Boat Races: Oxford win men’s event after Cambridge women triumph – live!

LIVE – Updated at 15:57

Cambridge have won the women’s edition in a record time on the Thames with the men racing at 3.23pm. Join Alex Hess.

Oxford cox Jack Tottem: “Everything we’ve talked about, everything we’ve worked towards, it’s been six, seven months with this team and it’s been a dream for all of us. I’ve been watching the Boat Race for 10 years so to put in that kind of performance means a lot.”

Tobias Schroder: “I’ve spent a lot of years trying a lot of years failing. The plan was always to go out hard and win the race from the start. I had nothing left eight minutes in, so the people behind me pulled me along.”

Dust off the gilet, iron those red cords, crack open the strawberry punnets. We’re back on the Thames!

After the 2020 Boat Race was cancelled and last year’s event was moved to the Great Ouse for the first time since the war, this year our team will be once again ploughing their way down the traditional 4.2-mile route from Putney to Mortlake – and with 250,000 spectators expected to line the river. There will be bubbly.

As for the rowers, Oxford have a burgeoning monopoly to break. Both Cambridge’s teams won last year’s contest by less than a length, the fourth win on the trot for the women and the third for the men. A men’s team containing two Olympic medallists, in the form of Tom George and Ollie Wynne-Griffith, do well to keep that run going today against an Oxford team featuring the British U23 medallists David Ambler and Tobias Schröde.

The women’s team will be clear favourites: Grace Prendergast, who won a gold and a silver in Tokyo, may well be the world’s best bowsider, while Ruby Tew – fourth place in Rio – and Team GB’s Imogen Grant, who has medals from world and European championships,