A team of ten rowers from Leeds University Boat Club broke the 100,000m BUSA Team world record on March 8th. Steve Mellor, Rob Wood, Ali Brown, Mark Pitcher, Kamal Brewal, Rich Bainbridge, Luke Forrester, Pete Vanns, Eric Vlemmings and Simon Croft trounced the previous record by over ten minutes. The challenge was witnessed by a nightclub full of supporters, and the event formed an important part of the evening's proceedings as the record was broken on the stage in the main room of Leeds' main student night.Event organiser Ben Stuart said, It's amazing the way things have come together. The planning has been going on since December, but ultimately you have to take your hat off to the ten guys putting themselves through hell to represent the club and break this record.To break a 100,000m record is a severe test of strength and stamina, with the team of ten men taking it in turns to pull 15 strokes as hard as they can before the next rower takes his place. Such an energetic pace and rapid changeovers means there is not time to strap feet into place, so they had to be physically held to the machine by hand.The average 500m split for the row was 1:30.5, and on one stroke the split fell to 1:08. As the team pulled through the pain barrier and reached for those final few strokes, the gathered crowd went wild to The Final Countdown, before a particularly apt rendition of Queen's We Are The Champions announced that they had set a new record of 4:28:27.