City of Oxford
Royal Regatta

Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th August 2024

Traditional, two lane, side-by-side racing downstream over 1000 m and 500 m on a river course.

Saturday 17th August - 1000 m

Sunday 18th August - 500 m

Competitor Information

Note to College Crews: All boats must be moved to CORC before the start of racing - 9 am on Saturday, 8:30 am on Sunday. Limited racking is available from Friday night.

Event Photos

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Events offered

Events are offered across open, women’s, mixed, adaptive, masters and juniors, for many boat classes. Please refer to the table for a full list, or the specific adaptive entries section below.

Adaptive entries

All adaptive entries should enter their crews onto BROE2 under one of the "catch all" events, adding their specific category in the entry notes. They must also contact the Club's Adaptive Co-ordinator, Andrew Weekes, with details of their entry. Events will be split out once all the entries are in.

Any inquiries should be directed at both the Adaptive Coordinator and the Regatta Entries Secretary.

Sprint Eights - lunchtime, eights, 350m

Saturday - Open and Women's
Sunday - Mixed

The Lunchtime Super-Sprint 8's is returning for another year! On Saturday we'll be running men's and women's events and on Sunday a mixed race. All Clubs with entries on the respective days and who have at least 8 rowers in the draw will be invited to enter the Lunchtime Sprint Eights event on the same day. The mixed crews on Sunday must contain at least 4 women (excluding the cox).

All crew members, including cox, must be from the same Club and must be racing in the normal regatta events during that day. Each Club must provide their own eight to race in. Invitations will be sent after the draw is published.

This is a non-qualifying event which takes place over approximately 350m during the lunch break.  The doubling up rules do not apply to Super-Sprint Eights as the event takes place over lunchtime only.

Cost of entry is £60 per crew. Cash or card payment on the day.

Entries information

Entries are now open. All entries must be received by 12:00 on 10th August. Payment should be made online using British Rowing Online Entry system - unpaid crews will not be included in the Draw. Note that each day (Sat & Sun) appears on BROE2 as a separate event in the list of available Competition Meetings. We cannot move entries between days so please make sure you have entered for the day you want to race. 

Entry fees: £15 per seat for all events excluding single sculls which are £18

Racing licences: The regatta is affiliated to British Rowing and racing licences must be presented. 

Important note regarding the draw: We reserve the right not to run events with fewer than four entries. Where an event receives less than four entries, crews or scullers will be moved to the next higher status event available in the same morning or afternoon division where possible. If this is not possible the under-subscribed event may be scratched from the programme. Crews not wishing to be moved to a higher status must state this clearly on their entry, especially Masters not wishing to race in younger age groups, or Juniors not wishing to race in higher age groups. 

Doubling up: No doubling up by competitors, coxes or boats will be allowed within a Morning or an Afternoon Division, but competitors, coxes and boats may race twice each day, once in the morning Division and once in the Afternoon Division.

Please note that British Rowing Rule 4-8c requires mixed crews to have a minimum of 50% Women. 

Camping, Parking, and the Disco

With Oxford Royal Regatta being a two day regatta, we are pleased to say that our friends at the Sea Scouts are able to offer car parking and a camping site. Both are charged:

  • Parking - £5 per day (vehicles larger than a car will be charged more)

  • Camping - £10 per night per person plus £5 per gazebo. Parking for campers is £5 per night.

There is no parking at CORC Boathouse. Trailers should be parked in the City Boathouse car park, and towing vehicles moved to the Sea Scouts' field immediately. Access to the carpark for trailers only will be available all day on Saturday and Sunday, and 5 pm - 9 pm on Friday. If you expect to arrive after 9 pm on Friday please contact the entries secretary. Please do not park on Meadow Lane. Parking is on a first-come-first-served basis, extra parking can be found at the Redbridge Park & Ride (15 minute walk)

Camping is available in the Sea Scouts' field from 7pm Friday to 7pm Sunday, no booking required. There are strictly no fires but off ground BBQs are allowed. The facilities at the Sea Scouts include 1 shower, 2 w/c's, 1 disabled toilet and urinals. They will be available on Saturday 7am to 9pm and Sunday 7am to 7pm (and not on Friday night). At all other times, port-a-loo's are available. Access to the City Boathouse from the camping ground is along Meadow Lane and not along the river front.

On Saturday night the famous Disco will return in the bar of the City Boathouse.

History & About

The regatta has been running consistently on the Isis river in Oxford since 1841 with only occasional breaks due to war and was originally organised by one of the clubs which formed CORC. The regatta features a full programme of British Rowing open events with highly competitive racing for men, women, juniors and mixed crews.