The Boat Race is rowed upstream and scheduled around the incoming tide, with the men’s race timed to start 90 minutes before the high tide to give the crews the fastest possible current.

The build-up to today’s Boat Race has been beset by controversy. Oxford insisted that Tom Ford, a gold-medal winner from last year’s Paris Olympics, was ineligible to row for Cambridge because ...

It is not only the traditional boat race (that started back in ... crew met an undefeated Yale crew for the four-mile race on the Thames—upstream this year from the railroad bridge to Bartlett ...

The Boat Race will take place on the Championship Course on the River Thames in London. Crews will start at the Putney Bridge and row upstream 6.8km to the finish just before the Chiswick Bridge ...

Like any British institution, the Boat Race is steeped in peculiarity ... two crews of eight row four miles and 374 yards upstream from Putney Bridge to Mortlake. The first to finish wins.

THE Boat Race is back for yet another huge meeting ... The events are rowed upstream, but are timed to start on the incoming flood tide. The men's race usually occur an hour before high tide ...

The Boat Race will take place on the Championship Course on the River Thames in London. Crews will start at the Putney Bridge and row upstream 6.8km to the finish just before the Chiswick Bridge ...

As with all great sporting events, the beauty of the Boat Race is in its simplicity, but there is so much more to this historic race. Advertisement The prestigious, globally-renowned universities ...

On Sunday, the University of Cambridge Boat Club and the University of Oxford Boat Club will take to the icy cold Thames and row it out in the 170th edition of the historic rowing race. Last year ...