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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Rowing is a sport where athletes race in boats using oars. The rowing events at the 2024 Summer Olympics took place in Paris, France. These exciting races happened from July 27 to August 3, 2024. The competition venue was the Stade nautique de Vaires-sur-Marne, which is a special stadium for water sports in Vaires-sur-Marne.

About 502 rowers from all over the world competed. They raced in fourteen different categories. There were an equal number of events for both men and women. This means there were seven events for men and seven for women. The rowing program for Paris 2024 was very similar to the one at the previous Olympics.

How Rowing Races Work

The rowing competition had fourteen events in total. There were seven events for men and seven for women. Each event used different types of boats. This was the last time that "lightweight rowing" was part of the Olympics. In the future, "coastal rowing" will take its place at the 2028 Summer Olympics.

Types of Rowing

Rowing has two main styles:

• Sweep rowing: In this style, each rower uses only one oar.
  • Coxless pairs: Two rowers, no coxswain.
  • Coxless fours: Four rowers, no coxswain.
  • Eights: Eight rowers, with a coxswain. A coxswain is a person who steers the boat and tells the rowers what to do.

• Sculling: In this style, each rower uses two oars. They hold one oar on each side of the boat.
  • Single sculls: One rower in a boat.
  • Double sculls: Two rowers in a boat.
  • Lightweight double sculls: Two rowers in a boat, but they must be under a certain weight.
  • Quadruple sculls: Four rowers in a boat.

How Athletes Qualified

There were 502 spots available for rowers at the Paris 2024 Olympics. This was a few less than at the Tokyo 2020 Games. Countries that qualified could send one boat for each of the fourteen rowing events.

Earning a Spot

The qualification process started at the 2023 World Rowing Championships. This big event took place from September 3 to 10 in Belgrade, Serbia. About two-thirds of all the Olympic spots were given out here. The best-performing crews in each event earned these spots for their countries.

For example, the top nine teams in single sculls got a spot. The top seven in lightweight double sculls, fours, and quadruple sculls also qualified. The top five in eights and the top eleven in pairs and double sculls earned spots too.

Other Ways to Qualify

The remaining spots were given out at special races called "continental qualification regattas." These races happened in different parts of the world, like Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. There was also a final Olympic qualification regatta in Lucerne, Switzerland.

Since France was the host country, they automatically got one spot in the men's and women's single sculls if they hadn't qualified already. Also, four spots were given to countries that needed extra help to compete.

Competition Schedule

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

The table below shows when each rowing event took place. Men's and women's races for the same boat type were usually held on the same day.

Countries that Competed

A total of 64 countries sent rowers to the Paris 2024 Olympics. This shows how popular rowing is around the world!

Medal Winners

This section shows which countries and athletes won medals in the rowing events. A gold medal is for first place, silver for second, and bronze for third.

Medal Table

This table shows how many gold, silver, and bronze medals each country won in rowing.

  *   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
–	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 entries)		14	14	14	42

Men's Events

Here are the medal winners for the men's rowing 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

Here are the medal winners for the women's rowing 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	Ireland Emily Craig Imogen Grant	Romania Gianina van Groningen Ionela Cozmiuc	Greece Dimitra Kontou Zoi Fitsiou

See also

In Spanish: Remo en los Juegos Olímpicos de París 2024 para niños