Where there are more crews entering the Bumps than there are places on the River, the lowest crews must compete for places in the Getting-On Race. Crews are removed from the lowest division such that there is one place available in the Bumps for every two crews competing in the Getting-On Race (up to a maximum of 18 places). Crews are timed from the upstream side of the A14 Road Bridge to the upstream side of the Railway Bridge and the fastest will qualify for places in the Bumps.
2020
The Getting-On Race for the 2020 Lent Bumps took place on the afternoon of Friday 21st February.
The following crews have successfully qualified:
Women
- Christ's II
- Caius II
- Trinity Hall II
- Jesus III
- Darwin II
- Newnham III
- Emmanuel III
- Homerton II
- Clare III
- Queens' III
- Magdalene II
- Sidney Sussex II
- Downing III
- Corpus Christi II
- Trinity Hall III
- Fitzwilliam II
Men
- Lady Margaret III
- Jesus III
- Queens' III
- Peterhouse II
- Wolfson II
- Hughes Hall II
- Downing III
- Selwyn II
- Darwin II
- Pembroke III
- Magdalene III
- Churchill III
- Homerton II
- Girton II
- Queens' V (henceforth renamed Queens' IV)
- Churchill IV
The following crews were unsuccessful:
Men
- Emmanuel III 09:04
- Robinson III 09:05
- First and Third IV 09:06
- St. Edmund's II 09:07
- Christ's III 09:09
- Sidney Sussex II 09:16
- Pembroke IV 09:32
- Clare III 09:35
- King's II 09:38
- Trinity Hall III 09:46
- Queens' IV 09:48
- St. Edmund's III 09:49
- Selwyn III 09:50
- Fitzwilliam III 09:56
- Peterhouse III 10:03
- Jesus IV 10:15
- Wolfson III 10:46
Women
- Girton II (TO) 10:45
- King's II 10:54
- Lady Margaret III 10:54
- Churchill II 10:55
- Newnham IV 10:55
- Pembroke III 10:56
- Caius III 10:57
- First and Third II 11:01
- Hughes Hall II 11:03
- Lucy Cavendish II 11:04
- Murray Edwards II 11:05
- Selwyn II 11:27
- Fitzwilliam III 11:34
- Churchill III 11:43
- Wolfson II 12:01
- Queens' IV 12:03
- Pembroke IV (TO) 12:41
- St Edmund's II 13:54