The Boat Race, which was first staged in 1829, is a rowing event which takes place every year between students from two of the UK’s elite universities over a 4.25-mile stretch of the Thames in ...

River Thames rowers are becoming sick every week due to the river’s poor water quality ahead of the the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race, The i Paper can reveal. It is understood rowing clubs along ...

A rower has died after competing in a veterans’ boat race on the River Thames. The man was a member of a club which had travelled from Annecy in France to take part in the Vesta International ...

Campaign group River Action, which started testing for the E. coli in the Thames on March 10, maintains 29.5 per cent of its results exceeded safe limits.

The 2025 women’s Boat Race was briefly stopped after the Cambridge and Oxford teams collided in the River Thames. Olympic legend and race umpire Matthew Pinsent was forced to pause proceedings ...

Oxford won the first race in June 1829 at Henley-on-Thames and in a way not a huge amount has changed in the ensuing 196 years. It’s still eight rowers in a boat on the Thames.