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Sporting honour

For the "blue" public house named the Blue Boat, seepublic houses and inns in Grantham.

"Light Blues" and "Dark Blues" redirect here. For other uses, seeShades of blue.

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TheBlue Boat is the highest level boat representing theUniversity of Oxford or theUniversity of Cambridge in the universities' annualrowing races on theRiver Thames,The Boat Race andWomen's Boat Race. As of 2016, the women's first VIII (also referred to as a Blue Boat) race also takes places on the River Thames, along with their male counterparts.^[1]The men's and women'sLightweight races moved to the Thames in 2019 and 2020 respectively.^[2]

"Blue" refers to the oarsmen and women in these first boats each earning theirUniversity Sporting Blue, an honour bestowed on sportsmen and women of each university who compete at the highest level in certain sports in Oxford/Cambridge competitions. Oxford is commonly referred to as the "Dark Blues" and Cambridge as the "Light Blues".^[3]^[4]

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^"The Basics - The Boat Race". Archived fromthe original on 15 April 2015. Retrieved19 February 2016.
^"Lightweight Boat Races Oxford vs Cambridge".Lightweight Boat Rac. Retrieved19 June 2020.
^Bloomfield, Paul (3 August 2010)."The Oxford versus Cambridge gloat race".BBC.
^Keene, Raymond (4 March 2023)."Battle of the Blues".TheArticle.

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