Clare Hall Boat Club is the boat club for members of Clare Hall, Cambridge, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It shares a boat house with Clare . Apart from W1 in the May Bumps, who are narrowly better than St Edmund's, Clare Hall have the unfortunate honour of having the lowest placed men's and women's 1st VIIIs in the whole racing order for both the Lent and May Bumps. Thus, they are technically the worst boat club on the river, though this ignores the irregular entries by the Medical School (Addenbrooke's), Vet School and Theological colleges (Ridley, Wesley, Westcott and Westminster). This is despite winning the Pegasus Cup in 2010, awarded annually to the most successful college boat club at the May Bumps (measured by a points system based on how many places a club moves up the rankings).
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