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{{Short description|Series of rowing races at the University of Oxford}}
{{Use British English|date=March 2019}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2019}}
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|colspan="2" style="text-align: center; font-size: 130%;background: #002147;color:white"|'''Torpids'''
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|colspan="2" style="text-align: center; font-size: 100%; background: #002147; color:white "|''Head of the River''
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| style="text-align: center"| Wolfson Men<ref name="Historical Results Torpids">{{Citation | last = Oxford University Rowing Clubs | title = Historical Results Torpids | url= https://ourcs.co.uk/racing/historical-results/torpids-historical-results/| access-date = 16 Feb 2022}}</ref>
| style="text-align: center"| Pembroke Women<ref name="Historical Results Torpids"/>
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|style="width:25%; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;"|[[File:Wolfson College Boat Club Rowing Blade.svg|150px]]
|style="width:25%; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;"|[[File:Pembroke College Oxford Boat Club Rowing Blade.svg|150px]]
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|'''Highest 2{{sup|nd}} Torpid (Men)'''
|[[Wolfson College Boat Club (Oxford)|Wolfson]] (Division III)<ref name="Historical Results Torpids"/>
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|'''Highest 2{{sup|nd}} Torpid (Women)'''
|[[Wolfson College Boat Club (Oxford)|Wolfson]] (Division III)<ref name="Historical Results Torpids"/>
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|'''Course'''
|[[The Isis|Isis (upstream)]]
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|'''Course length'''
|c. 1800m 
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|colspan="2" style="text-align: center; font-size: 80%; background: #002147; color:white "|'''Note:''' Last Torpids 26{{sup|th}} February – 1{{sup|st}} March 2025<ref name="Historical Results Torpids"/>
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| colspan="2" style="text-align: center"|{{URL|http://www.ourcs.co.uk/racing/|OURCs – Torpids}}
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'''Torpids''' is one of two series of [[bumps race|bumping races]], a type of [[rowing (sport)|rowing]] race, held yearly at [[Oxford University]]; the other is [[Eights Week]].<ref>{{cite web| url=https://archive.org/stream/oxfordrowinghist00sheruoft#page/42/mode/2up | title=The Torpids | location=Oxford and London | work=Oxford Rowing: A History of Boat-Racing at Oxford from the Earliest Times | year=1900 | pages=43–49 | access-date=11 April 2012 | last=Sherwood | first=W. E. }}</ref> More than 130 men's and women's crews race for their colleges in twelve divisions: six each of men's and women's; almost 1,200 participants in total. The racing takes place on the [[Isis (river)|Isis]] (part of the [[River Thames]]), usually in the 7th week of [[Hilary Term]] on four successive days from Wednesday to Saturday (around the start of March).

==Overview==
{{main|Bumps race}}
Bumping races evolved in Oxford as the river is too narrow for normal side by side racing. Competing crews start the race lined up in order, one behind another, with their [[coxswain|coxes]] holding ropes ('bung lines') attached to the bank, with gaps of about 1.5 boat lengths between the bow of one boat and the stern of the one in front. Racing is started by the firing of a cannon. Racing is by division, the number of crews in a division depending on river conditions. The bottom men's division starts first with men's and women's alternating, finishing with the top women's division.

Crews attempt to progress up their division by hitting ('bumping') the boat in front without being hit by the boat behind, with the ultimate aim of becoming "Head of the River" i.e. top of the first division. The Head of the River is awarded the Torpids Challenge Cup, presented to the [[OUBC]] by President T.C. Edwards-Moss of [[Brasenose College Boat Club]]. Once a bump has taken place, the crew whose boat was bumped has to continue racing (and is liable to be bumped again) whilst the bumping crew moves to the side. This can lead to a crew moving down several places during a day's racing. This is the principal difference in the rules between Torpids and [[Eights Week|Summer Eights]], where both crews stop racing.<ref>{{Cite web |title=OURCs: Rules of Racing |url=https://ourcs.co.uk/organisation/racing/ |access-date=2024-07-21 |website=ourcs.co.uk}}</ref> Commonly a cox will concede a bump, signalled by raising an arm, rather than waiting to be hit. The crew finishing top of a lower division rows again the same day at the bottom of the division above.

The name 'Torpids' derives from the event's origins as a race for the second boats of the colleges, which were of course slower than the first boats. The status of the event – still adjudged below that of Summer Eights on account of the absence of rowers in the Varsity boat races – only began to rise at the very end of the nineteenth century, when colleges began to form first boats to compete. Nowadays there is no limit on the number of boats a college may enter, although crews in the last two divisions and crews without a position have to qualify to race by competing in a timed race the preceding Friday, known as 'rowing on'.<ref>{{Cite web |title=OURCs: Rules of Racing |url=https://ourcs.co.uk/organisation/racing/ |access-date=2024-07-21 |website=ourcs.co.uk}}</ref>

Athletes competing in that year's [[The Boat Race|Boat Race]], [[Women's Boat Race]] or any of the Lightweight University crews at Henley Boat Races may not compete in Torpids, but may compete in [[Eights Week|Summer Eights]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=OURCs: Rules of Racing |url=https://ourcs.co.uk/organisation/racing/ |access-date=2024-07-21 |website=ourcs.co.uk}}</ref>

===Double Headship===
[[File:Headship Crews.jpg|thumb|The double headship winning Oriel Men's and Women's Eights crews in 2006.]]

The "Double Headship" is an accolade of any college finishing with their men's and women's crews at the "Head of the River". Oriel is the first to have achieved this in Torpids, in 2006. The college's new first crews repeated this in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-03-05|title=Oriel Crews Take Torpids Double Headship|url=https://www.oriel.ox.ac.uk/about-college/news-events/news/oriel-crews-take-torpids-double-headship|access-date=2021-03-16|website=Oriel College|language=en}}</ref>

===Trophies===
The first day's starting order is based on the previous year's finishing positions, and each subsequent day's starting order is based on the previous day's finishing positions. A crew that bumps on every day or that finishes at the Head of the River is awarded ''blades'' – the right to get trophy [[oar]]s painted up in their [[Colleges of the University of Oxford|college]] colours with the names and weights of the successful crew emblazoned on them. ''Spoons'' are awarded in case the crew was bumped on every single day. A third, somewhat unusual possibility is the award of ''spades''. The crew is both bumped and then proceeds to bump a crew in front of it before the end of the race. Thus being both the bumper and the bumped on the same day. Owing to the differences in rules between Torpids and [[Lent Bumps]] at the [[University of Cambridge]] this achievement is only possible at Oxford.{{citation needed|date=March 2019}}

==Head of the River – Summary table==
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%;"
! rowspan=2 class=unsortable|Blade
! rowspan=2|College
! colspan=3|Headships
! colspan=2|Longest time held
! colspan=2|Last Headship
|-
! style=width:4em |[[#Men's Head of Torpids|Men]]
! style=width:4em |[[#Women's Head of Torpids|Women]]
! style=width:4em |Total
! style=max-width:4em |Men
! style=max-width:4em |Women
! style=max-width:4em |Men
! style=max-width:4em |Women
|-
| [[File:Oriel College Boat Club Rowing Blade.svg|80px|Oriel College Boat Club]]
| [[Oriel College Boat Club|Oriel]]
| 36
| 3
| 39
| 1972&ndash;90
| 2017&ndash;18
| 2022
| 2018
|-
| [[File:Rowing Blade Black.svg|80px|Brasenose College Boat Club]]
| [[Brasenose College Boat Club|Brasenose]]
| 22
| —
| 22
| 1886&ndash;94
| —
| 1894
| —
|-
| [[File:New College Rowing Blade.svg|80px|New College Boat Club]]
| [[New College Boat Club|New College]]
| 15
| 1
| 16
| 1949&ndash;53
| 2005
| 1953
| 2005
|-
| [[File:Balliol College Rowing Blade.svg|80px|Balliol College Boat Club]]
| [[Balliol College Boat Club|Balliol]]
| 14
| —
| 14
| 1968&ndash;71
| —
| 1971
| —
|-
| [[File:Christ Church Boat Club Rowing Blade.svg|80px|Christ Church College Boat Club]]
| [[Christ Church Boat Club|Christ Church]]
| 15
| —
| 15
| 1907&ndash;10
| —
| 2023
| —
|-
| [[File:Magdalen College Boat Club Rowing Blade.svg|80px|Magdalen College Boat Club]]
| [[Magdalen College Boat Club|Magdalen]]
| 9
| 5
| 14
| 1932&ndash;34
| 2010&ndash;13
| 2008
| 2016
|-
| [[File:Lady Margaret Rowing Blade.svg|80px|Exeter College Boat Club]]
| [[Exeter College Boat Club|Exeter]]
| 13
| —
| 13
| 1854&ndash;57
| —
| 1868
| —
|-
| [[File:Pembroke College Oxford Boat Club Rowing Blade.svg|80px|Pembroke College Boat Club]]
| [[Pembroke College Boat Club (Oxford)|Pembroke]]
| 10
| 1
| 11
| 2012&ndash;17
| —
| 2017
| 2025
|-
| [[File:University College Oxford Rowing Blade.svg|80px|University College Boat Club]]
| [[University College Boat Club (Oxford)|University]]
| 9
| 1
| 10
| 1869&ndash;73
| —
| 1926
| 2023
|-
| [[File:St Edmund Hall Rowing Blade.svg|80px|St Edmund Hall Boat Club]]
| [[St Edmund Hall Boat Club|St Edmund Hall]]
| 6
| —
| 6
| 1962&ndash;66
| —
|1966
| —
|-
| 
| Osler-Green {{ref|Osler-Green|a}}
| —
| 5
| 5
| —
| 1995&ndash;99
| —
| 1999
|-
| [[File:Somerville College Boat Club Rowing Blade.svg|80px|Somerville College Boat Club]]
| [[Somerville College Boat Club|Somerville]]
| —
| 5
| 5
| —
| 1991&ndash;94
| —
| 1994
|-
| [[File:Wadham College Rowing Blade.svg|80px|Wadham College Boat Club]]
| [[Wadham College Boat Club|Wadham]]
| 2
| 3
| 5
| —
| —
| 1849
| 2019
|-
| [[File:Corpus Christi College Boat Club Rowing Blade.svg|80px|Corpus College Boat Club]]
| [[Corpus Christi College Boat Club (Oxford)|Corpus]]
| 4
| —
| 4
| 1883&ndash;85
| —
| 1931
| —
|-
| [[File:Jesus College Oxford Rowing Blade.svg|80px|Jesus College Boat Club]]
| [[Jesus College Boat Club (Oxford)|Jesus]]
| —
| 4
| 4
| —
| 1980&ndash;83
| —
| 1983
|-
| 
| Osler House {{ref|Osler|b}}
| —
| 4
| 4
| —
| 1988&ndash;89
| —
| 1989
|-
| [[File:Merton College Rowing Blade.svg|80px|Merton College Boat Club]]
| [[Merton College Boat Club|Merton]]
| 1
| 2
| 3
| —
| 2003&ndash;04
| 1927
| 2004
|-
| [[File:St Catherines College Oxford Rowing Blade.svg|80px|St Catherine's College Boat Club]]
| [[St Catherine's College Boat Club|St Catherine's]]
| —
| 3
| 3
| —
| 2008&ndash;09
| —
| 2009
|-
| 
| [[St John's College Boat Club (Oxford)|St John's]]
| 3
| —
| 3
| —
| —
| 1967
| —
|-
| [[File:Trinity College Boat Club Rowing Blade.svg|80px|Trinity College Boat Club]]
| [[Trinity College Boat Club|Trinity]]
| 3
| —
| 3
| —
| —
| 1880
| —
|-
| [[File:Worcester College Rowing Blade.svg|80px|Worcester College Boat Club]]
| [[Worcester College Boat Club|Worcester]]
| 3
| —
| 3
| —
| —
| 1930
| —
|-
| [[File:Queens College (Oxford) Boat Club Rowing Blade.svg|80px|Queen's College Boat Club]]
| [[The Queen's College Boat Club|Queen's]]
| 2
| —
| 2
| —
| —
| 1958
| —
|-
| [[File:St Hughs Boat Club Rowing Blade.svg|80px|St Hugh's College Boat Club]]
| St Hugh's
| —
| 1
| 1
| —
| —
| —
| 1985
|-
| [[File:Wolfson College Boat Club Rowing Blade.svg|80px|Wolfson College Boat Club (Oxford)]]
| [[Wolfson College Boat Club (Oxford)|Wolfson]]
| 1
| 2
| 3
| —
| —
| 2025
| 2022
|-
|}
{|
|{{note label|Osler-Green|a}} Since 2008 this crew composition does not exist any more. Before the foundation of [[Green Templeton College, Oxford|Green Templeton College]], members of ''Green College'' raced with Osler House, and members of ''[[Templeton College, Oxford|Templeton College]]'' raced with [[Hertford College Boat Club|Hertford College]].{{fact|date=March 2021}}
|-
|{{note label|Osler|b}} Prior to the composite crew with Green College and after the foundation of Green Templeton Boat Club, Osler has raced as an independent crew formed of clinical medical students.{{fact|date=March 2021}}
|}

==Men's Head of Torpids==

[[File:Div1Wednesday.jpg|thumb|Men's Division I, places 2 to 5, 2005]]
[[File:New college torpids 2008 sat.jpg|thumb|[[New College Boat Club|New College]] with a broken rudder and [[Boat positions (sport rowing)#bow pair|bow]] oar on Saturday, 2008]]
[[File:A successful bump in Torpids - geograph.org.uk - 1740407.jpg|thumb|[[Balliol College Boat Club|Balliol]] bump [[St Catherine's College, Oxford|St Catherine's]], 2010]]
[[File:Oxford University - Torpids.jpg|thumb|[[Worcester College Boat Club|Worcester College]], 2012]]

Torpids has been held since 1838. The following gives the colleges that were Head of the River (Head of Torpids) in these years.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/stream/oxfordrowinghist00sheruoft#page/146/mode/2up | title=The Torpids (results) | location=Oxford and London | work=Oxford Rowing: A History of Boat-Racing at Oxford from the Earliest Times | year=1900 | pages=147–170 | access-date=11 April 2012 | last=Sherwood | first=W. E. }}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%"
! Year
! College
! Year
! College
! Year
! College
! Year
! College
! Year
! College
|-
| 1838 || [[File:Worcester College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Worcester College Boat Club|Worcester]]|| 1839 || [[File:Oriel College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Oriel College Boat Club|Oriel]]|| 1840 || [[File:Wadham College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Wadham College Boat Club|Wadham]] || 1841 || [[File:Trinity College, Oxford.svg|12px]] [[Trinity College Boat Club|Trinity]]|| 1842 || [[File:Brasenose College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Brasenose College Boat Club|Brasenose]]
|-
| 1843 || [[File:University College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[University College Boat Club (Oxford)|University]] || 1844 || [[File:Oriel College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Oriel College Boat Club|Oriel]]|| 1845 || [[File:Brasenose College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Brasenose College Boat Club|Brasenose]]|| 1846 || [[File:Exeter College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Exeter College Boat Club|Exeter]] || 1847 || [[File:Exeter College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Exeter College Boat Club|Exeter]]
|-
| 1848 || [[File:Brasenose College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Brasenose College Boat Club|Brasenose]]|| 1849 || [[File:Wadham College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Wadham College Boat Club|Wadham]]|| 1850 || [[File:Brasenose College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Brasenose College Boat Club|Brasenose]]|| 1851 || [[File:Brasenose College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Brasenose College Boat Club|Brasenose]]|| 1852 || [[File:Brasenose College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Brasenose College Boat Club|Brasenose]]
|-
| 1853 || [[File:Brasenose College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Brasenose College Boat Club|Brasenose]]|| 1854 || [[File:Exeter College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Exeter College Boat Club|Exeter]]|| 1855 || [[File:Exeter College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Exeter College Boat Club|Exeter]]|| 1856 || [[File:Exeter College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Exeter College Boat Club|Exeter]]|| 1857 || [[File:Exeter College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] Exeter
|-
| 1858 || [[File:Pembroke College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Pembroke College Boat Club (Oxford)|Pembroke]] || 1859 || [[File:Exeter College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Exeter College Boat Club|Exeter]]|| 1860 || [[File:Exeter College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Exeter College Boat Club|Exeter]]|| 1861 || [[File:Brasenose College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Brasenose College Boat Club|Brasenose]]|| 1862 || [[File:Brasenose College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Brasenose College Boat Club|Brasenose]]
|-
| 1863 || [[File:Exeter College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Exeter College Boat Club|Exeter]]|| 1864 || [[File:Exeter College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Exeter College Boat Club|Exeter]]|| 1865 || [[File:Exeter College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Exeter College Boat Club|Exeter]]|| 1866 || [[File:Brasenose College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Brasenose College Boat Club|Brasenose]]|| 1867 || [[File:Exeter College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Exeter College Boat Club|Exeter]]
|-
| 1868 || [[File:Exeter College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Exeter College Boat Club|Exeter]]|| 1869 || [[File:University College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[University College Boat Club (Oxford)|University]]|| 1870 || [[File:University College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[University College Boat Club (Oxford)|University]]|| 1871 || [[File:University College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[University College Boat Club (Oxford)|University]]|| 1872 || [[File:University College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[University College Boat Club (Oxford)|University]]
|-
| 1873 || [[File:University College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[University College Boat Club (Oxford)|University]]|| 1874 || [[File:Brasenose College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Brasenose College Boat Club|Brasenose]]|| 1875 || [[File:Brasenose College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Brasenose College Boat Club|Brasenose]]|| 1876 || [[File:Trinity College, Oxford.svg|12px]] [[Wadham College Boat Club|Trinity]]|| 1877 || [[File:Pembroke College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Pembroke College Boat Club (Oxford)|Pembroke]]
|-
| 1878 || [[File:Pembroke College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Pembroke College Boat Club (Oxford)|Pembroke]]|| 1879 || [[File:Pembroke College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Pembroke College Boat Club (Oxford)|Pembroke]]|| 1880 || [[File:Trinity College, Oxford.svg|12px]] [[Trinity College Boat Club|Trinity]]|| 1881 || [[File:Brasenose College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Brasenose College Boat Club|Brasenose]]|| 1882 || [[File:New College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[New College Boat Club|New College]]
|-
| 1883 || [[File:Corpus-Christi College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Corpus Christi College Boat Club (Oxford)|Corpus Christi]]|| 1884 || [[File:Corpus-Christi College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Corpus Christi College Boat Club (Oxford)|Corpus Christi]]|| 1885 || [[File:Corpus-Christi College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Corpus Christi College Boat Club (Oxford)|Corpus Christi]]|| 1886 || [[File:Brasenose College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Brasenose College Boat Club|Brasenose]]|| 1887 || [[File:Brasenose College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Brasenose College Boat Club|Brasenose]]
|-
| 1888 || [[File:Brasenose College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Brasenose College Boat Club|Brasenose]]|| 1889 || [[File:Brasenose College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Brasenose College Boat Club|Brasenose]]|| 1890 || [[File:Brasenose College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Brasenose College Boat Club|Brasenose]]|| 1891 || [[File:Brasenose College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Brasenose College Boat Club|Brasenose]]|| 1892 || [[File:Brasenose College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Brasenose College Boat Club|Brasenose]]
|-
| 1893 || [[File:Brasenose College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Brasenose College Boat Club|Brasenose]]|| 1894 || [[File:Brasenose College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Brasenose College Boat Club|Brasenose]]|| 1895 || ''no racing'' {{ref|Ice|a}}|| 1896 || [[File:New College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[New College Boat Club|New College]]|| 1897 || [[File:Balliol College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Balliol College Boat Club|Balliol]]
|-
| 1898 || [[File:Balliol College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Balliol College Boat Club|Balliol]]|| 1899 || [[File:Balliol College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Balliol College Boat Club|Balliol]]|| 1900 || [[File:New College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[New College Boat Club|New College]]|| 1901 || [[File:New College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[New College Boat Club|New College]]|| 1902 || [[File:New College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[New College Boat Club|New College]]
|-
| 1903 || [[File:New College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[New College Boat Club|New College]]|| 1904 || [[File:New College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[New College Boat Club|New College]]|| 1905 || [[File:University College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[University College Boat Club (Oxford)|University]]|| 1906 || [[File:University College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[University College Boat Club (Oxford)|University]]|| 1907 || [[File:Christ Church Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Christ Church Boat Club|Christ Church]]
|-
| 1908 || [[File:Christ Church Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Christ Church Boat Club|Christ Church]]|| 1909 || [[File:Christ Church Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Christ Church Boat Club|Christ Church]]|| 1910 || [[File:Christ Church Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Christ Church Boat Club|Christ Church]]|| 1911 || [[File:Balliol College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Balliol College Boat Club|Balliol]]|| 1912 || [[File:Magdalen College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Magdalen College, Oxford|Magdalen]]
|-
| 1913 || [[File:Magdalen College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Magdalen College Boat Club|Magdalen]]|| 1914 || [[File:Christ Church Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Christ Church Boat Club|Christ Church]]|| 1915 || — {{ref|WW1|b}} || 1916 || — {{ref|WW1|b}} || 1917|| — {{ref|WW1|b}}
|-
|| 1918 || — {{ref|WW1|b}} || 1919 || — {{ref|WW1|b}} || 1920 || [[File:Christ Church Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Christ Church Boat Club|Christ Church]]|| 1921 || [[File:Christ Church Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Christ Church Boat Club|Christ Church]]|| 1922 || [[File:Worcester College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Worcester College Boat Club|Worcester]]
|-
| 1923 || [[File:Magdalen College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Magdalen College Boat Club|Magdalen]]|| 1924 || [[File:Christ Church Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Christ Church Boat Club|Christ Church]]|| 1925 || [[File:Christ Church Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Christ Church Boat Club|Christ Church]]|| 1926 || [[File:University College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[University College Boat Club (Oxford)|University]]|| 1927 || [[File:Merton College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Merton College Boat Club|Merton]] 
|-
| 1928 || [[File:Balliol College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Balliol College Boat Club|Balliol]]|| 1929 || [[File:Balliol College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Balliol College Boat Club|Balliol]]|| 1930 || [[File:Worcester College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Worcester College Boat Club|Worcester]]|| 1931|| [[File:Corpus-Christi College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Corpus Christi College Boat Club (Oxford)|Corpus Christi]]|| 1932 || [[File:Magdalen College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Magdalen College Boat Club|Magdalen]]
|-
|1933 || [[File:Magdalen College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Magdalen College Boat Club|Magdalen]]|| 1934 || [[File:Magdalen College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Magdalen College Boat Club|Magdalen]]|| 1935 || [[File:New College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[New College Boat Club|New College]]|| 1936 || [[File:Magdalen College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Magdalen College Boat Club|Magdalen]]|| 1937 || [[File:Magdalen College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Magdalen College Boat Club|Magdalen]]
|-
|1938 || [[File:New College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[New College Boat Club|New College]]|| 1939 || [[File:St-Edmund-Hall College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[St Edmund Hall Boat Club|St Edmund Hall]] || 1940 || [[File:Trinity College, Oxford.svg|12px]] [[Trinity College Boat Club|Trinity]] & [[File:Balliol College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Balliol College Boat Club|Balliol]]|| 1941 || — {{ref|WW2|c}}|| 1942 || — {{ref|WW2|c}}
|-
|1943 || — {{ref|WW2|c}}|| 1944 || — {{ref|WW2|c}} || 1945 || — {{ref|WW2|c}}|| 1946 || [[File:St-John's College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[St John's College Boat Club (Oxford)|St John's]]|| 1947 || [[File:New College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[New College Boat Club|New College]]
|-
|1948 || [[File:Christ Church Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Christ Church Boat Club|Christ Church]]|| 1949 || [[File:New College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[New College Boat Club|New College]]|| 1950 || [[File:New College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[New College Boat Club|New College]]|| 1951 || [[File:New College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[New College Boat Club|New College]]|| 1952 || [[File:New College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[New College Boat Club|New College]]
|-
| 1953 || [[File:New College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[New College Boat Club|New College]]|| 1954 || [[File:Balliol College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Balliol College Boat Club|Balliol]]|| 1955 || [[File:Balliol College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Balliol College Boat Club|Balliol]]|| 1956 || [[File:Balliol College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Balliol College Boat Club|Balliol]]|| 1957 || [[File:Queens College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[The Queen's College Boat Club|Queen's]]
|-
| 1958 || [[File:Queens College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[The Queen's College Boat Club|Queen's]]|| 1959 || [[File:Balliol College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Balliol College Boat Club|Balliol]]|| 1960 || [[File:St-Edmund-Hall College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[St Edmund Hall Boat Club|St Edmund Hall]]
| 1961 || [[File:St-John's College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[St John's College Boat Club (Oxford)|St John's]]|| 1962 ||| [[File:St-Edmund-Hall College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[St Edmund Hall Boat Club|St Edmund Hall]]
|-
| 1963 || ''no racing'' {{ref|Ice|a}} || 1964 || [[File:St-Edmund-Hall College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[St Edmund Hall Boat Club|St Edmund Hall]]|| 1965 || [[File:St-Edmund-Hall College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[St Edmund Hall Boat Club|St Edmund Hall]]|| 1966 || [[File:St-Edmund-Hall College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[St Edmund Hall Boat Club|St Edmund Hall]]|| 1967 || [[File:St-John's College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[St John's College Boat Club (Oxford)|St John's]]
|-
| 1968 || [[File:Balliol College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Balliol College Boat Club|Balliol]]|| 1969 || [[File:Balliol College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Balliol College Boat Club|Balliol]]|| 1970 || [[File:Balliol College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Balliol College Boat Club|Balliol]]|| 1971 || [[File:Balliol College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Balliol College Boat Club|Balliol]]|| 1972 || [[File:Oriel College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Oriel College Boat Club|Oriel]]
|-
| 1973 || [[File:Oriel College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Oriel College Boat Club|Oriel]]|| 1974 || [[File:Oriel College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Oriel College Boat Club|Oriel]]|| 1975 || [[File:Oriel College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Oriel College Boat Club|Oriel]]|| 1976 || [[File:Oriel College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Oriel College Boat Club|Oriel]]|| 1977 || ''no racing'' {{ref|Stream|f}}
|-
| 1978 || [[File:Oriel College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Oriel College Boat Club|Oriel]]|| 1979 || [[File:Oriel College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Oriel College Boat Club|Oriel]]|| 1980 || [[File:Oriel College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Oriel College Boat Club|Oriel]]|| 1981 || [[File:Oriel College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Oriel College Boat Club|Oriel]]|| 1982 || [[File:Oriel College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Oriel College Boat Club|Oriel]]
|-
| 1983 || [[File:Oriel College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Oriel College Boat Club|Oriel]]|| 1984 || [[File:Oriel College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Oriel College Boat Club|Oriel]]|| 1985 || [[File:Oriel College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Oriel College Boat Club|Oriel]]|| 1986 || [[File:Oriel College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Oriel College Boat Club|Oriel]] {{ref|Short|d}} || 1987 || [[File:Oriel College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Oriel College Boat Club|Oriel]]
|-
| 1988 || [[File:Oriel College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Oriel College Boat Club|Oriel]]|| 1989 || [[File:Oriel College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Oriel College Boat Club|Oriel]]|| 1990 || [[File:Oriel College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Oriel College Boat Club|Oriel]] {{ref|Short|d}} || 1991 || [[File:Christ Church Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Christ Church Boat Club|Christ Church]] {{ref|Penalty|e}} || 1992 || [[File:Oriel College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Oriel College Boat Club|Oriel]]
|-
| 1993 || [[File:Oriel College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Oriel College Boat Club|Oriel]]|| 1994 || [[File:Oriel College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Oriel College Boat Club|Oriel]] {{ref|Short|d}} || 1995 || [[File:Oriel College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Oriel College Boat Club|Oriel]] {{ref|Short|d}} || 1996 || [[File:Oriel College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Oriel College Boat Club|Oriel]]|| 1997 || [[File:Oriel College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Oriel College Boat Club|Oriel]]
|-
| 1998 || [[File:Oriel College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Oriel College Boat Club|Oriel]] {{ref|Short|d|d}}|| 1999 || [[File:Pembroke College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Pembroke College Boat Club (Oxford)|Pembroke]]|| 2000 || ''no racing'' {{ref|Stream|f|f}} || 2001 || [[File:Oriel College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Oriel College Boat Club|Oriel]]|| 2002 || ''no racing'' {{ref|Stream|f}}
|-
| 2003 || [[File:Oriel College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Oriel College Boat Club|Oriel]] {{ref|Short|d}}|| 2004 || [[File:Oriel College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Oriel College Boat Club|Oriel]]|| 2005 || [[File:Oriel College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Oriel College Boat Club|Oriel]]|| 2006 || [[File:Oriel College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Oriel College Boat Club|Oriel]]|| 2007 || ''no racing'' {{ref|Stream|f}}
|-
| 2008 || [[File:Magdalen College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Magdalen College Boat Club|Magdalen]]|| 2009 || [[File:Christ Church Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Christ Church Boat Club|Christ Church]]|| 2010 || [[File:Christ Church Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Christ Church Boat Club|Christ Church]]|| 2011 || [[File:Christ Church Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Christ Church Boat Club|Christ Church]]|| 2012 || [[File:Pembroke College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Pembroke College Boat Club (Oxford)|Pembroke]]
|-
| 2013 || [[File:Pembroke College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Pembroke College Boat Club (Oxford)|Pembroke]]|| 2014 || ''no racing'' {{ref|Stream|f}}|| 2015 || [[File:Pembroke College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Pembroke College Boat Club (Oxford)|Pembroke]]|| 2016 || [[File:Pembroke College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Pembroke College Boat Club (Oxford)|Pembroke]]|| 2017 || [[File:Pembroke College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Pembroke College Boat Club (Oxford)|Pembroke]]
|-
| 2018 || [[File:Oriel College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Oriel College Boat Club|Oriel]] {{ref|Short|d}}|| 2019 || [[File:Oriel College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Oriel College Boat Club|Oriel]]|| 2020 || ''no racing'' {{ref|Stream|f}}|| 2021 || [[File:Oriel College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Oriel College Boat Club|Oriel]] {{ref|Summer|g}} || 2022 ||[[File:Oriel College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Oriel College Boat Club|Oriel]]
|-
|| 2023 || [[File:Christ Church Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Christ Church Boat Club|Christ Church]]|| 2024|| ''no racing'' {{ref|Stream|f}} ||2025|| [[File:Wolfson_College_Oxford_Coat_Of_Arms.svg|15x15px]] [[Wolfson College Boat Club (Oxford)|Wolfson]] {{ref|Senior|h}} ||2026|| ||2027 ||
|}
{|
|{{note label|Ice|a|a}} No racing due to ice on the river
|-
|{{note label|WW1|b|b}} No racing due to [[World War I]] 
|-
|{{note label|WW2|c|c}} No racing due to [[World War II]]
|-
|{{note label|Short|d|d}} Racing held on fewer than four days 
|-
|{{note label|Penalty|e|e}} Oriel were penalty bumped four places for training while the river was in flood
|-
|{{note label|Stream|f|f}} No racing due to high stream
|-
|{{note label|Summer|g|g}} Racing held in Trinity Term instead of [[Summer Eights]] due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]
|-
|{{note label|Senior|h|h}} Racing limited to the top three divisions due to high stream
|}

==Women's Head of Torpids==
Women's divisions in Torpids have existed since 1978. This was delayed from 1977 when the river was flooded and Torpids was cancelled.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://eodg.atm.ox.ac.uk/user/dudhia/rowing/history.html|title=A History of Oxford College Rowing|website=eodg.atm.ox.ac.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://eodg.atm.ox.ac.uk/user/dudhia/rowing/bumps/|title=Oxford Bumps Charts|website=eodg.atm.ox.ac.uk}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%; padding:2px;"
! Year
! College
! Year
! College
! Year
! College
! Year
! College
! Year
! College
|-
|1977|| ''no racing'' {{ref|Stream|a|a}}|| 1978 ||[[File:Hertford_College_Oxford_Coat_Of_Arms.svg|15x15px]] [[Hertford College Boat Club|Hertford]]|| 1979 || [[File:Wadham College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Wadham College Boat Club|Wadham]]|| 1980 || [[File:Jesus_College_Oxford_Coat_Of_Arms.svg|15x15px]] [[Jesus College Boat Club (Oxford)|Jesus]] || 1981 || [[File:Jesus_College_Oxford_Coat_Of_Arms.svg|15x15px]] [[Jesus College Boat Club (Oxford)|Jesus]]
|-
|1982 || [[File:Jesus_College_Oxford_Coat_Of_Arms.svg|15x15px]] [[Jesus College Boat Club (Oxford)|Jesus]]|| 1983 || [[File:Jesus_College_Oxford_Coat_Of_Arms.svg|15x15px]] [[Jesus College Boat Club (Oxford)|Jesus]]|| 1984 || [[Osler House]] || 1985 || [[File:St-Hughs_College_Oxford_Coat_Of_Arms.svg|15x15px]] [[St Hugh's College, Oxford|St Hugh's]] || 1986 || [[Osler House]] {{ref|Short|b|b}}
|-
|1987 || [[File:Somerville_College_Oxford_Coat_Of_Arms.svg|15x15px]] [[Somerville College Boat Club|Somerville]]|| 1988 || [[Osler House]]|| 1989 || [[Osler House]]|| 1990 || ''no racing'' {{ref|Informal|c|c}} || 1991 || [[File:Somerville_College_Oxford_Coat_Of_Arms.svg|15x15px]] [[Somerville College Boat Club|Somerville]]
|-
|1992 || [[File:Somerville_College_Oxford_Coat_Of_Arms.svg|15x15px]] [[Somerville College Boat Club|Somerville]]|| 1993 || [[File:Somerville_College_Oxford_Coat_Of_Arms.svg|15x15px]] [[Somerville College Boat Club|Somerville]]|| 1994 || [[File:Somerville_College_Oxford_Coat_Of_Arms.svg|15x15px]] [[Somerville College Boat Club|Somerville]] {{ref|Short|b|b}} || 1995 || Osler-Green {{ref|Short|b|b}} || 1996 || Osler-Green
|-
|1997 || Osler-Green || 1998 || Osler-Green {{ref|Short|b|b}} || 1999 || Osler-Green || 2000 || ''no racing'' {{ref|Stream|a|a}} || 2001 || [[File:St-Catherines_College_Oxford_Coat_Of_Arms.svg|15x15px]] [[St Catherine's College Boat Club|St Catherine's]]
|-
|2002 || ''no racing'' {{ref|Stream|a|a}} || 2003 || [[File:Merton College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Merton College Boat Club|Merton]] {{ref|Short|b|b}}|| 2004 || [[File:Merton College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Merton College Boat Club|Merton]]||2005 || [[File:New College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[New College Boat Club|New College]]|| 2006 || [[File:Oriel College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Oriel College Boat Club|Oriel]]
|-
|2007 || ''no racing'' {{ref|Stream|a|a}} || 2008 || [[File:St-Catherines_College_Oxford_Coat_Of_Arms.svg|15x15px]] [[St Catherine's College Boat Club|St Catherine's]]|| 2009 || [[File:St-Catherines_College_Oxford_Coat_Of_Arms.svg|15x15px]] [[St Catherine's College Boat Club|St Catherine's]]|| 2010 || [[File:Magdalen College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Magdalen College Boat Club|Magdalen]]|| 2011 || [[File:Magdalen College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Magdalen College Boat Club|Magdalen]]
|-
|2012 || [[File:Magdalen College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Magdalen College Boat Club|Magdalen]]|| 2013 || [[File:Magdalen College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Magdalen College Boat Club|Magdalen]]|| 2014 || ''no racing'' {{ref|Stream|a|a}}|| 2015 || [[File:Wadham College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Wadham College Boat Club|Wadham]]|| 2016 || [[File:Magdalen College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Magdalen College Boat Club|Magdalen]]
|-
|2017 || [[File:Oriel College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Oriel College Boat Club|Oriel]]|| 2018 || [[File:Oriel College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Oriel College Boat Club|Oriel]] {{ref|Short|b|b}}|| 2019 || [[File:Wadham College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Wadham College Boat Club|Wadham]]|| 2020 || ''no racing'' {{ref|Stream|a|a}}||2021|| [[File:Wolfson_College_Oxford_Coat_Of_Arms.svg|15x15px]] [[Wolfson College Boat Club (Oxford)|Wolfson]] {{ref|Summer|d|d}}
|-
|2022 || [[File:Wolfson_College_Oxford_Coat_Of_Arms.svg|15x15px]] [[Wolfson College Boat Club (Oxford)|Wolfson]]||2023|| [[File:University College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[University College Boat Club (Oxford)|University]]||2024|| ''no racing'' {{ref|Stream|a|a}}||2025|| [[File:Pembroke College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|12px]] [[Pembroke College Boat Club (Oxford)|Pembroke]] {{ref|Senior|e|e}}||2026|| 
|}
{|
|{{note label|Stream|a|a}} No racing due to high stream
|-
|{{note label|Short|b|b}} Racing held on fewer than four days
|-
|{{note label|Informal|c|c}} Only informal racing due to a fast stream
|-
|{{note label|Summer|d|d}} Racing held in Trinity Term instead of [[Summer Eights]] due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]
|-
|{{note label|Senior|e|e}} Racing limited to the top three divisions due to high stream
|}

==See also==
* [[Eights Week|Summer Eights]], a similar event in [[Trinity term|Trinity Term.]]
* [[Lent Bumps]], the equivalent event in [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge.]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.atm.ox.ac.uk/rowing/torpids/ Torpids results]
* [http://www.atm.ox.ac.uk/rowing/bumps/ Oxford Bumps Charts]

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