Lent Bumps 2020 Explained

The Lent Bumps 2020 was a series of rowing races at Cambridge University from Tuesday 25 February 2020 to Saturday 29 February 2020. The event was run as a bumps race and was the 127th set of races in the series of Lent Bumps which have been held annually in late February or early March since 1887.

The races were the last set of Bumps before the COVID-19 pandemic forced the cancellation of all Lent and May Bumps events in Cambridge until the Lent Bumps 2022 two years later.

Head of the River crews

M1 bumped on First Post Corner on day 1, reclaiming the headship that Caius M1 had won the previous year.^{[1] [2]}

Starting 4th on the river, W1 bumped W1 and W1 on the first and second days respectively, before rowing over on the third day and bumping W1 (who had taken headship from Newnham on the first day) on the fourth day to claim the headship that Newnham had held since the previous year.^{[3] [2]}

Highest 2nd VIIIs

rowed over four times, as did ahead of them and and behind them, remaining the highest men's second VIII at 2nd place in the second division.^[1]

After rowing over on day 1, were bumped by on the second day, but bumped them back on the third day before bumping on the fourth day, becoming the highest placed second women's VIII on the river and finishing at 8th position in the second division.^[3]

Links to races in other years

width=150	Preceding year	width=150	Current year	width=150	Following year
	Lent Bumps 2020	Lent Bumps 2021 (cancelled)
	May Bumps 2020 (cancelled)	May Bumps 2021 (cancelled)

Bumps Charts

Below are the bumps charts for all 4 men's and all 4 women's divisions, with the men's event on the left and women's event on the right.^[4] The bumps chart shows the progress of every crew over all four days of the racing. To follow the progress of any particular crew, find the crew's name on the left side of the chart and follow the line to the end-of-the-week finishing position on the right of the chart.

This chart may not be displayed correctly if you are using a large font size on your browser. A simple way to check is to see that the first horizontal bold line, marking the boundary between divisions, lies between positions 17 and 18.

width=35	Pos	width=125	Crew	width=95	Men's Bumps Chart	width=125	Crew	width=35	Pos	width=125	Crew	width=95	Women's Bumps Chart	width=125	Crew	width=35	Pos
1				1				1
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Notes and References

1. http://www.cucbc.org/bumps/results/23/1 Bumps results: Lent Bumps 2020 Men's Division
2. https://www.varsity.co.uk/sport/18864 "Lent Bumps Day 5: The Winner Takes It All"
3. http://www.cucbc.org/bumps/results/23/2 Bumps results: Lent Bumps 2020 Women's Division
4. https://bumps.camfm.co.uk/?allboats=true#.X4cODNBKg2w All Boats Bumps Chart: Lent Bumps 2020