Crews drawn from the Oxford and Cambridge 2011 Boat Race squads will race against each other for the first time at Sunday’s annual Fuller's Head of the River Fours event on The Tideway between Mortlake and Putney.

The main clash will be in the Elite 4+ event, where the respective club presidents and returning Blues - American Derek Rasmussen (CUBC) and Welsh international rower Ben Myers (OUBC) - will compete as members of strong Cambridge I and Isis II boats.

Cambridge will race a total of four boats in the Elite 4+ event that also features leading club crews from Leander, Molesey and Tideway Scullers, plus a fifth boat in the coxed fours IM2 Academic event, which includes other university crews from London, Reading, Bristol and Oxford Brookes.

As well as a top boat in the Elite 4+ event, Oxford have another Isis crew competing among the Elite 4- and three other boats in the Intermediate races, with two in the coxed fours and one in the 4- event.

The top Cambridge boat includes three returning Blues - Rusmussen, George Nash and Australian Hardy Cubasch, who rowed in the winning 2010 Goldie boat, plus another Australian David Nelson. Cox Liz Box steered Goldie to victory this year.

Ben Myers, who rowed in the Dark Blue bow seat this year, is joined in Isis II by Londoners Karl Hudspith, Simon Hislop, Constantine Louloudis and cox Zoë De Toledo.

The provisional Oxford and Cambridge crew lists for the 2010 Fours Head race are:

Cambridge I(Elite 4+) Isis II (Elite 4+)

Derek Rasmussen Karl Hudspith

Hardy Cubasch Simon Hislop

George Nash Ben Myers

David Nelson Constantine Louloudis

Cox: Liz Box Cox: Zoë De Toledo

Cambridge II(Elite 4+) Isis I(Elite 4-)

Joel Jennings George Whittaker

Dan Rix-Standing Moritz Hafner

Geoff Roth Antoine De Weck

Mike Thorp Ben Snodin

Cox: Tom Fieldman

Cambridge III(Elite 4+) Isis III(IM1 4+)

Andrew Viquerat Alexander Woods

James Strawson Douglas Bruce

Ben Evans Ben Ellison

Charlie Pitt-Ford David Whiffin

Cox: Katie Phillips Cox: Sam Winter-Levy

Cambridge IV(Elite 4+) Isis IV (IM1 4-)

Nick Edelman Tom Watson

Alex Ross Ben Connery

Felix Wood Julian Bubb-Humfryes

Sasha Kasas Charlie Auer

Cox: Kayla Kingdon-Bebb

> Cambridge V(IM2 Academic) Isis V(IM1 4+)

George Brown Marius Wuethrich

James Robinson Oliver Bent

Jamie Logie George Blessley

Josh Pendry Matt Pointing

Cox: Courtney Wilkinson Cox: Hannah Leadbetter

The 2011 Xchanging Boat Race - the 157th Race - will be staged on Saturday, March 26, at 5pm and screened live on BBC 1. For more details visit www.theboatrace.org