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.

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 Junior World Rowing 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).

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.

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
2+	Coxed pairs	WC
4x	Quad sculls	O	WC	O	WC
4-	Coxless fours	O	O	WC
4+	Coxed fours
8+	Eights	O	WC	O

Venues

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

Multiple venues

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

Multiple medallist

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

References

1. The Origins of the Championships, Rowing History, Australia.
2. Previous Venues, 2010 World Rowing Championships, New Zealand.

External links

• World Rowing website