There are seven events each for men and women. Events included categories for open weight and restricted weight (lightweight) athletes, and two styles of rowing: sweep, where competitors each use a single oar, and sculling, where they used two.
Sculling events include men's and women's singles, doubles, lightweight doubles, and quads. Sweep events include men's and women's coxless pairs, coxless fours, and eights.[1]
The women's coxless four replaces the men's lightweight coxless four from the previous Games, which is the first change made to the rowing programme since 1996.[2] This was driven by the IOC's desire to seek gender parity and eventually remove all lightweight events.[3]
Qualification
Each competing nation may qualify one boat for each of the fourteen events.
The majority of the qualifying berths will be awarded at the 2019 World Rowing Championships, which take place in Ottensheim, Austria[4] between 25 August and 1 September 2019. They are awarded to National Olympic Committees (rather than specific competitors) for both genders as follows:
- Single sculls - top 9
- Coxless pair - top 11
- Double sculls - top 11
- Lightweight double sculls - top 7
- Coxless four - top 8
- Quadruple sculls - top 8
- Eight - top 5
Further berths will be distributed to NOCs (and in this case to specific competitors) at four continental qualifying regattas in Asia & Oceania / Africa / the Americas / Europe, plus a final Olympic qualification regatta in Lucerne, Switzerland.[1]
All qualifying NOCs are limited to one berth per event, and only NOCs with fewer than two berths from the World Championships may contest the continental qualifying regattas. Should it fail to qualify for any event at the various regattas, Japan will be granted host nation berths in both single sculls events.[5]
Timeline
Event | Date | Venue |
2019 World Rowing Championships | 25 August – 1 September 2019 | Ottensheim[6] |
Asian & Oceania Continental Qualification Regatta | TBD | TBD |
African Continental Qualification Regatta | TBD | TBD |
Americas Continental Qualification Regatta | TBD | TBD |
European Continental Qualification Regatta | 27–29 April 2020 | Varese |
Final Qualification Regatta | 17–19 May 2020 | Lucerne |
Men's events
Single sculls
Event |
# |
Nation |
Qualified rower |
Host nation (if required) |
− | Japan | |
2019 World Rowing Championships |
1 | | |
2 | | |
3 | | |
4 | | |
5 | | |
6 | | |
7 | | |
8 | | |
9 | | |
Asian & Oceania Qualification Regatta |
1 | | |
2 | | |
3 | | |
4 | | |
5 | | |
African Qualification Regatta |
1 | | |
2 | | |
3 | | |
4 | | |
5 | | |
Americas Qualification Regatta |
1 | | |
2 | | |
3 | | |
4 | | |
5 | | |
European Qualification Regatta |
1 | | |
2 | | |
3 | | |
Final Qualification Regatta |
1 | | |
2 | | |
Tripartite Invitation |
1 | | |
2 | | |
Total | Up to 32 | |
Double sculls
Event |
# |
Nation |
Qualified rowers |
2019 World Rowing Championships |
1 | | |
2 | | |
3 | | |
4 | | |
5 | | |
6 | | |
7 | | |
8 | | |
9 | | |
10 | | |
11 | | |
Final Qualification Regatta |
1 | | |
2 | | |
Total | 13 | |
Lightweight double sculls
Event |
# |
Nation |
Qualified rower |
2019 World Rowing Championships |
1 | | |
2 | | |
3 | | |
4 | | |
5 | | |
6 | | |
7 | | |
Asian & Oceania Qualification Regatta |
1 | | |
2 | | |
3 | | |
African Qualification Regatta |
1 | | |
Americas Qualification Regatta |
1 | | |
2 | | |
3 | | |
European Qualification Regatta |
1 | | |
2 | | |
Final Qualification Regatta |
1 | | |
2 | | |
Total | 18 | |
Quadruple sculls
Event |
# |
Nation |
Qualified rowers |
2019 World Rowing Championships |
1 | | |
2 | | |
3 | | |
4 | | |
5 | | |
6 | | |
7 | | |
8 | | |
Final Qualification Regatta |
1 | | |
2 | | |
Total | 10 | |
Coxless pair
Event |
# |
Nation |
Qualified rowers |
2019 World Rowing Championships |
1 | | |
2 | | |
3 | | |
4 | | |
5 | | |
6 | | |
7 | | |
8 | | |
9 | | |
10 | | |
11 | | |
Final Qualification Regatta |
1 | | |
2 | | |
Total | 13 | |
Coxless four
Event |
# |
Nation |
Qualified rowers |
2019 World Rowing Championships |
1 | | |
2 | | |
3 | | |
4 | | |
5 | | |
6 | | |
7 | | |
8 | | |
Final Qualification Regatta |
1 | | |
2 | | |
Total | 10 | |
Eight
Event |
# |
Nation |
Qualified rowers |
2019 World Rowing Championships |
1 | | |
2 | | |
3 | | |
4 | | |
5 | | |
Final Qualification Regatta |
1 | | |
2 | | |
Total | 7 | |
Women's events
Single sculls
Event |
# |
Nation |
Qualified rower |
Host nation (if required) |
− | Japan | |
2019 World Rowing Championships |
1 | | |
2 | | |
3 | | |
4 | | |
5 | | |
6 | | |
7 | | |
8 | | |
9 | | |
Asian & Oceania Qualification Regatta |
1 | | |
2 | | |
3 | | |
4 | | |
5 | | |
African Qualification Regatta |
1 | | |
2 | | |
3 | | |
4 | | |
5 | | |
Americas Qualification Regatta |
1 | | |
2 | | |
3 | | |
4 | | |
5 | | |
European Qualification Regatta |
1 | | |
2 | | |
3 | | |
Final Qualification Regatta |
1 | | |
2 | | |
Tripartite Invitation |
1 | | |
2 | | |
Total | Up to 32 | |
Double sculls
Event |
# |
Nation |
Qualified rowers |
2019 World Rowing Championships |
1 | | |
2 | | |
3 | | |
4 | | |
5 | | |
6 | | |
7 | | |
8 | | |
9 | | |
10 | | |
11 | | |
Final Qualification Regatta |
1 | | |
2 | | |
Total | 13 | |
Lightweight double sculls
Event |
# |
Nation |
Qualified rower |
2019 World Rowing Championships |
1 | | |
2 | | |
3 | | |
4 | | |
5 | | |
6 | | |
7 | | |
Asian & Oceania Qualification Regatta |
1 | | |
2 | | |
3 | | |
African Qualification Regatta |
1 | | |
Americas Qualification Regatta |
1 | | |
2 | | |
3 | | |
European Qualification Regatta |
1 | | |
2 | | |
Final Qualification Regatta |
1 | | |
2 | | |
Total | 18 | |
Quadruple sculls
Event |
# |
Nation |
Qualified rowers |
2019 World Rowing Championships |
1 | | |
2 | | |
3 | | |
4 | | |
5 | | |
6 | | |
7 | | |
8 | | |
Final Qualification Regatta |
1 | | |
2 | | |
Total | 10 | |
Coxless pair
Event |
# |
Nation |
Qualified rowers |
2019 World Rowing Championships |
1 | | |
2 | | |
3 | | |
4 | | |
5 | | |
6 | | |
7 | | |
8 | | |
9 | | |
10 | | |
11 | | |
Final Qualification Regatta |
1 | | |
2 | | |
Total | 13 | |
Coxless four
Event |
# |
Nation |
Qualified rowers |
2019 World Rowing Championships |
1 | | |
2 | | |
3 | | |
4 | | |
5 | | |
6 | | |
7 | | |
8 | | |
Final Qualification Regatta |
1 | | |
2 | | |
Total | 10 | |
Eight
Event |
# |
Nation |
Qualified rowers |
2019 World Rowing Championships |
1 | | |
2 | | |
3 | | |
4 | | |
5 | | |
Final Qualification Regatta |
1 | | |
2 | | |
Total | 7 | |