On April 11th, the Chairman of Asian Rowing Federation Mr. Wang Shi joined CCTV5+ as a guest commentary for the 161st Boat Race between Cambridge University and Oxford University on Times River.
It was the first live broadcast for Chinese television station about the Boat Race between Cambridge and Oxford. The broadcast started from 11 p.m. on April 11th and last until 1 a.m. the next morning. Both the men and the women crew of the Dark Blue (Oxford) beat the Light Blue (Cambridge). This year is also the first time that the women’s boat race was held in the same day and took the same course and the men crew.
The triumph of Oxford rewrote the record of the boat race from 78 win for Oxford to 79 win and 28 win in the women’s boat race to 29 win. However, the Cambridge Crew still holds the record of total 81 wins in the boat race since 1829. The whole race was hard and exciting and Oxford Crew finished 6.8km and winning Cambridge Crew by 20 seconds in a time of 17:34.
Note: All the broadcasters that conducted live broadcast of boat race this year.
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