Olaf Tufte rowed at seven Olympic Games, from Atlanta 1996 to Tokyo 2020, winning two Olympic gold medals in the single sculls, at Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008, silver in the double sculls at Sydney 2000, and bronze in the double at Rio 2016.
The new, ‘mano a mano’ 500m sprint format regatta will be held in downtown Shanghai on September 26th and 27th and feature eight top international teams competing for thousands of dollars in prize money.
The USRowing Youth National Championshiops has become the place where the highest-achieving youth rowers in the country come together after proving themselves elsewhere. It’s also a first-rate event.
The Island Challenge Cup for women's eights was the only Henley trophy (of 30 total) won by a U.S. crew, as a Harvard combination crew and Washington men raced in the finals of the Ladies Plate and Temple Challenge Cup.
After many U.S. crews completed the competitive aspect of their Henley trips in the qualifying time trials or first day of racing, Deerfield Academy's boys and girls eights won to advance to the next round.
The biggest version of rowing's greatest event whittled a record entry of 862 down to 453 through qualifying time trials and match racing has begun at the now six-day Henley Royal Regatta.
Elizabeth "Libby" Hughes has been named the new David K. Richards '61 Family Head Coach for Radcliffe Lightweight Rowing after spending five seasons as an assistant women's lightweight rowing coach at Boston University.
A recent graduate of USRowing's Level 3 High-Performance Coaching Certification program, Impronto is excited about the opportunity to lead one of the nation's newest varsity rowing programs.
Rowing recruits need the opportunity to ask candid questions, observe team dynamics, and determine whether the environment feels like the right fit—without Mom and Dad.
U.S. athletes won a dozen medals at World Rowing Cup III in Lucerne on top of the 11 won at World Rowing Cup II in Plovdiv to give USRowing its first-ever overall trophy.
The 2026 Henley Royal Regatta has once again attracted a record-breaking number of entries—862—from 21 nations, with three new women’s sculling events closing the gap on gender parity at the regatta, founded in 1839.
The 2026 USRowing Youth Nationals national champion in the men's single, Simeon John, a fearless, pain-loving, high-energy kid from Boston, set a record at his first Head of the Charles, and broke it a year later by 25 seconds. His forte: Being underestimated.
Can college crews beat national teams? Perhaps it’s time for our sport to stage more regattas where the top university eights go head to head against the globe’s fastest national teams.
Simeon John and Shay Triepel are youth national champions in the men's and women's singles. Deerfield Academy and RowAmerica Rye won the men's and women's eights titles at the 2026 USRowing Youth National Championships at Nathan Benderson Park in Sarasota, Fla.
The United States won six gold and five silver medals at the sparsely-attended World Rowing Cup II in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. U.S. national team athletes turned in historic performances in sculling and small boats while U.S. women swept the sweep events.
The USRowing Youth National Championships brings 4,000 of the top-performing youth rowers to Sarasota, Florida's Nathan Benderson Park for four days of racing.
The Longhorns took their fourth title in six years ahead of Stanford and Tennessee, besting the world best time by six seconds, winning the first varsity eight grand final in 5:47.
Huskies make it three in a row at Intercollegiate Rowing Association National Championship Regatta. Harvard men and Princeton women win the lightweight titles, Trinity men repeat as D III champions.
Olympic singles champion Ollie Zeidler destroyed the field by a whopping six and a half seconds. In the men's eight, The Netherlands’ high rating and fluid style trumped Britain’s solid 36 strokes per minute. Germany and Australia also had fantastic days.
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