The Boat Race 1993
| 139th Boat Race | |||
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| Date | 27 March 1993 | ||
| Winner | Cambridge | ||
| Margin of victory | 3 and 1/2 lengths | ||
| Winning time | 17 minutes 0 seconds | ||
| Overall record (Cambridge–Oxford) |
70–68 | ||
| Umpire |
Mark Evans (Oxford) |
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| Other races | |||
| Reserve winner | Goldie | ||
| Women's winner | Cambridge | ||
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The 139th Boat Race took place on 27 March 1993. Held annually, the Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge along the River Thames. Cambridge, using "cleaver blades" for the first time in the history of the race, won by three-and-a-half lengths in a victory that was described in The Times as "crushingly conclusive". The winning time of 17 minutes exactly was the fourth-fastest time in the event. In winning the event, Cambridge prevented Oxford making it seventeen wins from the last eighteen races and levelling the overall score for the first time since the 1929 race.
Oxford's crew featured two Olympic gold medallists and saw changes in their rowers and cox in the lead-up to the event. The race was umpired by the former Oxford Blue Mark Evans who controversially instigated changes to the start procedure of the race.
In the reserve race, Cambridge's Goldie defeated Oxford's Isis, while Cambridge won the Women's Boat Race.
The Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing competition between the University of Oxford (sometimes referred to as the "Dark Blues") and the University of Cambridge (sometimes referred to as the "Light Blues"). First held in 1829, the race takes place on the 4.2-mile (6.8 km) Championship Course on the River Thames in southwest London. The rivalry is a major point of honour between the two universities; it is followed throughout the United Kingdom and broadcast worldwide. Oxford went into the race as reigning champions, having won the 1992 race by one-and-a-quarter lengths, with Cambridge leading overall with 69 victories to Oxford's 68 (excluding the "dead heat" of 1877). Oxford had won 16 of the previous 17 races, a run interrupted by Cambridge's seven-length victory in the 1986 race.
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