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Temple Challenge Cup

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Temple Challenge Cup
VenueHenley Royal Regatta, River Thames
LocationHenley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire
Dates1990 – present

The Temple Challenge Cup is one of the eights races at Henley Royal Regatta at Henley-on-Thames on the River Thames in England. It is open to male crews from universities, colleges or schools. Combined entries from two colleges of the same university, or from different schools, are allowed.[1] There are restrictions on individual rowers to ensure that the faster crews row in the Ladies' Challenge Plate. A rower cannot take part in this race if he has previously won an event at Henley, except The Thames, The Wyfold, The Britannia, The Prince Albert, The Princess Elizabeth, or The Fawley Challenge Cups. The race is limited to 32 entrants.[2]

History

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Two crews racing in the Temple Challenge Cup at Henley in 2003

The event was first staged in 1990, and, after a successful first year, the Regatta Stewards decided to make it a permanent fixture. The cup, awarded to the winning crew on finals day, was made in 1835 by Charles Fox, and has been engraved with a sketch of the Temple on Temple Island at the start of the regatta course.

There was no foreign winner until 1996, when the United States' Yale University won the final. Since 2000, foreign crews have dominated the event winning 14 times in 18 years with 10 of the winners hailing from the United States. Only Oxford Brookes University Boat Club have broken the foreign stranglehold on the trophy, winning the event a record seven times in 2006, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2022 and 2023.

Past winners

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As Henley Prize

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Year Winner Runner-Up
1990 Imperial College Boat Club Trinity College Dublin
1991 University of Bristol Boat Club Imperial College Boat Club

As Temple Challenge Cup

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Year Winner Runner-Up
1992 Imperial College Boat Club Trinity College Dublin
1993 Oxford Brookes University Boat Club Trinity College Dublin[3]
1994 Imperial College Boat Club Trinity College Dublin
1995 Oxford Brookes University Boat Club Trinity College Dublin
1996 Yale University, USA Imperial College Boat Club[4]
1997 Goldie Boat Club Imperial College Boat Club & King's College, London
1998 Imperial College Boat Club University of Wales College, Cardiff[5]
1999 Cambridge University Boat Club Imperial College Boat Club
2000 Yale University, USA Exeter University
2001 Harvard University Oxford Brookes University Boat Club
2002 Harvard University Oxford Brookes University Boat Club
2003 Princeton University "A", USA Princeton University "B", USA
2004 ASR Nereus, Netherlands DSR Proteus-Eretes, Netherlands
2005 Trinity College, Hartford, USA Yale University, USA
2006 Oxford Brookes University Boat Club Cornell University, USA
2007 University of California, Berkeley, USA Cornell University, USA
2008 University of Western Ontario, Canada Trinity College, Hartford, USA
2009 Princeton University, USA Brown University, USA
2010 University of Washington, USA ASR Nereus, Netherlands
2011 University of California, Berkeley, USA ASR Nereus, Netherlands
2012 University of Washington, USA Brown University, USA
2013 DSRV Laga, Netherlands Harvard University, USA
2014 Oxford Brookes University Boat Club Brown University, USA
2015 ASR Nereus, Netherlands Universite de Lyon BC, France
2016 Oxford Brookes University Boat Club University of California BC, Berkeley, USA
2017 Oxford Brookes University Boat Club University of London Boat Club
2018 University of Washington, USA Oxford Brookes University Boat Club
2019 Oxford Brookes University Boat Club Northeastern University BC, USA
2020 No competition due to COVID-19 pandemic[6]
2021 ASR Nereus, Netherlands[7] Imperial College Boat Club
2022 Oxford Brookes University Boat Club[8] University of Washington BC, USA
2023 Oxford Brookes University Boat Club[9] Syracuse University BC, USA
2024 Oxford Brookes University Boat Club[10] Princeton University 'A', U.S.A.

References

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  1. ^ "results". Henley Royal Regatta.
  2. ^ "Constitution and Rules of Henley Royal Regatta" (PDF).
  3. ^ "'Results from Henley'". The Times. 5 July 1993. p. 24. Retrieved 5 August 2024 – via The Times Digital Archive.
  4. ^ "'Results from Henley Royal Regatta' (1996)". The Times. 8 July 1996. p. 33. Retrieved 4 August 2024 – via The Times Digital Archive.
  5. ^ "Results from Henley Royal Regatta' (1998)". The Times. 6 July 1998. p. 34. Retrieved 4 August 2024 – via The Times Digital Archive.
  6. ^ "2020 REGATTA CANCELLATION - STATEMENT ON CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19)". Henley Royal Regatta. 10 July 2024.
  7. ^ "Results 2021". Henley Royal Regatta. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
  8. ^ "Results 2022". Henley Royal Regatta. Retrieved 10 July 2022.
  9. ^ "Leander, Oxford Brookes and Thames dominate at Henley Royal Regatta". British Rowing. 3 July 2023. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
  10. ^ "Oxford Brookes rowers triumph at Henley Royal Regatta with six trophies on finals day". Oxford Brookes. 15 July 2024. Retrieved 1 August 2024.