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This Saturday (30 March) will see the annual Boat Race stream via the Thames, whereas spectators eager to catch a slice of the sporting motion shall be lining the banks of London’s river.
The famed novice sporting occasion between crews from the College of Oxford and the College of Cambridge weaves via 4.25 miles of west London Thames on a course rowed upstream between Putney and Mortlake.
An estimated 270,000 spectators are anticipated to be bankside on the towpath on both aspect of the action-packed stretch of the Thames.
The 2024 occasion marks the 169th Males’s Boat Race and the 78th Girls’s Boat Race within the Oxbridge rivalry’s sporting calendar.
Eight crews are competing within the occasion – Cambridge crews racing in mild blue and Oxford in navy – to win the Aberdeen ‘Quaich’ and Newton trophies.
When you aren’t watching from SW15’s London Rowing Membership as a part of the occasion’s hospitality packages, there’s free entry to fan zones that includes road meals, drinks and large screens in Hammersmith and Fulham.
Furnivall Gardens in Hammersmith hosts race followers within the pageant spirit from 11am to 6pm for a vantage level of crews as they navigate the river bend.
At Fulham Soccer Membership’s Riverside Stand, 14 screens, stay music and Chapel Down English glowing wine make it an awesome spot to observe the primary leg of the race and, supplied the Easter weekend is blessed with good climate, festivities spill into Grade II-listed Bishop’s Park.
For a view of the beginning line beneath Putney Bridge, pedestrians can pitch up on Putney embankment to observe the ‘The Coin Toss’ between Oxbridge presidents.
To see the tense remaining leg of the rowing race go to pubs on the southside of the river in Barnes together with the White Hart or head to the splash zone Ship pub by the Mortlake end line under Chiswick Bridge.
Because of varied street closures – together with each Hammersmith and Barnes Bridge closed from 10am till 5pm – public transport hyperlinks to west London tube and bus stations shall be the easiest way to entry spectator areas.
