List of world champions in rowing / nation ranking

World champion in rowing

Overview Medalists Medalist Medalists in para rowing The most successful participants Nations ranking

These lists are part of the list of world champions in rowing . They contain the national rankings and the medal table of the rowing world championships since the first edition as well as various breakdowns. The lists are from 1962 to 2016, i.e. they include all 46 world rowing championships.

general remarks

According to the regulations of the World Rowing Federation (FISA), one team per competition and member federation is allowed to start at the World Rowing Championships. This overview is therefore - similar to the World Rowing Association itself, whose overview is unfortunately incorrect in some places - based on the reporting associations. A summation of different nations therefore does not take place if these competing nations have been separated from one another or have been merged from different previously competing nations. In particular, the following special situations arise:

• The already separated associations of West and East Germany were only allowed to register one team at the then seven competitions at the 1962 World Championships by FISA. Even if all six medal wins went to the account of West German teams and the only East German starter went empty-handed, the medals in this medal table are assigned to the all-German team (" Germany "). From 1966 to 1990, two German associations competed separately, since 1991 the team of the united Germany. The situation in 1990 in particular has to be considered separately. Although the world championships were held after reunification, both associations were allowed to register their own team. The medals won by the then former GDR are included in this list of the GDR, as the World Rowing Association also does. The West German medals from 1990 go to West Germany.
• The Soviet Union entered from 1962 to 1991. From 1992 the following countries started separately, of which Belarus , Ukraine , Russia , Lithuania and Estonia have so far won medals (as of 2016).
• Yugoslavia entered the old form (SFR) until 1991 . After the disintegration, beginning in 1993, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (from 2003 onwards as Serbia and Montenegro ) and the other successor states competed separately; Croatia and Slovenia have so far won medals in addition to the FR of Yugoslavia (as of 2016). After the independence of Montenegro , Serbia has stood alone since 2006. In 1992 no team from the area of ​​the former SFR Yugoslavia competed, and at this point it is unclear how a start would have been reported.
• The Czechoslovakia approached to 1992, since 1993, the Czech Republic and Slovakia separately at the start.
• The British formally compete in the World Rowing Federation as Great Britain consisting of Wales , Scotland and England , with the British Rowing Federation taking care of the entry. The the United Kingdom also associated Ulsterman usually have in addition the Irish citizenship and can mitrudern either in the British team or the Irish team.

All tables are subdivided into the following columns:

• Place: order of countries. This is determined by the number of gold medals. If the number is the same, the silver medals are compared, then the bronze medals.
• Country: Name of the country. In individual cases, the respective predecessor states are also included.
• Gold: Number of gold medals won
• Silver: Number of silver medals won
• Bronze: Number of bronze medals won
• Total: Number of all medals won

As with the World Rowing Association, the sorting takes place in descending order according to the number of gold medals, in the case of a tie also in descending order by the number of silver medals and in the event of a further tie also in descending order according to the number of bronze medals. The period in which a nation was able to take part in the World Championships is given in brackets. At this point, however, no complete data is known about actual participations. If no time period is given, the nation was eligible to participate in each event.

Male and female classes

• Scope: all world championship competitions in women's and men's classes; no para classes .
• A total of 844 competitions were held at 49 World Championships between 1962 and 2019, which corresponds to the total number of gold medals. The number of silver medals has increased by two (846), as they were awarded twice due to the fact that they were equal in time ( 1986 in LW2x and 1993 in LM4x ). The number of bronze medals is therefore reduced by two (841). The omission of a bronze medal by only two registered teams ( 2005 in LM8 + ) will be compensated by a bronze medal ( 2007 in LW2x ) that was awarded twice due to equality . The total number of all medals awarded is accordingly 2531.
• According to current knowledge, reclassifications resulting from disqualifications are already included.
• The demo competitions in four women's lightweight boat classes during the 1984 World Championships are not counted.

As of September 6, 2019

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	German Democratic Republic (1966–1990)	94	45	25th	164
2	Italy	85	67	52	204
3	Germany (1962, since 1991)	82	73	69	224
4th	United Kingdom	66	72	60	198
5	United States	64	71	87	222
6th	New Zealand	50	31	26th	107
7th	Australia	47	43	40	130
8th	/ Soviet Union (1962–1991)	35	44	29	108
9	/ Romania	34	43	44	121
10	Denmark	33	28	33	94
11	France	31	44	27	102
12	/ Canada	28	33	43	104
13	Federal Republic of Germany (1966–1990)	23	23	24	70
14th	Netherlands	18th	40	44	102
15th	People's Republic of China	16	9	22nd	47
16	Switzerland	15th	15th	15th	45
17th	Norway	14th	8th	12	34
18th	/ / Poland	12	21st	15th	48
19th	Ireland	12	8th	7th	27
20th	/ / Belarus (since 1992)	11	6th	10	27
21st	/ / / Bulgaria	9	12	14th	35
22nd	Austria	9	7th	9	25th
23	Czech Republic (since 1993)	7th	15th	11	33
24	/ / / Greece	7th	10	10	27
25th	Croatia (since 1992 or 1993)	7th	5	5	20th
26th	/ / Spain	6th	7th	16	29
27	Slovenia (since 1992 or 1993)	4th	5	5	14th
28	/ Hungary	4th	4th	6th	13
29	Ukraine (since 1992)	3	6th	5	14th
30th	Finland	3	4th	4th	11
31	/ Lithuania (since 1992)	3	2	2	7th
32	Belgium	2	7th	8th	17th
33	Sweden	2	4th	6th	12
34	/ South Africa	2	2	4th	8th
35	/ Russia (since 1992)	1	8th	9	18th
36	Chile	1	3	1	5
37	Japan	1	2	1	4th
38	Argentina	1	1	5	7th
	/ Serbia (since 2006)	1	1	5	7th
40	/ / Brazil	1		2	3
41	Czechoslovakia (1962–1992)		11	11	22nd
42	Cuba		2	1	3
43	Estonia (since 1992)		1	6th	7th
44	Yugoslavia (until 1991 or 1992)		1	4th	5
45	Slovakia (since 1993)		1	2	3
46	Yugoslavia / Serbia and Montenegro (1992 or 1993-2005)		1	1	2
47	Turkey			2	2
48	Portugal			1	1
	Zimbabwe			1	1
total		844	846	841	2531

By gender

Women

Status: 1974–2016. No competitions for women were held before 1974.

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	German Democratic Republic (1974–1990)	42	20th	8th	70
2	United States	33	41	37	111
3	Germany (since 1991)	33	26th	24	83
4th	/ Romania	25th	30th	35	90
5	United Kingdom	21st	27	13	61
6th	Australia	21st	15th	13	49
7th	Canada	18th	22nd	22nd	62
8th	/ Soviet Union (1974–1991)	18th	16	12	46
9	New Zealand	17th	11	11	39
10	People's Republic of China	11	8th	16	35
11	/ / Belarus (since 1992)	10	6th	10	26th
12	Netherlands	9	13	18th	40
13	/ Bulgaria	7th	10	11	28
14th	Denmark	4th	8th	8th	20th
15th	Switzerland	4th	1	2	7th
16	France	3	6th	2	11
17th	/ / Greece	3	3	4th	10
18th	Federal Republic of Germany (1974–1990)	2	6th	7th	15th
19th	/ / Poland	2	6th	3	11
20th	Ukraine (since 1992)	2	2	2	6th
21st	Sweden	2	1	4th	7th
22nd	Belgium	1	4th	5	10
	/ Russia (since 1992)	1	4th	5	10
24	Czech Republic (since 1993)	1	3	2	6th
25th	Italy	1	1	5	7th
26th	Finland	1	1	2	4th
27	Ireland	1	1	1	3
28	Austria	1	1		2
29	/ Brazil	1			1
	/ Lithuania (since 1992)	1			1
31	Argentina		1	3	4th
	/ Hungary		1	3	4th
33	Croatia (since 1992 or 1993)		1	1	2
34	Chile		1		1
35	/ / Spain			4th	4th
36	Czechoslovakia (1974–1992)			1	1
	/ South Africa			1	1
	Zimbabwe			1	1
total		296	297	296	889

Men

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Italy	75	56	44	175
2	German Democratic Republic (1966–1990)	52	25th	17th	94
3	United Kingdom	45	42	37	124
4th	Germany (1962, since 1991)	42	46	39	127
5	Denmark	29	18th	23	70
6th	United States	28	25th	43	96
7th	New Zealand	26th	14th	12	52
8th	France	24	38	24	86
9	Australia	22nd	21st	23	66
10	Federal Republic of Germany (1966–1990)	21st	17th	17th	55
11	/ Soviet Union (1962–1991)	17th	28	17th	62
12	Norway	13	8th	10	31
13	Switzerland	10	11	13	34
14th	/ Canada	9	9	20th	38
15th	/ / Poland	8th	10	11	29
16	Austria	8th	6th	7th	21st
17th	Netherlands	7th	23	21st	51
18th	/ Romania	6th	10	9	25th
19th	/ / Spain	6th	7th	11	24
20th	Czech Republic (since 1993)	5	11	9	25th
21st	Ireland	5	6th	6th	17th
22nd	Croatia (since 1992 or 1993)	5	3	4th	12
23	/ / / Greece	4th	6th	5	15th
24	Slovenia (since 1992 or 1993)	4th	5	5	14th
25th	/ Hungary	3	2	3	8th
26th	Finland	2	3	2	7th
27	/ / / Bulgaria	2	2	3	7th
28	Ukraine (since 1992)	1	4th	2	7th
29	Belgium	1	3	2	6th
30th	/ South Africa	1	2	3	6th
31	Chile	1	2	1	4th
32	/ Serbia (since 2006)	1	1	5	7th
33	Japan	1	1	1	3
34	People's Republic of China	1		4th	5
35	Argentina	1		2	3
36	/ / Belarus (since 1992)	1			1
37	Czechoslovakia (1962–1992)		11	10	21st
38	Sweden		3	2	5
39	/ Russia (since 1992)		2	2	4th
40	/ Lithuania (since 1992)		2	1	3
41	Estonia (since 1992)		1	5	6th
42	Yugoslavia (1962–1991 or 1992)		1	4th	5
43	Slovakia (since 1993)		1	2	3
44	Cuba		1	1	2
	Yugoslavia / Serbia and Montenegro (1992 or 1993-2005)		1	1	2
46	Portugal			1	1
	Turkey			1	1
total		487	488	485	1460

By weight class

Open weight class

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	German Democratic Republic (1966–1990)	94	45	25th	164
2	Germany (1962, since 1991)	48	45	39	132
3	United Kingdom	39	34	26th	99
4th	United States	38	36	43	117
5	/ Soviet Union (1962–1991)	35	44	29	108
6th	New Zealand	33	18th	20th	71
7th	/ Romania	25th	39	38	102
8th	Australia	23	20th	23	66
9	Italy	20th	25th	21st	66
10	/ Canada	16	22nd	27	65
11	France	14th	16	11	41
12	Federal Republic of Germany (1966–1990)	13	14th	14th	41
13	/ / Belarus (since 1992)	11	6th	9	26th
14th	Norway	10	7th	7th	24
15th	/ / / Bulgaria	8th	12	14th	34
16	Netherlands	7th	13	23	43
17th	/ / Poland	6th	10	11	27
18th	Czech Republic (since 1993)	5	10	9	24
19th	Croatia (since 1992 or 1993)	5	3	4th	12
20th	Slovenia (since 1992 or 1993)	4th	4th	5	13
21st	Ukraine (since 1992)	3	6th	3	12
22nd	People's Republic of China	3	5	8th	16
23	Denmark	3	3	4th	10
24	Switzerland	2	5	4th	11
25th	Finland	2	3	1	6th
26th	/ Hungary	2	1	3	6th
27	Sweden	2		5	7th
28	/ Russia (since 1992)	1	4th	7th	12
29	/ Lithuania (since 1992)	1	2	1	4th
30th	Austria	1	1	5	7th
31	/ Serbia (since 2006)	1	1	2	4th
32	Argentina	1		2	3
33	Czechoslovakia (1962–1992)		11	10	21st
34	/ / / Greece		3	3	6th
35	/ South Africa		2	3	5
36	Estonia (since 1992)		1	5	6th
37	Yugoslavia (1962–1991 or 1992)		1	4th	5
38	Cuba		1	1	2
	Yugoslavia / Serbia and Montenegro (1992 or 1993-2005)		1	1	2
	/ / Spain		1	1	2
41	Ireland		1		1
42	Belgium			5	5
total		476	476	476	1428

Lightweights

Status: 1974–2016. No competitions for lightweight rowers were held before 1974 .

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Italy	56	32	28	116
2	Denmark	30th	23	27	80
3	United Kingdom	27	35	24	86
4th	Germany (since 1991)	27	27	24	78
5	United States	23	30th	37	90
6th	Australia	20th	16	13	49
7th	France	13	28	15th	56
8th	Switzerland	12	7th	11	30th
9	Canada	11	9	15th	35
10	Federal Republic of Germany (1974–1990)	10	9	10	29
11	New Zealand	10	7th	3	20th
12	Netherlands	9	23	16	48
13	People's Republic of China	9	3	12	24
14th	Austria	8th	6th	2	16
15th	/ / Greece	7th	6th	6th	19th
16	/ / Spain	6th	6th	14th	26th
17th	Ireland	6th	6th	7th	19th
18th	/ Romania	6th	1	6th	13
19th	/ / Poland	4th	6th	3	13
20th	Norway	3	1	3	7th
21st	Belgium	2	7th	2	11
22nd	Czech Republic (since 1993)	1	4th	2	7th
23	Chile	1	3	1	5
24	/ Hungary	1	2	3	6th
25th	Finland	1	1	3	5
26th	Japan	1	1	1	3
27	/ South Africa	1		1	2
28	/ Brazil	1			1
	/ Bulgaria	1			1
30th	Sweden		4th	1	5
31	/ Russia (since 1992)		2		2
32	Argentina		1	3	4th
33	Slovakia (since 1993)		1	2	3
34	Croatia (since 1992 or 1993)		1	1	2
35	Slovenia (since 1992 or 1993)		1		1
36	/ Serbia (since 2006)			3	3
37	/ / Belarus (since 1992)			1	1
	Czechoslovakia (1974–1992)			1	1
	Portugal			1	1
	Turkey			1	1
	Ukraine (since 1992)			1	1
	Zimbabwe			1	1
total		307	309	305	921

By status

At the rowing world championships, a distinction is made between so-called Olympic boat classes , in which rowing is also carried out at the Olympic Summer Games , and so-called non-Olympic boat classes , which are only included in the program at rowing world championships. Since the former are typically more staffed and viewed more highly, a distinction in the medal table makes perfect sense. The financial support for the athletes in the Olympic boat classes is often significantly higher than in the non-Olympic classes.

As a result of the changes in the Olympic program, the status as an Olympic boat class has also been subject to changes over time, which are documented in the following table. In this list, those boat classes are rated as Olympic boat classes that were held at the Summer Olympic Games that followed the World Championships. Since the activities in international rowing are strongly oriented towards the Summer Olympics, this practice best follows the actual circumstances.

It should be noted that the Olympic boat classes in the year of the Summer Olympic Games are not held at the World Rowing Championships. Non-Olympic boat classes have existed since 1974.

Competitive class	description	Olympic boat classes		Non-Olympic boat classes		Demo competitions
		Competition period	Events (until 2016)	Competition period	Events (until 2016)
Men, open weight class
M1x	One of the men	since 1962	35
M2x	Men's double sculls	since 1962	35
M4x	Men's double fours	since 1974	32
M2-	Two without a helmsman	since 1962	35
M2 +	Two with a helmsman	1962-1991	17th	Since 1993	24
M4-	Foursome without a helmsman	since 1962	35
M4 +	Foursome with a helmsman	1962-1991	17th	1993-2007	15th
M8 +	Eighth of the men	since 1962	35
Men, lightweight
LM1x	Lightweight one of the men			since 1974	43
LM2x	Men's lightweight double sculls	Since 1993	18th	1978-1992	15th
LM4x	Men's lightweight quadruple scull			since 1989	28
LM2-	Lightweight twos without a helmsman			Since 1993	24
LM4-	Lightweight four without a helmsman	Since 1993	18th	1974-1992	19th
LM8 +	Men's lightweight eight			1974-2015	42
Women, open weight class
W1x	One of the women	since 1974	32
W2x	Women's double sculls	since 1974	32
W4x	Women's double fours	since 1985	24
W4x +	Quadruple scull with helmsman	1974-1983	8th
W2-	Two without a helmsman	since 1974	32
W4-	Foursome without a helmsman	1989-1991	3	1993–2011, since 2013	23
W4 +	Foursome with a helmsman	1974-1987	11
W8 +	Eighth of the women	since 1974	32
Women, lightweight
LW1x	Lightweight one of the women			since 1985	32	1 (1984)
LW2x	Women's lightweight double sculls	Since 1993	18th	1985-1992	8th	1 (1984)
LW4x	Women's lightweight quadruple			since 1997	20th
LW2-	Lightweight twos without a helmsman			1995-2003	9
LW4-	Lightweight foursome without a helmsman			1985-1996	12	1 (1984)
LW8 +	Women's lightweight eight					1 (1984)
total			469		314	4th

Olympic boat classes

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	German Democratic Republic (1966–1990)	94	45	25th	164
2	Germany (1962, since 1991)	51	40	35	126
3	United Kingdom	36	32	32	100
4th	/ Soviet Union (1962–1991)	35	44	29	108
5	New Zealand	34	20th	20th	74
6th	United States	24	30th	38	92
7th	/ Romania	23	35	38	96
8th	Italy	22nd	21st	25th	68
9	Australia	19th	21st	21st	61
10	/ Canada	19th	18th	21st	58
11	Federal Republic of Germany (1966–1990)	13	14th	14th	41
12	Denmark	13	10	4th	27
13	France	11	19th	14th	44
14th	Norway	11	7th	9	27
15th	/ / / Bulgaria	8th	12	14th	34
16	/ / Poland	7th	13	13	33
17th	/ / Belarus (since 1992)	7th	6th	6th	19th
18th	Czech Republic (since 1993)	5	7th	9	21st
19th	Netherlands	4th	13	19th	36
20th	Switzerland	4th	8th	6th	18th
21st	People's Republic of China	4th	6th	7th	17th
22nd	Slovenia (since 1992 or 1993)	4th	4th	5	13
23	Croatia (since 1992 or 1993)	4th	2	3	9
24	/ Hungary	3	1	3	7th
25th	Ukraine (since 1992)	2	6th	3	11
26th	/ / / Greece	2	4th	4th	10
27	Finland	2	4th	2	8th
28	Austria	2	1	5	8th
	Sweden	2	1	5	8th
30th	/ Russia (since 1992)	1	3	6th	10
31	/ South Africa	1	2	4th	7th
32	/ Lithuania (since 1992)	1	2	1	4th
33	Argentina	1		1	2
34	Czechoslovakia (1962–1992)		11	10	21st
35	Ireland		2	2	4th
36	Estonia (since 1992)		1	5	6th
37	Yugoslavia (1962–1991 or 1992)		1	4th	5
38	Cuba		1	1	2
	/ / Spain		1	1	2
	Yugoslavia / Serbia and Montenegro (1992 or 1993-2005)		1	1	2
41	Belgium			4th	4th
42	/ Serbia (since 2006)			1	1
total		469	469	470	1408

Non-Olympic boat classes

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Italy	54	36	24	114
2	United States	37	36	42	115
3	United Kingdom	30th	37	18th	85
4th	Germany (since 1991)	24	32	28	84
5	Australia	24	15th	15th	54
6th	Denmark	20th	16	27	63
7th	France	16	25th	12	53
8th	Netherlands	12	23	20th	55
9	Federal Republic of Germany (1974–1990)	10	9	10	29
10	Switzerland	10	4th	9	23
11	New Zealand	9	5	3	17th
12	Canada	8th	13	21st	42
13	/ Romania	8th	5	6th	19th
14th	People's Republic of China	8th	2	13	23
15th	Austria	7th	6th	2	15th
16	/ / Spain	6th	6th	14th	26th
17th	Ireland	6th	5	5	16
18th	/ / Greece	5	5	5	15th
19th	/ / Belarus (since 1992)	4th		4th	8th
20th	/ / Poland	3	3	1	7th
21st	Belgium	2	7th	3	12
22nd	Norway	2	1	1	4th
23	Czech Republic (since 1993)	1	7th	2	10
24	Chile	1	3	1	5
25th	Croatia (since 1992 or 1993)	1	2	2	5
26th	/ Serbia (since 2006)	1	1	4th	6th
27	Japan	1	1	1	3
28	Finland	1		2	3
29	Ukraine (since 1992)	1		1	2
30th	/ Brazil	1			1
	/ Bulgaria	1			1
32	/ Russia (since 1992)		3	1	4th
	Sweden		3	1	4th
34	Argentina		1	4th	5
35	/ Hungary		2	3	5
36	Slovakia (since 1993)		1	2	3
37	Slovenia (since 1992 or 1993)		1		1
38	Portugal			1	1
	Zimbabwe			1	1
	Czechoslovakia (1974–1992)			1	1
	Turkey			1	1
total		314	316	311	941

Para oars

• Status: 2002–2016. No paraclasses were rowed out before 2002 .
• A total of 48 competitions were announced at 12 world championships with paraclasses from 2002 to 2016. Since in one case there was no competition because only one team had registered ( 2015 in TAMix2x ), the total number of medals is 47. The bronze medal was also not awarded twice due to a lack of entries ( 2003 in TAMix2x and 2009 in LTAIDMix4 + ), which is why only 45 bronze medals can be counted. The total number of medals in this medal table is 139.

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	United Kingdom	13	7th	1	21st
2	Australia	11	3	5	19th
3	Ukraine	6th	3	2	11
4th	United States	4th	5	4th	13
5	Hong Kong	3			3
6th	France	2	6th	3	11
7th	Brazil	2	2	2	6th
8th	Germany	1	3	3	7th
9	Canada	1	1	4th	6th
	Russia	1	1	4th	6th
11	Israel	1	1	2	4th
12	Norway	1	1	1	3
13	People's Republic of China	1			1
14th	Italy		7th	2	9
15th	Netherlands		2	1	3
16	Poland		1	4th	5
17th	Belarus		1	2	3
	Portugal		1	2	3
19th	Spain		1		1
	Austria		1		1
21st	Greece			1	1
	New Zealand			1	1
	South Africa			1	1
total		47	47	45	139

Web links

• Results database of the World Rowing Association
• Rowing history on the website www.sport-komplett.de
• Competition results in the database of the Institute for Applied Training Science in Leipzig at www.iat.uni-leipzig.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2015 Media Guide - World Rowing Championships. (PDF; 5.72 MB) In: www.worldrowing.com. World Rowing Association , accessed on April 21, 2016 (English, the total medal table and boat class medal table for the world championships can be found on page 85; however, the data has not been put together properly in some points, as can be seen from a comparison with the database of the World Rowing Association can be determined).