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“There is a risk of flooding” Brisbane 2032 Promises Contingencies as Fitzroy Rowing Fight Escalates

Four national federations pressed organisers over flooding, fairness and the Olympic legacy of a regatta staged 600 kilometres from Brisbane. World Rowing has yet to approve the course.

Archie MacKinnon, Last of UBC’s Cinderella Four, Dies Aged 89

The bow-seat rower helped an unfancied UBC crew win Canada’s first Olympic rowing gold, then returned to claim Commonwealth gold and Olympic silver in the eight.

‘River Rage’ on The Thames: British Olympian Intervened in Alleged Ramming Incident to Protect Club Sculler

The Tokyo silver medallist intervened after a powerboat allegedly struck a club sculler near Maidenhead. Police have arrested a 67-year-old man and appealed for video of the confrontation.

Beyond The Boat: The Amsterdam Vote Results Are In

Valent Sinković Wins Athletes’ Commission Seat in Amsterdam Vote

Cornell Appoints New Head Coach as Lightweight Men Begin Life Under Probation

Ithaca, New York

British Rowing Faces Leadership Upheaval as Louise Kingsley Retires

An independent inquiry ended with no further action against the performance director, but her immediate departure leaves the British Rowing seeking a permanent successor two years before Los Angeles.

“Turmoil” British Rowing performance director suddenly retires after being cleared of inappropriate behaviour

Louise Kingsley Leaves British Rowing: Another Unnamed Coach Awaits Investigation Result

One Crew Again: Great Eight Return for Olaf Tufte’s Funeral Row

Horten, Norway

Cornell Lightweight Men Face Three Years on Probation After Hazing Finding

Ithaca, New York

School Rowing Coaches Honoured for Lifesaving Riverbank Intervention

Bedford, Great Britain

India’s Maiden World Cup Gold at Risk After Rower Tests Positive

India's Lakshay Could Face Four-Year Ban

Henley’s Two-Boat Rule Will Redraw the Qualification Queue

Henley-on-Thames

World Rowing Holds the Neutral Line After IOC Shift

Russian and Belarusian rowers remain eligible across every boat class, but national symbols and anthems are still barred. Any change now rests with World Rowing’s Executive Committee.

Olaf Tufte, Norway’s Double Olympic Champion, Dies Aged 50

Mourning Norwegian Olympic Legend Olaf Tufte

Michel Dumas, From Tokyo Fourth to Libourne Mainstay, Dies at 81

The French international came within one place of an Olympic medal in 1964, then spent decades helping Club Nautique de Libourne become a leading force.

Hazardous Smoke Shuts RowFest for a Second Day

Ford Lake, Michigan

Endrekson Swaps the Sculls for the Launch, Eyes LA 2028

Estonia's Six-Time Olympian on Coaching Challenge

Crocs, Currents and Credibility: The Fitzroy’s Olympic Problem Just Went Global

An IOC official’s blunt question about saltwater crocodiles at Brisbane 2032’s proposed rowing venue exposed a deeper problem: the Fitzroy River course still lacks World Rowing’s technical sign-off, even as Queensland ministers insist the matter is settled.

End of an Era in Madison as Chris Clark Steps Away After 32 Years

The architect of Wisconsin’s 2008 IRA national championship and five Ten Eyck Trophies announced his retirement on Friday, closing a tenure that began in 1994 and reshaped Badger rowing.

Former Welsh Rugby Player Appointed To Lead Rowing Ireland Culture Review

Dublin, Ireland

Texas Sweeps CRCA Awards After Championship Season at Lake Lanier

Texas, USA

All Change in Plovdiv as World Cup II Welcomes Newcomers

Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Dutch Double Down for Home Worlds After Eight-Medal Seville Haul

Early selection brings security, but could complacency cause problems?

“No one wants anyone to experience anything like that” Olympic Champion Breaks His Silence on Irish Rowing’s Welfare Crisis

Dublin, Ireland

“They have the intangibles” Washington Hold Off Cal to Clinch Third Straight IRA Title

Lake Natoma, California

“The fastest NCAA rowing championships in history” Texas Claims Fourth NCAA Title as Lake Lanier Rewrites the Record Books

Gainesville, Georgia

“I needed to put myself first” Australian Paralympic Champion Nikki Ayers Retires

Australian Paralympic Champion calls time on her rowing career

HOCR New Chair

Head Of The Charles Regatta Names New Chair, Two New Members to Regatta Board

Mourning Zdeněk Pecka

Czech sculler Olympic medalist and legendary coach, passes away at 69

Boat Race Chair

BRCL appoint Siobhan Cassidy

Molly Reckford and Michelle Sechser at Henley Royal Regatta

Henley-on-Thames, UK

Josy Verdonkschot at Henley Royal Regatta

Henley-on-Thames, UK

Australia Day 2022 Honours

Eight Rowing Australia Tokyo 2020 Olympic Champions recognised for their services to sport.

TOKYO 2020: Gender in sport – the world is turning

Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

TOKYO 2020: Hail Hail, The Gang’s All Here

Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Preview

Ondrej Synek Out of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics

Synek Pulls Out of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics

Head Of The Charles Announces Return for October

Massachusetts, USA

2021 World Rowing Cup III, post-race interviews

Sabaudia, Italy

LIVE: Finals day in Sabaudia at the 2021 World Rowing Cup III

Sabaudia Italy

2021 World Rowing Cup III, Athlete interviews from day two

Sabaudia, Italy

Japanese Disquiet Over Olympic Games Covid-Security

Polls show most of Japan would prefer to delay or cancel the Olympics. Fans may require proof of vaccination or a negative Covid-19 test result.

The Gemini Boat Race 2021

April 4th 2021 - Ely, Cambridgeshire

Boat Race: Uncharted Fenland Territory

The Gemini Boat Race 2021 preview

Henley Royal Regatta not to go ahead in June

Stewards consider postponing to August and moving to Dorney Lake in face of ongoing uncertainty

World Rowing Cup I to go ahead in April

Final Paralympic Qualification Regatta postponed to June

‘First Playbook’ published outlining measures to deliver safe Olympic and Paralympic Games

IOC President reaffirms commitment to Tokyo 2020 following Executive Board meeting

Rumours of Tokyo 2020 cancellation “categorically untrue”

Government and organisers focussed on delivering "full" Olympic Games this summer

“Japan privately concludes Tokyo Olympics should be cancelled” – The Times

Host city now looks to 2032

Boat Race moves to Ely

2021 Oxford Cambridge Boat Races

HOCR and Gold Cup award $100,000 to U.S. rowing programs

Boston & Philadelphia, USA

Farewell to Robbie Manson

New Zealand's record-breaking sculler retires from rowing

British Rowing publish statement following BBC documentary

Caversham, UK

2020 European Championships Highlights

Poznan, Poland

Excitement as 2020 European Rowing Championships Loom

9-11 October, Poznan, Poland.

James Cracknell Runs 100 Miles in Five Days, on Zero Calories

Games will go ahead in 2021 “At any cost”

Tokyo, Japan

2020 European Under-23 Championship highlights

Duisberg, Germany

Tokyo Olympic rowing venue to open for general use from Monday

Tokyo, Japan

Watch the European Under 23 Championships this Weekend

2020 European Rowing Under 23 Championships. Duisberg, Germany

USRowing’s new CEO

Amanda Kraus named as USRowing Chief Executive Officer

Record Entries for 2020 European Rowing Under 23 Championships

Duisberg (GER)

Jürgen Gröbler leaves GB Rowing

Britain's most succesful Olympic coach walks away

Bont Rowing announce Drive QRS

The first universal, carbon composite, quick release system that looks set to revolutionise the way we row.

Huge explosion in Beirut destroys Lebanese rowing centre

Beirut, Lebanon

Sbihi breaks British 2k record at home

"Tom will break my score again soon"

Drysdale confident, but may not race before Tokyo

New Zealand

Tokyo 2020 confirms all venues and schedule

Tokyo, Japan

Head of The Charles Cancelled

Boston, Massachusets

HOCR and Gold Cup partner to announce grant fund

Boston & Philadelphia

Ivy League: No sport this fall

Ivy League becomes first DI conference to cancel sports this autumn

Global locations confirmed for coastal and indoor championships

Lausanne, Switzerland.

NK launch global on-water virtual regatta

A free, tech-enabled on-water racing platform open to all

British Rowing’s unique global indoor rowing event

27-28 June 2020

Junior rowers at centre of Indian drugs investigation

22 Indian junior rowers test positive

World Rowing announces revised 2021 regatta season

Lausanne, Switzerland

World Rowing awards to take new format for 2020

Lack of racing forces major shake up of international rowing's annual awards

Tom George breaks GB Rowing Team 2k record in lockdown

George sets new fastest-ever British time

FISA praised in governance review

Lausanne, Switzerland.

Hopes for European Rowing 2020/21 regatta season

Under 23 champs confirmed for September

James Cracknell sets new British indoor marathon record

London, UK

Oxford and Cambridge teams to compete in virtual charity Boat Race

MCH.London virtual boat race to raise funds for Power2Inspire

Drysdale recommits to Tokyo

Kiwi sculler eyes third Olympic gold

“More Resonant Now Than Ever”

A Most Beautiful Thing, a film chronicling the first African American high school rowing team in America set for release July 10.

World Rowing: 131 indoor world records broken since March

Records tumble globally in face of Covid-19 lockdown

World Rowing Indoor Championships goes virtual for 2021

Sweeping changes to the indoor championships format reflect global uncertainty

Postponement of the 2020 European Rowing Champs

Via World Rowing

Olympics Postponed, Henley Cancelled

Latest Covid-19 update

Covid-19 Olympic Update

IOC decision expected in four weeks as Canada announces it will not send team to Tokyo this summer

Latest update from the IOC

IOC official communique on COVID-19 and Tokyo 2020

Oxford Cambridge Boat Races Cancelled

Boat Races become latest event to fall foul of Covid-19

World Rowing Cancels World Cup I and II

COVID-19 Disrupts World Rowing Schedule

The 2020 Boat Races Part III, CUBC

Cambridge University Boat Club

The 2020 Boat Races Part II, CUWBC

Cambridge University Women's Boat Club

The 2020 Boat Races Part I, OUBC

Oxford University Boat Club, UK

2020 World Rowing Indoor Championships

Paris, France

Catching Up With Mike Spracklen

Olympic coach Mike Spracklen speaks to Row360 at the R4 Rowers Conference

China Chief Coach Paul Thompson speaks at R4 Rowers Conference

Dorney Lake, UK

A Most Beautiful Thing

Documentary feature chronicling the first African American high school rowing team

World Rowing Confirms Plans to Propose Coastal Rowing for Paris 2024

Lausanne, Switzerland

The Shoulder Joint

An Undervalued Piece of the Rowing Puzzle

Yale Coach Steve Gladstone on Early Career and Ratzburg Method

Yale University, USA

Boat Race 2020: Cambridge Trial Eights

London, UK

Henley Royal Regatta To Expand To Six Days In 2021

Henley-Upon-Thames, London, UK

Boat Race: Interviews From The President’s Challenge

London, United Kingdom

2019 World Rowing Coastal Championships

Hong Kong, China

Gevvie Stone Wins Tenth HOCR

Head of The Charles Regatta, Boston USA

HOCR 2019, Ones To Watch

Head of The Charles Regatta: 19-20 October, Boston, USA

New Zealand Team Announce 2019 Summer Squad of 49 Athletes

New Zealand selectors announce training squad and sets out plans for Tokyo 2020

The Sun Sets On A Scorching Week: The End Of The Worlds

2019 World Rowing Championships, Linz, Austria

Turning Up The Heat On The Finals

2019 World Rowing Championships, Linz, Austria

Live: Final Day of the World Rowing Championships in Linz

World Champs Friday: Shimmering Semifinals

Worlds Saturday Finals, As It Happened

Live feed covering all the action from the finals of the World Rowing Championships in Linz, Austria

Spicy Semi-finals And Rollicking Repechages

2019 World Rowing Championships, Linz, Austria

World Champs Wednesday: Don’t Bump The Umpire

2019 World Rowing Championships, Linz, Austria

World Champs Tuesday: Old School Tech And Supercharged Eights

2019 World Rowing Championships, Linz, Austria

World Champs Monday: Burning Up Energy In The Repechages

2019 World Rowing Championships, Linz, Austria

Down To Business: Day One At The World Rowing Championships

All the action from Day 1 in Linz at the 2019 World Rowing Championships

Who to watch in Linz: Sarah Cook’s 2019 World Champs Predictions

The Australian Olympian, Henley steward and World Rowing commentator Sarah Cook provides her top tips on who to watch in Linz at the 2019 World Rowing Championships

GB selects 64 athletes for World Championships on first step to Tokyo

Great Britain 2019 world championship team announced

Germany cleans up at World Rowing Junior Championships in Tokyo

Sea Forest Waterway, Tokyo, Japan

Tokyo world junior champs to act as Olympic and Paralympic trial

2019 World Rowing Junior Championships, Tokyo, Japan

Italy and GB on top at U23 World Championships

2019 Under-23 World Rowing Championships: Sarasota, Bradenton, USA

Strong entries for the 2019 World Rowing Under 23 Championships

2019 Under-23 World Rowing Championships

Green and gold in top spot

Australia win the 2019 World Rowing Cup

From the horses mouth: Rotterdam interviews

Stars of the Rotterdam World Cup speak to Row360

LIVE: World Cup III Finals, Rotterdam

Live updates from the course on finals day in Rotterdam

Tension mounts in windy semi-finals

All the action from day two in Rotterdam

Catalogue of Friday 12th Rotterdam woes

Heats commence in Rotterdam at World Rowing Cup III

Hamish Bond at HRR 2019

New Zealand win the Grand Challenge Cup for the first time

World Cup III: who to watch this weekend and how

World Rowing Cup III begins this weekend in Rotterdam

King’s Cup thriller stirs enclosures’ emotion

Finals day at Henley Royal Regatta 2019

Tailwind territory as records fall

Saturday report, Henley 2019

Forces crews make Henley debut

Friday report, Henley 2019

Seventh Diamonds moves out of Drysdale’s reach

Henley Royal Regatta 2019, Thursday race report

“The narrowest of margins”

The 2019 regatta begins

HRR Inside Lines

The inside scoop from Henley Royal Regatta Day 1

Henley 2019 Teaser

Henley release teaser video ahead of 2019 Regatta

Emma Twigg wins gold in Poznan

Emma Twigg speaks to Row360 in Poznan

Nicholas Purnell and Joeseph O’Brien

Nicholas Purnell and Joeseph O'Brien speak to Row360 in Poznan

Gevvie Stone and Cicely Madden

Gevvie Stone and Cicely Madden speak to Row360 in Poznan

Twigg and Nielsen top world cup with triumphant singles victories

The 2019 World Rowing Cup II regatta concludes in Poznan

Poznan: Ten years on, another bronze for India

A special day in Poznan on the second day of World Cup II

Showery start in Poland

Day 1 report, World Cup II, Poznan

Looking ahead to World Cup II, Poznan

21-23 June 2019

Will Satch and Polly Swann return to GB Rowing Team for World Cup II

Olympic medallists Will Satch and Polly Swann return as part of strong GB Rowing Team for World Cup II

GB’s Jack Beaumont and Angus Groome in Lucerne

2019 European Rowing Championships - Lucerne, Switzerland

Delight and Disappointment in Lucerne

Day 2 of the 2019 European Rowing Championships - Lucerne, Switzerland

May Flies Past on The Rotsee

2019 European Rowing Championships - Lucerne, Switzerland

Strong Great Britain Team Selected for 2019 European Rowing Championships

Great Britain Team Announced for 2019 Gavirate International Regatta

Two Paralympic champions feature in the same boat, with Laurence Whiteley and Lauren Rowles reprising their Rio 2016 gold medal-winning combination in the PR2 mixed double. Lauren missed the 2018 Gavirate International Regatta due to injury, but Laurence claimed a gold and a silver in last year’s PR2 men’s single.

Philadelphia Gold Challenge Cup Foundation Introduces the Blackwall Duling Challenge for Adaptive Rowing

Philadelphia, USA

China Dominates First World Rowing Cup in Plovdiv

World Cup 1, Plovdiv

2019 World Rowing Season Opener

The international season begins in Plovdiv Bulgaria

Racing begins at World Rowing Cup I

Plovdiv, Bulgaria

World Rowing’s 2019 Season Set To Begin In Plovdiv

World Rowing looks to the season ahead

USRowing Coxswains Katelin Guregian and Leigh Warner

60 seconds with the USRowing training centre coxswains

James Cracknell Wins 165th Boat Race

Interview

Boat Race 2019

Preview of the 165th Oxford Cambridge Boat Race

Sizing Up The Blues

2019 Boat Races weigh-in

James Cracknell on putting his hand back in the fire

At the age of 46, James Cracknell continues to defy expectations as he prepares to become the oldest rower in the near 200 year history of the Boat Race

World’s Best Scullers Prepare To Race For $37K In Prizes

2018 Philadephia Gold Cup

Magdalena Lobnig in Plovdiv

Lobnig speaks to Row360 after winning Bronze in Bulgaria.

US W8+”When we wanted to move, we were ready”

The US W8+ speak in Bulgaria after their dominating comeback performance.

Sanita Puspure in Plovdiv

Sanita speaks to Row360 about what it means to her to win world championship gold.

Lane changes and surprises on the last day in Bulgaria

Rachel Quarrell wraps up the final day of the World Championships in Bulgaria.

Valent Sinkovic In Plovdiv

The Croation World Champion speaks to Row360

All the interviews from world cup III in Lucerne

A collection of athlete interviews from the final World Cup of 2018 in Lucerne

Mahe Drysdale Looks Ahead After World Cup III

Make Drysedale speaks to Row360 in Lucerne

Carling Zeeman Speaking At 2018 World Cup III

What Happened At World Cup II?

Rachel Quarrell draws conclusions from the weekend's racing in Linz

New Red Bull Documentary Featuring Irish O’Donovan Brothers

New Video from Red Bull sheds light on one of Europe’s most successful and unique rowing clubs you’ve never heard of.

Pete Reed: Why Now?

The triple Olympic gold medallist on his decision to step away mid-season

5.35.8: A New World Record

Josh Dunkley-Smith on his record breaking indoor row