Oriel College Boat Club
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Oriel College Boat Club (OCBC) is the rowing club of Oriel College, Oxford.[2] Rowing at Oriel is carried out from the college's own boathouse across Christ Church Meadow, on Boat House Island.
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Location | Boathouse Island, Christ Church Meadow, Oxford, Oxford | ||||||||||||
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Coordinates | 51.7432°N 1.2493°W / 51.7432; -1.2493 | ||||||||||||
Home water | The Isis | ||||||||||||
Founded | pre-1828 | ||||||||||||
Head of the River Torpids Headship |
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University | University of Oxford | ||||||||||||
Affiliations | British Rowing (boat code ORO) Clare BC (Sister college) | ||||||||||||
Website | orielrowing |
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Oriel is the most successful rowing college in Oxford, having won the most men's 1st VIII headships of any college at the two intercollegiate bumps races: Torpids and Eights Week (Summer Eights). Since 1976, Oriel has enjoyed a particular period of dominance in these events. The club's women's 1st VIII has also won two Torpids headship since the admission to women to the college in 1986.[3]