This yr’s Boat Race would be the 169th time that Oxford and Cambridge’s males have raced towards one another and the 78th time the ladies’s crews have finished so.
The course is the same old 4.2-mile affair from Putney to Mortlake, generally known as the Championship Course. There’s a coin toss earlier than the race, to find out which staff will get to select their station: both Middlesex or Surrey.
Roughly 250,000 individuals will line the banks of the Thames to look at the race with many extra following on tv.
Within the build-up to this yr’s occasion Oxford declare they’re at an obstacle as a result of their coaching plans have been disrupted by flooding, and the water within the Thames has been declared too harmful to threat throwing profitable coxes into.
What date is the 2024 Boat Race?
This yr’s racing is on Saturday.
The date of the boat race modifications yearly depending on tides, college calendars and main London occasions. The March 30 date is inauspicious: on that day in 1912 each boats sank and the race needed to be re-run the next week. On one other March 30 race, in 2002, Oxford achieved a clear sweep.
What time does the race begin?
The primary occasions for Saturday are as follows:
12.40pm – Girls’s Boat Race coin toss1.15pm – Males’s Boat Race coin toss2.46pm – Girls’s Boat Race3.01pm – Osiris v Blondie Boat Race (girls’s reserve crews)3.16pm – Isis v Goldie Boat Race (males’s reserve crews)3.46pm – Males’s Boat Race
What TV channel is the Boat Race on?
BBC One will carry reside protection, beginning at 2pm, which can be accessible to stream on-line on the BBC web site. Protection is broadcast in about 200 nations worldwide.
What are the crews for the 2024 Boat Race?
Oxford Girls
Sarah Marshall (bow)Ella Stadler (President)Tessa HainingClaire AitkenJulia LindsayAnnie SharpLucy EdmundsAnnie Anezakis (stroke)Joe Gellett (cox)Coach: Allan French
Cambridge Girls
Gemma King (bow)Jo MatthewsClare HoleJenna Armstrong (President)Carina GrafCarys EarlIris PowellMegan Lee (stroke)Hannah Murphy (cox)Coach: Paddy Ryan
