Richard Bates, a Cambridge undergraduate, organised a Boat Race between lightweight men's crews of Oxford and Cambridge universities in 1975, to take place at
Henley-on-Thames. The race was joined by the
openweight women's Boat Race two years later, thus forming the
Henley Boat Races. The first lightweight women's boat race took place at the event in 1984. and competitors from both Universities have gone on to compete at international and Olympic levels. ==Results==