Boat Race 2018 live: Oxford and Cambridge result, action and winners from London's River Thames

Oxford return to the Thames this afternoon aiming to win a fifth Boat Race in six years after victory along the same route 12 months ago.

The Oxford crew won the 2017 men's event to reduce their overall deficit to 82-80 and extend their recent dominance over Cambridge.

Around 300,000 people are expected to again line the banks of the river for the 164th Boat Race, with both crews tackling The Championship Course, which stretches 4.2 miles from Putney to Mortlake.

Follow the action with Standard Sport's live blog below!

Start time

The 2018 Boat Race will take place on Saturday, March 24. The women's race gets under way at 4.31pm and the men's race follows the same route just over an hour later at 5.32pm.

TV and online coverage

BBC1 will be broadcasting live coverage from 3.50pm on the day of the race. Online viewers can watch the race live or catch up on BBC iPlayer.

Women's crews

Cambridge University

Tricia Smith, bow (Christ's)

Imogen Grant, 2 (Trinity)

Kelsey Barolak, 3 (Homerton)

Thea Zabell, 4 (Downing)

Paula Wesselmann, 5 (Jesus)

Alice White, 6 (Homerton)

Myriam Goudet-Boukhatmi, 7 (Lucy Cavendish)

Olivia Coffey, stroke (Homerton)

Sophie Shapter, cox (St Catherine's)

Oxford University

Renee Koolschijn, bow (Keble)

Katherine Erickson, 2 (Wolfson)

Juliette Perry, 3 (Somerville)

Alice Roberts, 4 (St Edmund Hall)

Morgan McGovern, 5 (St Catherine's)

Sara Kushma, 6 (Christ Church)

Abigail Killen, 7 (St Cross)

Beth Bridgman, stroke (St Hugh's)

Jessica Buck, cox (Green Templeton)

Men's crews

Cambridge University

Patrick Elwood, bow (Magdalene)

Charles Fisher, 2 (St John’s)

Dara Alizadeh, 3 (Hughes Hall)

James Letten, 4 (Hughes Hall)

Spencer Furey, 5 (Jesus)

Finn Meeks, 6 (Hughes Hall)

Rob Hurn, 7 (St Edmund's)

Freddie Davidson, stroke (Emmanuel)

Hugo Ramambason, cox (Trinity)

Oxford University

Iain Mandale, bow (St Edmund Hall)

Felix Drinkall, 2 (Lady Margaret Hall)

Will Cahill, 3 (Christ Church)

Anders Weiss, 4 (St Hugh’s)

Will Geffen, 5 (Keble)

Benedict Aldous, 6 (Christ Church)

Claas Mertens, 7 (Christ Church)

Vassilis Ragoussis, stroke (Linacre)

Zachary Thomas, cox (Wolfson)

Odds (via Betfair)

• Oxford 9/4

• Cambridge 4/11

• Dead heat 50/1

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