The Oxford crew weighed an average of per rower more than Cambridge. For the second consecutive year, Cambridge's crew featured just one British rower. Cambridge was coached by Steve Trapmore for the third time, and declared "It's the best crew I've had in my time at Cambridge". Oxford's Sean Bowden who was coaching the university for an eighteenth time, was "very satisfied" with his crew. Milan Bruncvík was the first Czech rower in the history of the Boat Race. Three medallists from the 2012 Summer Olympics featured: Cambridge's George Nash won a bronze for Great Britain in the coxless pair, Oxford's Constantine Louloudis won bronze for Great Britain in the men's eight and his crew-mate Malcolm Howard won silver for Canada in the same event.