page_title: St Ives, Cambridgeshire
section_title: Sports
hierarchical_section_title: St Ives, Cambridgeshire / Culture and community / Sports
caption_attribution_description: English: Current view of St Ives rowing club taken from the far bank in Hemmingford Meadow.
context_page_description: St Ives is a market town and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England, 5 miles east of Huntingdon and 12 miles north-west of Cambridge. Historically in Huntingdonshire, St Ives is in the non-metropolitan district of the same name which covers a similar area to the historic county.
context_section_description: There are 2 leisure facilities, the indoor centre is adjacent to the Burgess conference and Events Hall and an outdoor centre in the west of the town. The original swimming pool, fed by the river, is in the middle of Holt Island and is now used for canoeing practice and other activities. St Ives also has a Rugby club on Somersham Road, and a Non-League football club, St Ives Town F.C., which plays at Westwood Road.  The St Ives Rowing Club was once captained by John Goldie and has had a number of members who have competed at Olympic and Commonwealth championships.
  There is an active swimming club. New members are always welcome, from age 4½ upwards, whatever their swimming ability and can be slotted into (and trained up to) teaching groups, a pre-competitive group, development squads or senior/competitive squads 
  St Ives has an 18 hole championship golf course, located 1/2 mile east of St Ives on the A1123. It opened in the summer of 2010, replacing the previous 9 hole course on Westwood Road/ High Leys. 
  Each year the town hosts a free 2 day carnival and music festival which was launched in 1999, as part of the committee set up for the millennium. This is now part of the towns tradition and it grows year on year.
caption: Boathouse of St Ives Rowing Club
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