While innovations in equipment can make a boat go faster, often the best way to increase speed is to improve training and use your existing equipment correctly.
Italy has long been a power in men’s rowing, but now it’s winning on the women’s side, too. From recent successes in the junior and under-23 ranks to securing the highest number of Olympic women’s rowing berths, Italy has arrived on the elite women’s rowing scene.
While innovations in equipment can make a boat go faster, often the best way to increase speed is to improve training and use your existing equipment correctly.
In what were largely expected outcomes, the dark blue women reversed a nine-year losing streak, while the light blue men kept their cool and made it ‘four in a row’ as the Oxford women and Cambridge men won The Boat Race in front of a quarter-million spectators.