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Cambridge will face Oxford on a football pitch by the Thames for the 124th Varsity Match hours before the rowers take to the water this Saturday.

Oxford go into this weekend’s Boat Race as the heavier of the two crews, although Cambridge remain narrow favourites with the bookmakers to make it two wins in a row on Saturday.

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.