HISTORY:

Boat racing is the famous name of a famous rowing race which takes  place every year. It was started in1829 by Charles Merival a student at Cambridge and his school friend Charles  Wordsworth who was studing at Oxford. The two school fellows decided to  set up a challenge. The first Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race (for men only) took place in Henley in 1829, but the Boat Races did not return to Henley until 1975 when a Cambridge undergraduate, Richard Bates, organised a Boat Race between men’s lightweight crews from Oxford and Cambridge.

Members of both teams are traditionally known as blues and each boat as a « Blues boat », with Cambridge in light blue and Oxford dark blue.

 

FAMOUS STARS:

The team of Oxford counted on his team Matthew Pinsent  a British rower, who became an Olympic champion four times and a world champion ten times. Mathew Pinsent began  rowing in Eton College. From 1989, he was chosen by the double Olympic champion, Steve Redgrave, as the team-mate for the coxless four. From 1991, he accumulated world and Olympic titles, so taking away Summer Olympics 1992 in Barcelona and Olympics games in 1996 in Atlanta. He was a really talented athlete.

 

The first woman to participate in the race was Susan Brown, who was the coxswain of the team of Oxford in 1981 and first to compete in the 152-year history of The Boat Race.

 

THE RULES:

This video illustrates the last running  of boat racing which took place on 27 March 2016 on the River Thames in Southern England. The winner of the men’s race was Cambrige and the winner of women’s race was Oxford.