About C.R.A.S.H.B Sprints

The C.R.A.S.H.-B. Sprint were founded by a group of 1976 – 1980 US Olympic and World Team athletes who trained on the Charles River.

During the 1980 boycott of the Olympic Games, and as a way to break the monotony of winter training, twenty male and female rowers held a fun regatta on the newly invented Concept2 Model A rowing ergometers. These ergometers had a bicycle wheel, a wooden handle and an odometer. In the beginning the race was five miles long, and the distance was modified in 1996 to meet the specific training demands of international coaches who focused on 2km as a test distance. 

The race is now rowed on the latest Concept2 Model D ergometers, which used by athletes, rowing clubs, schools, universities and national teams around the globe.