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The countdown has begun to this Sunday’s Henley Boat Races in which the Cambridge University Women’s Boat Club and Lightweight Men will race against their arch rivals, Oxford.

The University's finest rowers took on a challenge with a difference last weekend when they agreed to race crews from North Cornwall in traditional Cornish wooden gigs.

Cambridge University Boat Club will be competing in the inaugural ’‘Race of Champions' through the centre of Moscow and past the Kremlin this weekend.

Cambridge have won the flagship Championship Eights event at the BUSA Rowing Regatta and been selected to represent GB at the European Universities Regatta in Banyoles, Spain in September.

It was a happy Easter weekend for Cambridge rowers and riders.

The scene is now set for the 153rd Cambridge and Oxford Boat Race, sponsored by Xchanging.

Cambridge triumphed over Oxford in the Women's Boat Race at Henley last weekend on a stormy day.

The Cambridge Blue Boat boosted their standing as odds-on favourites to win the Boat Race following the official weigh-in at the Hurlingham Club on 3 April.

With little more than two months to go to the 153rd Boat Race, the third and last to be sponsored by Xchanging, the Cambridge training regime is in full swing and final crew selection is rapidly approaching.

The long haul to this year’s Boat Race begins for the Cambridge University Boat Club tonight.