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Oxford Brookes University Boat Club (OBUBC) is the rowing club of the Oxford Brookes University, England, located on the River Thames in Oxford. The club has been very successful with many olympic champions coming from the club itself and obtaining 5 Gold medals from every Olympic games since Sydney. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Oxford Brookes University opens elite rowing facilities )〕 From 1995-2007 OBUBC had won an unmatched 13 consecutive British Universities Sport Association Titles. ==History== OBUBC was founded in 1978 as the Oxford Polytechnic Boat Club (OPBC) where it was given its first home with Oxford Falcon Rowing and Canoeing Club and begun to enter competitions as a composite Polytechnic/Falcon crew. In 1986 OPBC made its first competitive appearance at The Henley Royal Regatta only to get knocked out in the second round but this laid the start of what would become many successes at the regatta with the first win for the men of the Boat Club at Henley Royal Regatta in the Temple Cup in 1993. REF add 2000 marked the olympic success of the boat club with Ben Hunt-Davis, Fred Scarlett and Rowley Douglas clinching gold medals in the Mens' Eights at the Sydney Olympics. Steve Williams achieves gold at the World Championships along Alex Partridge who wins U23 gold, also at the World Championships also. Steve Williams also won gold at the Athens Olympics as well as becoming world champion in 2005 along with Alex Partridge. Again in the 2008 Beijing olympics Steve Williams defends his Olympic title with Alastair Heathcote, Tom Lucy and Alex Partridge all gaining a silver medal at Beijing. Carla Ashford and Caroline O'Connor finish fifth in the finals of the women's eight. In 2009 the Boat Club claimed victory over Yale University in the Prince Albert Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta. London 2012 seen further success with the Chambers brothers of Peter and Richard gaining two silver medals in the LM4- event. Alex Partridge also gained a bronze medal in the M8+. In 2014, the Boat Club brought the Temple Challenge Cup back to the UK for the first time since 2006, winning against a freshmen crew from Brown University. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Oxford Brookes University Boat Club」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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