| The Boat Race 2022 | |||
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.jpg) Oxford winning the men's event | |||
| Date | 3 April 2022 | ||
| Men's race | |||
| Winner | Oxford | ||
| Margin of victory | 2¼ lengths | ||
| Winning time | 16 minutes 42 seconds | ||
| Overall record (Cambridge–Oxford) | 85–81 | ||
| Umpire | Matthew Pinsent | ||
| Women's race | |||
| Winner | Cambridge | ||
| Margin of victory | 2¼ lengths | ||
| Winning time | 18 minutes 23 seconds | ||
| Overall record (Cambridge–Oxford) | 46–30 | ||
| Umpire | John Garrett | ||
| Reserves' races | |||
| Men's winners | Isis | ||
| Women's winners | Blondie | ||
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The Boat Race 2022 was a side-by-side rowing race which took place on 3 April 2022. Held annually, The Boat Race is contested between crews from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, usually along a 4.2-mile (6.8 km) tidal stretch of the River Thames, known as the Tideway, in south-west London. This was the 76th women's race and the 167th men's race. Cambridge led the longstanding rivalry 85–80 and 45–30 in the men's and women's races, respectively. The race returned to the Tideway after the previous year's race had taken place without spectators, on the River Great Ouse. This followed the cancellation of the 2020 race as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom.
The crews for both men's and women's boats were announced on 7 March 2022. The women's race was umpired by John Garrett who rowed for Cambridge University Boat Club in the Boat Race three times in the 1980s and who represented Great Britain at the Olympics in 1984, 1988 and 1992. The men's race was umpired by multiple Olympic gold-medallist Matthew Pinsent who rowed three times for Oxford University Boat Club in the early 1990s before umpiring the 2013 men's race and the 2018 women's race.
The women's race was won by Cambridge with a winning margin of two and a quarter lengths in a record time on the Tideway, which took the overall record in the women's race to 46–30 to Cambridge. Oxford won the men's race an hour later by the same margin, in the third-fastest time in history, resulting in the head-to-head record being 85–81 to Cambridge. Oxford's Isis won the men's reserve race while Blondie secured victory for Cambridge in the women's reserve race.