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The race was won by Oxford by four lengths, [10] despite Cambridge being favourites. [25] In 1989 Topolski and author Patrick Robinson's book about the events, True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny, was published. Seven years later, a film based on the book was released.
Eights Week, also known as Summer Eights, is a four-day regatta of bumps races which constitutes the University of Oxford's main intercollegiate rowing event of the year. The regatta takes place in May of each year, from the Wednesday to the Saturday of the fifth week of Trinity Term.
The Henley Boat Races were a series of annual rowing races between various crews representing the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge.. The event included the Lightweight Men's Boat Race from 1975 to 2018, the Women's Boat Race from 1977 to 2014, the Lightweight Women's Boat Race from 1984 to 2019, and the Collegiate Boat Races from 2010 to 2019.
Held annually, the Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge along the River Thames. Oxford, whose crew contained one of only two men to have rowed for both universities, won by 4 + 1 ⁄ 4 lengths. In the reserve race, Cambridge's Goldie defeated Oxford's Isis, while Oxford won the ...
Events Oxford City Bumps, Oxford City Royal Regatta, Isis Sculls City of Oxford Rowing Club is a rowing club on the River Thames based on Meadow Lane, Donnington , Oxford , Oxfordshire .
The crews were almost evenly matched weight-wise, Oxford marginally the heavier, whose crew consisted almost entirely of veterans of the event. In a race umpired by former rower Frank Willan , Oxford won by 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 lengths in a time of 19 minutes 12 seconds, the victory taking the overall record to 31–22 in their favour.
Oxford went into the event as reigning champions, having won the previous year's race. In a race umpired by former rower Frank Willan, Oxford won by a length and a quarter in a time of 18 minutes 45 seconds which was, at the time, the fastest in the history of the event. It was their fourth consecutive victory and took the overall record to 27 ...
The Championship Course along which, for the fourth time in the history of the event, the men's, women's and both reserves' races were conducted on the same day. The Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing competition between the University of Oxford (sometimes referred to as the "Dark Blues") [1] and the University of Cambridge (sometimes referred to as the "Light Blues"). [1]