World Rowing

The 2010 World Rowing Masters Regatta is about to get under way in St Catharines, Canada, and nearly 3,000 rowers have signed up to participate. The rowers have come from 34 countries with clubs from the United States and Canada featuring prominently. Racing will take place from 2 to 5 September.

Coming into the two-months-to-go zone for the 2010 World Rowing Championships has brought the announcement that Australia has finalised their team to compete at Lake Karapiro, New Zealand, late October through early November.

The Canadian national team rarely race in Canada, but this year they changed that by showing up in full force at the 128th Royal Canadian Henley Regatta.

It has only been a matter of a few months since the shipment of 14 rowing boats arrived in the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu but already the local people have embraced the sport and relished the chance to get on the water.

The 11th edition of the World University Rowing Championships had its biggest turnout this year when 28 nations raced in Szeged, Hungary.

It was all about communicating, organising and sympathising and, of course, also all about rowing.

In an exclusive interview with World Rowing, IOC President Jacques Rogge talks about the Youth Olympic Games.

Four crews from four different countries claimed the first Youth Olympic Champion titles in the history of rowing.

In the overall database of FISA umpires, 64 nations are represented, and here at Marina Bay Reservoir, sixteen international umpires from as many countries are part of the jury to oversee the racing at the 2010 Youth Olympic Games.

David Watts and Matthew Cochran won bronze in the Junior Men’s Coxed Four just a little over a week ago at the 2010 World Rowing Junior Championships in Racice, Czech Republic.

Crews came to Marina Bay today with the aim to qualify for tomorrow's A-finals. To do so, they would have to finish in the top three during the Semifinals.

On the third day of racing at Marina Bay Reservoir, partly sunny and headwind conditions met the rowers, with temperatures rising quickly to the low thirties.

Beatrix Heaphy-Hall and Eve Macfarlane of New Zealand have had a busy week. It started off by winning gold in the Junior Women’s Four at the 2010 World Rowing Junior Championships in the Czech Republic. It continued with a trip to Singapore and acclimatisation for the Youth Olympic Games. Now they have begun to race, and it is going well for them. Today, they won their Repechage and qualified for their Semifinal in the Junior Women’s Pair.

Rowers went to the start line today to have a second chance at qualifying for the Semifinals, scheduled for tomorrow, Tuesday 17 August. Due to a thunderstorm, racing was delayed by 30 minutes but then the races were able to start in partially cloudy and mostly dry conditions.

French women’s single sculler Noemie Kober, who won her heat yesterday, and men’s junior pair rowers William Chopy and Benoit Demey, who finished third in their heat and also qualified for the Semifinals, talk to World Rowing about their experience at the Youth Olympic Games and in Singapore.

The inaugural Youth Olympic Games opened yesterday evening, Saturday 14 August, after a spectacular opening ceremony at Singapore’s Marina Bay.

The World Rowing Junior Championships finished last weekend. Rowing at the inaugural Youth Olympic Games is due to start on 15 August. And the European junior regatta the Coupe de la Jeunesse has recently been raced.

It was good to be German at the 2010 World Rowing Junior Championships that have just finished in Racice, Czech Republic.

The last day at the 2010 World Rowing Junior Championships in Racice, Czech Republic featured racing in eight finals and at the end of the day a number of significant marks had been achieved.

After two days of ongoing rain these B-finals – the race for place seven to 12 in the world – enjoyed clearing skies and flat water.