Welcome to the web-home of the Royal College Rowing Club.  Modern rowing which became popular in England with the Doggett's Coat and Badge sculling race and the more famous Oxford Cambridge Boat Race, reached the shores of Sri Lanka in 1864 with the formation of the Colombo Rowing Club.  Launched in 1953, Royal College Rowing is proud to be the first school-boy rowing program in Sri Lanka. 

True to the refrain of our College Anthem which goes “we will learn of books and men, and learn to play the game” rowing provides an unparalleled opportunity to develop physically and mentally, gain team-working and intrapersonal skills and to become the best that we possibly can be.  So step in, strap down and push off from the dock for a great rowing outing with us …

You can also read articles about the colorful history of the Royal Colege Rowing Club here.

"Marathon runners talk about hitting 'the wall' at the twenty-third mile of the race. What rowers confront isn't a wall; it's a hole - an abyss of pain, which opens up in the second minute of the race. Large needles are being driven into your thigh muscles, while your forearms seem to be splitting. Then the pain becomes confused and disorganized, not like the windedness of the runner or the leg burn of the biker but an all-over, savage unpleasantness. As you pass the five-hundred-meter mark, with three-quarters of the race still to row, you realize with dread that you are not going to make it to the finish, but at the same time the idea of letting your teammates down by not rowing your hardest is unthinkable... Therefore, you are going to die. Welcome to this life." -- Ashleigh Teitel