May Bumps 2018

The May Bumps 2018 were a set of rowing races at Cambridge University from Wednesday 13 June 2018 to Saturday 16 June 2018. The event was run as a bumps race and was the 127th set of races in the series of May Bumps which have been held annually in mid-June in this form since 1887.

The 2018 May Bumps saw the first ever quadruple overbump in the men's divisions, which involved Magdalene IV bumping Lady Margaret IV on the second day, having started nine stations (21½ lengths) behind them.^[1]^[2]

Head of the River crews[edit]

Lady Margaret men rowed over on all four days to retain the headship they won in 2016.^[1]

Jesus women rowed over on all four days to retain the headship they won in 2017.^[3]

Highest 2nd VIIIs[edit]

Lady Margaret II rowed over for three days before being bumped by Wolfson on the final day, finishing as the highest placed men's second VIII at 17th in the first division.^[1]

Despite being bumped on every day of the campaign, Jesus II retained their status as the highest placed women's second VIII, finishing 3rd overall in the W2 division. Jesus were bumped by Homerton, St. Catharine's, Trinity Hall, and King's.^[3]

Links to races in other years[edit]

Preceding year	Current year	Following year
May Bumps 2017	May Bumps 2018	May Bumps 2019
Lent Bumps 2017	Lent Bumps 2018	Lent Bumps 2019

Bumps Charts[edit]

Below are the bumps charts for all 5 men's and all 4 women's divisions, with the men's event on the left and women's event on the right. The bumps chart shows the progress of every crew over all four days of the racing. To follow the progress of any particular crew, find the crew's name on the left side of the chart and follow the line to the end-of-the-week finishing position on the right of the chart.

This chart may not be displayed correctly if you are using a large font size on your browser. A simple way to check is to see that the first horizontal bold line, marking the boundary between divisions, lies between positions 17 and 18.

Pos	Crew	Crew	Pos	Crew	Crew	Pos
1	Lady Margaret	Lady Margaret	1	Jesus	Jesus	1
2	Clare	Clare	2	Emmanuel	Newnham	2
3	Caius	Pembroke	3	Caius	Emmanuel	3
4	Pembroke	Caius	4	Newnham	Downing	4
5	Downing	Magdalene	5	Downing	Caius	5
6	Peterhouse	Downing	6	Lady Margaret	Clare	6
7	Emmanuel	Emmanuel	7	Clare	Lady Margaret	7
8	Jesus	1st & 3rd Trinity	8	Christ's	Girton	8
9	Magdalene	Jesus	9	Girton	Churchill	9
10	1st & 3rd Trinity	Peterhouse	10	1st & 3rd Trinity	1st & 3rd Trinity	10
11	Selwyn	Queens'	11	Peterhouse	Pembroke	11
12	Queens'	King's	12	Churchill	Christ's	12
13	Robinson	Robinson	13	Fitzwilliam	Fitzwilliam	13
14	Christ's	Christ's	14	Pembroke	Homerton	14
15	King's	Selwyn	15	Queens'	Peterhouse	15
16	Lady Margaret II	Wolfson	16	Jesus II	St. Catharine's	16
17	Churchill	Lady Margaret II	17	Homerton	Queens'	17
18	Girton	Girton	18	Magdalene	Trinity Hall	18
19	St. Catharine's	Churchill	19	St. Catharine's	King's	19
20	Wolfson	Homerton	20	Trinity Hall	Jesus II	20
21	Homerton	Trinity Hall	21	King's	Darwin	21
22	Fitzwilliam	St. Catharine's	22	Newnham II	Magdalene	22
23	St Edmund's	Hughes Hall	23	Murray Edwards	Lucy Cavendish	23
24	Hughes Hall	St Edmund's	24	Darwin	Wolfson	24
25	1st & 3rd Trinity	Fitzwilliam	25	Lucy Cavendish	Newnham II	25
26	Corpus Christi	Corpus Christi	26	Selwyn	Emmanuel II	26
27	Caius II	Caius II	27	Pembroke II	Murray Edwards	27
28	Downing II	Sidney Sussex	28	Wolfson	Sidney Sussex	28
29	Jesus II	Pembroke II	29	Robinson	Selwyn	29
30	Sidney Sussex	Darwin	30	Emmanuel II	Pembroke II	30
31	1st & 3rd Trinity II	Downing II	31	Sidney Sussex	Downing II	31
32	Pembroke II	Jesus II	32	Downing II	Corpus Christi	32
33	Darwin	Emmanuel II	33	Corpus Christi	Robinson	33
34	Clare II	1st & 3rd Trinity II	34	Queens' II	Lady Margaret II	34
35	Queens' II	Clare II	35	Clare II	Queens' II	35
36	St. Catharine's II	Christ's II	36	Caius II	Caius II	36
37	Lady Margaret III	Queens' II	37	Lady Margaret II	Clare II	37
38	Churchill II	Robinson II	38	Newnham III	Trinity Hall II	38
39	Peterhouse II	St. Catharine's II	39	Trinity Hall II	Hughes Hall	39
40	Emmanuel II	Magdalene II	40	St Edmund's	St Edmund's	40
41	Robinson II	Lady Margaret III	41	Murray Edwards II	St. Catharine's II	41
42	Trinity Hall II	Trinity Hall II	42	Hughes Hall	Newnham III	42
43	Magdalene II	Peterhouse II	43	Christ's II	Emmanuel III	43
44	Queens' III	Jesus III	44	St. Catharine's II	Pembroke III	44
45	Fitzwilliam II	Churchill II	45	Emmanuel III	Murray Edwards II	45
46	Churchill II	Queens' III	46	Jesus III	Darwin II	46
47	Jesus III	Fitzwilliam II	47	Pembroke III	Christ's II	47
48	Selwyn II	Emmanuel III	48	King's II	Homerton II	48
49	1st & 3rd Trinity III	Clare III	49	Darwin II	Jesus III	49
50	Clare III	Wolfson II	50	Clare III	Clare III	50
51	Corpus Christi II	Selwyn II	51	Homerton II	King's II	51
52	Emmanuel III	Caius III	52	Fitzwilliam II	Lucy Cavendish II	52
53	Girton II	1st & 3rd Trinity III	53	Queens' III	St. Catharine's III	53
54	Darwin II	Clare Hall	54	Lucy Cavendish II	Queens' III	54
55	Caius III	Corpus Christi II	55	Lady Margaret III	Caius III	55
56	King's II	Hughes Hall II	56	St. Catharine's III	Fitzwilliam II	56
57	Hughes Hall II	King's II	57	Magdalene II	Sidney Sussex II	57
58	Wolfson II	Pembroke III	58	Caius III	Clare IV	58
59	Anglia Ruskin	Darwin II	59	Sidney Sussex II	Lady Margaret III	59
60	Clare Hall	Anglia Ruskin	60	Clare IV	Trinity Hall III	60
61	St. Catharine's III	Girton II	61	Emmanuel IV	Magdalene II	61
62	Pembroke III	Sidney Sussex II	62	Darwin III	Pembroke IV	62
63	Sidney Sussex II	St Edmund's II	63	Pembroke IV	Darwin III	63
64	St Edmund's II	Trinity Hall III	64	Trinity Hall III	Trinity Hall IV	64
65	1st & 3rd Trinity IV	St. Catharine's III	65	Wolfson II	St. Catharine's IV	65
66	Homerton II	Churchill III	66	Queens' IV	Emmanuel IV	66
67	Magdalene III	Homerton II	67	Trinity Hall IV	Wolfson II	67
68	Churchill III	1st & 3rd Trinity IV	68	Homerton III	Queens' IV	68
69	Queens' IV	Downing III	69	St. Catharine's IV	Homerton III	69
70	Trinity Hall III	Christ's III	70
71	Downing III	Magdalene III	71
72	Christ's III	Jesus IV	72
73	Jesus IV	Queens' IV	73
74	Clare IV	Magdalene IV	74
75	Pembroke IV	Clare IV	75
76	Lady Margaret IV	Emmanuel IV	76
77	Corpus Christi III	Corpus Christi III	77
78	Lady Margaret V	Jesus V	78
79	Emmanuel IV	Pembroke IV	79
80	Queens' V	Fitzwilliam III	80
81	Trinity Hall IV	Lady Margaret V	81
82	Jesus V	Queens' V	82
83	Fitzwilliam III	Lady Margaret IV	83
84	Trinity Hall V	Trinity Hall IV	84
85	Magdalene IV	Trinity Hall V	85