The crews for this year’s race have been unveiled at Somerset House as Oxford University Boat Club and Cambridge University Boat Club enter the final stretch of their preparations for the latest clash in their enduring rivalry.

Packed with a mixture of Olympic, international and homegrown student rowing talent, the crews are just three weeks away from meeting on the iconic Championship Course on the 4th of April.

The Boat Race course, known as the Championship Course is 4 miles, 374 yards or 6.8 km long.

It stretches between Putney and Mortlake on the River Thames.

Oxford Women are led by Olympic bronze medallist Heidi Long and can count on the experience of three-time Blue Boat crew members Annie Anezakis and Sarah Marshall, who will hope their fourth contest on the Championship Course will bring them the win they are desperately seeking.

Up against them are a formidable Cambridge Women’s outfit who are on a winning streak stretching back to 2017.

President Gemma King, whose sister Catherine represents Oxford, will have fellow two-time winner and fifth-year medic Carys Earl to count on, along with a sprinkling of new recruits such as Camille Vandermeer.

Oxford Men will be led by cox Tobias Bernard, who learned to row on the Tideway and will need to use all of his intimate knowledge of the course to guide his crew to victory.

Four-time under-23 world champion and Los Angeles 2028 hopeful Harry Geffen will be central to the cause, as will the international pedigree of Julian Schölberl and James Fetter.

Cambridge Men have their eyes on a fourth successive victory in the Men’s Race and will be led, like Oxford, by French national Noam Mouelle, marking the first time in Boat Race history that a pair of Frenchmen have led the two crews.

Mouelle can call on the similarly experienced Simon Hatcher, while Gabriel Obholzer’s selection represents the continuation of a proud family tradition after his parents both competed in the 1991 event with father Rupert going on to Olympic honours.

Cambridge Women

Cox – Matt Moran
Stroke – Aidan Wrenn-Walz
7 – Mia Freischem
6 – Camille Vandermeer
5 – Antonia Galland
4 – Carys Earl
3 – Charlotte Ebel
2 – Isobel Campbell
Bow – Gemma King (President)

Oxford Women

Cox – Louis Corrigan
Stroke – Heidi Long (President)
7 – Sarah Marshall
6 – Esther Briz Zamorano
5 – Kyra Delray
4 – Julietta Camahort
3 – Lilli Freischem
2 – Emily Molins
Bow – Annie Anezakis

Cambridge Men

Cox – Sammy Houdagui
Stroke – Freddy Breuer
7 – Will Klipstine
6 – Lexi Maclean
5 – Gabriel Obholzer
4 – Patrick Wild
3 – Kyle Fram
2 – Noam Mouelle (President)
Bow – Simon Hatcher

Oxford Men

Cox- Tobias Bernard (President)
Stroke – Harry Geffen
7 – Alex Sullivan
6 – Jamie Arnold
5 – Alex Underwood
4 – Fergus Pim
3 – James Fetter
2 – Julian Schöberl
Bow – Felix Crabtree