Women's Boat Race 1982
# Women's Boat Race 1982

The 37th Women's Boat Race took place on 21 March 1982. 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. It was the first race in the history of the event to include a male participant, in Oxford's cox Phillip Edwards.

## Crews

| Seat | Oxford | Oxford | Cambridge | Cambridge |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Seat | Name | College | Name | College |
| Bow | M. Jollands | St Catherine's | P. Nock | Downing |
| 2 | F. Whiting | St Hugh's | H. Brown | Newnham |
| 3 | M. Esslin | Keble | S. Barnard | Robinson |
| 4 | C. Wardle | Somerville | S. Van Kleef | Fitzwilliam |
| 5 | S. Talbot | New College | K. Panter | Downing |
| 6 | P. Rowlands | Lady Margaret Hall | T. McRae | Darwin |
| 7 | S. Davies | Jesus | K. Marwick | Girton |
| Stroke | F. Freckleton | Somerville | H. Burnett | Homerton |
| Cox | P. Edwards | Wolfson | G. Godbold | Sidney Sussex |
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## Coaches

Oxford: M. Rosewell, A. Truswell, R. Emerton, A. Walsh.

Cambridge: R. Wiggin, J. Sutherland-Smith, N. Burnet*, S. Jones, J. Gleave, N. Casey, N Kirkby*.

*Co-Chief Coach

## Race

Cambridge won by four seconds.

