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The 139th Boat Race took place on 27 March 1993. Held annually, the Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge along the River Thames. Cambridge, using "cleaver blades" for the first time in the history of the race, won by three-and-a-half lengths in a victory described in The Times as "crushingly conclusive". The winning time of exactly 17 minutes was the fourth-fastest finish in the event. Cambridge's victory prevented Oxford scoring seventeen wins from the most recent eighteen races and levelling the overall score for the first time since the 1929 race.
Oxford's crew featured two Olympic gold medalists; there were changes in their line-up of rowers and cox during preparation for the event. The race was umpired by the former Oxford Blue Mark Evans who controversially made changes to the start procedure.
In the reserve race, Cambridge's Goldie defeated Oxford's Isis, while Cambridge won the Women's Boat Race.
Temperatures in Taiwan rose higher Wednesday and were expected to hit a high of 29 degrees Celsius in southern Taiwan during the day, the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) said.
It warned, however, that big differences would remain between temperatures during the day and at night.
The weather will remain mostly sunny around Taiwan on Wednesday, similar to the day before, with sporadic showers seen in Hualien and Taitung counties in the eastern part of the country, CWB forecasters said.
Daytime highs on Wednesday were expected to reach 25 degrees in Yilan and Hualien, 26 degrees or higher in areas north of central Taiwan, and 27 to 29 degrees in the south, the CWB forecast.