The 2025 Boat Race women’s event will be the first of the day, starting at 1.21pm UK time on Sunday 13 April, and the men’s event will start an hour later at 2.21pm.

The date of the boat race changes every year dependent on tides, university calendars and major London events. The men’s Boat Race was first raced in 1829 and now spans 196 years of rivalry.

Oxford won the first race in June 1829 at Henley-on-Thames and in a way not a huge amount has changed in the ensuing 196 years. It’s still eight rowers in a boat on the Thames.

In the US, the Boat Race is being shown exclusively on ESPN Plus. ESPN Plus costs $11.99 a month or $119.99 a year, though it is also is available in a bundle with both Hulu and Disney Plus for ...

The Boat Race Company, which organises the event, estimates that more than 200,000 people gather on the bank of the river to watch the men’s and women’s races, with millions watching on TV.

Concern is growing over levels of sewage pollution in London’s River Thames after E. coli bacteria was discovered ahead of this weekend’s historic Oxford v. Cambridge boat race.