The 2015 Boat Races took place on 11 April 2015. Held annually, The Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford...
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The Henley Boat Races were a series of annual rowing races between various crews representing the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge...
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The 2016 Boat Races (also known as The Cancer Research UK Boat Races for the purposes of sponsorship) took place on 27 March 2016. Held annually, The...
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The Lightweight Boat Races are a series of annual rowing races between men's and women's lightweight crews representing the University of Oxford and the...
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The Boat Race is an annual set of rowing races between the Cambridge University Boat Club and the Oxford University Boat Club, traditionally rowed between...
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The Boat Races 2017 (also known as The Cancer Research UK Boat Races for the purposes of sponsorship) took place on 2 April 2017. Held annually, the Boat...
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University Women's Boat Club (CUWBC) was the rowing club for women at the University of Cambridge. CUWBC fielded both a lightweight eight that races against Oxford...
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although the drum often remains aboard for drummers to practice. For races, there are 18-20 people in a standard boat, and 8-10 in a small boat, not including...
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1927, the race has taken place annually since 1964. Since the 2015 race it has been rowed on the same day and course as the men's Boat Race on the River...
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University Boat Club in the annual Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race and Lightweight Boat Races. CUBC's Openweight Men's squad currently lead Oxford in the series...
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engaged in races involving boats and other water-borne craft for as long as such watercraft have existed. A regatta is a series of boat races. The term comes...
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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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Vallam kali (redirect from Snake boat race)
conducted during the season of the harvest festival Onam in spring. Vallam kali includes races of many kinds of paddled longboats and 'snake boats'. Each team...
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2012). "Boat Race becomes 'the Boat Races' as women and men's university events are combined for 2015". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original...
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worldwide. Four unofficial boat races were held during the Second World War, both on the Thames and the Great Ouse in Ely. The crews were not recognised...
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and 46–30 in the men's and women's races, respectively. The crews for both men's and women's boats were announced on 6 March 2023. The women's race was...
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Rowing (sport) (category Boating)
regata included boat races among others. The first known "modern" rowing races began from competition among the professional watermen in the United Kingdom...
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Bumps race (redirect from Bumping races)
of boats chase each other in single file, each crew attempting to catch and 'bump' the boat in front without being caught by the boat behind. The form...
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2012). "Boat Race becomes 'the Boat Races' as women and men's university events are combined for 2015". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original...
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celebrated by holding dragon boat races and eating sticky rice dumplings called zongzi, which were southern Chinese traditions. Dragon Boat Festival integrates...
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some money competing in yachting regattas and match races. The syndicate contracted with pilot boat designer George Steers for a 101 ft (30.78 m) schooner...
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that the races are planned to be as close as possible. Of the long-distance races so far, the car has won the vast majority of the races, with the exceptions...
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Timeline of Oxford (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
the Weston Library by WilkinsonEyre. October: St Benet's Hall admits its first women students, as graduates. 2015 11 April: The Boat Races 2015, the first...
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OUBC is to beat Cambridge University Boat Club in the annual University Boat Race and Lightweight Boat Races on the River Thames. OUBC's Openweight Men's...
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Sailing (sport) (redirect from Sail boat racing)
individual races. The boat crew that performs best in over the series of races is the overall winner. There is a broad variety of kinds of races and sailboats...
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races, particularly the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race. The course is on the tidal reaches of the river often referred to as the Tideway. Due to the iconic...
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until 2015 the Women's Boat Race had taken place over 2000m as part of the Henley Boat Races on the Henley Reach. In 2015, for the first time, the Women's...
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Bon Om Touk (section Dancing on the racing boats)
the end of the monsoon season. The festivities are accompanied by dragon boat races, similar to those seen in the Lao Boun Suang Huea festival. The festival...
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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)
the boat race. Subsequently winners of the race were given the Haile Selassie Ever rolling trophy. Other renowned boat races are: Indira Gandhi Boat Race...
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