| Rowing at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad | |
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 Rowing pictogram for the 2020 Summer Olympics | |
| Venue | Sea Forest Waterway |
| Dates | 23–30 July 2021 |
| No. of events | 14 |
| Competitors | 526 from 79 nations |
| Rowing at the 2020 Summer Olympics | ||
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| Qualification | ||
| Single sculls | men | women |
| Coxless pair | men | women |
| Double sculls | men | women |
| Lwt double sculls | men | women |
| Coxless four | men | women |
| Quadruple sculls | men | women |
| Eight | men | women |
Therowing competitions at the2020 Summer Olympics inTokyo took place between 23 and 30 July 2021 at theSea Forest Waterway (Central Breakwater) inTokyo Bay. Fourteen medal events were contested by 526 athletes (266 men and 260 women --- three of the sevencoxes inthe 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. This gender equality was suggested by theWorld Rowing Federation at its February 2017 congress, with the recommendation adopted by theInternational Olympic Committee in June 2017. This balancing was achieved by deleting the men's lightweight four and adding the women's coxless four boat classes. The women's coxless four previously ran at the1992 Barcelona Olympics; the only time this boat class was an Olympic event. The changes to the Olympic rowing schedule were the first since the1996 Atlanta Olympics.[2]
Events for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics included both disciplines of rowing:sweep rowing, where competitors each use a single oar, andsculling, where they use two placed on opposite sides of the boat. There was also onelightweight (weight restricted) event for each gender: the lightweight double sculls. Sculling events include men's and women'ssingles,doubles,lightweight doubles, andquads. Sweep events included men's and women'scoxless pairs,coxless fours, andeights.[1]
The event took at theSea Forest Waterway, a new venue constructed specifically for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games and Paralympic Games. The water is about 6 metres deep. The course is 2335 meters long and 198 meters wide. Each lane is 12.5 m wide. There were 8 lanes.[3]
A total of 526 quota spots were available. Each qualified nation entered one boat for each of the fourteen events. The majority of the berths were awarded based on the results at the2019 World Rowing Championships, held inOttensheim,Austria from 25 August to 1 September 2019.[4] Places were awarded toNational Olympic Committees, not to specific athletes, finishing in the top 9 in the single sculls (both men and women), top 5 in the eights, top 8 in the fours and quadruple sculls, top 7 in the lightweight double sculls, and top 11 each in the pairs and double sculls.[5] Further berths were distributed to the nations (and in this case to specific competitors) at four continental qualifyingregattas in Asia and Oceania, Africa, Latin America, and Europe, and at a final Olympic qualification regatta inLucerne,Switzerland.
| H | Heats | R | Repechage | ¼ | Quarter-finals | ½ | Semi-finals | F | Final |
| Event↓/Date → | Fri 23 | Sat 24 | Sun 25 | Mon 26 | Tue 27 | Wed 28 | Thu 29 | Fri 30 |
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| Men's single sculls Women's single sculls | H | R | ¼/½ | ½ | F | |||
| Men's pair Women's pair | H | R | ½ | F | ||||
| Men's double sculls Women's double sculls | H | R | ½ | F | ||||
| Men's lightweight double sculls Women's lightweight double sculls | H | R | ½ | F | ||||
| Men's four Women's four | H | R | F | |||||
| Men's quadruple sculls Women's quadruple sculls | H | R | F | |||||
| Men's eight Women's eight | H | R | F |
On 23 July, World Rowing announced changes to the schedule due to forecasted inclement weather for 26 July. All racing originally scheduled for 26 July was moved to 25 July. The eights heats were also moved from 25 to 24 July to accommodate the new schedule.[9] Further revisions were made on 25 July, cancelling racing on 27 July due toTropical Storm Nepartak hitting parts of Japan.[10]
Each event has the same number of boats entered for men and women.
| Event | Number of boats per gender |
|---|---|
| Single sculls | 32 |
| Pair | 13 |
| Double sculls | 13 |
| Lightweight double sculls | 18 |
| Coxless four | 10 |
| Quadruple sculls | 10 |
| Eight | 7 |
Algeria (2)
Argentina (2)
Australia (40)
Austria (3)
Belarus (5)
Belgium (2)
Benin (1)
Bermuda (1)
Brazil (1)
Canada (29)
Chile (2)
China (28)
Ivory Coast (1)
Croatia (3)
Cuba (1)
Czech Republic (7)
Denmark (9)
Dominican Republic (1)
Egypt (1)
Estonia (4)
France (12)
Germany (24)
Great Britain (41)
Greece (4)
Guatemala (2)
Hong Kong (1)
Hungary (1)
India (2)
Indonesia (2)
Iran (1)
Iraq (1)
Ireland (13)
Italy (23)
Japan (3)
Kazakhstan (1)
Kuwait (1)
Libya (1)
Lithuania (9)
Mexico (1)
Monaco (1)
Morocco (1)
Namibia (1)
Netherlands (35)
New Zealand (32)
Nicaragua (2)
Nigeria (1)
Norway (7)
Paraguay (1)
Peru (1)
Philippines (1)
Poland (20)
Portugal (2)
Puerto Rico (1)
Qatar (1)
Romania (36)
ROC (10)
Saudi Arabia (1)
Serbia (3)
Singapore (1)
South Africa (6)
South Korea (1)
Spain (6)
Sudan (1)
Sweden (1)
Switzerland (9)
Chinese Taipei (1)
Thailand (2)
Togo (1)
Trinidad and Tobago (1)
Tunisia (2)
Turkey (1)
Uganda (1)
Ukraine (2)
United States (37)
Uruguay (2)
Uzbekistan (2)
Vanuatu (1)
Venezuela (2)
Vietnam (2)
Zimbabwe (1)| Rank | NOC | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Zealand | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 2 | Australia | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 3 | Netherlands | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 4 | Romania | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | France | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | China | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| Italy | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | |
| 8 | Canada | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Croatia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| Ireland | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 11 | Greece | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Germany | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| ROC | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| 14 | Great Britain | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 15 | Norway | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Poland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 17 | Austria | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Denmark | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (18 entries) | 14 | 14 | 14 | 42 | |
| Event | Round | Name | Nation | Time | Date | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's double sculls | Heats | Melvin Twellaar Stef Broenink | Netherlands | 6:08.38 | 24 July | |
| Women's coxless four | Heats | Lucy Stephan Rosemary Popa Jessica Morrison Annabelle McIntyre | Australia | 6:28.76 | 24 July | |
| Women's double sculls | Final | Nicoleta-Ancuța Bodnar Simona Radiș | Romania | 6:41.03 | 28 July | OR |
| Men's double sculls | Final | Hugo Boucheron Matthieu Androdias | France | 6:00.33 | 28 July | OR |
| Women's coxless four | Final | Lucy Stephan Rosemary Popa Jessica Morrison Annabelle McIntyre | Australia | 6:15.37 | 28 July | OR |
| Men's coxless four | Final | Alexander Purnell Spencer Turrin Jack Hargreaves Alexander Hill | Australia | 5:42.76 | 28 July | OR |
| Men's quadruple sculls | Final | Dirk Uittenbogaard Abe Wiersma Tone Wieten Koen Metsemakers | Netherlands | 5:32.03 | 28 July | OR,WR |
| Women's quadruple sculls | Final | Chen Yunxia Zhang Ling Lü Yang Cui Xiaotong | China | 6:05.13 | 28 July | OR,WR |
| Men's lightweight double sculls | Semifinal | Fintan McCarthy Paul O'Donovan | Ireland | 6:05.33 | 28 July | OR,WR |
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