The Lightweight Boat Races are a series of annual rowing races between men's and women's lightweight crews representing the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge.
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.
In 2019, the lightweight men's race moved to the Championship Course from Putney to Mortlake, where it has been held since.
The lightweight women's race made the same move the following year in 2020.
The races receive annual press coverage,[4][5][6][7][8] and competitors from both Universities have gone on to compete at international and Olympic levels.