Women's Boat Race 1980
# Women's Boat Race 1980

The 35th Women's Boat Race took place on 23 March 1980. 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 two and a half lengths.

