World Rowing Championships
The World Rowing Championships is an international rowing regatta organized by FISA (the International Rowing Federation). It is a week-long event held at the end of the northern hemisphere summer and in non-Olympic years is the highlight of the international rowing calendar.
World Rowing Championships | |
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Status | active |
Genre | Rowing World championship |
Date(s) | varying |
Frequency | annual |
Country | varying |
Inaugurated | 1962 |
Most recent | 2019 |
Next event | 2021 |
Organised by | FISA |
Website | www |
History
The first event was held in Lucerne, Switzerland, in 1962.[1][2] The event then was held every four years until 1974, when it became an annual competition. Also in 1974, Men's lightweight and Women's open weight events were added to the championships.
Initially, Men's events were 2000 metres long and Women's events 1000 metres. At the 1984 World Championships in Montreal, Canada, Women's lightweight demonstration events were raced over a 2000-metre course for the first time. In 1985, Women's lightweight events were officially added to the schedule and all Men's and Women's events were contested over a 2000-metre course.
Since 1996, during (Summer) Olympic years, the World Rowing Junior Championships are held at the same time.
In 2002 adaptive rowing events were introduced for the following classes of disability: LTA (legs, trunk and arms), TA (trunk, arms), and A (arms-only). In 2009 the A category was replaced by AS (arms and shoulders), and an ID (intellectually disabled) category was added (but then removed after the 2011 Championships). From 2017 the designations AS, TA, and LTA have been changed to PR1, PR2, and PR3.[3]
Boats
Rowing takes place in 21 different boat classes, apart from during Olympic years when only non-Olympic boat classes race. National teams generally take less interest in the non-Olympic events, as the Olympic events are considered the "premier" events.
The table below shows the boat classes, "O" indicates the boat races at both the Olympics and World Championships. "WC" indicates this is only a World Championship event. After 2007, the coxed fours (4+) no longer runs as a world championship event. Similarly after 2011 the women's coxless four was no longer included, but it was reintroduced in 2013. Lightweight men's eight was removed after 2015.
As a result of the IOC's aim for gender parity, it has been agreed that for 2020 onwards the lightweight men's coxless four will be removed from the Olympics and replaced by women's coxless four.[4]
At the 2017 FISA Ordinary Congress there were further revisions, removing M2+ and LM4- from the World Championships, and reinstating LW2-.[5]
Boat | Men | Lwt Men | Women | Lwt Women | |
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1x | Single sculls | O | WC | O | WC |
2x | Double sculls | O | O | O | O |
2- | Coxless pairs | O | WC | O | WC |
2+ | Coxed pairs | ||||
4x | Quad sculls | O | WC | O | WC |
4- | Coxless fours | O | O | ||
4+ | Coxed fours | ||||
8+ | Eights | O | O |
Editions
Multiple editions
Times hosted | Host country |
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All-time medal table
- 1962–2019 (not including para-rowing, for which some records dating back to 2002 are not available)[7]
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | ![]() | 94 | 45 | 25 | 164 |
2 | ![]() | 85 | 67 | 52 | 204 |
3 | ![]() | 82 | 72 | 70 | 224 |
4 | ![]() | 66 | 72 | 59 | 197 |
5 | ![]() | 65 | 73 | 88 | 226 |
6 | ![]() | 50 | 31 | 26 | 107 |
7 | ![]() | 47 | 44 | 41 | 132 |
8 | ![]() | 35 | 44 | 29 | 108 |
9 | ![]() | 34 | 43 | 44 | 121 |
10 | ![]() | 34 | 27 | 33 | 94 |
11 | ![]() | 30 | 44 | 26 | 100 |
12 | ![]() | 28 | 34 | 44 | 106 |
13 | ![]() | 24 | 23 | 25 | 72 |
14 | ![]() | 18 | 40 | 43 | 101 |
15 | ![]() | 16 | 9 | 22 | 47 |
16 | ![]() | 15 | 15 | 15 | 45 |
17 | ![]() | 14 | 7 | 12 | 33 |
18 | ![]() | 12 | 21 | 15 | 48 |
19 | ![]() | 12 | 8 | 7 | 27 |
20 | ![]() | 11 | 6 | 10 | 27 |
21 | ![]() | 9 | 12 | 14 | 35 |
22 | ![]() | 8 | 6 | 10 | 24 |
23 | ![]() | 7 | 15 | 11 | 33 |
24 | ![]() | 7 | 10 | 10 | 27 |
25 | ![]() | 7 | 5 | 5 | 17 |
26 | ![]() | 6 | 7 | 16 | 29 |
27 | ![]() | 4 | 5 | 5 | 14 |
28 | ![]() | 4 | 4 | 6 | 14 |
29 | ![]() | 3 | 6 | 5 | 14 |
30 | ![]() | 3 | 4 | 4 | 11 |
31 | ![]() | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
32 | ![]() | 2 | 7 | 8 | 17 |
33 | ![]() | 2 | 4 | 6 | 12 |
34 | ![]() | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 |
35 | ![]() | 1 | 8 | 9 | 18 |
36 | ![]() | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
37 | ![]() | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
38 | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 |
39 | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
40 | ![]() | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
41 | ![]() | 0 | 11 | 11 | 22 |
42 | ![]() | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
43 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 6 | 7 |
44 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
45 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
46 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
47 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
48 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (49 nations) | 845 | 846 | 844 | 2535 |
Multiple medallists
Athlete | Nation | Born | ![]() |
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Tot. |
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Daniele Gilardoni | ![]() | 1976 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 13 |
Matthew Pinsent | ![]() | 1970 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 12 |
Steve Redgrave | ![]() | 1962 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 12 |
Franco Sancassani | ![]() | 1974 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 12 |
Francesco Esposito | ![]() | 1955 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 11 |
Giuseppe Di Capua | ![]() | 1958 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 12 |
Andrea Re | ![]() | 1963 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 11 |
Scull and Sweep medalists
incomplete list
Rower | Total | Scull | Sweep | Disciplines | ||||
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# of disciplines | ![]() ![]() ![]() | # of disciplines | ![]() ![]() ![]() | # of disciplines | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Scull | Sweep | |
![]() | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | M4x | M4+, M8+ |
![]() | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | W4x | W4- |
![]() | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | M2x | M4-, M8+ |
![]() | 2 | 13 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 1 | LM4x | LM8+ |
![]() | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | LM2x | LM4- |
![]() | 5 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 2 | W1x, W2x, W4x | W2-, W8+ |
![]() | 4 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | W2x, W4x | W2-, W8+ |
![]() | 5 | 13 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 4 | W1x, W2x, W4x | W2-, W8+ |
![]() | 5 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | W2x, W4x | W2-, W4-, W8+ |
![]() | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | M2x | M8+ |
![]() | 3 | 12 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 2 | LM4x | LM2-, LM8+ |
![]() | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | LM2x | LM4- |
![]() | 4 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | M1x | M2+, M4-, M8+ |
![]() | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | M4x | M8+ |
![]() | 3 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | M2x, M4x | M2- |
![]() | 3 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | M2x, M4x | M2- |
![]() | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | W4x | W8- |
![]() | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | M2x | M8+ |
References
- The Origins of the Championships, Rowing History, Australia.
- Previous Venues Archived 11 October 2010 at the Wayback Machine, 2010 World Rowing Championships, New Zealand.
- "Summary of proposed changes to the FISA Rules of Racing, related Bye-Laws and Event Regulations" (PDF). FISA. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
- "2017 FISA Extraordinary Congress concludes". FISA. 11 February 2017. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
- "Rule 36 – World Rowing Championship Programmes" (PDF). FISA. 2 October 2017. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
- "2020 World Rowing regatta season : the continued consequences of COVID-19 global pandemic". worldrowing.com. 9 April 2020. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
- Medal table