The Boat Race

The Boat Race is since 1829 the traditional boat race between the teams of the universities of Oxford and of Cambridge on the River Thames. ==History[ Edit] == The Boat Race 2002Cambridge Rowing bladmotiefOxford Rowing bladmotiefThe contest was first held in 1829. Two student friends, Charles Merivale in Cambridge and Charles Wordsworth in Oxford, the first game with each other. From that moment, The Boat Race organized every now and then, but since 1856 is rowed annually (with the exception of the war years). Tradition has it that the loser challenging the winner a year later.Cambridge has won 81 times and Oxford 78. One time, in 1877, the race remained undecided, according to Oxford because the referee during the finish under a Bush was sleeping. ==Trail[ Edit] == The trail is on the River Thames between Putney and Mortlake, over a distance of about 7 kilometers (4 miles, 374 yards). The match will be rowed in eights. The members of Cambridge are referred to as blues; Oxford rowing in Cambridge in light blue, dark blue, and his rowing bladmotieven are also in these colors. The boats are called the blue boats.In addition to this main number, there is also the game between the two reserve eights, Isis for Oxford and Goldie for Cambridge. The women's eights and deem the light, including the reserves, sail the race too, but on another day. ==Nowadays[ Edit] == Today, the boats no longer filled with only English; foreigners make an increasing proportion of the teams out. Three Dutch have spoke in the Boat Race: Kristina Eastham, Sjoerd Hamburger and Roel Haen. All three came from for Oxford. Eastham was part of the winning eight in 2002 and Hamburger in 2009. In 2010 was the first Dutch president Burger (Captain) in the boat of Oxford. Haen was in 2012 the first Dutchman who fulfilled the role of battle during the Boat Race. Oxford lost this race however. One Dutch woman, Irene grimberg, rowed for Oxford in the Boat Race in 1994 for women in Henley-upon-Thames.

Prestige and sponsorship of student professional rowers each year is a hot item. The Boat Race is in the primetime Commonwealthlanden an international media spectacle