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.
The first Women's Boat Race was conducted on The Isis in 1927.[1] It was the first race in the history of the event to include a male participant, in Oxford's cox Phillip Edwards.[2]
| Seat | Oxford | Cambridge | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | College | Name | College | ||||
| M. Jollands | P. Nock | Downing | |||||
| 2 | F. Whiting | H. Brown | Newnham | ||||
| 3 | M. Esslin | S. Barnard | Robinson | ||||
| 4 | C. Wardle | S. Van Kleef | Fitzwilliam | ||||
| 5 | S. Talbot | K. Panter | Downing | ||||
| 6 | P. Rowlands | T. McRae | Darwin | ||||
| 7 | S. Davies | K. Marwick | Girton | ||||
| F. Freckleton | H. Burnett | Homerton | |||||
| P. Edwards | G. Godbold | Sidney Sussex | |||||
| Source: | |||||||
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
Cambridge won by four seconds.[3]