Metropolitan Regatta Trophies
The Metropolitan Amateur Regatta
was held for the first time on 14 August 1866. Of the eight events offered, four
had the famous challenge trophies which today still attract crews and scullers
of the highest standards to claim their prized medal and join the list of their
famous predecessors as winners of:-
-
The Metropolitan Champion Cup
for Mens Elite Eights
-
The Thames Cup for Mens Elite
Coxless Fours
-
The London Cup for Mens Elite
Single Scullers
-
The Metropolitan Challenge Cup
for Mens Senior 3 Eights
The entry details for the first
three of these stated that "The above events are open to the world."
The London Cup forms part of Scullings "triple crown" in conjunction
with the Diamond Challenge Sculls and the Wingfield Sculls.
The Committee of Management bought
and accepted other challenge trophies after the initial four cups:-
- 1901 Old Barnes Challenge Cup for Mens Senior
1 Eights
- 1908 Horton Cup for Men's Senior 1 Coxless
Fours
- 1929 Forster Challenge Cup for Mens Senior 2
Eights
- 1930 Ampthill Challenge Cup for Mens Elite
Coxless Pairs
- 1930 Layton Challenge Cup - transferred to
Mens Elite Coxed Fours in the 1960s
- 1932 Old Goring Challenge Cup for Mens Senior
2 Coxless Fours
- 1935 Tideway Challenge Cup for Mens Senior 1
Single Sculls
- c.1950 Freeman Cup for Mens Senior 3 Single
Sculls
- c.1960 The Doggett Cobb Memorial Trophy was
presented to the "most successful club" at the Regatta.
- 1994 Peter Coni Challenge Cup for Mens
Lightweight Eights
- 1994 Charles Dimont Trophy for Mens Junior
Eights
- 1996 The Di Ellis Trophy for Womens Elite
Eights
- 1996 Sidney Swann Challenge Cup for Womens
Elite Coxless Fours
- 1996 Earl of Iveagh Cup for Womens Elite
Single Sculls
- 1998 The Secretarys Cup for Mens Senior 2
Single Sculls
The Committee was particularly
grateful to Putney Town Regatta in 1998 for making available some of their fine
old trophies on long-term loan to the MET:-
- Samuel Samuel Challenge Cup Mens Junior 16
Eights
- Thamesfield Trophy Mens Novice Single Sculls
- Walter Morrison Challenge Cup Womens Senior 1
Eights
- Matt Wood Challenge Bowl Womens Senior 3
Coxed Fours
- John West Trophy Womens Elite Quad Sculls
- Coronation Bowl Womens Senior 1 Coxless Pairs
- Stratton Cup Womens Elite Double Sculls
- Beatrice Marie Winter Trophy Women’s
Lightweight Elite Single Sculls
The committee would also like to thank all those
who have donated our more recent trophies:-
- Sun Life Cup for Womens Senior 1 Eights
- Schuster Sculls for Womens Senior 1 Double
Sculls
- Mitchell Cup for Senior 1 Coxed Fours
- Poke Cup for Senior 1 Coxless Pairs
- Anne Littleton Rose Bowl for Womens Senior 3
Coxed Fours
