page_title: List of The Boat Race results
section_title: Main race
hierarchical_section_title: List of The Boat Race results / Results / Main race
caption_attribution_description: English: Hugh Laurie at the Screen Actors Guild. Italiano: Hugh Laurie agli Screen Actors Guild Award, premio televisivo americano.
context_page_description: The Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing competition between the men's senior boat clubs of the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. The race was first held in 1829 on a 2 ¹⁄₄-mile stretch of the River Thames. As of 2015 the race takes place on the 4.2-mile Championship Course, between Putney and Mortlake on the Thames in south-west London. The rivalry is a major point of honour between the two universities; it is followed throughout the United Kingdom and broadcast 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 as full Blues and as such, the results of these races are not included in the official tally.
  As of the 2019 race, Cambridge lead overall in the competition with 84 victories to Oxford's 80; the 1877 race was declared a "dead heat". Cambridge have led Oxford in cumulative wins since 1930.
  The reserve crews of Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Clubs have also raced against one another since 1967. Oxford's boat Isis and Cambridge's boat Goldie compete on The Championship Course, usually on the same day as the main Boat Race.
context_section_description: Since 1900 the boat race has been predominantly held on a Saturday, 87 planned races with 86 completed races as in 1912 both boats sank and a rerun was held on the following Monday.  Sunday is the second most popular - 13 races including 2019.  Wednesday has hosted seven races and Monday two races including the 1912 rerun.  Thursday has hosted just a single race in 1913.
   
   – race was held on a 2 ¹⁄₄-mile (3.6 km) stretch of the Thames between Hambleden Lock and Henley Bridge.
   – race was held on a 5 ³⁄₄-mile (9.3 km) stretch of the Thames between Westminster Bridge and Putney Bridge.
  a. Cambridge (on the Surrey side) had initially gone into a clear lead, so that they were entitled to take Oxford's water on the Middlesex side. When the boats came up to Crabtree Tavern, Cambridge made for the Surrey side just as Oxford were about to overhaul them. Oxford refused to give way and the two boats collided. After a close fought race, Cambridge crossed the line first. Umpire Fellows called a foul citing the rule in the code of rowing laws governing collisions after one boat has taken the others' water: "if they come into contact by the leading boat's departing from the water so taken, the leading boat shall be deemed to have committed a foul".
  b. In the first race, both boats sank, so it was restaged two days later.
  c. The race was interrupted and restarted. Finish judge Ben Kent counted the total time spent racing.
caption: Hugh Laurie rowed for Cambridge in the 1980 race. Oxford won by a canvas.
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