The 2025 Boat Race will be the 170th time that Oxford and Cambridge’s men have raced against each other and the 79th time the women’s crews have done so.
The build-up to this year’s race has been beset by controversy. Oxford insisted that Tom Ford, a gold-medal winner from last year’s Paris Olympics, was ineligible to row for Cambridge because he started his undergraduate degree more than 12 years ago. The dispute then expanded to include three other potential Cambridge rowers, all of whom are studying for PGCE qualifications, which Oxford say makes them ineligible to row too.