The rowing competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris ran from 27 July to 3 August at the Stade nautique de Vaires-sur-Marne, National Olympic Nautical Stadium of Île-de-France in Vaires-sur-Marne.[1] The number of rowers competing across fourteen gender-based categories at these Games was reduced from 526 to 502, with an equal distribution between men’s and women’s events. Despite the slight changes in athlete figures, the rowing program for Paris 2024 remained constant from the previous edition as the competition featured an equal number of categories for men and women, with seven each.[2]
| Rowing at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad | |
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| Venue | Stade nautique de Vaires-sur-Marne, National Olympic Nautical Stadium of Île-de-France, Vaires-sur-Marne |
| Dates | 27 July – 3 August 2024 |
| No. of events | 14 (7 men, 7 women) |
| Competitors | 502 |
Competition format
editThe rowing program featured a total of fourteen events, seven each for both men and women in identical boat classes. The program was the same as that of the 2020 Olympics. This was the last Olympics where lightweight rowing was featured, to be replaced by coastal rowing at the 2028 Olympics.[3]
Events for the 2024 Paris Olympics consisted of men's and women's events for the two disciplines of rowing:
- Sweep rowing, where each rower uses a single oar:
- Sculling, where rowers use two oars placed on opposite sides of the boat:
- Single sculls
- Double sculls
- Lightweight (weight restricted) double sculls
- Quadruple sculls[1]
Qualification
edit502 rowing quota places were available for Paris 2024, about twenty-four less overall than those in Tokyo 2020. Qualified NOCs were entitled to enter a single boat for each of the fourteen categories.[2]
The qualification period commenced at the 2023 World Rowing Championships, on 3 to 10 September in Belgrade, Serbia, where about two-thirds of the total quota were awarded to the highest-ranked crews across fourteen categories.[4] These quota places were distributed to the NOCs, not to specific rowers, finishing among the top nine in the single sculls (both men and women), top seven in the lightweight double sculls, fours, and quadruple sculls, top five in the eights, and top eleven each in the pairs and double sculls.[5] The remainder of the total quota were attributed to the eligible rowers at each of the four continental qualification regattas in Asia and Oceania, the Americas, Africa, and Europe, and at the final Olympic qualification regatta in Lucerne, Switzerland.
As the host country, France reserved one quota place in the men's and women's single sculls had they not qualified in other classes. Four quota places (two per gender) are entitled to the NOCs competing in the same category under the Tripartite Commission.[2]
Competition schedule
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| H | Heats | R | Repechage | ¼ | Quarter-finals | ½ | Semi-finals | F | Final |
| Event↓/Date → | Sat 27 | Sun 28 | Mon 29 | Tues 30 | Wed 31 | Thu 1 | Fri 2 | Sat 3 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's single sculls Women's single sculls |
H | R | ½ | ¼ | 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 | ||||||
Participating nations
editThere were 64 participating nations:
Algeria (2)
Angola (1)
Argentina (4)
Australia (37)
Austria (3)
Azerbaijan (1)
Belgium (3)
Bermuda (1)
Brazil (2)
Bulgaria (2)
Canada (11)
Chile (4)
China (14)
Croatia (5)
Cuba (2)
Czech Republic (6)
Denmark (16)
Egypt (3)
Estonia (4)
France (12)
Germany (23)
Great Britain (42)
Greece (7)
Hong Kong (1)
Hungary (1)
India (1)
Individual Neutral Athletes (2)
Indonesia (1)
Iran (3)
Ireland (16)
Italy (34)
Japan (5)
Kazakhstan (1)
Kuwait (1)
Libya (1)
Lithuania (8)
Mexico (3)
Monaco (1)
Morocco (1)
Netherlands (33)
New Zealand (20)
Nicaragua (1)
Norway (10)
Paraguay (2)
Peru (3)
Philippines (1)
Poland (6)
Romania (45)
Serbia (4)
Singapore (1)
Slovenia (1)
South Africa (3)
Spain (9)
Switzerland (17)
Thailand (1)
Togo (1)
Tunisia (3)
Uganda (1)
Ukraine (6)
Uruguay (1)
United States (42)
Uzbekistan (3)
Vietnam (1)
Zimbabwe (1)
Medal summary
editA total of 42 medals were won by 15 NOC's.[7]
Medal table
edit* Host nation (France)
| Rank | NOC | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Netherlands | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| 2 |  Great Britain | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
| 3 |  Romania | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 4 |  New Zealand | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 |  Germany | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
 Ireland | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
 United States | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 8 |  Croatia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 |  Italy | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 |  Canada | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| – |  Individual Neutral Athletes[A] | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 |  Greece | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 12 |  Australia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Lithuania | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Poland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Switzerland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (15 entries) | 14 | 14 | 14 | 42 | |
Men's events
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Women's events
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Notes
edit- ^ Individual Neutral Athletes is the name used to represent approved individual Russian and Belarusian athletes at the 2024 Summer Olympics, after the IOC suspended the Russian Olympic Committee and Belarus Olympic Committee due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The IOC country code is AIN, after the French name Athlètes Individuels Neutres.[8][9][10]
See also
editReferences
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- ^ a b "Paris 2024 – Rowing". Paris 2024. Retrieved 25 December 2022.
- ^ a b c Fava, Gisella (18 August 2022). "How to qualify for rowing at Paris 2024. The Olympics qualification system explained". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 23 December 2022.
- ^ "Final bow for lightweights in Paris as rowing weight classes disappear | NBC Olympics". www.nbcolympics.com.
- ^ "World Rowing Olympic Qualification System, Paris 2024 – Now Online". World Rowing. 19 April 2022. Retrieved 25 December 2022.
- ^ "Qualification System – Games of the XXXIII Olympiad – Rowing" (PDF). World Rowing. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 25 December 2022.
- ^ "Rowing Regatta of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris" (PDF). www.worldrowing.com. World Rowing. Retrieved 25 December 2022.
- ^ "Medal standings" (PDF). www.olympics.com/. Paris Organising Committee for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. 3 August 2024. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
- ^ Grohmann, Karolos (8 December 2023). "Russians, Belarusians to participate at Paris Olympics as neutrals – IOC". Reuters. Archived from the original on 8 December 2023. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
- ^ Wilson, Jeremy (11 April 2024). "Is Russia at the Olympics and what is 'AIN'?". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 30 July 2024. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
- ^ "Individual Neutral Athletes at the Olympic Games Paris 2024". International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 28 July 2024. Retrieved 2 August 2024.