Friends relish ‘bucket-list’ battle on opposing sides of women’s Boat Race

Oxford’s Heidi Long and Cambridge’s Claire Collins were born on the same day and have raced each other 15 times

Heidi Long and Claire Collins have competed against each other at world championships and Olympic Games, so it is testament to the continued allure of the University Boat Race that both describe it as a “bucket-list event”.

Having last met in the final of the Women’s Eight in Paris last summer, with Long winning bronze for Team GB ahead of Collins’ USA crew in fifth, they were reunited on the banks of the Thames in Putney this week in preparation for Sunday’s race.

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