The 134th Boat Race took place on 2 April 1988. Held annually, the event is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford and...
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The Boat Race 2022 was a side-by-side rowing race which took place on 3 April 2022. Held annually, The Boat Race is contested between crews from the universities...
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boat play/game, but can be translated to boat race in English. The most popular event of the race is the competition of Chundan Vallams (snake boats)...
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The Boat Race 2018 (also known as The Cancer Research UK Boat Race for the purposes of sponsorship) took place on 24 March 2018. Held annually, The Boat...
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dimensions of the yacht. Much public attention however, focuses on the race for "line honours" – the first boat across the finishing line, typically the newest...
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The 136th Boat Race took place on 31 March 1990. Held annually, the Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford...
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The 135th Boat Race took place on 25 March 1989. 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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The Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing competition between the men's senior boat clubs of the University of Oxford (sometimes referred to as the "Dark...
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Cambridge. The event included the Lightweight Men's Boat Race from 1975 to 2018, the Women's Boat Race from 1977 to 2014, the Lightweight Women's Boat Race from...
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The 133rd Boat Race took place on 28 March 1987. Held annually, the Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford...
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Harvard–Yale Regatta (redirect from Harvard-Yale Boat Race)
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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Ben Lexcen (redirect from Bob Miller (boat designer))
versions of the boat. This was the first time in history that the series depended on the result of the last race, and the pressure of defending the Cup was...
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excess of 40 knots (74 km/h; 46 mph). Of the 115 boats which started, 71 retired and 44 yachts completed the race. Outright victory went to Sayonara, owned...
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Andrew David Lobbenberg (category Oxford University Boat Club rowers)
Oxford is a former British rower. He was the cox for the winning Oxford team in the Boat Races of 1987 and 1988. "Birth details at freebmd.org.uk". freebmd...
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Glyn Charles (category Sailors at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Star)
participating in the 630-mile Sydney to Hobart race, sailing the Sword of Orion; intense conditions battered the 115-boat fleet, sinking five, and causing 66 to...
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U-boats were naval submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars. The term is an anglicized version of the German word...
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boat traveling south forced her to engage with race for the first time. While the central characters in Ferber's novel are predominantly white, the inclusion...
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Dennis Conner (category Volvo Ocean Race sailors)
Winston in 1993-94 and on boat Toshiba 1997–98.) (see Volvo Ocean Race) 28 World Championships Three-time winner, U.S. Yachtsman of the Year: 1975, 1980 and...
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"Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)" is a traditional Jamaican folk song. The song has mento influences, but it is commonly classified as an example of the better...
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Bruce Farr (category Boat and ship designers)
Farr‑designed boats have won, challenged for, or placed highly in the Whitbread Round the World Race, America's Cup, and Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, among others...
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unique race courses. The top edge label on the North American cartridge misspells the game's name as "Elimonator Boat Duel". Reception R.C. Pro-Am (1988) Snake...
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Tom Cadoux-Hudson (category Oxford University Boat Club rowers)
composites, at the 1982 National Rowing Championships. In 1987 and 1988, medical student Cadoux-Hudson competed in and won The Boat Race in 1987 and 1988 for Oxford...
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This is a list of the Oxford University crews who have competed in The Boat Race since its inception in 1829. A coxswain or oarsman earns their rowing...
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Match racing (redirect from Match race)
racing in which two similar boats go head to head in a race or set of races to decide which boat has the better crew competing on board. In sailing there are...
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permitted. The Championship Course is that of the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race but, unlike the Boat Race, the Head of the River Race is raced on an ebb...
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the decision to split the race into two events, one using smaller boats and intended for amateurs and young sailors, the other for professionals. The...
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following year in 1988. He proposed to bring a 90-foot racing yacht for his challenge boat. San Diego Yacht Club, who wanted to continue running the Cup regatta...
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Outrigger boats are various watercraft featuring one or more lateral support floats known as outriggers, which are fastened to one or both sides of the main...
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Kerala backwaters (section Boat races)
Race, Champakulam Moolam Boat Race, Aranmula Uthrattadi Vallamkali, Payippad Jalotsavam, Kallada Boat Race and Kumarakom Boat Race. Important in the ancient...
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