KEY STATISTICS

• Cambridge has won the men’s race 84 times and Oxford 80 times, with a dead heat in 1877. In the women’s race, Cambridge has won 44 times and Oxford 30 times.

• The first women’s race was in 1927 and since 2015 has been held on the same day as the men’s.

• The 2021 Boat Race will be on 4 April, though not on the Thames but the Great Ouse in Ely.

Cambridge row their way to a win in 2019