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The Boat Race The Cancer Research UK Boat Race: Contested by: CUBC: OUBC: theboatraces.org: First boat race: 10 June 1829 Annual event since: 15 March 1856 Current champion: Cambridge (2024) Course: Henley-on-Thames (1829) Westminster to Putney (1836–42) The Championship Course (1845–2019) River Great Ouse (2021) Smallest margin of victory
The Boat Race 2024 was a series of side-by-side rowing races in London which took place on 30 March 2024.. Held annually, The Boat Race is contested between crews from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, usually along a 4.2-mile (6.8 km) tidal stretch of the River Thames, known as the Tideway, in south-west London.
The race first appeared in a short film of the 1895 race entitled The Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race, directed and produced by Birt Acres. Consisting of a single shot of around a minute, it was the first film to be commercially screened in the UK outside London. [67]
The Boat Race returns in 2024 with Cambridge and Oxford again battling it out on the River Thames.. The men’s race was first held 195 years ago and has been an annual event since 1856, with a ...
The Boat Race returns to the River Thames today as the light blue of Cambridge University take on the dark blue of Oxford University.. In the men’s race last year, Oxford ended three years of ...
The Boat Race 2022 was a side-by-side rowing race which took place on 3 April 2022. Held annually, The Boat Race is contested between crews from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, usually along a 4.2-mile (6.8 km) tidal stretch of the River Thames, known as the Tideway, in south-west London. This was the 76th women's race and the 167th ...
The Oxford crew weighed an average of 11 st 11.25 lb (74.8 kg), 1.25 pounds (0.6 kg) per rower more than their Light Blue opposition. [10] Cambridge saw the return of five former Blues, including the cox Francis Archer and number four Robert Kinglake, both of whom had represented the university twice before. [11]
The 16th Boat Race took place on 15 April 1859. Held annually, the event is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge along the River Thames. The race went ahead following Cambridge's request for a postponement due to extremely rough conditions being rejected. Oxford won the race after Cambridge sank.