Entry form 2025 (entries now open)
Results will be available here
We proudly host the annual X-Press Head Race, a highly anticipated event in the Cambridge rowing calendar! Held one week before the CUCBC May Bumps, our head race gives crews a valuable last opportunity to race over the full bumps course:
2,100 meters from upstream of A14 (chain two) to the Pike & Eel.
Medals for category winners and best line around Grassy Corner.
Champagne prize for the winners of the John Dent Trophy.
College, Town, Masters and Junior categories (College and Town split by bumps divisions).
Crews have the option to make a standing start from around the A14 bridge, with the start line and timing starting from chain three.
Entry fee £88 for eights; £44 for fours and quads.
Contact us for enquiries: xpresshead@xpressbc.org.uk
A club which enters at least one Men’s and one Women’s crew will be eligible to compete for the John Dent Trophy, awarded to the club with the best two-boat combined time.
Previous winners:
2018 Caius
2019 Caius
2021 Lady Margaret
2022 Wolfson
2023 Peterhouse
2024 Peterhouse