title: Women's Boat Race 1981
text: # 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.
  
  