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{{Short description|Series of rowing races at the University of Oxford}} {{Use British English|date=December 2015}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2015}} {|class="infobox" style="width: 20em; font-size: 95%;" |- |colspan="2" style="text-align: center; font-size: 130%;background: #002147;color:white"|'''Summer Eights''' |- |colspan="2" style="text-align: center; font-size: 100%; background: #002147; color:white "|'''Head of the River''' |- | style="text-align: center"| [[Wolfson College Boat Club (Oxford)|Wolfson College Men]]<ref name=Eights_2022>{{Citation | last = Anu Dudhia | title = Eights 2022 | url= http://eodg.atm.ox.ac.uk/user/dudhia/rowing/bumps/e2022/| access-date = 28 May 2022}}</ref> | style="text-align: center"| [[Pembroke College Boat Club (Oxford)|Pembroke College Women]]<ref name="Eights_2022"/> |- |style="width:25%; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;"|[[File:Wolfson College Boat Club Rowing Blade.svg|150x150px]] |style="width:25%; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;"|[[File:Pembroke College Oxford Boat Club Rowing Blade.svg|150x150px]] |- |'''Highest 2{{sup|nd}} Eight (Men)''' |[[Oriel College Boat Club|Oriel College]] (Division II) <ref name="Eights_2022"/> |- |'''Highest 2{{sup|nd}} Eight (Women)''' |[[University College Boat Club (Oxford)|University College]] (Division III) <ref name="Eights_2022"/> |- |'''Course''' |[[The Isis|Isis (upstream)]] |- |'''Course length''' |c. 1800m |- |- |colspan="2" style="text-align: center; font-size: 80%; background: #002147; color:white "|'''Note:''' Last Eights 28{{sup|th}} May β 31{{sup|st}} May 2025 |- | colspan="2" style="text-align: center"|{{URL|https://ourcs.co.uk/racing/|OURCs - Summer Eights}} |} [[File:Eights Week May 2009 - geograph.org.uk - 1591794.jpg|thumb|Summer Eights May 2009 Men's Division 1, showing racing between (from front) [[Keble College, Oxford|Keble College]], [[New College, Oxford|New College]], [[St Edmund Hall, Oxford|St Edmund Hall]]]] '''Eights Week''', also known as '''Summer Eights''', is a four-day [[regatta]] of [[bumps race]]s which constitutes the [[University of Oxford]]'s main [[Colleges of the University of Oxford|intercollegiate]] [[Sport rowing|rowing]] event of the year. The regatta takes place in May of each year, from the Wednesday to the Saturday of the fifth week of [[Trinity Term]]. Men's and women's [[Eight (rowing)|eight]]s compete in separate divisions for their colleges.
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