The University Boat Club squads for the 2010 Boat Race sponsored by Xchanging have been announced and they feature a total of 54 rowers and coxes from 12 different countries, including relative novices from Switzerland and the Czech Republic.
Half of the Cambridge squad of 28 is made up of home-grown talent from Britain, including last year's President Henry Pelly, one of four returning Blues from 2009. The others are this year's President Deaglan McEachern (USA), last year's bow Rob Weitemeyer (Canada) and Australian Hardy Cubasch.
McEachern, 26, is studying History at Hughes Hall and is the first student from the College to be elected to the prestigious post. He rowed at 5 in the last Race, opposite his rival President this year.
There are also five returning Goldie crew members from 2009 Britons George Nash, Fred Gill and Joel Jennings; and Americans Code Sternal and Shane O'Mara, whose illness took him out of the 2008 Blue Boat on the eve of the Race.
In all, there are eight different nationalities in the Light Blue squad: 14 Britons, 4 Americans, 3 Canadians, 2 Australians, 2 Germans, 1 Dutchman, 1 New Zealander and, for the first time, a Czech.
For Oxford there are nine countries represented in a squad of 26 that includes 9 Britons, 6 Americans, 3 Swiss, 2 Dutchmen, 2 Germans, 1 South African, 1 Canadian, 1 Irishman and a female cox from France.
The one returning Blue is this year's OUBC President Sjoerd Hamburger, the 26-year-old Dutchman who is studying Educational Research Methodology at Oriel. He is the first student to hold the position whose first language in not English.
Returning from the winning Isis boat of 2009 are cox Adam Barhamand (USA), stroke Martin Walsh (Ireland) and Britons Douglas Bruce and Alec Dent.
The squad also includes the Winklevoss twins, Tyler and Cameron, who rowed for the USA in the pairs in the Beijing Olympics. As Harvard students they also set up the ConnectU social networking site, the forerunner of Facebook.
The last twins to row in the Race were Hugh and Robert Clay, who won with Oxford in 1982, having won with the Isis crew the year before.
The 156th Boat Race sponsored by Xchanging will be staged at 16:30 on Saturday 3 April and screened live on BBC 1 within a two-hour programme. The 2009 Race was also televised in 153 countries around the world.