The Women's Boat Race The Gemini Boat Race | |
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CUBC | OUWBC |
First boat race | 15 March 1927[1] |
First side-by-side race | 1936[2] |
Annual event since | 1964[3] |
Current champion | Cambridge |
Course record | Cambridge, 2022 (18 min 23 sec)[4] |
Current course | The Championship Course River Thames, London (2015 onwards, except 2021 on the River Great Ouse)[5][6] |
Course length | 4.2 miles (6.8 km)[5] |
Sponsor | Gemini (since 2021)[7] |
Trophy | The Women's Boat Race Trophy (since 2014)[8] |
Previous courses | Henley (1977 to 2014 except 2001 at NWSC[9] and 2013 on Dorney Lake);[10][11] The Isis, Oxford and River Cam, Cambridge (1927 to 1976 with several gaps);[12] River Thames, London (1929, 1935)[12][13][14] |
Number of wins[3] | |
Cambridge | Oxford |
48 | 30 |
Official website | |
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The Women's Boat Race is an annual rowing race between Cambridge University Boat Club and Oxford University Women's Boat Club. First rowed in 1927, the race has taken place annually since 1964. Since the 2015 race it has been rowed on the same day and course as the men's Boat Race on the River Thames in London, taking place around Easter, and since 2018 the name "The Boat Race" has been applied to the combined event. The race is rowed in eights and the cox can be of any gender.
The course covers a 4.2 miles (6.8 km) stretch of the Thames in West London, from Putney to Mortlake. Members of both crews are traditionally known as blues and each boat as a "Blue Boat", with Cambridge in light blue and Oxford dark blue. The women's race has received television coverage and grown in popularity since 2015, attracting a television audience of 4.8 million viewers that year.[15][16][17] As of the 2024 race, Cambridge have won the race 48 times and Oxford 30 times. Cambridge has led Oxford in cumulative wins since 1966.
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