List of regatta courses

The Dorney Lake Regatta Course , United Kingdom

This list of regatta courses contains regatta courses that can be used for international competitions in canoeing , rowing and dragon boating . These are either created as artificial lakes specifically for sporting use or they are integrated into rivers or lakes . They usually meet the requirements of the International Rowing Federation (FISA) and the International Canoe Federation with a track length of at least 2000 meters and a width of about 120 meters.

Historic regatta courses can sometimes differ significantly from these dimensions. During the Olympic Games , public waters were used until the second half of the 20th century : for example the Seine in Paris in 1900 and 1924 or the Brussels-Scheldt Sea Canal in 1920 and the Sloten Canal in Amsterdam in 1928. Furthermore, estuaries such as Helsinki were found 1952 and bays like Djurgårdsbrunnsviken in Stockholm 1912 use. At the Olympic Games in 1896 , the rowing competitions were supposed to be held in the port of Piraeus , but they were canceled due to bad weather.

The following list does not claim to be complete.

Africa

Waters	city	country	Coordinates	Events	Remarks
Reservoir of the Barrages de Boukerdan	Tipasa Province	Algeria	36 ° 31 '24 "  N , 2 ° 17' 59"  E	Rowing competitions of the Africa Games 2007 (in Algiers ), African rowing championships 2014, rowing competitions of the African Youth Games 2018 (in Algiers)	Alternative spellings: Boukerdane or Boukourdene
Camps drift	Pietermaritzburg , KwaZulu-Natal	South Africa	29 ° 37 ′ 38 ″  S , 30 ° 22 ′ 9 ″  E	Canoe marathon world championships 2017
Lagoa Inhampavala	Chidenguele	Mozambique	24 ° 55 ′ 36 ″  S , 34 ° 11 ′ 59 ″  E	2011 African Games Canoeing Competitions (in Maputo )
Ntshongweni Dam	Mangangeni , KwaZulu-Natal	South Africa	29 ° 51 ′ 24 ″  S , 30 ° 43 ′ 16 ″  E	Canoe Racing African Championships 2016	Alternative spelling: Shongweni Dam
Lake of Tunis	Tunis	Tunisia	36 ° 48 ′ 49 "  N , 10 ° 14 ′ 42"  E	African Rowing Championships 2005, 2010, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019
Reservoir of the Roodeplaat Dam	Camel drift , Gauteng	South Africa	25 ° 37 ′ 23 ″  S , 28 ° 20 ′ 55 ″  E	African Rowing Championships 2000
Alexandria International Rowing Course	Alexandria	Egypt	31 ° 11 '52.3 "  N , 29 ° 57' 49.8"  E	African Rowing Championships 2012	on al-Matar Lake located
Reservoir of the Mohamed Ben Abdellah Dam	at Salé	Morocco	33 ° 58 ′ 3 ″  N , 6 ° 42 ′ 5 ″  W.	Canoeing and rowing competitions of the 2019 African Games (in Rabat )
Reservoir of the Gaborone Dam	Gaborone	Botswana	24 ° 42 ′ 1 ″  N , 25 ° 55 ′ 35 ″  E	Rowing competitions of the African Youth Games 2014

America

Waters	city	country	Coordinates	Events	Remarks
Ile Notre-Dame Olympic Pool	Montreal	Canada	45 ° 30 ′ 24 ″  N , 73 ° 31 ′ 24 ″  W.	1976 Summer Olympics	In addition to the Formula 1 -distance Circuit Gilles Villeneuve .
Creve Coeur Lake	St. Louis	United States	38 ° 42 ′ 50 ″  N , 90 ° 29 ′ 10 ″  W.	1904 Summer Olympics
Eagle Creek Park	Indianapolis	United States	39 ° 51 ′ 40 "  N , 86 ° 18 ′ 22"  W.	Rowing World Championships 1994
Laguna La Luz	Curauma	Chile	33 ° 8 ′ 29 ″  S , 71 ° 34 ′ 38 ″  W.	South American Championships 2012 , South American Games 2014
Royal Canadian Henley Rowing Course	St. Catharines	Canada	43 ° 11 ′ 15 ″  N , 79 ° 16 ′ 19 ″  W.	World Rowing Championships 1970 & 1999
Iguaçu Park	Curitiba	Brazil	25 ° 31 ′ 31 ″  S , 49 ° 13 ′ 22 ″  W.	South American Games 2002
Laguna de los Padres	Mar del Plata	Argentina	37 ° 56 ′ 10 ″  S , 57 ° 44 ′ 6 ″  W.	South American Games in Buenos Airers 2006
Laguna Milagros	Chetumal	Mexico	18 ° 30 ′ 37 "  N , 88 ° 25 ′ 41"  W.
Laguna Zapotlan	Ciudad Guzmán	Mexico	19 ° 45 ′ 18 ″  N , 103 ° 28 ′ 1 ″  W.	Pan American Games 2011
Lake Cerrillos	Ponce (Puerto Rico)	Puerto Rico	18 ° 5 ′ 20 "  N , 66 ° 34 ′ 45"  W.	Central American and Caribbean Games 1993 & 2010
Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	22 ° 58 ′ 16 ″  S , 43 ° 12 ′ 42 ″  W.	2016 Summer Olympics & 2007 Pan American Games
Lake Banook	Dartmouth	Canada	44 ° 40 ′ 51 ″  N , 63 ° 33 ′ 25 ″  W.	Canoe Racing World Championships 2009	Too short for international rowing competitions.
Lake Carnegie	Princeton	United States	40 ° 22 ′ 13 ″  N , 74 ° 37 ′ 18 ″  W.		Base of the US rowing team.
Lake Casitas	los Angeles	United States	34 ° 23 ′ 33 ″  N , 119 ° 20 ′ 5 ″  W.	1984 Summer Olympics
Lake Lanier	Gainesville	United States	34 ° 14 ′ 14 "  N , 83 ° 56 ′ 10"  W.	1996 Summer Olympics
Long Beach Marine Stadium	Long Beach	United States	33 ° 45 ′ 40 "  N , 118 ° 7 ′ 18"  W.	1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles	First man-made facility for rowing at the Olympic Games.
Mercer Lake	West Windsor	United States	40 ° 16 ′ 6 ″  N , 74 ° 39 ′ 21 ″  W.		Training center for the USA Olympic rowing team.
Minnedosa Lake	Minnedosa	Canada	50 ° 15 ′ 56 "  N , 99 ° 49 ′ 32"  W.	Pan American Games 1999
Mission Bay	San Diego	United States	32 ° 46 '48 "  N , 117 ° 13' 48"  W.	The San Diego Crew Classic
Nathan Benderson Park	Sarasota	United States	27 ° 22 ′ 0 ″  N , 82 ° 27 ′ 4 ″  W.	World Rowing Championships 2017
OKC National High Performance Center	Oklahoma City	United States	35 ° 27 '26 "  N , 97 ° 30' 6"  W.		Training center for the USA Olympic canoe team.
Pista Acuática José Smith Comas	Artemisa Province	Cuba	22 ° 58 ′ 52 "  N , 82 ° 38 ′ 56"  W.	Pan American Games 1991	Also known as La Coronela.
Pista Olímpica Virgilio Uribe	Mexico city	Mexico	19 ° 16 ′ 56 ″  N , 99 ° 6 ′ 19 ″  W.	1968 Summer Olympics	In the Xochimilco district .
Rio Tuxpan Canoeing Track	Tuxpan (Veracruz)	Mexico	20 ° 56 ′ 55 ″  N , 97 ° 24 ′ 50 ″  W.	Central American and Caribbean Games 2014
Schuylkill River	Philadelphia	United States	39 ° 58 ′ 10 ″  N , 75 ° 11 ′ 15 ″  W.	Stotesbury Cup
Villa Náutica Embalse de Guatapé	Guatapé	Colombia	6 ° 14 ′ 24 ″  N , 75 ° 10 ′ 13 ″  W.	South American Games 2010
Welland International Flatwater Center	Welland	Canada	42 ° 57 ′ 50 ″  N , 79 ° 15 ′ 18 ″  W.	Pan American Games 2015	Two courses (north and south).

Asia

Waters	city	country	Coordinates	Events	Remarks
Cipule Regatta Course	Karawang	Indonesia	6 ° 24 ′ 57 ″  S , 104 ° 47 ′ 48 ″  E	Dragon boating at the 2011 Southeast Asian Games
Guangdong International Rowing Center	Guangzhou	China	23 ° 21 ′ 1 ″  N , 113 ° 20 ′ 7 ″  E	Canoe sprint at the 2010 Asian Games
Jakabaring Lake	Jakabaring Sports Complex	Indonesia	3 ° 0 ′ 57 ″  S , 104 ° 47 ′ 48 ″  E	Asian Games 2018
Karachi Boat Club	Karachi	Pakistan	24 ° 50 ′ 30 "  N , 66 ° 59 ′ 53"  E
Lago Nam Van	Macau	Macau	22 ° 11 ′ 7 ″  N , 113 ° 32 ′ 31 ″  E	IDBF Club Crew World Championships 2010
Marina Reservoir	Marina Bay	Singapore	1 ° 17 ′ 11 "  N , 103 ° 52 ′ 3"  E	Youth Olympic Summer Games 2010
Misari regatta	Hanam	South Korea	37 ° 33 ′ 40 "  N , 127 ° 12 ′ 20"  E	1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul
Nagaragawa International Regatta Course	Kaizu	Japan	35 ° 9 ′ 48 "  N , 136 ° 40 ′ 16"  E	World Rowing Championships 2005
Ngalaik Dam	Mandalay region	Myanmar	19 ° 51 '39 "  N , 96 ° 0' 44"  E	Southeast Asian Games 2013
Sea Forest Waterway	Tokyo	Japan	35 ° 36 ′ 5 "  N , 139 ° 48 ′ 26"  E		Planned venue for the 2020 Summer Olympics .
Sha Tin Rowing Center	Sha Tin	Hong Kong	22 ° 23 ′ 26 "  N , 114 ° 12 ′ 3"  E	East Asian Games 2009
Shunyi Olympic Rowing and Canoeing Park	Beijing	China	40 ° 10 ′ 50 "  N , 116 ° 41 ′ 10"  E	2008 Summer Olympics
International Tangeum Lake Regatta Course	Chungju	South Korea	37 ° 1 '19 "  N , 127 ° 51' 55"  E	World Rowing Championships 2013
Toda Olympic Rowing Center	Toda	Japan	35 ° 48 '12 "  N , 139 ° 39' 57"  E	Tokyo Summer Olympics 1964
Zengcheng Dragon Boat Lake	Zengcheng	China	23 ° 16 ′ 23 "  N , 113 ° 49 ′ 11"  E	Dragon boat sport at the 2010 Asian Games

Europe

Waters	city	country	Coordinates	Events	Remarks
Ada Ciganlija	Belgrade	Serbia	44 ° 47 ′ 0 ″  N , 20 ° 23 ′ 28 ″  E	Canoe Racing World Championships 1971 , 1975 , 1978 & 1982
Lake Albano	Castel Gandolfo	Italy	41 ° 45 ′ 0 ″  N , 12 ° 39 ′ 54 ″  E	1960 Summer Olympics	First use of the Albano system to subdivide lanes.
Årungen	Oslo	Norway	59 ° 41 ′ 25 "  N , 10 ° 44 ′ 38"  E	1993 Junior World Rowing Championships
Bagsværd lake	Copenhagen	Denmark	55 ° 46 ′ 26 "  N , 12 ° 27 ′ 22"  E	World Rowing Championships 1987
Beetzsee regatta course	Brandenburg on the Havel	Germany	52 ° 25 '55 "  N , 12 ° 33' 49"  E	Junior World Rowing Championships 1985 and 2005
Regatta course Berlin-Grünau	Berlin	Germany	52 ° 24 ′ 39 "  N , 13 ° 36 ′ 20"  E	1936 Summer Olympics ; Canoe Racing World Championships 1966
Lake Bled	Bled	Slovenia	46 ° 21 '52 "  N , 14 ° 5' 41"  E	Rowing World Championships 1966 , 1979 , 1989 & 2011
Bosbaan	Amsterdam	Netherlands	52 ° 19 ′ 35 "  N , 4 ° 50 ′ 16"  E	World Rowing Championships 1977 & 2014
Brest rowing channel	Brest	Belarus	52 ° 5 ′ 5 "  N , 23 ° 45 ′ 22"  E	European Rowing Championships 2009
Bromberg regatta course	Bromberg	Poland	53 ° 6 ′ 59 ″  N , 18 ° 7 ′ 14 ″  E	European Rowing Championships 1929 & Junior Canoe Racing European Championships 1983	Polish spelling: Tor regatowy w Bydgoszczy
Lac du Causse	Brive-la-Gaillarde	France	45 ° 5 ′ 44 "  N , 1 ° 26 ′ 54"  E	2009 Junior World Rowing Championships
Canal de Alfonso XIII	Seville	Spain	37 ° 23 ′ 4 ″  N , 6 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  W.	World Rowing Championships 2002	Also known as Dársena del Guadalquivir.
Canal de Cuevas de Almanzora	Cuevas del Almanzora	Spain	37 ° 19 ′ 9 ″  N , 1 ° 53 ′ 45 ″  W.	2005 Mediterranean Games in Almería	Too short for international rowing competitions.
Canal Olímpic de Catalunya	Castelldefels	Spain	41 ° 16 ′ 31 ″  N , 1 ° 59 ′ 33 ″  E	Canoe at the 1992 Summer Olympics	Too short for international rowing competitions.
Chimki Lake	Moscow Oblast	Russia	55 ° 50 ′ 58 "  N , 37 ° 27 ′ 46"  E
Dorney Lake	Eton	England	51 ° 29 ′ 36 "  N , 0 ° 39 ′ 56"  W.	London 2012 Summer Olympics
Regattabahn Duisburg	Duisburg	Germany	51 ° 24 ′ 37 "  N , 6 ° 47 ′ 16"  E	World Rowing Championships 1983 ; Canoe racing world championships 1979 , 1987 , 1995 , 2007 & 2013	Water ski , canoe polo and dragon boat competitions at the 2005 World Games .
Elfrather See	Krefeld	Germany	51 ° 23 ′ 6 ″  N , 6 ° 37 ′ 31 ″  E
Embalse de Pontillón de Castro	Verducido (San Martín)	Spain	42 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  N , 8 ° 36 ′ 59 ″  W.	Canoe Racing European Championships 2007
Embalse de Trasona	Tresona	Spain	43 ° 32 '23 "  N , 5 ° 52' 35"  W.	Canoe Racing European Championships 2010
Estany de Banyoles	Banyoles	Spain	42 ° 7 ′ 31 ″  N , 2 ° 45 ′ 19 ″  E	Rowing at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Fühlinger See	Cologne	Germany	51 ° 1 ′ 23 "  N , 6 ° 55 ′ 27"  E	World Rowing Championships 1998	Venue of the Festvail Summerjam .
Galvesee	Trakai	Lithuania	54 ° 39 '14 "  N , 24 ° 55' 54"  E	U23 World Rowing Championships 2012	Lithuanian spelling: Ežeras Galvė
Harkstede	Groningen	Netherlands	53 ° 13 ′ 33 "  N , 6 ° 40 ′ 20"  E	U23 World Rowing Championships 1995
Water sports center Hamburg-Allermöhe	Hamburg	Germany	53 ° 28 ′ 57 "  N , 10 ° 6 ′ 52"  E	Junior World Rowing Championships 2014	Potential venue for the rowing and canoeing competitions Hamburg's application for the 2012 Summer Olympics .
Hazewinkel	Willebroek	Belgium	51 ° 4 ′ 12 "  N , 4 ° 23 ′ 21"  E	World Rowing Championships 1980 & 1985
Henley-on-Thames	London	England	51 ° 32 ′ 9 ″  N , 0 ° 54 ′ 10 ″  W.	Olympic Summer Games 1908 & 1948	Only two lanes over a length of 2,112 meters.
Hjälmsjön	Örkelljunga	Sweden	56 ° 16 ′ 44 "  N , 13 ° 18 ′ 32"  E	Seniors match 1979
Holme Pierrepont National Watersports Center	Nottingham	England	52 ° 56 ′ 51 ″  N , 1 ° 5 ′ 13 ″  W.	World Rowing Championships 1975 & 1986
Idroscalo	Milan	Italy	45 ° 27 '54 "  N , 9 ° 17' 22"  E	World Rowing Championships in 1988 & 2003	Planned as a runway for seaplanes.
Jarun lake	Zagreb	Croatia	45 ° 46 ′ 55 "  N , 15 ° 55 ′ 20"  E	Rowing World Championships 2010
Kaukajärvi	Tampere	Finland	61 ° 28 ′ 15 "  N , 23 ° 54 ′ 35"  E	World Rowing Championships 1995
Kazan Rowing Center	Kazan	Russia	55 ° 45 ′ 11 "  N , 49 ° 8 ′ 31"  E	Summer Universiade 2013
Kitchen lake	Ratzeburg	Germany	53 ° 41 ′ 30 "  N , 10 ° 45 ′ 55"  E	Junior World Rowing Championships in 1967 & 1974
Kur Sport and Rowing Center	Mingəçevir	Azerbaijan	40 ° 45 ′ 45 ″  N , 47 ° 2 ′ 13 ″  E	European Games 2015
Lake Piediluco	Terni	Italy	42 ° 32 ′ 0 ″  N , 12 ° 45 ′ 13 ″  E		Location of the National Rowing Center of Italy.
Lake Patria	Naples	Italy	40 ° 56 ′ 8 ″  N , 14 ° 19 ′ 13 ″  E	FISA Youth Regatta 1969
Lake Varese	Varese	Italy	45 ° 49 ′ 0 ″  N , 8 ° 44 ′ 0 ″  E	U23 World Rowing Championships 2014, European Rowing Championships 2012
Krylatskoje rowing channel	Moscow	Russia	55 ° 45 ′ 17 "  N , 37 ° 26 ′ 14"  E	1980 Summer Olympics
Lac d'Aiguebelette	Aiguebelette	France	45 ° 33 ′ 20 "  N , 5 ° 47 ′ 54"  E	World Rowing Championships 1997 & 2015
Malta lake	Poses	Poland	52 ° 24 ′ 6 "  N , 16 ° 58 ′ 26"  E	Rowing World Championships 2009	Polish spelling: Jezioro Maltańskie
Céntro Náutico Montemor-o-Velho	Montemor-o-Velho	Portugal	40 ° 10 ′ 43 "  N , 8 ° 38 ′ 26"  W.	Canoe Racing European Championships 2013
Munksjön	Jonkoping	Sweden	57 ° 46 ′ 23 "  N , 14 ° 9 ′ 59"  E	Junior World Rowing Championships 1984
London Regatta Center	London	England	51 ° 30 ′ 28 "  N , 0 ° 2 ′ 29"  E
Szeged regatta course	Szeged	Hungary	46 ° 14 ′ 25 ″  N , 20 ° 4 ′ 30 ″  E	Canoe Racing World Championships 1998 , 2006 & 2011
Regatta course Oberschleißheim	Munich	Germany	48 ° 14 ′ 34 "  N , 11 ° 30 ′ 54"  E	1972 Summer Olympics
Regatta Center Ottensheim	Ottensheim	Austria	48 ° 19 ′ 23 ″  N , 14 ° 9 ′ 7 ″  E	World Rowing Championships 2008 & 2019
Pancharevo lake	Sofia	Bulgaria	42 ° 35 ′ 58 "  N , 23 ° 24 ′ 33"  E	Junior World Rowing Championships 1981
Plovdiv rowing channel	Plovdiv	Bulgaria	42 ° 8 ′ 37 "  N , 24 ° 42 ′ 26"  E	World Rowing Championships 2012
Račice rowing channel	Račice u Štětí	Czech Republic	50 ° 27 ′ 13 ″  N , 14 ° 20 ′ 7 ″  E	World Rowing Championships 1993
Redgrave Pinsent Rowing Lake	Caversham	England	51 ° 27 ′ 46 "  N , 0 ° 56 ′ 31"  W.
Rotsee	Lucerne	Switzerland	47 ° 4 ′ 11 "  N , 8 ° 18 ′ 51"  E	Rowing World Championships 1962, 1974, 1982 & 2001
Schinias Olympic Rowing and Canoeing Center	marathon	Greece	38 ° 9 ′ 0 ″  N , 24 ° 0 ′ 52 ″  E	2004 Summer Olympics
Strathclyde Country Park	Motherwell	Scotland	55 ° 47 '51 "  N , 4 ° 1' 23"  W.	Rowing World Championships 1966
Lac de Vaires-sur-Marne	Paris	France	48 ° 51 ′ 49 "  N , 2 ° 37 ′ 27"  E
New Danube	Vienna	Austria	48 ° 14 ′ 0 ″  N , 16 ° 24 ′ 20 ″  E	World Rowing Championships 1991
Soutustadion	Helsinki	Finland	60 ° 10 ′ 44 "  N , 24 ° 54 ′ 40"  E		Planned and built for the 1940 Olympic Games , but not approved by the World Rowing Federation for the 1952 Olympic Games .
Watersportbaan Georges Nachez	Ghent	Belgium	51 ° 29 ′ 44 "  N , 3 ° 41 ′ 22"  E	European Rowing Championships 1955	Only five lanes 76 meters wide and 2300 meters long.
Watersportbaan Tilburg	Hilvarenbeek	Netherlands	51 ° 31 '56 "  N , 5 ° 7' 32"  E		Only four lanes 75 to 80 meters wide and 2000 meters long.
Willem-Alexander Baan	Rotterdam	Netherlands	51 ° 59 ′ 51 ″  N , 4 ° 33 ′ 39 ″  E	Rowing World Championships 2016
Wörthersee	Klagenfurt am Wörthersee	Austria	46 ° 37 ′ 30 ″  N , 14 ° 9 ′ 10 ″  E	European Rowing Championships 1969
Yarkon	Tel Aviv-Jaffa	Israel	32 ° 5 ′ 49 "  N , 34 ° 46 ′ 46"  E

Oceania

Waters	city	country	Coordinates	Events	Remarks
Alex Ramsay Regatta Course	Adelaide	Australia	34 ° 52 ′ 30 ″  S , 138 ° 29 ′ 5 ″  E	IDBF Club Crew World Championships 2016
Champion Lakes Regatta Center	Perth	Australia	32 ° 6 ′ 28 ″  S , 115 ° 59 ′ 45 ″  E	Australian Rowing Championships 2012
Lake Barrington	Tasmania	Australia	41 ° 22 ′ 0 ″  S , 146 ° 13 ′ 0 ″  E	World Rowing Championships 1990
Lake Karapiro	Hamilton	New Zealand	37 ° 55 ′ 43 ″  S , 175 ° 32 ′ 40 ″  E	World Rowing Championships 1978 & 2010
Lake Ruataniwha	Twizel	New Zealand	44 ° 16 ′ 52 ″  S , 170 ° 4 ′ 16 ″  E	Maadi Cup
Lake Wendouree	Ballarat	Australia	37 ° 33 ′ 2 ″  S , 143 ° 50 ′ 0 ″  E	Melbourne Summer Olympics 1956	After drying out in 2006, it wasn't until 2011 that it returned to the previous level.
Penrith Lakes	Sydney	Australia	33 ° 43 ′ 29 ″  S , 150 ° 40 ′ 47 ″  E	2000 Summer Olympics

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