The Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing competition between the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. It takes place on the 4.2-mile Championship Course, between Putney and Mortlake on the River Thames in south-west London. Cambridge went into the race as champions, having won the 2018 race by a margin of three lengths. The event was broadcast live in the United Kingdom and worldwide on the BBC, SuperSport, EBU and CCTV-5 in China. It was also streamed live on BBC Online and YouTube.
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The Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing competition between the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. It takes place on the 4. 2-mile Championship Course, between Putney and Mortlake on the River Thames in south-west London. This was the 74th women’s race and the 165th men’s race, and, for the fourth time in the history of the event, the men’s, women’s and both reserves’ races were all held on the Tideway. The races were watched live by thousands of spectators lining the banks of the Thames. They were also live-streamed on YouTube and by multiple media organisations around the world, including in Germany, South Africa and China. Cambridge went into the race as champions, having won the 2018 race by a margin of three lengths, and led overall with 83 victories to Oxford’s 80. The event was broadcast live in the United Kingdom and worldwide on the BBC, SuperSport, EBU and CCTV-5 in China. It was also streamed live on BBC Online and YouTube. The Boat Race 2019 took place on 7 April 2019, and will be broadcast on BBC1 and BBC2, as well as the BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sportsound channel. For more information on how to watch the Boat Race, visit the BBC’s Boat Race website. For the full list of events, visit The Boat race website. For the complete list of Boat Race events, go to the BBC’s Boat Race page.
The full programme for the 2019 event is available to download from the BBC website. Click here for the full programme and to see the rest of the details of the 2019 Boat Race on BBC One and BBC Two, or watch it live on YouTube from 7-8 April 2019. To see the full programmes for the 2018 and 2019 races on BBC Two and BBC One, click here. In the women’s reserve race, Cambridge’s Blondie defeated Oxford’s Osiris, their fourth consecutive victory. The men’s reserveRace was won by Cambridge’s Goldie, who defeated Oxford’S Isis, who won the men’ s reserve race in the previous year’s race. Cambridge’s women won the previous race by seven lengths and led 43–30 overall. The women�s reserve race was overseen by Tony Reynolds, while theMen’s reserve Race was umpired by multiple Olympic gold-medallist Matthew Pinsent. The 74thWomen’s race was umpire by Richard Phelps, a former rower who successfully represented Cambridge in the 1993, 1994 and 1995 races. The 165thMen’s Race, which took place in April 2018, was the men and women’s reserves’ race, which was overseen by Rob Clegg, who rowed for the Dark Blues in the 1994, 1995 and 1996 races. Cambridge won the women�’s race in 2016, and the men’s reserve race in 2013, and won in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2013 and 2014.
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