page_title: The Boat Race 1979
section_title: Crews
hierarchical_section_title: The Boat Race 1979 / Crews
caption_attribution_description: English: The BNY Mellon Boat Race 2015 - Boris Rankov, umpire of the men main race.
context_page_description: The 125th Boat Race took place on 17 March 1979. Held annually, the event is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge along the River Thames. The 150th anniversary race was won by Oxford by ​3 ¹⁄₂ lengths. For the first time in 50 years, neither crew featured foreign rowers, while Cambridge's stroke was replaced just hours before the race. Goldie won the reserve race in the slowest time in the history of the race while Cambridge won the Women's Boat Race.
context_section_description: Both crews weighed an average of 13 st 4 lb (84.2 kg); Henderson, the Cambridge cox weighed 13 pounds (5.9 kg) more than his Dark Blue counterpart.  In the week leading up to the race however, Cambridge's Andy Grey was struck down by gastroenteritis.  While he recovered, his roommate John Woodhouse became ill and withdrew from the race three hours prior to the event.  Woodhouse was replaced by Graham Phillips (who weighed 8 pounds (4 kg) less than Woodhouse) and the Light Blue boat was reorganised, with Phillips rowing at three and Nick Davies moving to stroke.  Oxford's crew contained four returning Blues, with Boris Rankov making the second of what would become six appearances in the race.  Cambridge welcomed back four Blue rowers and the cox Henderson, all of whom had rowed the previous year.
caption: Boris Rankov (pictured in 2015) made the second of his six appearances for Oxford.
exif: {"Image Make": "Canon", "Image Model": "Canon EOS 60D", "Image XResolution": "240", "Image YResolution": "240", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Windows)", "Image DateTime": "2015:04:19 22:49:38", "Image Artist": "Wikimedia UK", "Image ExifOffset": "232", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "914", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "18378", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/2500", "EXIF FNumber": "9/2", "EXIF ExposureProgram": "Aperture Priority", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "100", "EXIF SensitivityType": "Recommended Exposure Index", "EXIF RecommendedExposureIndex": "100", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0230", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2015:04:11 15:45:04", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2015:04:11 15:45:04", "EXIF ShutterSpeedValue": "352741/31250", "EXIF ApertureValue": "86797/20000", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "-2/3", "EXIF MaxApertureValue": "35/8", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Pattern", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode", "EXIF FocalLength": "90", "EXIF SubSecTimeOriginal": "42", "EXIF SubSecTimeDigitized": "42", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF FocalPlaneXResolution": "1036800/181", "EXIF FocalPlaneYResolution": "691200/119", "EXIF FocalPlaneResolutionUnit": "2", "EXIF CustomRendered": "Normal", "EXIF ExposureMode": "Auto Exposure", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Auto", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Standard", "EXIF CameraOwnerName": "Wikimedia UK", "EXIF BodySerialNumber": "2781424781", "EXIF LensSpecification": "[55, 250, 0/0, 0/0]", "EXIF LensModel": "EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS II", "EXIF LensSerialNumber": "00003defd0"}