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The April 2021 Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race will not be held on the River Thames for only the second time in the 165 year history of the event. Safety concerns about Hammersmith Bridge, which has been closed to river traffic since August, have forced the event to move to a 3 mile stretch of the River […]
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Amelia Standing represented the Dark Blues in this year’s Oxford vs Cambridge Boat Race; the first-year engineer from St Anne’s College taking the position of stroke in the Women’s Blue Boat. Being the youngest of the crew, Amelia did not let only being in her first year at Oxford hinder her from representing the Dark […]
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Thousands of people lined the River Thames between Putney and Mortlake to watch Cambridge win the 165th Men’s Boat Race with a time of 16 minutes 54 seconds. This takes them to their third win in the last five years, with a well-fought victory of just over a length. With the river tides having strengthened […]
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The annual Oxford vs. Cambridge Boat Race, which will take place this Sunday 7th April, is perhaps the most widely watched university sporting event in Britain, drawing around a quarter of a million spectators to the banks of the Thames each year. Competition for one of eight seats and one coxswain position in each of […]
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Oxford University Boat Club (OUBC) and Women’s Boat Club (OUWBC) announced their crews for the upcoming Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race at City Hall in London this morning. The Oxford women’s crew go into the race with a crew 9.5 kg lighter than their Cambridge counterparts, while the men’s crew outweighed the Cambridge crew by just 1.3kg. In […]
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The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) has announced Wednesday that they will be the official charity partner of The Boat Race 2019. The teams are in the midst of training for the rival match against Cambridge along the 6.8 kilometre stretch of the River Thames in south-west London. Thousands of people come to watch the […]
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Cambridge has won both the women’s and men’s races in the 2018 Boat Race this afternoon, after winning both coin tosses. In the 73rd women’s boat race, Cambridge recorded a time of 19 minutes and 9 seconds, after a record-winning 18 minutes and 33 seconds in 2017. The men’s was closer, with a time of […]
Continue ReadingCambridge has won the 72nd women’s boat race, setting a new time record, while Oxford fought to maintain a narrow lead in the 163rd men’s. While the Cambridge women’s boat set an astonishing time of 18:33- the first time the 19-minute mark has been broken- the Oxford boat suffered an early crab, which left a lead that […]
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The Presidents for the famous Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race have recently been announced. Henry Hoffstot and Hannah Roberts have been elected for the Cambridge clubs, and will attempt to overturn a run of consecutive Oxford wins. Henry Hoffstot will be in his third season at the CUBC, twice having stroked the Cambridge Blue Boat. The summer before […]
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The Oxford University Women’s Boat Club were rescued by Chiswick RNLI on Wednesday 1st April after strong winds and waves swamped the team’s boat near Fulham Railway Bridge. None of the nine team members involved were injured, and shortly after the incident, the team tweeted reassurances to their followers from their official twitter page: “Thanks […]
Continue ReadingThe Boat Race 2014: Liveblog 18.35: The Oxford side has collected the trophy. And on that note, it’s time to say goodbye to the liveblog for another year. Thanks for sticking with the OxStu, and congratulations to the team! 18.32: The losing Cambridge side collect their medals: The @CUBCsquad collect their medals pic.twitter.com/k9Kbk2slMh — The Boat […]
Continue ReadingAlex Tyndall reports as Oxford and Cambridge share the spoils from the big weekend of Varsity action
Continue ReadingThe man who forced The Boat Race to be restarted last April has been sentenced to six months imprisonment for causing a public nuisance. Australian born Trenton Oldfield, 36, brought the iconic rowing event to a halt after he swam into the path of the racing boats as a “protest against elitism”. The restarting of the event caused […]
Continue Reading1. … with a Capital ‘O’ During the English Civil War, Oxford served as the capital of England after Charles I was expelled from London by Oliver Cromwell’s Parliamentarian forces. The University was a strong supporter of the Royalists (otherwise known as brown-nosers) and the King lived in Christ Church between 1642 and 1646 – […]
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