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Harvard 2024 Heat 2 Second Varsity Lightweight 8+ 5:40.765 Harvard 2023 Heat 2 Third Varsity Heavyweight 8+ 5:37.222 Yale 2023 Grand Final Third Varsity Lightweight 8+ 5:46.708 Cornell 2023 Heat 1 Freshman Heavyweight 8+ 5:35.980 Harvard 2001 Grand Final Freshman Lightweight 8+ 5:43.727 Penn 2014 Final Fourth Varsity Heavyweight 8+ 5:38.913
1916 – Lightweight rowing was first introduced at the University of Pennsylvania. 1920 – Navy wins the gold medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics in the eight-man (8+) boat. US collegiate boats would win the gold medal in the 8+ at the next seven Olympics. 1922 – The first Harvard-Yale-Princeton lightweight race is held on May 20.
This regatta today includes both men's and women's (lightweight) events for 8- and 4-oared sweep boats with coxswains and a women's lightweight double scull (two-oars for each rower) event. The IRA National Championship is the oldest college rowing championship in the United States.
The Harvard–Yale Regatta or Yale-Harvard Boat Race (often abbreviated The Race) is an annual rowing race between the men's heavyweight rowing crews of Harvard University and Yale University. First contested in 1852, it has been held annually since 1859 with exceptions during major wars fought by the United States and the COVID-19 pandemic .
Both the Harvard heavyweight and lightweight teams are typically considered to be among the top teams in the country in rowing, having won numerous national championships in recent years. For a time the Harvard lightweight men's team had one of the "oddest" streaks in collegiate sports, having won the national championships in every odd year ...
The Goldthwait Cup is awarded to the winner of the annual triangular regatta among the varsity lightweight eight-oared crews of Harvard, Princeton, and Yale.The trophy was presented in 1926 by Henry Kimball Prince (Harvard Class of 1924) — captain of the first Harvard lightweight varsity eight to defeat both Princeton and Yale — and made retroactive to reflect the H-Y-P regatta results ...
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The first lightweight events were added to the World Championships in 1974 for men and 1985 for women. [1] Lightweight rowing was added to the Olympics in 1996 but this came under threat in 2002 when the Programme Commission of the IOC recommended that, outside combat sports and weightlifting, there should not be weight category events.