Cambridge and Oxford Boat Clubs have unveiled the crew line-ups to contest this year’s Boat Race, sponsored by Xchanging, which will take place on Sunday 29 March at 15:40.

Cambridge Head Coach, Chris Nilsson, has five returning 2008 Blues including American Ryan Monaghan who is joined by British crew members Henry Pelly, the CUBC President, plus Tom Ransley, Peter Marsland and experienced cox Rebecca Dowbiggin (2007 & 2008).

“I’ve pushed them harder on occasions than they have been pushed before,” said Nilsson. “But we had to go there and they now know what they are capable of. We are up against a much stronger boat but I still believe we can win.”

Cambridge will race in a brand new shell eight, 'The 800th', to commemorate the 800th Anniversary of the founding of the University of Cambridge.

Sean Bowden, Head Coach at Oxford has chosen a global crew for this year’s Race and has three returning Blues - Beijing Olympic silver medallist and OUBC President Colin Smith (2004 & 2006) together with two internationals who are once again taking up the Dark Blue oars, Ante Kušurin (2007) from Croatia and Michal Plotkowiak (2007) from Poland.

Cambridge currently lead the overall series 79-74, with one Race declared a dead-heat since 1829. The Race will be screened live on ITV1 during a programme that begins at 14:30 and also broadcast live on LBC radio 97.3.

The 155th Boat Race is sponsored by Xchanging – the fast-growing international pure-play business processing company. More details can be found at the link above right.

2009 Cambridge Boat Race Crews

The Blue Boat
Bow - Rob Weitemeyer
2 - Henry Pelly
3 - Deaglan McEachern
4 - Peter Marsland
5 - Ryan Monaghan
6 - Hardy Cubasch
7 - Tom Ransley
Stroke - Silas Stafford
Cox - Rebecca Dowbiggin

Goldie
Cambridge (Goldie)
Bow -James Strawson

2 - Dan O’Shaughnessy
3 - Code Sternal
4 - John Clay
5 - Shane O’Mara
6 - Joel Jennings
7 - George Nash
Stroke - Fred Gill
Cox - Helen Hodges

 

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