Women's Boat Race 1981
# Women's Boat Race 1981

The 36th Women's Boat Race took place on 29 March 1981. The contest was between crews from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and held as part of the Henley Boat Races along a two-kilometre course.

## Background

The first Women's Boat Race was conducted on The Isis in 1927.

## Race

Oxford won by one second.

