Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  Ko Melissa Wilson rāua ko ōna hoa kapa kei te taha o te hanga hītori. I te Rāhoroi, i te 161 o te Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race, ka whawhai ngā kapa wāhine ki te huarahi ōrite o te awa o Thames me ngā tāne, ka whai mai i te haora i muri mai. I muri i ngā tekau tau o te pakanga, ā, 88 tau mai i te wā i whakahawea ai ngā wāhine tuatahi ki te whakataetae e ngā kaimātakitaki tāne, ka whiwhi rātau i te utu ōrite. Mo te tupuna o Wilson, ko Richard Cowell, 85-tau te pakeke, nō East Kilbride, he rā nui tēnei. Kāore ia i te rite ki te haere ki te mātaki i tana mokopuna e whakataetae ana mō Cambridge engari ka mātaki tonu ia i te whakataetae, ka whakaaturia i runga pouaka whakaata mō te wā tuatahi. Ka mea a Wilson, 21,: <unk>E maumahara ana ahau i te 14 o oku tau e matakitaki ana me taku papa me taku tuakana, ka mea, <unk>Ka puta he wahine ki runga?<unk> I kata rātau <unk> ehara i te huarahi kino <unk> ka mea: <unk>Kahore he wahine, ka taea e koe te whakaaro <unk>. Na ko te meka e 10 tau i muri mai he whakataetae wahine i runga i te Tideway, a kei roto ahau i te reira he tino nui. He mea whakamiharo kia taea hoki e taku tupuna te matakitaki. Ko Melissa Wilson (māui) rāua ko Caroline Reid o te kapa kaipuke wahine o Cambridge i te Tāmaki Rowing Club i Rānana. I whakarerea e Clare Balding tana mahi auau i te Channel 4's Grand National hei whakaatu i te kaupapa na te mea e hiahia ana ia ki te tuku karere mo te hiranga o te hakinakina wahine. "He whakatau nui tēnei", te kī a Balding. <unk>Otira kāore anō kia tū tētahi atu whakataetae kaipuke wahine tuatahi i runga i te Tideway.<unk> I manakohia tana kōrero e Caroline Reid, te tumuaki o Cambridge. <unk>Ka aro mai te reira ki tētahi atu hunga whakarongo, ki te hunga e whai ana i a Clare,<unk> e ai ki a Reid, 24. <unk>E kore pea te hunga e tautoko ana i te Grand National e whakaae, engari ka mōhio rātau kei te tupu, ā, he mea pai tērā.<unk> Ko Wilson, he ākonga reo Ingarihi tau tuatoru, ko Reid, kei tōna tau tuarima o te rongoā kararehe, e ara ana i te 5.30am ia rā mō te whakangungu, te mahi hākinakina me ngā akoranga, kātahi ka hoki ki te awa i te ahiahi. Ko te kapa kaipuke wahine o Cambridge, tae atu ki a Wilson (i mua) e rere ana i te awa o Thames. Ko Reid, ko Claire Watkins, ko Wilson e whakarite ana i mua i te Whakataetae Peke i muri mai...
Whai muri i ngā tau tekau o te pakanga ka tuhia e ngā kapa wahine te hītori. Ka tū te whakataetae poti ki te awa o Thames ā te Rāhoroi e haere ake nei.