Cambridge's Lance Tredell targets Tokyo 2020 Olympics after final Boat Race

Cambridge rowing president Lance Tredell is targeting a place in the British team for the Tokyo Olympics.

Tredell was part of the crew that won last year’s Boat Race and will bring the curtain down on his university rowing career in Sunday’s event.

Previously a member of the British Rowing set-up, he competed in the men’s eight during 2012 and 2013, winning one World Cup event.

And looking ahead to the weekend’s race, the 27-year-old said: “This will be my last Boat Race and it would be nice to end with another win.

“There’s not any extra motivation because it will always be there — all I want to do is win.

“It is in the back of my mind that once I finish here at Cambridge I’ll be moving on and trying to earn a place back in the GB heavyweight team.”

Britain’s rowing set-up is in a period of transition in the wake of the Rio Olympics, with a host of big-name heavyweights having retired from the sport such as Alex Gregory and Andrew Triggs Hodge, who boast five Olympic gold medals between them.

Thousands of spectators are once more expected to line the Thames for what is the 163rd running of the Boat Race over a four-and-a-quarter mile course.

Tredell and Ben Ruble are the only remaining members of the Cambridge crew that won a year ago by two-and-a-half lengths.

“The opportunity for us this year is to become the first [Cambridge] crew since 1999 to win back-to-back Boat Races,” he told Cambridge News.

“When we talk about the historic element and leaving a legacy, that’s something this year’s crew really has a chance to do and, of course, what we’re intending to do.”

Meanwhile, Cambridge will look to end a four-race winning streak by Oxford in the women’s race.

Cambridge president Ashton Brown is looking to make amends after ending last year’s race in hospital with pneumonia after the boat nearly sunk.

A year on for what will be her third outing in the race, she said: “I’m definitely a lot more comfortable with where I am on the tideway now.”

Sunday, BBC1, from 4pm

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