institutions. With over 3,700 courses offered by many of the most prestigious universities in the world, our student athletes combine genuine academic success with world-class rowing.
Universities you can study at and row for ULBC include:
- University College London (UCL)
- Kings College London (KCL)
- Queen Mary
- London School of Economics (LSE)
- The Royal Veterinary School (RVC)
- City, University of London
- Birkbeck, University of London
- Royal Holloway, University of London
- St George’s, University of London
- School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- Goldsmiths, University of London
- London Business School
- Courtauld Institute of Art
- Royal Academy of Music
- The Institute of Cancer Research
- The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Compete at the highest level
Each year ULBC produces crews which compete at the top of the UK domestic scene, winning or challenging for titles at the university season’s major competitions: Men’s and Women’s Heads of the River, British University Championships Regatta (BUCS), Henley Royal Regatta (HRR) and Henley Women’s Regatta (HWR).
In addition, ULBC competes regularly throughout the season in other races and private fixtures, including ones against Oxford and Cambridge.
2023/24 Season
37 Athletes qualified for HRR, reaching the semi-finals of both the Island and the Prince Albert.
Won men’s champ 4+, academic W8+ at Met, academic 4+ at Marlow, and M4+ both days of Ghent
At Women’s Head of the River 4th overall
At Men’s Head of the River 2nd in the university category
Silver and bronze medals at BUCS in the women’s championship 8+, 4-, and 4+
Bronze medal in women’s beginner 2x at British Rowing Senior Championships
2022/23 Season
Won men’s intermediate 8+ and women’s championship 4- at BUCS, and gained medals in 5 other BUCS events
Won Championship Pairs at HWR and contested the final of the Hambleden Pairs Challenge Cup at HRR
At Women’s Head of the River 5th overall and 2nd in the university category
At Men’s Head of the River 8th overall and 2nd in the university category
In a fixture against Goldie the Men’s 1st 8+ won both the pieces of fixture
2021/22 Season
Won the university category at Women’s Head of the River and 5th overall
Semi-finalists in the Island Challenge Cup at HRR, and contested the final of Championship 8s at HWR
Medalled in 5 events at BUCS, including silver in Men’s & Women’s Championship 8
At Men’s Head of the River 8th overall and 2nd in the university category
2020/21 Season
Won the Prince Albert Challenge Cup, and contested the final of Island Challenge Cup at HRR.
Won Championship Coxless 4s, Championship Pairs and Academic Eights at HWR, contested the final of Academic Coxless 4s.
Won women’s Championship 4+, women’s Intermediate 8+, women’s Intermediate 4+ at BUCS, gaining medals in 4 other BUCS events.
Semi-finalists in the Temple Challenge Cup & Island Challenge Cup at HRR – 32 ULBC student athletes on Saturday that year.
No Heads of the River Races due to Covid-19
5 UL athletes (and 2 coaches) selected for U23 Europeans
Achieve international success
Designated one of seven High Performance Programmes by British Rowing, over 212 UL athletes have been selected for U23 and Senior representation (including at every Olympic Games since 1960). Recent ULBC student athlete international representation includes:
U23 World Championships
- 2024: Jessie Martin in GB W4-, Lina Kuehn in Swiss W4-
- 2023: Phoebe Snowden 4th in GB women’s 8+
- 2022: Isaac Workman gold in GB men’s 8+, Georgie Robinson Ranger silver in GB women’s 4-, Phoebe Snowden silver in GB women’s 8+
U23 European Championships
- 2022: Tom Cross bronze in GB men’s 4-
- 2021: Isaac Workman & Henry Marles gold in GB men’s 8+, Phoebe Snowden & Georgie Robinson Ranger silver in GB women’s 4-, Joseph Salter bronze in GB men’s 4+
- 2023: Georgie Robinson Ranger won both days at Duisburg with the GB W4-
- 2022: Emily Lindberg & Georgie Robinson Ranger won the Windermere Cup with the GB W8+
Be a part of a unique history
With 45 Henley wins and 137 Olympic or World Championship medals, ULBC is the UK’s most successful student rowing programme. Beyond these results, however, lies a thriving alumni and supporter community that together enable us to be the only self-funded high performance student rowing programme in the UK.
ULBC alumni achieve success at senior international level. Emily Craig has won the women’s lightweight double at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, 2022 & 2023 World Championships and is the current world record holder. At the Paris Olympics, ULBC had 3 alumni rowing, and 4+ alumni coaching or on athlete support teams. At the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics ULBC had 7 alumni rowing and 2 alumni coaching.
Our alumni club, UL Tyrian, regularly competes across the age groups at major races including: Head of the Charles Regatta, World Coastal Rowing Championships, Henley Master’s Regatta and Men’s & Women’s Heads of the River.
