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The Boat Race

This article is about the race between Oxford and Cambridge universities. For other uses, see Boat race (disambiguation). For the most recent Boat Race, see The Boat Race 2024.

The Men's Boat Race
Contested by
CUBC OUBC
First boat race 10 June 1829
Annual event since 1856
Current champion Cambridge (2024)
Course record Cambridge, 1998 (16 min 19 sec)[1]
Course The Championship Course
River Thames, London[a]
Course length 4.2 miles (6.8 km)
Sponsor Gemini (since 2021)[2]
Official charity Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI)[3]
Trophy The Boat Race Trophy
Number of wins
Cambridge Oxford
87 81
There has been one dead heat, recorded in 1877.
Official website
www.theboatrace.org
The Women's Boat Race
Contested by
CUBC OUWBC
First boat race 15 March 1927[4]
First side-by-side race 1936[5]
Annual event since 1964[6]
Current champion Cambridge (2024)
Course record Cambridge, 2022 (18 min 22 sec)[7]
Course The Championship Course
River Thames, London (2015 onwards)[8]
Course length 4.2 miles (6.8 km)[8]
Sponsor Gemini (since 2021)[2]
Official charity Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI)[3]
Trophy The Women's Boat Race Trophy (since 2014)[9]
Previous courses
The Isis, Oxford and
River Cam, Cambridge 		1927 to 1976 with several gaps[10]
River Thames, London 1929, 1935[10][11][12]
Henley 1977 to 2014 except
NWSC 2001
Dorney Lake 2013
Number of wins[6]
Cambridge Oxford
47 30
Official website
www.theboatrace.org

The Boat Race is an annual set of rowing races between the Cambridge University Boat Club and the Oxford University Boat Club, traditionally rowed between open-weight eights on the River Thames in London, England. It is also known as the University Boat Race and the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race.

The men's race was first held in 1829 and has been held annually since 1856, except during the First and Second World Wars (although unofficial races were conducted) and the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The first women's event was held in 1927, and the Women's Boat Race has been an annual event since 1964. Since 2015, the women's race has taken place on the same day and course, and since 2018 the combined event of the two races has been referred to as "The Boat Race".

The Championship Course has hosted the vast majority of the races. Covering a 4.2-mile (6.8 km) stretch of the Thames in West London, from Putney to Mortlake, it is over three times the distance of an Olympic race. Members of both crews are traditionally known as blues and each boat as a "Blue Boat", with Cambridge in light blue and Oxford in dark blue. As of the 2024 race, Cambridge has won the men's race 87 times to Oxford's 81 times, with one dead heat, and has led Oxford in cumulative wins since 1930. In the women's race, Cambridge has won the race 47 times to Oxford's 30 times, and has led Oxford in cumulative wins since 1966. A reserve boat race has been held since 1965 for the men and since 1966 for the women.

In most years over 250,000 people watch the race from the banks of the river. In 2009, a record 270,000 people watched the race live.[13] The race is broadcast internationally on television;[14] in 2014, 15 million people watched the race on television.[15]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference The Boat Race Results was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b "Partners". The Boat Race. 25 March 2021. Archived from the original on 4 April 2021. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  3. ^ a b "RNLI". The Boat Race. Archived from the original on 7 April 2019. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
  4. ^ "Boat Race Practice – An Oxford victory". The Times. 16 March 1927. p. 7.
  5. ^ "First ever women's event from 88 years ago was rather different to modern day". The Telegraph. 10 April 2015. Archived from the original on 16 April 2015. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
  6. ^ a b "Boat Race – Results – Women". The Boat Race Company Limited. Archived from the original on 14 April 2015. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
  7. ^ "Boat Races: Oxford triumph in men's race after Cambridge women win". BBC Sport. 2 April 2017. Archived from the original on 2 April 2017. Retrieved 2 April 2017.
  8. ^ a b "The Course". The Boat Race Company Limited. Archived from the original on 28 October 2014. Retrieved 7 April 2016.
  9. ^ Mahoney, Lizzie (19 February 2014). "New Women's Boat Race trophy unveiled". The Cambridge Student. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
  10. ^ a b "Pulling Together". Cambridge Alumni Magazine (74 Lent 2015): 12. Archived from the original on 25 March 2015. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
  11. ^ "A brief history of the Oxford-Cambridge Varsity event – from the perspective of women". The Telegraph. 13 March 2015. Archived from the original on 15 April 2015. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
  12. ^ "University women's race women's success". The Times. 18 March 1935. p. 6.
  13. ^ "Record crowd for Easter Boat Race". London Evening Standard. Archived from the original on 4 April 2010. Retrieved 31 August 2014.
  14. ^ "Broadcast Coverage of The Gemini Boat Race". The Boat Race. Retrieved 31 March 2024.
  15. ^ Smith, Oliver (25 March 2014). "University Boat Race 2014: spectators' guide". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 1 July 2014. Retrieved 7 April 2014.


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