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.
At San Miguel Academy, all the students row, and while winning is great, getting to the finish line isn’t necessarily the goal. Getting to the start line is.
Rowing benefactor Seán Colgan explains why he no longer supports the sport’s national governing body. “Are you doing what is best for the athletes?” he asks. “Is the support 100%?”
Body of Water is grounded firmly in Cambridge and Boston, with Irish cops who drink Jameson’s and Harvard students who scarf down burgers and fries at Charlie’s Kitchen.
After the U.S. won eight medals at World Rowing Cup II—its best showing since 2013–Josy Verdonkschot, USRowing’s chief high performance officer, was pleased with the team’s progress toward Olympic redemption.
World Rowing, the governing body of the Olympic sport of Rowing, is pleased to announce its participation in the Olympic Esports Week 2023, starting this week in Singapore, in collaboration with its exhibition partners EXR and Rowcave to present the sport’s latest gamified offerings to a global audience.
Rowing commentator David Wyant died June 2 following a long fight with cancer and primary sclerosing cholangitis, a chronic liver disease in which the bile ducts become inflamed and scarred, narrowed, or blocked.
The U.S. women's U23 eight won gold, one of Olympic-class results at the under-23 regatta in Duisburg, Germany. Greece topped the medals table. Great Britain won the men's eight for the seventh year in a row.
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.