Boat Race Draws Record Viewership

A peak audience of 2.82 million people watched the BBC coverage of The Boat Race in April. A peak audience of 2.18 million watched the Women’s Boat Race, a 14-percent leap in viewership over 2024, making it the most-watched female sporting event in the United Kingdom. In the 79th Women’s Boat Race – and on the 10th anniversary of the Women’s Boat Race first taking place on the Tideway – Cambridge beat Oxford by 2.5 lengths in a time of 19:25 after a dramatic clash of oars resulted in a restart early on. This represented the first stop and restart ever seen in the Women’s Boat Race.

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