It’s been an Olympic event since 1996 and since then the lightweight men’s double sculls has been known for incredible finishing sprints and tight, tight margins across the finish line. We look back at the last Olympiad and then look forward to the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2021.
The clean water partnership between World Rowing and WWF, the World Wide Fund for Nature, has moved another step forward with the official certification of the purchase of land for the proposed Kafue River & Rowing Centre (KRRC).
In a ‘normal’ year, November would be the time to celebrate the best in rowing with the World Rowing Awards. However, 2020 has been anything but normal. This year, we use the November month to recognise the extraordinary efforts of rowers and rowing clubs around the world to adapt to the coronavirus measures in their own countries while maintaining sport and community as much as possible.
It has been anything but usual this Olympiad. With the expected wrap up of the Olympic cycle not taking place due to the postponement of the Olympic Games, the race to the Olympics runs on for one more year. World Rowing continues to look back at the last four years and forward to what we can expect from the women’s four in 2021.
Charting a course through Canada’s frozen north was long the stuff of dreams for European explorers. It wasn’t until 1906 that the first ship successful emerged, having crossed safely through the so-called “North West Passage”.
