Editing Uppsala University (section)

===Other sports===
Besides the {{lang|la|exercitiae}}, other sports have had a presence in Uppsala student life. The [[Upsala Simsällskap]], "Uppsala Swimming Society," which is the oldest swimming club in the world, was founded in 1796 by the mathematician [[Jöns Svanberg]]. It had no formal connection to the university, but all its earliest members came from academic life. Svanberg even arranged a mock graduation ceremony, a ''simpromotion'', in a parody of the university ceremonies, where those who had graduated from its swimming training were awarded "degrees" of master (''magister'') and bachelor (''kandidat''). These degrees stuck, and Swedish swimming schools still use these degrees for different levels of swimming skills.

An attempt was made in the 1870s to introduce academic rowing after the [[Oxbridge]] model. The [[Stockholms nation|Stockholms Nation]] acquired a rowing boat in 1877, soon followed by the [[Göteborgs nation, Uppsala|G]][[Nathan Söderblom|ö]]<nowiki/>teborgs nation, and for a number of years rowing competitions were held between teams from the two nations. Although rowing never got the strong position it has at the English universities, an annual Uppsala-Lund [[regatta]] has been arranged since 1992, between rowing teams from Uppsala and [[Lund University]]. The race is held on the [[Fyris River]] in Uppsala on even years, and on a river in the vicinity of Lund on odd years. Each year there is at least one full eight crew with cox competing, with both men's and women's teams present. With the recent victory for Uppsala in 2005, the score stands 24–23 in Uppsala's favour.