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, ...

Image: Benedict Tufnell /Row360 for The Gemini Boat Race The women's race first ran ... point at least a couple of hours before the races start. Warm clothes aren't a bad idea either.

Although the Cambridge men didn’t have the best start to their Boat Race story, they’ve made up for it since, and lead the table with 84 victories to Oxford’s 80. Cambridge’s women are ...

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Today’s Boat Race will be the 169th time that Oxford and Cambridge’s men have raced against each other and the 78th time the women’s crews have done so. The course is the usual 4.2-mile ...