Rowing World Championships 2016
The Rowing World Championships 2016 took place from August 21 to 28, 2016 in the Dutch municipality of Zuidplas (Zevenhuizen district) near the city of Rotterdam on the Willem-Alexander Baan regatta course .
Due to the held in the same year Olympic Games with 14 rowing competitions in Rio de Janeiro, only eight competitions in the non-Olympic boat classes which five were held for, lightweights and a competitive class of Pararuderns . One team per competition class from all member associations of the World Rowing Association was eligible to participate . 229 participants in 105 teams were registered for 43 different nations.
The regatta course Willem-Alexander Baan was the scene of an important international rowing championship for the first time. It was planned from 2002, built from 2011 and opened on April 26, 2013 by its namesake Prince Willem-Alexander . Four days later Willem-Alexander was sworn in as King of the Netherlands . On the same regatta course, at the same time as the 2016 World Championships for the open age group, the world championships for the Juniors (U19) with 766 registered participants and the Senior B (U23) with 901 registered participants were held. The almost 400 individual runs of all three events necessary to determine the world champions were spread over eight days. The finals of the world championships of the open age group were rowed on the afternoon of August 27th.
Results
The medal winners from the A finals are listed here. These were manned by six boats, which had to qualify for the finals through pre-run and hope runs as well as quarter and semi-finals.
Men
The length of the course was 2000 meters in all races.
| Boat class | gold | silver | bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lightweight One (LM1x) |
 Ireland Paul O'Donovan |
7: 32.84 |
 Hungary Péter Galambos |
7: 36.95 |
 Slovakia Lukáš Babač |
7: 38.89 |
| Lightweight twin without helmsman (LM2-) |
 France Augustin Mouterde Alexis Guerinot |
7: 14.18 |
 Denmark Emil Espensen Jens Vilhelmsen |
7: 15.30 |
 United Kingdom Joel Cassells Sam Scrimgeour |
7: 16.49 |
| Two with helmsman (M2 +) |
United Kingdom Oliver Cook Callum McBrierty Henry Fieldman (Stm.) |
7: 29.69 |
 Canada Andrew Stewart-Jones Benjamin de Wit Kevin Chung (Stm.) |
7: 32.05 |
 Italy Mario Paonessa Vincenzo Capelli Andrea Riva (stm.) |
7: 32.22 |
| Lightweight sculls (LM4x) |
 Germany Patrik Stöcker Florian Roller Johannes Ursprung Cedric Kulbach |
6: 23.09 |
France Francois Teroin Damien Piqueras Maxime Demontfaucon Morgan Maunoir |
6: 24.72 |
 Greece Georgios Konsolas Spyridon Giannaros Panagiotis Magdanis Eleftherios Konsolas |
6: 26.58 |
Women
The length of the course was 2000 meters in all races.
| Boat class | gold | silver | bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lightweight single (LW1x) |
 New Zealand Zoe McBride |
8: 28.45 |
 Sweden Emma Fredh |
8: 29.12 |
Canada Katherine Sauks |
8: 37.96 |
| Lightweight Quads (LW4x) |
United Kingdom Brianna Stubbs Emily Craig Imogen Walsh Eleanor Piggott |
7: 10.60 |
Germany Judith Anlauf Leonie Pieper Lena Reuss Katrin Thoma |
7: 12.45 |
 People's Republic of China Xuan Xulian Zhang Weixiao Zhang Weimiao Yan Xiaohua |
7: 21.04 |
| Foursome without a helmsman (W4-) |
United Kingdom Fiona Gammond Donna Etiebet Holly Nixon Holly Norton |
7: 16.28 |
 United States Molly Bruggeman Emily Huelskamp Corinne Schoeller Kristine O'Brien |
7: 21.53 |
Germany Melanie Hansen Ronja Schütte Charlotte Reinhardt Lea-Kathleen Kühne |
7: 26.15 |
Para oars
The length of the course was 2000 meters in all runs of the para rowing boat classes .
| Boat class | gold | silver | bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LTA double scull (LTAMix2x) |
France Guylaine Marchand Fabien Saint-Lannes |
8: 38.53 |
 Austria Johanna Beyer Rainer Putz |
9: 06.51 |
 Russia Valentina Shagot Yevgeny Borisov |
9: 27.74 |
Medal table
| space | country | gold | silver | bronze | total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
United Kingdom
|
3 | 1 | 4th | |
| 2 |
France
|
2 | 1 | 3 | |
| 3 |
Germany
|
1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 4th |
New Zealand
|
1 | 1 | ||
|
Ireland
|
1 | 1 | |||
| 6th |
Canada
|
1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 7th |
Sweden
|
1 | 1 | ||
|
Austria
|
1 | 1 | |||
|
Denmark
|
1 | 1 | |||
|
Hungary
|
1 | 1 | |||
|
United States
|
1 | 1 | |||
| 12 |
Russia
|
1 | 1 | ||
|
Italy
|
1 | 1 | |||
|
Slovakia
|
1 | 1 | |||
|
Greece
|
1 | 1 | |||
|
People's Republic of China
|
1 | 1 | |||
| total | 8th | 8th | 8th | 24 | |
Web links
- Event website
- Website of the World Rowing Association
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entries by Event. (PDF) In: www.worldrowing.com. World Rowing Association, accessed on August 24, 2016 (English).
- ↑ Rowing World Championships 2016: Lightweight One of the Men (LM1x). In: www.worldrowing.com. World Rowing Association, August 27, 2016, accessed on August 28, 2016 (English).
- ↑ Rowing World Championships 2016: lightweight two-man without helmsman (LM2-). In: www.worldrowing.com. World Rowing Association, August 27, 2016, accessed on August 28, 2016 (English).
- ↑ Rowing World Championships 2016: Two men with helmsman (M2 +). In: www.worldrowing.com. World Rowing Association, August 27, 2016, accessed on August 28, 2016 (English).
- ↑ World Rowing Championships 2016: Men's lightweight quadruple sculls (LM4x). In: www.worldrowing.com. World Rowing Association, August 27, 2016, accessed on August 28, 2016 (English).
- ↑ Rowing World Championships 2016: Lightweight One of the Women (LW1x). In: www.worldrowing.com. World Rowing Association, August 27, 2016, accessed on August 28, 2016 (English).
- ↑ Rowing World Championships 2016: Women's lightweight quadruple sculls (LW4x). In: www.worldrowing.com. World Rowing Association, August 27, 2016, accessed on August 28, 2016 (English).
- ↑ Rowing World Championships 2016: Foursome without helmsman (W4-). In: www.worldrowing.com. World Rowing Association, August 27, 2016, accessed on August 28, 2016 (English).
- ↑ Rowing World Championships 2016: LTA double sculls (mixed) (LTAMix2x). In: www.worldrowing.com. World Rowing Association, August 27, 2016, accessed on August 28, 2016 (English).