The Boat Race 2023

The Boat Race 2023 was a side-by-side rowing race which took place on 26 March 2023. 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 77th women's race and the 168th men's race. Cambridge led the longstanding rivalry 85–81 and 46–30 in the men's and women's races, respectively.

The crews for both men's and women's boats were announced on 6 March 2023. The women's race was umpired by Matthew Smith who rowed for Oxford University Boat Club in the Boat Race four times in the 2000s. The men's race was umpired by Antony Reynolds who rowed for Cambridge University Boat Club in 1984.

The women's race was won by Cambridge with a winning margin of four and a half lengths, which took the overall record in the women's race to 47–30 to Cambridge. Cambridge won the men's race an hour later by one and a third lengths, resulting in the head-to-head record being 86–81 to Cambridge. Cambridge's Goldie won the men's reserve race while Blondie secured victory for Cambridge in the women's reserve race. These contributed to a Cambridge clean sweep of all the 2023 Boat Races, including the openweight, lightweight and veteran races.