Junior World Championships in Rowing

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The Junior World Rowing Championships ( English World Rowing Junior Championships ) are since 1967 annually by the International Rowing Federation discharged World Championships of juniors -Altersklasse in rowing . The event has had an official world championship character since 1985 by the world association, previously it was referred to as FISA Youth Regatta (1967–1969) and FISA Championships for Juniors (1970–1984) with the same format .

description

The U19 age group (Juniors A) is the last age group in rowing in the youth sector and the only one in which world championships are rowed out. Athletes who are not yet 19 years of age in the current calendar year are entitled to start. Below the U19 age group, there is the U17 class (juniors B) , whose athletes can also compete in the U19 area under certain conditions.

The rowing regatta of the Junior World Championships is typically held in August, more rarely in July, and runs for around five days. Regatta courses of category A from the World Rowing Association come into consideration as competition venues , on which 6 to 8 lanes with Albano system and a starting system are available. As in the senior area, the competition distance in all races is 2000 meters without curves, and a maximum of six teams can start at the same time in each competition. If - as usual - more than six entries per competition class are received, a qualification for the six finals starting positions will be carried out within the framework of the regatta via pre-run and hope runs and, if necessary, semi-finals.

For the Junior World Championships, all national member associations of the World Rowing Association can register one team for each boat class. All team members must have the nationality of the reporting association. Typically, a national qualification with a selection process or an elimination competition such as national junior championships is necessary for the selection of the teams. Rowers registered for the Junior World Championships may in principle be used in more than one boat class at this event, although this is a rather unusual procedure.

The rules of the regatta are determined by the Rules of Racing of the World Rowing Federation. The title winners can call themselves World Rowing Junior Champions (translated as junior rowing world champions ).

The selection of boat classes has occasionally changed historically. The program currently (2018) includes competitions for girls and boys in the open weight class. Lightweight rowing does not take place in the junior sector at international level due to the associated health risks, accordingly there are no competitions at the junior world championships. There are also no competitions for para rowers . The program of the Junior World Championships includes the following competition classes:

Boat class Abbreviation Boys girl
One 1x since 1967 since 1978
Double scull 2x since 1967 since 1978
Double fours 4x since 1974 since 1985
Quadruple scull with helmsman 4x + - 1978-1984
Two without a helmsman 2- since 1967 since 1978
Two with a helmsman 2+ 1967-2004 -
Foursome without a helmsman 4- since 1967 since 1989
Foursome with a helmsman 4+ since 1967 1978–1988, from 2018
Eighth 8+ since 1967 since 1978

history

The regatta format of the Junior World Championships was developed in the 1960s. The first international rowing regatta with participation from France and Germany was held in 1961, a year later three other nations took part with Italy, Belgium and Switzerland. The FISA Youth Regatta in Ratzeburg in 1967 was the first regatta with an unofficial world championship character .

In the 1960s and 1970s, further important decisions were made in international rowing. The rowing world championships had initially been installed every four years from 1962 , since participants from overseas had meanwhile become a matter of course at the European rowing championships . From 1974 onwards, annual world championships completely replaced the European championships for more than 30 years. Another innovation was the introduction of women's rowing in the Olympic rowing regatta from 1976 and the consideration of lightweight competitions on an international level. The World Championships for the U23 age group were installed in 1976 from a forerunner format and are therefore also a product of that time.

The (initially unofficial) Junior World Championships started in 1967 with seven competition classes for boys in the open weight class, which were also advertised at the open rowing world championships and the Olympic rowing regatta at the time. The sculls was also added at the open World Championships in 1974, the coxed pair was removed after the last staging in 2004 from the program. Six competition classes for girls were added in 1978, including the double fours with helmswoman, which was common in women's rowing at the time. From 1985 it was replaced by the uncontrolled double quad. The rowed distance initially deviated from the Olympic distance of 2000 meters. Boys rowed over 1500 meters from 1967 to 1988, and over 2000 meters since 1989. Girls only had to row 1000 meters from 1978 to 1984, then until 1988 for a transitional period like the boys 1500 meters and since 1989 also 2000 meters.

There are currently 14 competitions at the Junior World Championships. The number of participants in Rio de Janeiro in 2015 was over 550 athletes from 54 nations. Since 2011, in addition to the Junior World Championships, the World Rowing Association has also offered European championships for this age group. In European rowing, there has also been the Regatta Coupe de la Jeunesse for juniors since 1985 , in which only 12 nations regularly take part with young athletes.

Germany has recently been particularly successful at the Junior World Championships, whose teams won eleven medals from 13 competitions in 2015, for example. This success is due to the high esteem for junior rowing in Germany, which is not always the same in other nations. In the Anglo-Saxon region in particular, successful athletes often do not get into rowing until they are young adults, often through participation in university rowing programs. In Germany, too, the early focus on racing rowing in supraregional centers of excellence is not without controversy. Ralf Holtmeyer , trainer of the Germany eight , expressed the opinion in an interview with the DRV magazine “rudersport” in October 2015 that the Junior World Championships were “totally overrated” and that the rowing clubs were not sufficiently involved in youth work.

Events

Most of the junior world championships took place in Europe, the core continent of rowing. Exceptions were the competitions in 1975, 1992 (Montreal), 2007 (Beijing), 2015 (Rio de Janeiro) and 2019 (Tokyo). Since 2003, the Junior World Championships in the pre-Olympic year have been the dress rehearsal on the Olympic competition facility. In the years of the Olympic Games with rowing competitions , the age-unrestricted rowing world championships for the non-Olympic boat classes have been taking place at the same time and place as the Junior World Championships since 1976 carried out. The year 1984 was an exception to this rule. In 2016, both events in Rotterdam were also combined with the U23 World Championships .

year city country Waters
FISA junior regatta
1967 Ratzeburg Germany Kitchen lake
1968 Amsterdam Netherlands Bosbaan
1969 Naples Italy Lake Patria
FISA championships for juniors
1970 Ioannina Greece Pamvotida lake
1971 Bled Yugoslavia Lake Bled
1972 Milan Italy Idroscalo
1973 Nottingham Great Britain Holme Pierrepont
1974 Ratzeburg Germany Kitchen lake
1975 Montreal Canada Notre Dame
1976 Villach Austria Ossiacher See
1977 Tampere Finland Kaukajärvi
1978 Belgrade Yugoslavia Save
1979 Moscow Soviet Union Krylatskoje rowing channel
1980 Willebroek ( Mechelen ) Belgium Hazewinkel
1981 Sofia Bulgaria Pancharevo lake
1982 Terni Italy Lake Piediluco
1983 Vichy France Allier
1984 Jonkoping Sweden Munksjön
Junior World Championships
1985 Brandenburg on the Havel GDR Beetzsee regatta course
1986 Račice u Štětí Czechoslovakia Račice rowing channel
1987 Cologne Germany Fühlinger See
1988 Milan Italy Idroscalo
1989 Szeged Hungary Szeged regatta course
1990 Allèves France Lac d'Aiguebelette
1991 Banyoles Spain Banyoles Lake
1992 Montreal Canada Île Notre-Dame
1993 near Oslo Norway Årungen
1994 Munich Germany Regatta course Oberschleißheim
1995 Poses Poland Malta lake
1996 Motherwell ( Glasgow ) Scotland Strathclyde Country Park
1997 Willebroek ( Mechelen ) Belgium Hazewinkel
1998 Ottensheim ( Linz ) Austria Danube tributary
1999 Plovdiv Bulgaria Plovdiv rowing channel
2000 Zagreb Croatia Jarun lake
2001 Duisburg Germany Regattabahn Duisburg
2002 Trakai Lithuania Galvesee
2003 Athens Greece Schinias Olympic Rowing and Canoeing Center
2004 Banyoles Spain Banyoles Lake
2005 Brandenburg on the Havel Germany Beetzsee regatta course
2006 Amsterdam Netherlands Bosbaan
2007 Beijing China Shunyi Olympic Rowing and Canoeing Park
2008 Ottensheim ( Linz ) Austria Danube tributary
2009 Brive-la-Gaillarde France Lac du Causse
2010 Račice u Štětí Czech Republic Račice rowing channel
2011 Eton Great Britain Dorney Lake
2012 Plovdiv Bulgaria Plovdiv rowing channel
2013 Trakai Lithuania Galvesee
2014 Hamburg Germany Hamburg-Allermöhe
2015 Rio de Janeiro Brazil Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas
2016 Rotterdam Netherlands Willem-Alexander Baan
2017 Trakai Lithuania Galvesee
2018 Račice u Štětí Czech Republic Račice rowing channel
2019 Tokyo Japan Sea Forest Waterway
2020 Bled Slovenia Lake Bled
2021 Plovdiv Bulgaria Plovdiv rowing channel
2022 Varese Italy Lake Varese
2023 Paris France
2024 St. Catharines Canada Royal Canadian Henley Rowing Course

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f FISA rule book. (PDF; 1.86 MB) In: www.worldrowing.com. World Rowing Association , accessed on January 31, 2016 (English).
  2. a b 2016 World Rowing Junior Championships. In: www.worldrowing.com. World Rowing Association, accessed on January 31, 2016 (English).
  3. ^ Andrew Guerin: World Junior Championships. In: www.rowinghistory-aus.info. Retrieved January 31, 2016 .
  4. Entries by event. (PDF; 125 kB) In: www.worldrowing.com. World Rowing Association, August 5, 2015, accessed on January 31, 2016 .
  5. Medal table: 2015 World Rowing Junior Championships. In: www.worldrowing.com. World Rowing Association, accessed on January 31, 2016 (English).
  6. Oliver Jensen: “Have to work on the track” - Interview with national coach Ralf Holtmeyer . In: rudersport, the official magazine of the German Rowing Association (DRV) . 2015, No. 10 . Sportverlag Schmidt & Dreisilker, ISSN  0342-8281 , p. 15 .