Rowing at the 2024 Summer Olympics facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Rowing at the Games of the Olympiad
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
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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 [de], National Olympic Nautical Stadium of Île-de-France in Vaires-sur-Marne. 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.

Competition format

The 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.

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:

• Coxless pairs
• Coxless fours
• Eights, with coxswains

• Sculling, where rowers use two oars placed on opposite sides of the boat:

• Single sculls
• Double sculls
• Lightweight (weight restricted) double sculls
• Quadruple sculls

Qualification

502 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.

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. 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. 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.

Competition schedule

Finish area of the Stade nautique de Vaires-sur-Marne during the Olympics

Participating nations

There were 64 participating nations:

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   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
999 –	Individual Neutral Athletes	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 NOCs)		14	14	14	42

Men's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Single sculls details	Oliver Zeidler  Germany	Yauheni Zalaty  Individual Neutral Athletes	Simon van Dorp  Netherlands
Double sculls details	Romania Andrei Cornea Marian Enache	Netherlands Melvin Twellaar Stef Broenink	Ireland Daire Lynch Philip Doyle
Quadruple sculls details	Netherlands Lennart van Lierop Finn Florijn Tone Wieten Koen Metsemakers	Italy Luca Chiumento Luca Rambaldi Giacomo Gentili Andrea Panizza	Poland Fabian Barański Mateusz Biskup Dominik Czaja Mirosław Ziętarski
Coxless pair details	Croatia Martin Sinković Valent Sinković	Great Britain Oliver Wynne-Griffith Thomas George	Switzerland Roman Röösli Andrin Gulich
Coxless four details	United States Nick Mead Justin Best Michael Grady Liam Corrigan	New Zealand Oliver Maclean Logan Ullrich Tom Murray Matt Macdonald	Great Britain Oliver Wilkes David Ambler Matt Aldridge Freddie Davidson
Eight details	Great Britain Morgan Bolding Sholto Carnegie Rory Gibbs Thomas Ford Jacob Dawson Charles Elwes Thomas Digby James Rudkin Harry Brightmore c	Netherlands Ralf Rienks Olav Molenaar Sander de Graaf Ruben Knab Gert-Jan van Doorn Jacob van de Kerkhof Jan van der Bij Mick Makker Dieuwke Fetter c	United States Henry Hollingsworth Nicholas Rusher Christian Tabash Clark Dean Christopher Carlson Peter Chatain Evan Olson Pieter Quinton Rielly Milne c
Lightweight double sculls details	Ireland Fintan McCarthy Paul O'Donovan	Italy Stefano Oppo Gabriel Soares	Greece Petros Gkaidatzis Antonios Papakonstantinou

Women's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Single sculls details	Karolien Florijn  Netherlands	Emma Twigg  New Zealand	Viktorija Senkutė  Lithuania
Double sculls details	New Zealand Brooke Francis Lucy Spoors	Romania Ancuța Bodnar Simona Radiș	Great Britain Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne Becky Wilde
Quadruple sculls details	Great Britain Lauren Henry Hannah Scott Lola Anderson Georgina Brayshaw	Netherlands Laila Youssifou Bente Paulis Roos de Jong Tessa Dullemans	Germany Maren Völz Tabea Schendekehl Leonie Menzel Pia Greiten
Coxless pair details	Netherlands Ymkje Clevering Veronique Meester	Romania Ioana Vrînceanu Roxana Anghel	Australia Jessica Morrison Annabelle McIntyre
Coxless four details	Netherlands Marloes Oldenburg Hermijntje Drenth Tinka Offereins Benthe Boonstra	Great Britain Helen Glover Esme Booth Samantha Redgrave Rebecca Shorten	New Zealand Jackie Gowler Phoebe Spoors Davina Waddy Kerri Williams
Eight details	Romania Adriana Adam Roxana Anghel Amalia Bereș Ancuta Bodnar Maria-Magdalena Rusu Maria Lehaci Ioana Vrînceanu Simona Radiș Victoria-Ștefania Petreanu c	Canada Abigail Dent Caileigh Filmer Kasia Gruchalla-Wesierski Maya Meschkuleit Sydney Payne Jessica Sevick Kristina Walker Avalon Wasteneys Kristen Kit c	Great Britain Annie Campbell-Orde Holly Dunford Emily Ford Lauren Irwin Heidi Long Rowan McKellar Eve Stewart Harriet Taylor Henry Fieldman c
Lightweight double sculls details	Great Britain Emily Craig Imogen Grant	Romania Gianina van Groningen Ionela Cozmiuc	Greece Dimitra Kontou Zoi Fitsiou