St Ives Rowing Club is a

rowing Rowing is the act of propelling a human-powered watercraft using the sweeping motions of oars to displace water and generate reactional propulsion. Rowing is functionally similar to paddling, but rowing requires oars to be mechanically at ...

club on the

River Great Ouse The River Great Ouse () is a river in England, the longest of several British rivers called "Ouse". From Syresham in Northamptonshire, the Great Ouse flows through Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk to drain into the W ...

, based at 25 The Broadway, St Ives,

Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.) is a Counties of England, county in the East of England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the north-east, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and North ...

History

The club was founded in 1865 by a local general practitioner called Dr Grove. The club has produced some British champions, with a 1975 to 1991 recent peak.

Club colours

The colours are together: red and black.''The Umpires' Handbook''
British Rowing, 2020: at p.47.

Honours

British champions

Notable members

* Tony Cowley * Nigel Drake

References

Sport in Cambridgeshire Rowing clubs in England Rowing clubs of the River Great Ouse St Ives, Cambridgeshire Rowing clubs in Cambridgeshire {{rowing-club-stub