Aug 10, 2024 · Single sculls: Dutch rower Karolien Florijn powered to victory in the women's single sculls Olympic final on Saturday in a time of 7:17.28, with Emma Twigg of New Zealand picking up silver and Lithuania's Viktorija Senkute bronze.

At the 2020 and 2024 Olympics, the following 14 events were contested for both men and women: Single sculls, Double sculls, Quadruple sculls, lightweight double sculls, Coxless pair, Coxless four, Eight.

On Monday, Sept. 4, Michelle Sechser and Mary Jones Nabel will line up for their first heat of the lightweight women’s double sculls at the 2023 World Rowing Championships in Belgrade, Serbia. Sechser is the defending silver medalist in the boat class....

This is the complete list of women's Olympic medalists in rowing. Note: coxed event (1976–1984), coxless event (1988–) not included in the Olympic program.

Jul 27, 2024 · Here's what you need to know about rowing at the 2024 Paris Olympics. When did rowing become an Olympic sport? Men’s rowing debuted at the 1900 Paris Olympics; women’s rowing was...

Mar 25, 2024 · The first 21 rowers named to the U.S. Olympic team for Paris include two-time gold medalist Meghan Musnicki, a 41-year-old set to become the oldest American woman to row at an Olympics. Musnicki is part of a pool of 12 women who will be placed in either the four boat or the eight boat, U.S. Rowing announced after a selection camp ended Sunday.

Aug 1, 2024 · Meghan Musnicki and the rest of USA women's 8 rowing kept their Olympic dreams alive after cruising to the finals Thursday at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. Musnicki's crew surged past the...

Jul 31, 2024 · Great Britain's women's quadruple sculls charged past the Netherlands in the final few meters to win a photo finish final for the ages. The shocking come-from-behind victory earned the British nation's first gold medal in the event.

Jul 31, 2024 · Great Britain's rowers won a dramatic Olympic gold in the women's quadruple sculls after a photo finish with the Netherlands. The Dutch led from the front and were half a boat length clear with...

Fourteen medal events were contested by 526 athletes (266 men and 260 women --- three of the seven coxes in the women's eights were male). [1] The rowing programme featured a total of fourteen events, seven each for both men and women in identical boat classes.

Jun 25, 2024 · Emily Kallfelz, of Jamestown, will compete on the United States' Women's Four rowing quartet at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris. Detroit Tigers 2025 roster prediction 3.0: Searching for ...

Jul 31, 2024 · The U.S. women’s eight has a storied history at the Olympics, and they are working to return to the podium this year. The women’s eight placed second at the 2023 World Championships and third at World Cup II in 2024.

Highlights from the Women's Lightweight Double Sculls and the first day of the Rowing competition in the Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium!

Aug 3, 2024 · The U.S. women's eights rowing team couldn’t defend its Olympic gold medal, finishing fifth in the finals. Romania clinched first and Canada claimed silver.

Aug 2, 2024 · The GB Lightweight Women’s double sculls (LW2x) executed a race that was perhaps as close to perfection as you can get in rowing to win Team GB’s second rowing gold medal of these Games. Off the start, the high-rating Romanians shot into a brief early lead, with New Zealand also showing strongly.

Aug 3, 2024 · Led by coxswain Kristen Kit and three other returnees from the Tokyo 2021 championship crew, Canada's women's Olympic eight rowing team captured a silver medal at Vaires-sur-Marne...

Apr 6, 2021 · China's women's quadruple sculls boat of Bin Tang, Xi Aihua, Jin Ziwei and Zhang Yangyang brought the host nation its first Olympic rowing gold medal. On the final day of the nine-day Olympic program, the U.S. women's eight team brought home the country's first women's eight gold medal since 1984.

Women's rowing was added to the Olympic Games programme in 1976 at a distance of 1000 metres. This was extended to 2000 metres from 1984 onwards at world championship level, and from 1988 at the Summer Olympics, consistent with men's rowing events at the Olympics.

Canada won the rowing women's eight gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics, storming to an early lead and holding off New Zealand over the final 200 meters on Thursday.

Jul 30, 2021 · Canada's women's eight crew captured gold on the final day of Olympic rowing at the Sea Forest Waterway in Tokyo on Friday, winning the event for the first time in 29 years. It is Canada's...

Feb 7, 2025 · Also stepping away from rowing are Ireland’s Aifric Keogh, who made history as part of the Irish women’s four that won a first-ever Olympic women’s rowing medal, bronze in Tokyo; Britain’s Karen Bennett, who picked up silver in the women’s eight at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games; fellow Briton and two-time Olympian Rebecca Edwards; and ...

4 days ago · Megan won silver in the women’s eight at the 2004 Athens Olympics and gold in the four at the 2007 World Rowing Championships. She is a six-time member of the U.S. National Rowing Team and has worked as a successful high school coach for multiple years. ... Dan Harrison is an assistant coach for the women’s rowing team at Harvard University ...

The women's eight event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place from 24 to 30 July 2021 at the Sea Forest Waterway. [1] Seven nations were represented with one boat each; 56 rowers and 7 coxswains competed. [2]

Feb 1, 2025 · Ananya Prasad spent 52 days rowing solo across the Atlantic Ocean A Sheffield woman is thought to be the first "woman of colour" to row solo across any ocean after completing a 3,000-mile voyage ...

Feb 11, 2025 · Rowing and paddle sprint events could be held just 25 minutes from the proposed Gold Coast athletes village if a feasibility study into the use of Hinze Dam for the 2032 Olympics is successful.

The rowing competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro took place from 6 to 13 August 2016 at the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon in Lagoa.Fourteen medal events were being contested by 547 athletes, 334 men and 213 women. [1]For the third Olympics in a row, Great Britain was the most successful nation, topping the medal table with three golds and two silvers.