Boat Race 2025 LIVE: Latest updates as Cambridge and Oxford do battle once again

The ladies’s race will begin at 1.20pm with the boys’s race following at 2.20pm BST on Sunday 13 April. The motion will likely be proven dwell on the BBC, with protection getting underway at 12.45pm.

We’ll deliver you the newest build-up.

The annual Boat Race returns for an additional day of elite motion on the River Thames.

This yr’s version has been rocked by controversy within the lead-up to the pivotal day, with a row erupting over eligibility guidelines after Olympian Tom Ford was banned from participating for Cambridge.

Earlier, three post-graduate trainer coaching college students have been additionally deemed ineligible, with the choice made lower than a month earlier than the 2 universities have been scheduled to face off.

The spat has heightened the stakes in an already-dramatic race, with Oxford in search of to finish years of Cambridge domination of the occasion. The sunshine blue opponents have gained seven years in a row within the girls’s race and 6 of the final eight males’s editions.