The Boat Race 1988

Held annually, the event is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge along the River Thames.

[1] First held in 1829, the race takes place on the 4.2-mile (6.8 km) Championship Course on the River Thames in southwest London.

[6] The event was sponsored by Beefeater Gin and was televised in the United Kingdom by the BBC on its Grandstand sports programme.

Cambridge took a slight lead but Oxford soon recovered to become level, and by the Mile Post were three seconds ahead.

[10] Shortly after, the Cambridge number 7, Nick Grundy caught a crab, causing his boat to "shudder to a halt.

[7] Grundy said of his crab: "I feathered my oar after a stroke and the tip caught the water, which plunged it back in.