The Boat Race 2022

The Boat Race 2022 will take place on 3 April 2022. Usually held annually, The Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge and is typically held along a 4.2-mile (6.8 km) tidal stretch of the River Thames in south-west London. This will be the 76th women's race and the 167th men's race. The previous year's race had taken place on the River Great Ouse following the cancellation of the 2020 race, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom.

The Boat Race 2022
Date3 April 2022
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Background
The Championship Course along which the races will be conducted

The Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing competition between the University of Oxford (sometimes referred to as the "Dark Blues")[1] and the University of Cambridge (sometimes referred to as the "Light Blues").[1] First held in 1829, the race usually takes place on the 4.2-mile (6.8 km) Championship Course, between Putney and Mortlake on the River Thames in south-west London.[2] The rivalry is a major point of honour between the two universities; the race is followed throughout the United Kingdom and broadcast worldwide.[3][4] Cambridge will into the race as champions, having won the 2020 race, held on the River Great Ouse, by a margin of almost one length,[5] and led overall with 85 victories to Oxford's 80 (excluding the 1877 race, a dead heat).[6][7]

It will be the fifth time in the history of The Boat Race that men's and women's races were held on the same day and on the same course, this time along the Tideway. Before 2015, the women's race, which first took place in 1927, was usually held at the Henley Boat Races along the 2,000-metre (2,200 yd) course. However, on at least two occasions in the interwar period, the women competed on the Thames between Chiswick and Kew.[8] Cambridge's women were also victorious in 2021 on the River Great Ouse course, winning by just under a length, which took the overall record in the Women's Boat Race to 45–30 in their favour.[5]

The autumn reception, where the previous year's losing team challenges the winners to a rematch, was held on 18 November 2021. As Cambridge's women had won the previous year's race, it was Oxford's responsibility to offer the traditional challenge to Cambridge. To that end, Amelia Standing, President of Oxford University Women's Boat Club (OUWBC), laid down the gauntlet to Bronya Sykes, her Cambridge counterpart. Cambridge's victory in the men's race meant that Martin Barakso, President of Oxford University Boat Club (OUBC), challenged Charlie Marcus, President of Cambridge University Boat Club (CUBC).[9]

In October 2021, the BBC announced that they would continue to broadcast the Boat Race in the United Kingdom after agreeing a four-year extension to their existing contract.[10]

References
  1. "Dark Blues aim to punch above their weight". The Observer. 6 April 2003. Archived from the original on 11 September 2014. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  2. Smith, Oliver (25 March 2014). "University Boat Race 2014: spectators' guide". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 1 July 2014. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  3. "Former Winnipegger in winning Oxford–Cambridge Boat Race crew". CBC News. 6 April 2014. Archived from the original on 24 September 2014. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  4. "TV and radio". The Boat Race Company Limited. Archived from the original on 10 January 2020. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
  5. "Boat Race – Results". The Boat Race Company Limited. Archived from the original on 12 July 2016. Retrieved 26 July 2016.
  6. Higginson, Marc (6 April 2014). "Boat Race 2014: Oxford emphatically beat Cambridge". BBC Sport. Archived from the original on 24 March 2015. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
  7. "Classic moments – the 1877 dead heat". The Boat Race Company Limited. Archived from the original on 26 October 2014. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
  8. Quarrell, Rachel (8 February 2012). "Boat Race becomes 'the Boat Races' as women and men's university events are combined for 2015". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 16 December 2014. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
  9. "Challenges made and accepted". The Boat Race Company Limited. 27 November 2021. Archived from the original on 1 December 2021. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
  10. "Boat Race: BBC to broadcast annual contest between Oxford and Cambridge until 2025". BBC Sport. 29 October 2021. Archived from the original on 23 November 2021. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
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