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The Boat Race
The Boat Race is a set of annual rowing races between the Oxford University Boat Club and the Cambridge University Boat Club, rowed between eights on the River Thames in London, England. It is also known as the University Boat Race and the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race, or by a title that includes the name of its current sponsor (from 2013, the ''BNY Mellon Boat Race''). It usually takes place on the last weekend of March or the first weekend of April. The most recent race was the 2015 race which took place on Saturday 11 April 2015,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://theboatraces.org/ )〕 with Oxford winning the race by 20 seconds.
The first race was in 1829 and the event has been held annually since 1856, except during the First and Second World Wars. The course covers a 4.2-mile (6.8 km) stretch of the Thames in West London, from Putney to Mortlake. Members of both teams are traditionally known as ''blues'' and each boat as a "Blue Boat", with Cambridge in light blue and Oxford dark blue. As of 2015 Cambridge have won the race 81 times and Oxford 79 times, with one dead heat.
The race is well-established and popular. Upwards of 250,000 people watch the race from the banks of the river each year (in 2009, a record 270,000 people watched the race live〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Record crowd for Easter Boat Race )〕) while a further 15 million or more watch it on television; currently no other non-country-representative rowing races are broadcast by a television station.
==History==
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