Features
Asian Games Gold for Iranian Rower Despite Bombing Raids and War
Bombing sent Zarei home from Iran’s rowing camp, to train alone on an ergometer. Months later, she and Zeinab Norouzi raced twice for medals at the Asian Games.
Best Rowing Machines 2026: Five Ergs Worth Your Floor Space
Compare the best rowing machines of 2026, from Concept2 to Hydrow, and find the right erg for serious training, quiet homes or tight budgets.
Ex-Police Officer “The Hardest Thing I’ve Ever Done In My Life” Three Records From One Brutal North Atlantic Row
Dawn Smith and Paul Lore Set Three Atlantic Records
Oldest U.S. Olympic Oarswoman Gets Surprise Health Results and New Sporting Challenge
Four-time Olympian Meghan Musnicki on Life After Rowing
'Crew Girl’ Gives Rowing the Teen-Romance Treatment
Can a single sculler command a chaotic boys’ eight, repair her family life and choose between two rival rowers? Netflix heads to Easton Prep on 10 September.
Olaf Tufte, Norway’s seven-time Olympian: The Last Chapter
Olaf Tufte’s Cause of Death Confirmed by Family
Horten Roklubb
Memories of The Boat Race: Donald Legget remembers his time rowing for Cambridge
“Ely was also iced up, so we cast around to find a stretch at St Neots where hot effluent from a power station kept the water clear of ice.”
Donald Legget, Cambridge’s Tideway Master, Dies Aged 84
The former Cambridge Blue coached successive generations on the Thames, bringing an exceptional technical eye and more than six decades of Boat Race knowledge to the Light Blues.
Katie O’Brien Had to Learn How to Move the Boat Again
Paris Paralympian Returns to the Water
Karolien Florijn Capsizes: What went wrong for the Dutch Olympic champion?
Seville, Spain
Hannah Scott’s Second Act: Olympic Champion Returns to Lead GB’s New-Look Quad
Seville, Spain
Champions, Comebacks and Class Switches: Who to Watch at World Rowing Cup I in Seville
Seville, Spain
The Eight
New book on British coach Mike Spracklen and his successful yet controversial time coaching Canada
Chris Dodd Obituary
London, UK
Decision Time
Olympic champion and Crew Connection co-founder Sholto Carnegie sheds light on U.S. college rowing.
James Robson: From Paris Reserve to World Champion
Henley-on-Thames
Finn Hamill: Handling Pressure, His Way
Finn Hamill: Dad’s lost two brothers: imagine what it would be like to lose a son.
Last Word
Twelve quick fire questions with Anna Sheremet
Murtagh’s leap from sweep
Fiona Murtagh: "It’s sport. Nothing is guaranteed.”
Unfinished Business
Lauren Rowles: "Sport was my therapy. My way of battling demons."
Rowles Retires
Three-time Paralympic champion calls it a day
Overlooked and Undervalued
How best to rest?
Great British Odyssey Update
The Lonely Way Around