Junior World Championships in Rowing
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 |
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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 .
Web links
- News about junior rowing on the website of the World Rowing Association (English)
- Information on the Junior World Championships on the website of the World Rowing Association (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ a b 2016 World Rowing Junior Championships. In: www.worldrowing.com. World Rowing Association, accessed on January 31, 2016 (English).
- ^ Andrew Guerin: World Junior Championships. In: www.rowinghistory-aus.info. Retrieved January 31, 2016 .
- ↑ Entries by event. (PDF; 125 kB) In: www.worldrowing.com. World Rowing Association, August 5, 2015, accessed on January 31, 2016 .
- ↑ Medal table: 2015 World Rowing Junior Championships. In: www.worldrowing.com. World Rowing Association, accessed on January 31, 2016 (English).
- ↑ 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 .