• The 35th Women's Boat Race took place on 23 March 1980. The contest was between crews from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and held as part of...
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  • The 126th Boat Race took place on 5 April 1980. Held annually, the Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford...
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  • The Women's Boat Race is an annual rowing race between Cambridge University Boat Club and Oxford University Women's Boat Club. First rowed in 1927, the...
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  • 2020. The first women's event was held in 1927, and the Women's Boat Race has been an annual event since 1964. Since 2015, the women's race has taken place...
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    that races against Oxford at the Henley Boat Races, and two openweight eights that race at the Women's Boat Race. In April 2020 it was agreed that the club...
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    race was first held in 1829 on a 2+1⁄4-mile (3.6 km) stretch of the River Thames. For the women's senior boat clubs race see "The Women's Boat Race"...
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  • Men's Boat Race from 1975 to 2018, the Women's Boat Race from 1977 to 2014, the Lightweight Women's Boat Race from 1984 to 2019, and the Collegiate Boat Races...
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  • The 34th Women's Boat Race took place on 25 March 1979. The contest was between crews from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and held as part of...
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  • The 36th Women's Boat Race took place on 29 March 1981. The contest was between crews from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and held as part of...
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    lightweight women's crew for the first Lightweight Women's Boat Race at Henley. These races remained in Henley until the Women's Boat Race moved to the...
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    The Harvard–Yale Regatta or Yale-Harvard Boat Race (often abbreviated The Race) is an annual rowing race between the men's heavyweight rowing crews of...
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  • Isis beat Goldie by 4+1⁄2 lengths, and in the Women's Boat Race, Oxford were victorious. The Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing competition between the...
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    to the first female skipper to complete the race. In 1975, the first all-women crew sailed was the boat Barbarian, skippered by Vicki Willman.[citation...
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  • race into two events, one using smaller boats and intended for amateurs and young sailors, the other for professionals. The amateur event was raced as...
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  • Sue Brown (rowing) (category Oxford University Boat Club rowers)
    1980 she coxed the Oxford crew to victory in the women's boat race. She was selected to represent Great Britain in the women's coxed four at the 1980...
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  • before the race. Goldie won the reserve race in the slowest time in the history of the race while Cambridge won the Women's Boat Race. The Boat Race is a side-by-side...
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    rowed for the university against Cambridge University in the Boat Race and the Women's Boat Race. Barney Williams, a Canadian rower who studied at the college...
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    for the inaugural women's division. The club has provided rowers for the Boat Race, the Women's Boat Race, and the Isis Reserves Race. A former president...
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  • joined by the openweight women's Boat Race two years later, thus forming the Henley Boat Races. The first lightweight women's boat race took place at the event...
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    in 1975 where the St Hugh's Women's First VIII bumped Magdalen M4. The St Hugh's W1 became the first and only women's boat to successfully bump a men's...
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  • Thames. The Boat Race between the Oxford University Boat Club and the Cambridge University Boat Club, held in March or April The Great River Race on the River...
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  • by the Delftse Studenten Roeiverening Proteus-Eretes during the Hour boat race on 17 December 2017. These results are based on a standard distance of...
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  • Daniel Topolski (category Oxford University Boat Club rowers)
    Westminster School's boat club for two consecutive years. While at Oxford, he rowed in the University Boat Race on two occasions. In the 1967 race, rowing at number...
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    from Tampa, Mexico City, and Montreal. Before 1980, many Haitian immigrants arrived on American shores by boat. They were not granted legal protection because...
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    including the Fairbairn Cup, the Head of the River Race, the Women's Eights Head of the River Race, the Henley Boat Races and many regional and national events...
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    In that very first year, the first women’s eight was formed, and managed to compete in Eights Week 1980. The women have since fought their way up the...
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    The boat is mostly sailed and raced in Nordic countries and Central Europe, although there are a few boats in the UK and the US. The official race crew...
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    way they would match up their rhythm in a boat. Indoor rowers usually also display estimates of rowing boat speed and energy used by the athlete. Rowing...
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    possible eights from each school. Between 1967 and 1980, women's collegiate boats entered the National Women's Rowing Association National Championships (what...
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    decision to set the novel on a Mississippi River boat traveling south forced her to engage with race for the first time. While the central characters...
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