Boat Race: Oxford men win; Cambridge women set record time
LONDON –
Oxford introduced an finish to Cambridge’s latest supremacy within the males’s Boat Race between England’s two main universities as one of many nation’s oldest sporting occasions made its return to the River Thames on Sunday.
Oxford halted its rival’s run of three straight wins within the males’s race to provide long-serving chief coach Sean Bowden a thirteenth success in his twenty fifth 12 months within the position.
British-Canadian Ollie Parish, whose mom Zoe is initially from Toronto, was within the Cambridge boat.
It was the primary Boat Race held over the 4.2-mile (6.8-kilometre) stretch of the River Thames in southwest London since 2019 due to the pandemic. The 2020 race was cancelled and the 2021 version occasion happened on the Nice Ouse in Ely, with out followers, due to coronavirus restrictions.
Cambridge leads the rivalry 85-81.
Within the girls’s race, staged on the identical course, Cambridge received for the fifth straight time and in a file time of 18 minutes, 22.9 seconds.
Jasper Parish, Ollie’s youthful brother, coxed the Cambridge girls. The Oxford crew included Julia Lindsay of North Vancouver and Gabrielle Smith of Unionville, Ont.
