What does it take to reach the Olympics? Oxfordbrookes · November 29, 2012 Pete Chambers, who won a silver medal for rowing with his brother Richard (an Oxford Brookes alumnus) in the Lightweight Men's Fours at London 2012, talks about his training. The Oxford Brookes University Boat Club (OBUBC) is one of five squads in the UK feeding into Great Britain's Olympic and World Championship crews. Student and alumni rowers have won five gold medals, five silvers and one bronze over the past four Olympics. Our Olympic medal tally ranks us among the most successful sporting universities in the UK.
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