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The sponsor has extended to being a "title sponsor" (titular, official race name) since such a longer name of the race was founded in 2010, the first three of which thus becoming The Xchanging Boat Race. [83] In 2013, the sponsor BNY Mellon took over and it became the BNY Mellon Boat Race. [84]
The event, subsequently referred to as The Boat Race, or the University Boat Race, was held for a second time seven years later, in 1836 on the River Thames. It was then held intermittently until the 1856 race , after which it became an annual event, interrupted only by the First , and Second World Wars and the COVID-19 pandemic .
The race was first held in 1829, and since 1845 has taken place on the 4.2-mile (6.8 km) Championship Course on the River Thames in southwest London. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The rivalry is a major point of honour between the two universities and followed throughout the United Kingdom and worldwide. [ 4 ]
The race was first held in 1829 on a 2 + 1 ⁄ 4-mile (3.6 km) stretch of the River Thames. [2] For the women's senior boat clubs race see "The Women's Boat Race". As of 2015 the race takes place on the 4.2-mile (6.8 km) Championship Course, between Putney and Mortlake on the Thames in south-west London. [3]
The first Harvard–Yale Boat Race—and the first American intercollegiate sporting event—took place on August 3, 1852. In this two-mile (3.2 km) contest, Harvard's Oneida prevailed over Yale's Shawmut by about two lengths, with Yale's Undine finishing third. [12] The first place prize was a pair of black walnut, silver-inscribed trophy oars.
The race was first held in 1829, and since 1845 has taken place on the 4.2-mile (6.8 km) Championship Course on the River Thames in southwest London. [2] [3] It was the second race to be held on the ebb tide, the first time since the 1846 race, from Barker's Rails to Putney, approximately 1,200 yards (1,097 m) longer than the conventional course.
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 race was witnessed by Queen Victoria and the future Edward VII and won by America. This is considered to be the first America's Cup race. On 8 July 1857, the surviving members of the America syndicate donated the cup to the New York Yacht Club via the Deed of Gift of the America's Cup filed with the New York Supreme Court. [8]