Men's trophy for the 2016 Boat Race

The Boat Races 2016 (also known for sponsorship reasons as The Cancer Research UK Boat Races) took place on 27 March 2016. The Boat Race is an annual set of side-by-side rowing races between crews from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge along a 4.2-mile (6.8 km) stretch of the River Thames in south-west London. For the first time in the history of the event, the men's, women's and both reserves' races were held on the Tideway on the same day. Trials for the race took place on the Championship Course in December 2015, and the selected crews took part in several practice races in the build-up to the main event. The weigh-in for the men's and women's races took place on 1 March 2016, with both Cambridge's men and women the heavier crews. Pre-race betting had Cambridge's men and Oxford's women as favourites. The men's race (trophy pictured) was won by Cambridge by two and a half lengths, taking the overall record in the event to 82–79 in their favour. (Full article...)

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