A new high-school rowing league is cheduled to begin in fall 2027 in Oklahoma City thanks to a $1 million grant from the Inasmuch Foundation to the RIVERSPORT Foundation, which will administer the new Varsity Rowing League.
$200,000 gift from the Lenny Peters Foundation elevates the 2026 Lenny Peters Cup & High Point Autumn Rowing Festival as defending world champion U.S. women's four headlines international regatta.
At one time or another, almost all of North America’s best rowers race in St. Catharines, Ontario. To race at Canadian Henley is to come of age as a rower.
Formidable line-ups in the eights, fours, and quads—along with Sam Melvin's arrival as a top sculler—point to what could be the best U.S. results ever at the 2026 World Rowing Championship in Amsterdam, August 24-30.
The U.S. women's U23 eight won gold, one of five 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.
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.
A new high-school rowing league is cheduled to begin in fall 2027 in Oklahoma City thanks to a $1 million grant from the Inasmuch Foundation to the RIVERSPORT Foundation, which will administer the new Varsity Rowing League.
The World Rowing Shanghai Sprints will take place September 26–27, 2026, in Shanghai, China, and feature seven national teams and an eighth world team racing 500-meter sprints in the city center with thousands of dollars in prize money on the line.
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