May Bumps 2008

The May Bumps 2008 were a set of rowing races held at Cambridge University from Wednesday 11 June 2008 to Saturday 14 June 2008. The event was run as a bumps race and was the 117th set of races in the series of May Bumps which have been held annually in mid-June in this form since 1887. In 2008, a total of 171 crews took part (94 men's crews and 77 women's crews), with over 1500 participants in total.

Head of the River crews

First and Third Trinity Boat Club 1st & 3rd Trinity men bumped Caius on the first day to take the headship for the first time since 1973; the first change in men's headship since 2002.

Pembroke College Boat Club Pembroke women bumped Jesus on the first day to take back the headship they lost in 2007.

Highest 2nd VIIIs

1st & 3rd Trinity Boat Club 1st & 3rd Trinity were the highest men's 2nd VIII at the end of the week, holding 14th position.

Jesus College Boat Club Jesus were the highest women's 2nd VIII at the end of the week at 15th position, having started 16th.

Links to races in other years

Preceding year	Current year	Following year
May Bumps 2007	May Bumps 2008	May Bumps 2009
Lent Bumps 2007	Lent Bumps 2008	Lent Bumps 2009

Bumps Charts

Below are the bumps charts all 6 men's and all 5 women's divisions, with the men's event on the left and women's event on the right. The bumps chart represents the progress of every crew over all four days of the racing. To follow the progress of any particular crew, simply find the crew's name on the left side of the chart and follow the line to the end-of-the-week finishing position on the right of the chart.

Note that this chart may not be displayed correctly if you are using a large font size on your browser. A simple way to check is to see that the first horizontal bold line, marking the boundary between divisions, lies between positions 17 and 18. The combined Hughes Hall/ Lucy Cavendish women's crews are listed as Lucy Cavendish only.

Pos	Crew	Men's Bumps Chart	Crew	Pos	Crew	Women's Bumps Chart	Crew	Pos
1	Caius		1st & 3rd Trinity	1	Jesus		Pembroke	1
2	1st & 3rd Trinity		Lady Margaret	2	Pembroke		Jesus	2
3	Lady Margaret		Jesus	3	Emmanuel		Emmanuel	3
4	Trinity Hall		Caius	4	Newnham		Caius	4
5	Jesus		Queens'	5	Caius		Girton	5
6	St. Catharine's		St. Catharine's	6	Girton		Lady Margaret	6
7	Churchill		Downing	7	1st & 3rd Trinity		Newnham	7
8	Queens'		Trinity Hall	8	Trinity Hall		Clare	8
9	Downing		Pembroke	9	Lady Margaret		Downing	9
10	Emmanuel		Churchill	10	Clare		1st & 3rd Trinity	10
11	Pembroke		Clare	11	Downing		Christ's	11
12	Clare		Emmanuel	12	Queens'		Trinity Hall	12
13	Robinson		Fitzwilliam	13	Churchill		Queens'	13
14	1st & 3rd Trinity		1st & 3rd Trinity	14	Christ's		Magdalene	14
15	Christ's		Christ's	15	St. Catharine's		Jesus	15
16	Fitzwilliam		Magdalene	16	Jesus		King's	16
17	Magdalene		Robinson	17	King's		Churchill	17
18	Caius		Lady Margaret	18	Peterhouse		Peterhouse	18
19	Selwyn		Selwyn	19	Magdalene		St. Catharine's	19
20	King's		Caius	20	CCAT		Darwin	20
21	Wolfson		King's	21	Selwyn		Pembroke	21
22	Lady Margaret		Peterhouse	22	Fitzwilliam		Selwyn	22
23	Peterhouse		Downing	23	Darwin		Emmanuel	23
24	Downing		CCAT	24	Pembroke		CCAT	24
25	CCAT		Wolfson	25	New Hall		Robinson	25
26	Emmanuel		Girton	26	Emmanuel		Fitzwilliam	26
27	Jesus		Darwin	27	Lady Margaret		Lady Margaret	27
28	Corpus Christi		Emmanuel	28	Robinson		Homerton	28
29	Girton		Jesus	29	Homerton		New Hall	29
30	Darwin		Homerton	30	Girton		Sidney Sussex	30
31	St. Catharine's		Corpus Christi	31	Caius		Downing	31
32	St Edmund's		St Edmund's	32	Sidney Sussex		Corpus Christi	32
33	Sidney Sussex		Sidney Sussex	33	Wolfson		Girton	33
34	Homerton		Queens'	34	Downing		Caius	34
35	Queens'		St. Catharine's	35	Newnham		Newnham	35
36	Churchill		Pembroke	36	Corpus Christi		Clare	36
37	Pembroke		Selwyn	37	Queens'		Wolfson	37
38	Selwyn		1st & 3rd Trinity	38	Jesus		Queens'	38
39	Girton		Churchill	39	Clare		Trinity Hall	39
40	1st & 3rd Trinity		Fitzwilliam	40	1st & 3rd Trinity		Lucy Cavendish	40
41	Robinson		Magdalene	41	Trinity Hall		Jesus	41
42	Magdalene		Christ's	42	Magdalene		Magdalene	42
43	Fitzwilliam		Girton	43	Darwin		1st & 3rd Trinity	43
44	Christ's		Clare	44	Lucy Cavendish		St Edmund's	44
45	Clare		Robinson	45	St. Catharine's		Vet School	45
46	Trinity Hall		Lady Margaret	46	CCAT		Darwin	46
47	Jesus		Jesus	47	Lady Margaret		Selwyn	47
48	Lady Margaret		Peterhouse	48	Vet School		CCAT	48
49	Emmanuel		Trinity Hall	49	New Hall		Pembroke	49
50	Hughes Hall		Hughes Hall	50	Churchill		Lady Margaret	50
51	Darwin		Darwin	51	St Edmund's		Emmanuel	51
52	Peterhouse		Queens'	52	Selwyn		St. Catharine's	52
53	St. Catharine's		Emmanuel	53	1st & 3rd Trinity		Churchill	53
54	Queens'		Selwyn	54	Pembroke		Christ's	54
55	Downing		Downing	55	Newnham		New Hall	55
56	Clare		St. Catharine's	56	Emmanuel		New Hall	56
57	Trinity Hall		Wolfson	57	Homerton		1st & 3rd Trinity	57
58	Selwyn		Clare	58	Christ's		Homerton	58
59	Caius		King's	59	Addenbrooke's		Newnham	59
60	Corpus Christi		Trinity Hall	60	New Hall		Pembroke	60
61	Wolfson		Pembroke	61	Queens'		Queens'	61
62	1st & 3rd Trinity		Caius	62	Robinson		Clare Hall	62
63	King's		Jesus	63	Pembroke		Addenbrooke's	63
64	Lady Margaret		Corpus Christi	64	Fitzwilliam		Fitzwilliam	64
65	Pembroke	Clare Hall	65	Newnham	Robinson	65
66	Churchill	1st & 3rd Trinity	66	Clare Hall	CCAT	66
67	Jesus	Lady Margaret	67	CCAT	Newnham	67
68	Clare Hall	Christ's	68	Girton	Sidney Sussex	68
69	Christ's	Sidney Sussex	69	Magdalene	King's	69
70	Sidney Sussex	Churchill	70	King's	Magdalene	70
71	Caius	Christ's	71	Downing	Jesus	71
72	1st & 3rd Trinity	CCAT	72	Sidney Sussex	Girton	72
73	Magdalene	1st & 3rd Trinity	73	Jesus	Clare	73
74	Christ's	Robinson	74	Sidney Sussex	Peterhouse	74
75	CCAT	Caius	75	Clare	Downing	75
76	Robinson	St Edmund's	76	Clare Hall	Sidney Sussex	76
77	Jesus	Magdalene	77	Peterhouse	Clare Hall	77
78	Lady Margaret	Pembroke	78
79	Fitzwilliam	Homerton	79
80	Pembroke	Jesus	80
81	Homerton	Fitzwilliam	81
82	St Edmund's	Sidney Sussex	82
83	Queens'	Emmanuel	83
84	Sidney Sussex	Lady Margaret	84
85	Lady Margaret	King's	85
86	Girton	Queens'	86
87	Emmanuel	Lady Margaret	87
88	CCAT	Downing	88
89	Darwin	CCAT	89
90	Girton	Pembroke	90
91	Downing	Girton	91
92	King's	Clare Hall	92
93	Pembroke	Darwin	93
94	Clare Hall	Girton	94

The Getting-on Race

The Getting-on Race (GoR) allows a number of crews which did not already have a place from last year's races to compete for the right to race this year. Up to ten crews are removed from the bottom of last year's finishing order, who must then race alongside new entrants to decide which crews gain a place (with one bumps place per 3 crews competing, subject to the maximum of 10 available places).

The 2008 May Bumps Getting-on Race took place on 6 June 2008.

Competing crews

Men

7 men's crews raced for 3 available spaces at the bottom of the 6th division. The following were successful and rowed in the bumps.

• Downing
• King's
• Pembroke
• Clare Hall

The following were unsuccessful.

• Hughes Hall
• Sidney Sussex
• 1st & 3rd Trinity

Women

10 women's crews raced for 3 available spaces at the bottom of the 5th division, but subsequently 2 further places became available. The following were successful and rowed in the bumps.

• Jesus
• Sidney Sussex
• Clare
• Clare Hall
• Peterhouse

The following were unsuccessful.

• Pembroke
• Clare
• Clare
• Trinity Hall

The following did not race.

• Lady Margaret

References

• CUCBC - the organisation that runs the bumps
• 1st & 3rd Trinity Boat Club - instant results service
• Cambridge University Radio (CUR1350) - live commentary, instant results, downloadable MP3s of race commentary