2025 World Rowing Championships

Shanghai hosts the 2025 World Rowing Championships, with racing across 20 to 27 September. Taking the senior worlds to China carries the regatta well away from the familiar European circuit, and a long-haul championship of this kind asks something extra of the crews who travel to contest it.

This is the global championship, the one regatta that gathers the full breadth of the racing programme in a single week. Its place late in the calendar makes it the season's headline event, the point at which the year's work is measured and the leading nations send their strongest crews to settle who is fastest in the world.

A new course and a long journey add their own edge, and conditions on the day shape how the racing unfolds. With the depth of the field, the margins at the top are fine ones, and a world title earned far from home is a prize every rowing nation chases.