2024 Gemini Boat Race events
How to watch The Gemini Boat Race
The Boat Race was first raced by crews from Oxford and Cambridge University in 1829 and is now one of the world’s oldest and most famous amateur sporting events, offering an unrivalled educational experience to the student athletes who take part. Crews for the 2024 Gemini Boat Races have now been announced! Find out who made it into the crews for the Cambridge teams, and discover all the ways Boat Race fans can watch this year's events! #TeamLightBlue.
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The Boat Race was first raced by crews from Oxford and Cambridge University in 1829 and is now one of the world’s oldest and most famous amateur sporting events, offering an unrivalled educational experience to the student athletes who take part.
The world-famous sporting event between the UK’s two greatest universities now spans 185 years of rivalry and The Boat Race has become synonymous with British tradition and excellence. It has established itself as the epitome of amateur sport, raced by student-athletes who combine academic rigour with elite physical prowess. There is no greater occasion.
The Gemini Boat Race takes place in London on the famous Championship Course that stretches over 4.25 miles of tidal Thames in West London between Putney and Mortlake. It's regularly attended by over 250,000 spectators at the banks of the river and watched by millions more on television.
2024 will see the 169th Men's Boat Race and the 78th Women's Boat Race take place, Saturday 30 March.
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