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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 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 ...
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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]
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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 men claimed a fifth trophy in six years — to lead 87-81 overall in the race between storied universities Oxford and Cambridge which dates to 1829 — while the women cruised to a seventh ...