World Rowing Championships

World Rowing Championships
Status	active
Genre	Rowing World championship
Date(s)	varying
Frequency	annual
Country	varying
Inaugurated	1962
Most recent	2018
Next event	2019
Organised by	FISA
Website	www.worldrowing.com

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.

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. In 1985 Women's lightweight events were added to the schedule.

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
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

Venues

Ed.	Year	City/Town	Country	Date
1.	1962	Lucerne Rotsee	Switzerland
2.	1966	Bled Lake Bled	Yugoslavia
3.	1970	St. Catharines Royal Canadian Henley Rowing Course	Canada
4.	1974	Lucerne Rotsee	Switzerland
5.	1975	Nottingham Holme Pierrepont	Great Britain
6.	1976	Villach Lake Ossiach	Austria
7.	1977	Amsterdam Bosbaan	Netherlands
8.	1978	Cambridge (openweight events) Lake Karapiro	New Zealand
8.	1978	Copenhagen (lightweight events) Lake Bagsværd	Denmark
9.	1979	Bled Lake Bled	Yugoslavia	3 – 9 September
10.	1980	Hazewinkel	Belgium
11.	1981	Munich Oberschleißheim	West Germany
12.	1982	Lucerne Rotsee	Switzerland
13.	1983	Duisburg	West Germany
14.	1984	Montreal Notre Dame Island	Canada
15.	1985	Hazewinkel	Belgium	26 August – 1 September
16.	1986	Nottingham Holme Pierrepont	Great Britain	16 – 24 August
17.	1987	Copenhagen	Denmark	29 – 30 August
18.	1988	Milan	Italy	6 August
19.	1989	Bled Lake Bled	Yugoslavia	3 – 10 September
20.	1990	Tasmania Lake Barrington	Australia	24 October – 4 November
21.	1991	Vienna	Austria	19 – 25 August
22.	1992	Montreal Notre Dame Island	Canada	13 – 16 August
23.	1993	Račice Roudnice	Czech Republic	8 – 9 May
24.	1994	Indianapolis Eagle Creek Park	United States	17 – 18 September
25.	1995	Tampere Kaukajärvi	Finland	25 – 27 August
26.	1996	Motherwell Strathclyde Country Park	Great Britain	5 – 11 August
27.	1997	Aiguebelette	France	31 August – 7 September
28.	1998	Cologne Fühlingen	Germany	6 – 13 September
29.	1999	St. Catharines Royal Canadian Henley Rowing Course	Canada	22 – 29 August
30.	2000	Zagreb Jarun	Croatia	1 – 6 August
31.	2001	Lucerne Rotsee	Switzerland	19 – 26 August
32.	2002	Seville Guadalquivir	Spain	15 – 22 September
33.	2003	Milan Idroscalo	Italy	24 – 31 August
34.	2004	Banyoles Lake of Banyoles	Spain	27 July – 1 August
35.	2005	Kaizu, Gifu Nagaragawa International Regatta Course	Japan	29 August – 4 September
36.	2006	Dorney Dorney Lake	Great Britain	20 – 27 August
37.	2007	Munich Oberschleißheim	Germany	26 August – 2 September
38.	2008	Ottensheim	Austria	20 – 27 July
39.	2009	Poznań Lake Malta	Poland	23 – 30 August
40.	2010	Cambridge Lake Karapiro	New Zealand	29 October – 7 November
41.	2011	Bled Lake Bled	Slovenia	28 August – 4 September
42.	2012	Plovdiv	Bulgaria	15 – 19 August
43.	2013	Chungju Tangeum Lake	South Korea	25 August – 1 September
44.	2014	Amsterdam Bosbaan	Netherlands	24 – 31 August
45.	2015	Aiguebelette Lac d'Aiguebelette	France	30 August – 6 September
46.	2016	Rotterdam Willem-Alexander Baan	Netherlands	21 – 28 August
47.	2017	Sarasota Nathan Benderson Park	United States	24 September – 1 October
48.	2018	Plovdiv	Bulgaria	9 – 16 September
49.	2019	Ottensheim	Austria	25 August – 1 September
50.	2020	Bled	Slovenia	16 – 23 August
51.	2021	Shanghai	China
52.	2022	Račice	Czech Republic

Multiple venues

Times hosted	Host country
4	Switzerland, Canada, Great Britain, Germany
3	Yugoslavia, Austria, Netherlands
2	New Zealand, Belgium, Italy, Spain, France, Bulgaria, United States
1	South Korea, Denmark, Australia, Czech Republic, Finland, Croatia, Japan, Poland, Slovenia

All-time medal table

As of 2018^[6]


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany (East Germany)	94	45	25	164
2	Italy (ITA)	82	64	53	199
3	Germany (GER)	80	72	69	221
4	Great Britain (GBR)	68	72	55	195
5	United States (USA)	64	71	85	220
6	Australia (AUS)	47	42	37	126
7	New Zealand (NZL)	46	29	26	101
8	Soviet Union (Soviet Union)	35	44	29	108
9	Romania (ROU)	34	45	40	119
10	Denmark (DEN)	33	26	32	91
11	France (FRA)	32	45	28	105
12	Canada (CAN)	29	35	41	105
13	West Germany (West Germany)	21	23	25	69
14	Netherlands (NED)	20	38	39	97
15	Norway (NOR)	16	7	11	34
16	Switzerland (SUI)	15	15	15	45
17	China (CHN)	13	8	22	43
18	Poland (POL)	11	20	16	47
19	Belarus (BLR)	11	6	10	27
20	Ireland (IRL)	10	7	7	24
21	Bulgaria (BUL)	9	12	14	35
22	Austria (AUT)	8	8	10	26
23	Czech Republic (CZE)	7	15	11	33
24	Greece (GRE)	7	10	10	27
25	Spain (ESP)	6	7	16	29
26	Croatia (CRO)	6	5	5	16
27	Slovenia (SLO)	4	5	5	14
28	Hungary (HUN)	4	3	6	13
29	Ukraine (UKR)	3	9	6	18
30	Finland (FIN)	3	4	4	11
31	Lithuania (LTU)	3	2	2	7
32	Brazil (BRA)	3	0	1	4
33	Belgium (BEL)	2	7	8	17
34	Sweden (SWE)	2	4	6	12
35	South Africa (SAF)	2	2	4	8
36	Russia (RUS)	1	7	13	21
37	Chile (CHI)	1	3	1	5
38	Argentina (ARG)	1	1	5	7
39	Japan (JPN)	1	1	2	4
40	Serbia and Montenegro (Serbia and Montenegro)	1	1	1	3
41	Czechoslovakia (Czechoslovakia)	0	11	11	22
42	Cuba (CUB)	0	2	1	3
43	Israel (ISR)	0	2	0	2
44	Estonia (EST)	0	1	6	7
45	Serbia (SRB)	0	1	5	6
46	Yugoslavia (Yugoslavia)	0	1	4	5
47	Slovakia (SVK)	0	1	2	3
48	Turkey (TUR)	0	0	2	2
49	Portugal (POR)	0	0	1	1
49	Zimbabwe (ZIM)	0	0	1	1
Totals (50 nations)		835	839	828	2502

Multiple medallists

Athlete	Nation	Born				Tot.
Daniele Gilardoni	Italy	1976	11	1	1	13
Matthew Pinsent	Great Britain	1970	10	0	2	12
Steve Redgrave	Great Britain	1962	9	2	1	12
Franco Sancassani	Italy	1974	9	2	1	12
Francesco Esposito	Italy	1955	9	1	1	11
Giuseppe Di Capua	Italy	1958	8	3	1	12
Andrea Re	Italy	1963	8	1	2	11

Scull and Sweep medalists

incomplete list

Scull and Sweep World Champions

Rower	Total		Scull		Sweep		Disciplines
Rower	# of disciplines		# of disciplines		# of disciplines		Disciplines
Daniele Gilardoni	2	13	1	12	1	1	LM4x, LM8+
Katherine Grainger	5	8	3	6	2	2	W1x, W2x, W4x, W2-, W8+
Elisabeta Lipă	5	13	3	9	2	4	W1x, W2x, W4x, W2-, W8+
Franco Sancassani	3	12	1	10	2	2	LM4x, LM2-, LM8+
Greg Searle	4	7	1	1	3	6	M1x, M2+, M4-, M8+
Martin Sinković	3	7	2	5	1	2	M2x, M4x, M2-
Valent Sinković	3	7	2	5	1	2	M2x, M4x, M2-

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.
↑ Medal table

External links

World Rowing website

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[1] The Origins of the Championships, Rowing History, Australia.

[2] Previous Venues Archived 11 October 2010 at the Wayback Machine., 2010 World Rowing Championships, New Zealand.

[3] "Summary of proposed changes to the FISA Rules of Racing, related Bye-Laws and Event Regulations" (PDF). FISA. Retrieved 13 February 2017.

[4] "2017 FISA Extraordinary Congress concludes". FISA. 11 February 2017. Retrieved 13 February 2017.

[5] "Rule 36 – World Rowing Championship Programmes" (PDF). FISA. 2 October 2017. Retrieved 2 October 2017.

[6] Medal table

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