Publication date:
2019/06/08
On 7 June, another year of the academic champion title - University Eights - took place at the riverside of Rašínovo nábřeží. The 8+ rowing boats with Cox (helmsman) composed of students of individual Czech and foreign universities presented themselves at an unconventional distance of 1,000 meters. The race took place within the Primatorky rowing race and the CTU team managed to defend the primacy for the seventh time in a row out of nine. The CTU male crew: Jan Hájek, Albert Caban, Jakub Paroulek, Martin Basl, Jiří Kopáč, Vit Šantrůček, Vojtěch Dědek, Jan Zavadil and Tereza Andrlová as the Cox.
The University Eights is the youngest race in the Primatorky rowing race program and, as the name suggests, it is a competition for academic crews. Since 2011, they have been organizing Friday's pre-program for the whole weekend. Originally intended for Prague universities, they were open to all crews after the great interest of other Czech and foreign universities. Compared to Primatorky, they compete on a half kilometer track omitting the Visegrad turn.
Photo, source: www.osmy.cz
