Around 250 000 spectators are expected to line the course which stretches over 4.25 miles of the Thames between Putney and Mortlake.
The event returns to the River Thames in London after being cancelled in 2020 and taking place without spectators on the Great Ouse in Ely because of coronavirus restrictions in 2021.
2022 Boat Race Schedule – Critical Timings:
- 13:50 BBC broadcast starts
- 14:23 76th Women’s Boat Race
- 14:38 Osiris vs Blondie Boat Race
- 14:53 Isis vs Goldie Boat Race
- 15:23 167th Men’s Boat Race
Cambridge have won the past four women’s races and the past three men’s.
Overall, Cambridge men lead Oxford by 84 wins to 80, with one dead heat in1877, and Cambridge women lead Oxford 45 to 30.
Oxford have been installed as massive favourites to win the men’s race, quoted at anything between 5/11 and 1/3 to emerge victorious.
Conversely, Cambridge are widely expected to win the women’s race with odds of 1/4 to 3/10 being offered by bookmakers.
The men’s boats feature rowers from Great Britain, the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Switzerland, while there are eight different nationalities in the women’s boats.
BOAT RACE CREWS
Men
Oxford: Liam Corrigan; David Ambler; Barnabe Delarze; Jack Robertson; Roman Roosli; Charlie Elwes; Angus Groom; Tobias Schroder; Jack Tottem (cox)
Cambridge: Luca Ferraro; Jamie Hunter; George Finlayson; Simon Schuerch; Ollie Wynne-Griffith; Tom George; James Bernard; Ollie Parish; Charlie Marcus (cox)
Women
Oxford: Julia Lindsay; Amelia Standing; Christine Cavallo; Anja Zehfuss; Anastasia Posner; Gabrielle Smith; Erin Reelick; Annie Anezakis; Joe Gellett (cox)
Cambridge: Adriana Perez Rotondo; Caoimhe Dempsey; Paige Badenhorst; Ruby Tew; Bronya Sykes; Sarah Portsmouth; Grace Prendergast; Imogen Grant; Jasper Parish (cox)
The @Gemini Boat Race ‘This year’s crews contain talent from 10 different nations, including 13 Olympians, some straight off the plane from Tokyo’
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