Nikolas Boris Rankov (born 9 August 1954) is a British professor of Roman history at Royal Holloway, University of London.He was educated at Bradford Grammar School (1963–1973), then subsequently Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MA 1980, DPhil 1987).Rankov was a Junior Research Fellow at St Hugh's College, Oxford from 1980 to 1983.This led to establishment of the so-called "Rankov Rule", which states that oarsmen will compete in the race no more than four times as an undergraduate and no more than four times as a graduate.You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.This biographical article relating to British rowing is a stub.
