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{{Short description|British rowing club}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox rowing club
| ClubName         = Emmanuel Boat Club
| ClubhouseImage   = Emmanuel College Boathouse Cambridge.jpg
| BladeColourImage = Emmanuel_Rowing_Blade.svg
| Emblem           =
| Location         = [[Cambridge]]
| Coordinates      = {{coord|52|12|38.6|N|0|8|4.3|E|scale:2000_region:GB|display=inline,title}}
| Founded          = 1827<ref name="The First College Boat">{{cite web|last1=Goode|first1=Amanda|title=The First College Boat|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250125014821/https://www.emma.cam.ac.uk/members/blog/?id=634|website=Emmanuel College Blog}}</ref>
| Motto            = Fit Via Vi
| Membership       = [[Emmanuel College, Cambridge]]
| HomeWater        = [[River Cam]]
| Website          = {{URL|http://ebc.soc.srcf.net/}}
| Affiliations     = [[British Rowing]] [[CUCBC]]
}}

https://web.archive.org/web/20250125014821/https://www.emma.cam.ac.uk/members/blog/?id=634

'''Emmanuel Boat Club''' (often colloquially referred to as '''Emma''' or '''EBC''') is the [[Rowing (sport)|rowing]] club for members of [[Emmanuel College, Cambridge]]. The men's 1st VIII has stayed largely in the first division of the [[Lent Bumps|Lent]] and [[May Bumps]] for the last half-century, but fell as low as 21st in the May Bumps in the 1930s, and has been as low as 28th in the Lent Bumps towards the end of the 19th century.<ref name="book">Durack, John; Gilbert, George; Marks, Dr. John (2000). ''The Bumps: An Account of the Cambridge University Bumping Races 1827–1999'' {{ISBN|0-9538475-1-9}}</ref>

In the Lent Bumps, Emmanuel men gained the headship in 1930, and although they reached 1st position in [[Lent Bumps 2001]], they were not awarded the headship, since the last two days of the races were not completed due to an outbreak of [[2001 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak|foot and mouth disease]] in the United Kingdom. Emmanuel did gain the headship at the [[May Bumps 2001]], bumping {{Camb|CA}} on the second day.

The women's side of the club have been extremely successful in recent years, achieving the headship of the [[Lent Bumps]] 11 times (the first in [[Lent Bumps 1988|1988]] and latest in [[Lent Bumps 2009|2009]]); more than any other women's boatclub, and the headship of the [[May Bumps]] 4 times (the first in [[May Bumps 1995|1995]]). Emmanuel's 1st women's VIII did not drop out of the top 3 crews at Lent Bumps between [[Lent Bumps 1988|1988]] and [[Lent Bumps 2005|2005]], nor the top 2 places in the May Bumps between [[May Bumps 1994|1994]] and [[May Bumps 2004|2004]].

In 2018 Emmanuel's first women and men will start second<ref name="2017 Women May Bumps">{{cite web|last1=Results|first1=May Bumps|title=Bumps Results &#124; CUCBC |url=https://www.cucbc.org/bumps/results/18/4|website=CUCBC May Bumps 2017 Results}}</ref> and seventh on the river<ref name="May Men Bumps Results">{{cite web|last1=Men's Results|first1=May Bumps|title=Bumps Results &#124; CUCBC |url=https://www.cucbc.org/bumps/results/18/3}}</ref> respectively, as a result of both crews earning their blades in 2017. It was the second time in the club's history that the first men and women both earned blades in the same year. As of 2024, the first women were 4th on the river and the first men 6th.<ref name="2024 Womens May Bumps">{{cite web|last1=Results|first1=May Bumps|title=Womens Results &#124; CUCBC |url=https://www.cucbc.org/bumps/results/29/4|website=CUCBC May Bumps 2024 Results}}</ref><ref name="2024 Mens May Bumps">{{cite web|last1=Results|first1=May Bumps|title=Mens Results &#124; CUCBC |url=https://www.cucbc.org/bumps/results/29/3|website=CUCBC May Bumps 2024 Results}}</ref>

==Honours==
===Henley Royal Regatta===
{| class="wikitable"
|+
|-
!width=70|Year
!width=400|Races won
|-
| 1887 || [[Diamond Challenge Sculls]] 
|-
| 1896 || [[Thames Challenge Cup]]
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [[Cambridge University Combined Boat Club|CUCBC]]/ [http://www.cucbc.org Cambridge University Combined Boat Club]
* [http://www.srcf.ucam.org/ebc/ Emmanuel Boat Club]

{{Cambridge University Rowing Clubs}}
{{United Kingdom rowing clubs}}

[[Category:Rowing clubs of the University of Cambridge]]
[[Category:Emmanuel College, Cambridge|Boat]]
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[[Category:1827 establishments in England]]
[[Category:Rowing clubs in Cambridgeshire]]
[[Category:Rowing clubs in England]]
[[Category:Rowing clubs of the River Cam]]