Boat Race 2016 Crew Announcement Thursday, 03 March 2016

Jack Winstanley

Seven returning Blues announced in men's and women's 2016 Boat Race Crews

All four crews line up for press photographs at the crew announcement on Tuesday morning. Photo credit: Jack Winstanley

For those with any interest in Oxbridge rowing, all eyes turned to Central Hall in Westminster on Tuesday morning as the official crews were announced for both the Men's and Women's 2016 Cancer Research UK Boat Races.

Both the Cambridge Men and Women lost their respective races last year and start this year as challengers for the races which start at 3:10pm and 4:10pm on Sunday 27th March 2016.

The Cambridge men's boat boasts four returning Blues versus Oxford's one, with 5 seat Luke Juckett, 6 seat and President Henry Hoffstot, 7 seat Ben Ruble and cox Ian Middleton returning to try and help the light blues avoid a fourth straight defeat.

In the women's race, experience across the two crews is much more even, with each boat containing three returning Blues each. Bow seat Ashton Brown, 5 seat Daphne Martschenko and cox Rosemary Ostfeld all return for the Cambridge women's crew from the inaugural race on the Tideway in 2015.

The crews in full:

The 2016 Cancer Research UK Boat Race

Cambridge

Bow: Felix Newman – 83.2kg

2: Ali Abbasi – 88.4kg

3: Charles Fisher – 91.8kg

4: Clemens Auersperg – 90.4kg

5: Luke Juckett – 82.0kg

6: Henry Hoffstot –  92.6kg

7: Ben Ruble – 83.4kg

Stroke: Lance Tredell – 94.2kg

Cox: Ian Middleton – 54.0kg

Oxford

Bow: George McKirdy – 76.8kg

2: James White – 87.0kg

3: Morgan Gerlak – 85.8kg

4: Joshua Bugajski – 96.4kg

5: Leo Carrington – 87.0kg

6: Jørgen Tveit – 82.4kg

7: Jamie Cook – 84.0kg

Stroke: Nik Hazell – 94.8kg

Cox: Sam Collier – 56.2kg

^{The Cancer Research UK Men's Boat Race trophy. Photo credit: Jack Winstanley}

The 2016 Cancer Research UK Women's Boat Race

Cambridge

Bow: Ashton Brown – 81.0kg

2: Fiona Macklin – 64.0kg

3: Alice Jackson – 77.2kg

4: Théa Zabell – 79.4kg

5: Daphne Martschenko – 76.6kg

6: Zara Goozee – 66.2kg

7: Hannah Roberts – 73.6kg

Stroke: Myriam Goudet – 80.4kg

Cox: Rosemary Ostfeld – 50.0kg

Oxford

Bow: Emma Lukasiewicz – 60.4kg

2: Emma Spruce – 72.0kg

3: Joanneke Jansen – 67.0kg

4: Ruth Siddorn – 75.2kg

5: Ëlo Luik – 78.2kg

6: Anastasia Chitty – 71.0kg

7: Maddy Badcott – 74.8kg

Stroke: Lauren Kedar – 65.6kg

Cox: Morgan Baynham-Williams – 60.0kg

^{The Cancer Research UK Women's Boat Race trophy. Photo credit: Jack Winstanley.}

Cambridge have the heavier boat in both races, with the women's boat weighing in at 34.2Kg heavier than their Oxford counterparts (excl. cox) and the Cambridge men's boat weighing in at 11.8Kg than those in Dark Blue.

^{Both the Cambridge women's and Cambridge men's 2016 Cancer Research UK Boat Race crews. Photo credit: Jack Winstanley.}

You can follow all the build up to The 2016 Cancer Research UK Boat Races on Cam FM with interviews with both the crew and the coaches. Cam FM will also be on the riverside at both the start and end of the race course on race day itself, collecting interviews, taking photos, and providing live text commentary of the race itself, which you can follow on Twitter @camfm972 or on www.camfm.co.uk.