title: Women's Boat Race 1983
text: # Women's Boat Race 1983
  
  The 38th Women's Boat Race took place on 26 March 1983. 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
  
  Cambridge won by 11 seconds.
  
  