Women's Boat Race 2013

[1] It was conducted as part of the Henley Boat Races, which for 2013 was hosted at the 2012 Summer Olympics venue of Dorney Lake in Buckinghamshire instead of the traditional straight course at Henley-on-Thames.

[1] The race was sponsored by Newton Investment Management, a subsidiary of The Bank of New York Mellon, for the third successive year.

Oxford's boat club president Bridget Fryer was forced to withdraw from the race through injury.

[9] Cambridge's crew included three rowers with Boat Race experience, in bow Caroline Reid, number two Faye Sandford (who was earning her third Blue for CUWBC[10]) and stroke Holly Game.

Cambridge's crew was entirely British while Oxford's included Hungarian Mariann Novak at bow, British/Germans Alice Carrington-Windo at two and Maxie Scheske at stroke, and American Apfelbaum.

They were half a length ahead after 250 metres (270 yd), out-rating Oxford by fours strokes per minute.

[1] Oxford's Foord-Weston said the conditions were "pretty grim" but their training at Dorney during the week running up to the race had prepared them for the "horrible winds".