The Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing competition between the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The race takes place on the 4.2-mile Championship Course, between Putney and Mortlake on the River Thames in south-west London. For the first time in the history of the event, the men’s, women’s and both reserves’ races were all held on the Tideway. The men’s race was won by Cambridge by two and a half lengths, their first victory since the 2012 race.
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The Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing competition between the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The race takes place on the 4. 2-mile Championship Course, between Putney and Mortlake on the River Thames in south-west London. For the first time in the history of the event, the men’s, women’s and both reserves’ races were all held on the Tideway on the same day. The men’s race was won by Cambridge by two and a half lengths, their first victory since the 2012 race, taking the overall record in the event to 82–79 in their favour. Oxford went into the 2016 race as champions, having won the 2015 race by a margin of six lengths, but Cambridge led overall with 81 victories to Oxford’s 79. There is no monetary award for winning the race, as the journalist Roger Alton notes: “It’s the last great amateur event: seven months of pain for no prize money”. On Sunday 27 March, the women’s race started at 3: 10 p. m. British Summer Time, the. women’s reserve race at 3.25 p m. and the men’s race a further half-hour after that at 4:10 pm. Although around 250,000 spectators were expected to line the banks of the river, engineering works and poor weather reduced the number of spectators. The event was broadcast live in the United Kingdom on the BBC. Numerous broadcasters worldwide also showed the main races, including SuperSport across Europe, SKYBU across Central America, TSN in Canada and Fox Sports in Australia.
The Cambridge men’s coaching team was led by their Chief Coach Steve Trapmore, a gold-winning gold medalist at the 2000 Summer Olympics. The women’s crew were coached by Steve Trap more, who was a member of the eight-man team that won the gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. The final took place on Sunday 28 March, and was streamed live on BBC Online. It was the first ever female crew to be umpired by Sarah Winckless and Judith Packer respectively, becoming the first official women’s women’s reserves’ race to be held on a tidal stretch of the Thames. The Men’s crew was coached by Simon Harris, who had overseen the inaugural Tideway running of the Women’s Boat Race in 2015, and Rob Clegg, who rowed for Cambridge in the 1982 and 1983 races and was most recently umpire for the men’ race in 2010. The Women’s crew, which first took place in 1927, was usually held at the Henley Boat Races along the 2,000-metre course; on at least two occasions in the interwar period,. the women competed on the Thames between Chiswick and Kew. Prior to 2015, theWomen’s race, which was usually. held at Henley, wasUsually held atHenley, but on two occasions, the event was held in 1927. In January 2016, it was announced that the sponsors would donate the title sponsorship to Cancer Research UK.
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