The 1977 National Rowing Championships was the sixth edition of the National Championships, held from 15–17 July 1977 at the National Water Sports Centre in Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham. London won the John Player Trophy (men's Victor Ludorum) and Thames won the Charlton Cup (women's Victor Ludorum).
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The 1974 National Rowing Championships was the third edition of the National Championships, held from 20–21 July 1974 at the National Water Sports Centre in Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham. There was a record entry of 330 crews. Leander won the John Player Trophy (men's Victor Ludorum) and Civil Service won the Charlton Cup (women's Victor Ludorum).
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In 2020 the title sponsorship was taken by Fabergé. The Roehampton takes place in late August to avoid overlapping with HPA Victor Ludorum tournaments played at the same handicap.
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House competitions include sports and academic subjects. The house which accumulates the most merits on these combined factors at the end of every academic year is awarded with the Victor Ludorum trophy.
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The club won the Victor Ludorum at the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) Championships every year from 2004 to 2013. 2014 broke the 10 year hold on the top position, with Durham coming second to ULBC. That year also saw the addition of separate Women's and Men's trophies, with Durham taking the Women's VL and coming 5th in the Men's. 2015 saw DUBC regain top spot, taking both the overall and Women's Victor Ludorum and ranking 5th in the Men's.
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The club was founded in 1839. The club were the Victor Ludorum champions at the 2014 British Rowing Junior Championships, 2016 British Rowing Junior Championships, 2017 British Rowing Junior Championships and 2018 British Rowing Junior Championships.
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Victor Ludorum was ridden in all of his starts as a two-year-old by Mickael Barzalona. The colt made his debut in an event for previously unraced juveniles over 1600 metres at Longchamp Racecourse on 1 September. Starting the 3.5/1 joint- favourite he took the lead in the last 400 metres and drew away to win "comfortably" by three and a half lengths from Twist with Mkfancy taking third place. Thirteen days later Victor Ludorum started 2/5 favourite in a six- runner field for the Prix des Aigles over the same distance at Chantilly Racecourse.
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Les Grainge was born in Keighley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, he attended Woodhouse Grove School, in Apperley Bridge, where he was Head Prefect and Victor Ludorum twice, and captain of the cricket, rugby union and lacrosse teams, he died aged 72 in Keswick, Cumbria, England.
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Victor Ludorum (foaled 3 April 2017) is a British-bred, French-trained Thoroughbred racehorse. He was one of the best juvenile colts in Europe in 2019, when he was undefeated in three starts including the Group 1 Prix Jean- Luc Lagardère. He went on to win the Poule d'Essai des Poulains in 2020.
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Seventeen winners of the modern Prix de Fontainebleau have achieved victory in the Poule d'Essai des Poulains. The first was Neptunus in 1964, and the most recent was Brametot in 2017. The most recent Poule d'Essai des Poulains winner to run in the Prix de Fontainebleau was Victor Ludorum, fourth in 2020.
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Sandifer was born in 1908 to Henry Stephen Sandifer, a general practitioner in Kensington, London, and Evelyn Lee. He attended Mill Hill School. Sandifer was a talented athlete; he was captain of the rugby team and name victor ludorum. He studied law for a brief period before deciding to change to medicine.
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Team Durham have won a large number of BUCS National Championships in recent years, including W Futsal, M Lacrosse, M Rugby Union and W Hockey. Additionally Durham University Boat Club held the BUCS rowing Victor Ludorum for ten years consecutively from the start of the regatta in 2004 until 2013 and regained it in 2015.
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David Rowe-Beddoe is the son of Sydney Rowe-Beddoe and Dolan Evans. Rowe-Beddoe's early education was at The Cathedral School, Llandaff near Cardiff in Wales where he won the Victor Ludorum in 1951. His education continued at Stowe School at Buckingham, Buckinghamshire in England. He also attended St John's College, Cambridge, UK.Burkes Peerage, Rowe-Beddoe.
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On 5 July at Chantilly, Victor Ludorum started the 2/1 favourite for the Prix du Jockey Club over 2100 metres. He raced towards the rear of the sixteen-runner field he made steady progress in the straight but was unable to reach the lead and came home third behind Mishriff and The Summit, beaten two lengths by the winner.
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Durham University Boat Club (DUBC) is the Rowing club of Durham University in England. In recent years, DUBC has won a number of medals at the Henley Royal Regatta and Henley Women's Regatta (see below), and won the BUCS Victor Ludorum for ten consecutive years (2004-2013). The club has also produced a number of athletes for the Great Britain rowing team. (see also Olympic Representation below).
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The townsfolk of Hitchin were excluded from the event, with only parents and invited guests being spectators to the event. In 1931 the Junior Victor Ludorum award was first awarded and the Sports Day became Sports Days, with general races on the first days and inter-house events on a second day. This was reverted the following year. During the Second World War, the Sports Day was run as per normal.
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Victor Ludorum is a bay colt with no white markings bred in England by his owners Godolphin. He was sent into training with André Fabre at Chantilly in France. He was from the eleventh crop of foals sired by Shamardal whose wins included the Dewhurst Stakes, Poule d'Essai des Poulains, Prix du Jockey Club and St. James's Palace Stakes. His other offspring have included Able Friend, Mukhadram, Lope de Vega and Blue Point.
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Victor Ludorum (or Victrix Ludorum) is Latin for "the winner of the games." It is usually a trophy presented to the most successful team, club, or competitor at a sports event. It is common at rowing regattas and was traditional at some British state and public school sports days. It is usually presented to the athlete/competitor who has won the most events or who has accumulated the most points through competing in many events.
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Noble was the son of Alfred "Bunny" Noble and Olive Noble (née Earle), a bricklayer and a school cook respectively. He was born in a small village near Hull. He was the first child in his school to pass the 11+ exam, and to celebrate his achievement the whole school got a day off. He attended Hull Grammar School and was a keen athlete, winning the Victor Ludorum in his senior years.
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Baker was born in Droxford, Hampshire, the son of Dr Thomas Baker and his wife, Sophia Jane Southey. Baker attended Lancing College between 1861 and 1867, where he played both football and cricket for the school. He was considered the "outstanding athlete of his generation" at Lancing College and his sporting abilities resulted in him twice being crowned victor ludorum by the college. In 1867, Baker went up to Queen's College, Oxford.
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In 1914 Fleming attended Durnford School, a preparatory school on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset. He did not enjoy his time at Durnford; he suffered unpalatable food, physical hardship and bullying. Eton College: Fleming's alma mater from 1921 to 1927 In 1921 Fleming enrolled at Eton College. Not a high achiever academically, he excelled at athletics and held the title of Victor Ludorum ("Winner of the Games") for two years between 1925 and 1927.
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In 1908 he also participated in the 110 metre hurdles competition but was eliminated in the first round. Four years later in 1912 he finished fifth in the 110 metre hurdles competition. Powell was an all-round sportsman who captained the school fifteen at Rugby and was honoured as Victor Ludorum for athletics for two consecutive years. He played rackets, reaching the final of the public schools competition in 1903, and was a member of his school gymnastic eight.
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Angus Groom (born 16 June 1992) is a British rower. He competed in the men's quadruple sculls event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. He began rowing at Durham University. From 2010 to 2013 he read for a degree in Natural Sciences as a member of Hatfield College. In 2013, he was named as Team Durham’s Sportsman of the Year after winning all three BUCS Championship sculling events and helping Durham claim the Victor Ludorum for a tenth successive year.
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Simpson was born in Australia to a New Zealand mother and English father, both rugby enthusiasts. He has one younger brother called Michael. Simpson was educated at St Benedict's School, Ealing, which he represented at both rugby and cricket and where he was honoured as Victor Ludorum for athletics three times, at junior, middle and senior school levels. Outside school he played cricket for Ealing Cricket Club and played with Hugo Ellis and Dominic Waldouck, in the youth team at Richmond Rugby Club.
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He graduated from Debsirin School and continued his education at Dulwich College in England where he played rugby, tennis, and squash. Running many races a day, young Prince Bhisadej finally won the Victor Ludorum gold medal (Latin for 'winner of the games') at the annual Thai students in the UK meeting. During World War II, he joined the British Army in 1943 as a soldier and British spy. He was trained to walk up the hills with a rifle and heavy back pack.
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Brocklehurst was born at Knapton Hall, in Knapton, Norfolk. His father was a Canadian rancher. He was educated at Bradfield College, where he played football, tennis, squash and athletics for the school, and was captain of cricket. He was Victor Ludorum at the public school sports event held at White City in 1938, winning the discus and the high jump. During the Second World War, he served initially in the 10th (Home Defence) Battalion of The Devonshire Regiment, spending time on coastal defences in East Anglia.
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The club was the founding club of the Roses Varsity race with The University of York Boat Club. This originated in 1965 when the Vice-Chancellor of York suggested a boat race between the two institutions. This varsity race developed into the Roses Competition, which sees scores of York and Lancaster athletes compete across a wide range of sports, alternating the venue between the universities annually. In 2009 the Victor Ludorum of the competition was York, taking 12 points of a possible 20 in the rowing events.
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Wycombe House Cricket Club is a Clubmark cricket club having the national accreditation awarded by Sport England. These standards include safeguarding and protecting children and young people and club management. 700px The Wycombe House Cricket Clubs under 13's (Colts) were National Champions in 1987, 1992 and 1999. in 1992English Cricket Board Roll of Honour 1987, 1992 and 1999 the Colts had a clean sweep winning the Area and County Leagues at all age groups, becoming the first winners of the County Victor Ludorum Cup, which they again won in 1999 and 2000.
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Medals were engraved with Hitchin Grammar School-The War 1915 and distributed by the Lieutenant Colonel of the Scottish Signals Service. After the War inter-house competition became the main focus of the Sports Day, with the Times Shield becoming the main prize and prizes of small cups and medals awarded instead, bought by cash donations. In 1924 the Victor Ludorum Cup was first awarded, to the boy who gained the most points on Sports Day. In 1926 T.E. Jones changed Sports Day to the first Wednesday, and later a mid- June Saturday.
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Mulder was born in Randfontein and grew up in Randfontein and Cape Town. He completed his secondary education at Riebeeck High School in Randfontein, where he was head boy and Victor Ludorum in athletics. The son of former Cabinet minister Connie Mulder, Pieter first worked as a lecturer at the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, before being promoted to head of the university's communications department. He represented the town of Potchefstroom in Parliament for nearly thirty years from 1988-2017, initially elected as an MP for the Conservative Party (KP).
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After moving to Oranje Farm, in the Middelburg District, in 1950 she bought the stud stallion Boaz, a pure bred Arabian imported from England. In 1953 she won the Victor Ludorum for the most points at the National Arabian Horse Championships of South Africa held that year at Middelburg. At Oranje she also bred several champion SA Saddle Horses and Boerperde which were winners at their respective National Championship Horse Shows. She died in Port Alfred on 27 August 2011 – refer "Talk of the Town" newspaper dated 30 September 2011.
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Ian Smith was born in 1919, the son of British settlers in Selukwe, Southern Rhodesia. He attended Chaplin School in Gwelo, where he was head prefect, recipient of the Victor Ludorum in athletics, captain of the school teams in cricket, rugby union and tennis, and successful academically. After graduating in 1937, he attended Rhodes University College in Grahamstown, South Africa, which was often attended by Rhodesian students, partly because Rhodesia then had no university of its own. Enrolling at the start of 1938, Smith read for a Bachelor of Commerce degree.
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At the end of 2019 Gestut Schlenderhan closed their private training facility. For the 2020 season Alson moved into the ownership of Corinna Baronin Von Ullmann and was transferred to the stable of André Fabre at Chantilly in France. The colt made his seasonal debut in the Poule d'Essai des Poulains which, owing to the COVID-19 outbreak was run at Deauville on 1 June. Ridden by Vincent Cheminaud, he started at odds of 8/1 and kept on well in the straight without ever looking likely to win and came home third behind Victor Ludorum and The Summit.
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The four siblings' interest in aviation may have been sparked by their mother, who bought a World War I surplus Sopwith Pup fighter for £5 at a Croydon auction, and parked it in the back garden of the family house for use as a plaything by her children.Ross (2000) p.22 Noël Agazarian was schooled at Dulwich College, where he was a member of the first XV Rugby union team, captained both the swimming and boxing teams and was awarded the Victor Ludorum for sporting achievement. He then went on to Wadham College, Oxford in 1935.
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National titles continued to be won, and in 2007 the club had its last Henley win thus far, with P. Clapp taking the Fawley Challenge Cup in a composite with Henley R.C.. Since the win, junior quads from Maidenhead reached the Fawley semi-finals twice (2013 & 2017) and the final in 2018. In 2015 the club won the Victor Ludorum at the British Junior Rowing Championships. Countless national titles/medals and GB Junior representations decorate many of the club's current and alumni members. In recent years wins at Henley Women's Regatta and the Schools Head of the River were also achieved.
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Neil Anthony Gardner (born 8 December 1974) is a former Jamaican athlete who specialized in the 400 meters hurdles event.IAAF Biography As a junior athlete (under 20 years of age) Gardner found much success at the Inter-Secondary School Sports Association National Boys’ Championships where he was awarded the Victor Ludorum (Champion Athlete) three years in a row, 1991–1993. Gardner also excelled in the CARIFTA Games, winning several medals between 1989 and 1993. In 1993, Gardner was awarded a track and field scholarship to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan to compete in the Jumps and Hurdles.
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After being restrained towards the rear of the field he moved up to dispute the lead in the straight and went clear in the last 100 metres to win by three and a half lengths from Dexter. On 6 October Victor Ludorum was stepped up in class and started the 1.8/1 favourite for the Group 1 Prix Jean- Luc Lagardère on very soft ground at Longchamp. His six opponents included Armory (winner of the Futurity Stakes), Ecrivain (Prix des Chênes), Kenway (Prix La Rochette) and Alson. Barzalona settled the favourite in fourth place behind Alson, Armory and Ecrivain before switching to the outside to make his challenge in the straight.
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After being restrained in the early stages, Alson produced a sustained late run to overtake the favourite 100 metres from the finish and won by two lengths. Frankie Dettori took the ride when Alson was stepped up to the highest class for the Group 1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère over 1600 metres on very soft ground at Longchamp Racecourse on 6 October and started the 8.7/1 fifth choice in a seven-runner field. The colt exceeded expectations as he led from the start until the last 100 metres and then kept on well after being headed by the favourite Victor Ludorum to finish second, beaten three quarters of a length.
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In 1948 the javelin and discus throwing were introduced to the event, followed by the shot put in 1952 and hop, step and jump in 1958. Even hammer throwing was tried, but the danger of the event (because of the lack of a cage) forced its stoppage. In 1955, after the arrival of M.G. Dolden in 1953, Sports Day was moved to May, a Victor Ludorum Cup was introduced for the intermediate years (14–16), the novelty races were scrapped completely, the tug-of-war was dropped as the finale and the Hitchin Town Band stopped playing at the event, making it school-only for the first time since 1899.
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The other four were Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Kim Philby, and Sir Anthony Blunt, the Queen's art curator. The media and press were split between positive and negative reaction to The Fifth Man. The Irish Times reviewer Kieran Fagan said: ‘This book by an Australian journalist is very unusual... Few writers on espionage achieve the page-turning fluency of Roland Perry.’‘Victor Ludorum,’ by Kiernan Fagan, The Irish Times; 10 November 1994. The Weekend Australian reviewer Richard Hall said ‘it only takes a couple of phone calls to establish that the Rothschild operation had been pretty small beer for a long time.’Richard Hall, The Weekend Australian, 14 January 1995.
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Alison Brading was born in Bexhill-on-Sea and educated at The Maynard School, Exeter, where she excelled academically and in sport, winning the Victor ludorum. While visiting her parents in Nigeria as a teenager, she acquired poliomyelitis, the side effects of which she lived with throughout her life. She was only saved by an iron lung, introduced to Nigeria by her father Brigadier Norman Brading. An 18-month period of recovery in the Wingfield Hospital (Oxford; now Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre) from the acute phase of her illness meant that she was unable to accept a position to study Medicine at the University of Oxford.
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The Club attends the majority of local races in Newcastle, Stockton, York, Chester-le-Street, Hexham and Wansbeck, as well as other races in Durham such as the Novice Cup, the Senate Cup, Durham Small Boats' Head, Durham City Regatta and Admiral's Regatta. In the summer of 2008, both the Men's and Women's VIIIs tasted success at a number of regattas throughout the North, including the Durham Regatta, helping to win the title of Victor Ludorum for both Durham Regatta and Admirals Regatta, a college event organised by Durham College Rowing. The Men's squad qualified for Henley Royal Regatta in 2003 and in 2006, and has taken part regularly in the annual Head of the River Race in London.
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After attending the Selukwe primary school, he boarded at Chaplin School in Gwelo, about away. In his final year at Chaplin, he was head prefect captain of the school teams in cricket, rugby and tennis, recipient of the Victor Ludorum in athletics, and the school's outstanding rifle marksman. "I was an absolute lunatic about sport," he later said; "I concede, looking back, that I should have devoted much more time to my school work and less to sport." All the same, his grades were good enough to win a place at Rhodes University College, in Grahamstown in South Africa, then often attended by Rhodesian students—partly because Rhodesia then had no university of its own, and partly because of the common eponymous association with Cecil Rhodes.
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Under his new ownership, Persian War continued his winning ways with a six-length win the Challow Hurdle at Nebwury, a dogged half length victory in the Walton Hurdle at Kempton, and a seven-length triumph in the Victor Ludorum Juvenile Hurdle (then one of the most prestigious juvenile contests) at Haydock. He suffered a defeat at Kempton in the Friary Meux Gold Cup, when he misjudged a hurdle and struck his head on the ground, losing two teeth and gashing his tongue. Despite this, he finished third to Acrania and Te Fou. Persian War confirmed his status as the best juvenile hurdler around with a win in the Triumph Hurdle at Cheltenham in April, where he reversed placings with Te Fou.
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Prince Albert Challenge Cup Winners 2014 Since 1996 Newcastle students have been competing and medalling at the U23, Senior and University World Championships and other International Competitions such European Universities Championships, Duisburg Regatta, Memorial Paolo d'Aloja Regatta and Essen Regatta, with victories as well in UK at National Championships, Marlow Regatta, pennants in the Head of the River Race and Women's Eights Head of the River Race, wins at Henley Women's Regatta and at Henley Royal Regatta. The Club won the Victor Ludorum at the British University Sports Association (BUCS) Regatta in 2016 and 2018, having been runners-up in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2012. The 2008 BUCS Regatta saw NUBC winning 4 out of 7 heavyweight events. NUBC came third in V.L. in 2010.
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Mkfancy made his debut in an event for previously unraced juveniles over 1600 metres at Longchamp Racecourse on 1 September when he was ridden by Theo Bachelot. Starting at odds of 13/1 in an eleven-runner field he came home third behind Victor Ludorum and Twist, beaten five and a quarter lengths from Twist by the winner. Maxime Guyon took the ride when the colt contested a maiden race on very soft ground at Saint-Cloud Racecourse 26 days later and recorded his first success as he won by three lengths from thirteen opponents at odds of 3.1/1. Bachelot was back in the saddle when Mkfancy was stepped up in class and distance for the Group 1 Critérium de Saint-Cloud over 2000 metres on heavy ground on 26 October.
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On 5 July Mishriff was sent to France and started at odds of 7.5/1 for the Group 1 Prix du Jockey Club over 2000 metres at Chantilly Racecourse. Owing to the quarantine restrictions, which meant that Egan would have been required to self-isolate after returning to Britain, Gosden opted to employ the locally based jockey Ioritz Mendazabal who had previously won the race on Vision d'Etat in 2008. The other fifteen runners included Victor Ludorum, Gold Trip (Prix Greffulhe), Pao Alto (Prix La Force), The Summit (Prix de Fontainebleau), Ecrivain (Prix des Chênes), Chachnak (Prix de Guiche), Ocean Antlantique (Prix de Suresnes), Pisanello (Prix Omnium II) and Fort Myers (Star Appeal Stakes). After racing just behind the leaders Mishriff was switched to the outside to obtain a clear run in the straight.
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The Pentathlon (consisting of running the length of the stadium, jumping, throwing the spear, throwing the discus and wrestling) was introduced for the first time at the 18th Olympiad in 708 BC and held a position of unique importance in the Games. It was considered to be the climax, with the winner ranked as "Victor Ludorum". Admiration for the Ancient Pentathlon was fully shared by the founder of the Modern Olympics, Baron Pierre de Coubertin and from 1909 he tried to have the event re- introduced into the Olympic programme. Pentathlon's moment came two years later at the 14th session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Budapest (HUN) when, as the Baron stated: "the Holy Ghost of sport illuminated my colleagues and they accepted a competition to which I attach great importance".
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Liddell is the only student in the history of the school to have been both Dux (academic champion) and Victor Ludorum (sporting champion), also being awarded the prize for the best player in the rugby First XV, a side that won the Moascar cup. Chris and his brother John Liddell played senior club rugby for the Teachers Rugby Club in Auckland, in support of a former master from Mt. Albert Grammar School and senior coach of the Teachers Club, the legendary Eugene Cheriton. He represented Auckland rugby at the Under 18 and the Under 21 level. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree with honors from the University of Auckland completing a four year degree in three years, and a Master of Philosophy degree from Worcester College, Oxford University.
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On 11 May, the day on which French racing restarted after the COVID-19 outbreak Victor Ludorum began his second campaign in the Group 3 Prix de Fontainebleau over 1600 metres on very soft ground at Longchamp. He started the 2/5 favourite but after racing in second place he was unable to make any progress in the straight and came home third behind The Summit (who led from the start) and Ecrivain. Despite his defeat, the colt went off the 7/5 favourite for the Poule d'Essai des Poulains, run that year over 1600 metres at Deauville Racecourse on 1 June with his eight opponents including his old rivals Alson, Ecrivain, The Summit and Kenway as well as Arapaho (Prix du Pont Neuf) and Celestin (Criterium du Languedoc). After being restrained towards the rear of the field by Barzalona he made a forward move 500 metres from the finish, gained the advantage 200 metres out and kept on well to win by one and a half lengths from The Summit.
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