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The Cambridge Blue Boat will race a Tideway Scullers' School crew comprising the world's eight foremost heavyweight male scullers on Wednesday 18th March.

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.

The Chancellor of the University, HRH Prince Philip The Duke Of Edinburgh, was in Cambridge yesterday for a series of engagements.

Advancing by degrees, an exhibition capturing 800 years of university development, learning and student life, opens at Cambridge University Library tomorrow as part of the university’s 800th Anniversary celebrations.

Cambridge University Boat Club President Henry Pelly issued the official Challenge, to race on The Thames in just 19 weeks’ time, to his Oxford counterpart Colin Smith at a reception at the Portland Gallery in London and it was promptly accepted.

Seven British Blues helped Team GB top the Olympic medal table at the Beijing Games and record the country’s best results in the sport since 1908.

 

The Olympic Games may be just around the corner – with one current Cambridge University student and nine graduates competing in Beijing - but it’s already been a year of sporting success for the University.

Ten Cambridge University graduates and one current student will represent Great Britain when the Olympic Games get under way in Beijing next week.