World Rowing

Slovenia’s Iztok Cop led the field for the fifth Italian Sculling Challenge, the Memorial Don Angelo Villa, in snow-covered conditions.

Today is International Women’s Day. This celebrates the achievements of women past, present and future. It has been celebrated since the early 1900s and some countries mark it with a national holiday.

The London 2012 Paralympic Games will be the second time that adaptive rowers will have raced at the Paralympics and the criteria for qualifying for the most prestigious event in adaptive rowing have just been confirmed.

New criteria have been announced for determining which rowers will be included in the 2010 FISA Registered Testing Pool. This is the group of rowers who are required by the World Anti-Doping Code to provide their whereabouts in order for unannounced anti-doping testing to take place efficiently.

In one month’s time, one of the most traditional races in rowing takes to the waters of London’s River Thames. Oxford and Cambridge Universities have just announced their crews that will compete in the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race on 3 April.

Often used as a break from long, hard, winter training rows, the FISA Team Cup in Seville, Spain, goes to the other extreme. Raced over two days, day one is a burning 1,000m race distance, and then day two shortens to a quick, intense 500m sprint race format.

Nominations for the 2010 Thomas Keller Medallist must be submitted online by 9 March 2010.

On the 30th day of 2010 Ursula Grobler rewrote the standard for lightweight women.

The registration date for the 2010 World Rowing Tour is rapidly approaching.

Feedback from rowing federations from around the world on the distance of races for adaptive rowers has led to the decision to keep the distance...

It was a decade ago that Greg Searle last raced a serious race. Five months ago the British Olympic medallist decided to come back into elite level rowing and go after a spot at the 2012 London Olympics.

Rowing is the prominent theme behind a new Belgian film to be released later this month. “La Regate” (The Boat Race) centres on the life of 15 year old Alex who has set his mind on winning the Belgian Rowing Championships. But Alex has to deal with an abusive father. Alex uses rowing to escape his violent home life.

Three World Records fell at the CRASH-Bs, the World Indoor Rowing Championships in Boston, USA. The Valentines Day erg regatta lived up to its reputation with athletes from plenty of nations fronting up to go as hard as they could over the 2,000m distance.