The Lent Bumps 2012 was a series of rowing races at Cambridge University from Tuesday 28 February 2012 to Saturday 3 March 2012. The event was run as a bumps race and was the 125th set of races in the series of Lent Bumps which have been held annually in late February or early March since 1887. See Lent Bumps for the format of the races. 121 crews took part, with nearly 1100 participants in total.
men rowed over every day, retaining the headship they gained with blades in 2011. women rowed over every day also retaining the headship they won the previous year.
Highest 2nd VIIIs
finished up 4 places as the highest placed men's second VIII, winning their blades and bumping and on the way. finished as the highest placed women's second VIII after a repeated battle with, switching places 3 times over the 4 days. On the first day, Lady Margaret caught Emmanuel quickly but were bumped back on the second day aftercatching a crab. They regained the place on the third day however, and proceeded to row over on the fourth to obtain the title.
Below are the bumps charts for all 4 men's and all 3 women's divisions, with the men's event on the left and women's event on the right. The bumps chart shows the progress of every crew over all four days of the racing. To follow the progress of any particular crew, find the crew's name on the left side of the chart and follow the line to the end-of-the-week finishing position on the right of the chart. This chart may not be displayed correctly if you are using a large font size on your browser. A simple way to check is to see that the first horizontal bold line, marking the boundary between divisions, lies between positions 17 and 18. The combined Hughes Hall/Lucy Cavendish women's crews are listed as Lucy Cavendish only.
The Getting-on Race
The Getting-on Race allows a number of crews which did not already have a place from last year's races to compete for the right to race this year. The 2012 Lent Bumps Getting-on Race took place on 24 February 2012.
Competing crews
Men
27 men's crews raced for 14 available spaces at the bottom of the 4th division. The following were successful and rowed in the bumps. The following were unsuccessful.
Women
27 women's crews raced for 15 available spaces at the bottom of the 3rd division. The following were successful and rowed in the bumps. The following were unsuccessful. The following did not race
