WORLD ROWING UNIVERSITY CHAMPIONSHIPS

2010 World Rowing University Championships - Szeged, Hungary - 13-15 August

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History

University rowing is at the core of our sport. The oldest organised competition of an Olympic sport is the famous Oxford-Cambridge University Boat Race, which started in 1829. Many current elite rowers first began rowing at university.

Given the importance of university rowing to the world of rowing, FISA signed in 2007 an agreement with the International University Sport Federation to cooperate in the oversight of the World Rowing University Championships and other related university events in order to ensure their success.

General Description

The World Rowing University Championships are staged every two years, on the even numbered years. Rowing is also an optional sport in the programme of the World University Games ("Universiades"); this gives gives the Universiade Organising Committee the possibility to include rowing championships in the Universiade programme in odd-numbered years as well.

The World Rowing University Championships are raced over three days, from Friday to Sunday.

Each country is authorised to present a maximum of one crew per boat class.

ELIGIBILITY 

In line with Articles 1.5 and 1.6 of the FISU Regulations and in addition to the conditions laid out in the FISA Rules of Racing (Rule 16), any member federation that has membership of FISU may take part in the World Rowing University Rowing Championships or the Universiades. A federation that is not affiliated to FISU but that is affiliated to FISA may participate in the Championships. For the Universiades, a federation whose country’s Olympic Committee is allowed to take part in the Olympic Games may participate; in those cases where a country does not have an Olympic Committee recognized by the IOC but where the federation is affiliated to FISA, the Executive Committee of FISU will decide on that country’s eligibility.

To take part in a FISU regatta, competitors must satisfy the following conditions:

a) Be a national of the country they represent;

b) Be at least 17 and less than 28 years of age on January 1st in the year of the event;

c) Be officially registered for and pursuing a full time course of study at a university or similar institute whose status as a university is recognized by the appropriate national academic authority of their country;

d) Be former students of the institutions mentioned in c) above who have obtained their academic degree or diploma in the year preceding the event.

e) In countries with fewer than 2,000,000 inhabitants or having fewer than 5,000 University students, students attending technical or secondary schools may participate in the Championships or Universiades, provided that they have been attending their educational institutions for at least two (2) years. Countries wishing to take advantage of this concession must submit an application to the FISU Executive Committee at least six (6) months before the scheduled start of the event. Such an application must be supported by documents endorsed by the appropriate State or National Academic Authorities.

Competition Description

Boat Classes

Men (M)	1x, 2x, 2-, 4-, 8+
Women (W)	1x, 2x, 4-
Lightweight Men (LM)	1x, 2x, M4-
Lightweight Women (LW)	1x, 2x

Events

The 2010 World Rowing University Championships will be held in Szeged (HUN) from 13 to 15 August.

The 2012 World Rowing University Championships will be held in Banyoles (ESP) from 8 to 10 September.

The Organising Committee of the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan (RUS) has chosen rowing as an optional sport. The exact dates of rowing competition have not yet been announced.