Editing Torpids (section)

{{Short description|Series of rowing races at the University of Oxford}}
{{Use British English|date=March 2019}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2019}}
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|colspan="2" style="text-align: center; font-size: 130%;background: #002147;color:white"|'''Torpids'''
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|colspan="2" style="text-align: center; font-size: 100%; background: #002147; color:white "|''Head of the River''
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| style="text-align: center"| Wolfson Men<ref name="Historical Results Torpids">{{Citation | last = Oxford University Rowing Clubs | title = Historical Results Torpids | url= https://ourcs.co.uk/racing/historical-results/torpids-historical-results/| access-date = 16 Feb 2022}}</ref>
| style="text-align: center"| Pembroke Women<ref name="Historical Results Torpids"/>
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|style="width:25%; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;"|[[File:Wolfson College Boat Club Rowing Blade.svg|150px]]
|style="width:25%; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;"|[[File:Pembroke College Oxford Boat Club Rowing Blade.svg|150px]]
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|'''Highest 2{{sup|nd}} Torpid (Men)'''
|[[Wolfson College Boat Club (Oxford)|Wolfson]] (Division III)<ref name="Historical Results Torpids"/>
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|'''Highest 2{{sup|nd}} Torpid (Women)'''
|[[Wolfson College Boat Club (Oxford)|Wolfson]] (Division III)<ref name="Historical Results Torpids"/>
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|'''Course'''
|[[The Isis|Isis (upstream)]]
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|'''Course length'''
|c. 1800m 
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|colspan="2" style="text-align: center; font-size: 80%; background: #002147; color:white "|'''Note:''' Last Torpids 26{{sup|th}} February – 1{{sup|st}} March 2025<ref name="Historical Results Torpids"/>
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| colspan="2" style="text-align: center"|{{URL|http://www.ourcs.co.uk/racing/|OURCs – Torpids}}
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'''Torpids''' is one of two series of [[bumps race|bumping races]], a type of [[rowing (sport)|rowing]] race, held yearly at [[Oxford University]]; the other is [[Eights Week]].<ref>{{cite web| url=https://archive.org/stream/oxfordrowinghist00sheruoft#page/42/mode/2up | title=The Torpids | location=Oxford and London | work=Oxford Rowing: A History of Boat-Racing at Oxford from the Earliest Times | year=1900 | pages=43–49 | access-date=11 April 2012 | last=Sherwood | first=W. E. }}</ref> More than 130 men's and women's crews race for their colleges in twelve divisions: six each of men's and women's; almost 1,200 participants in total. The racing takes place on the [[Isis (river)|Isis]] (part of the [[River Thames]]), usually in the 7th week of [[Hilary Term]] on four successive days from Wednesday to Saturday (around the start of March).