The European Rowing Junior Championships in Gravelines, France over the weekend was a showcase of Europe’s up and coming talent. For some of the competitors, it was also the first step along an Olympic pathway.
Running for its eighth year, the European Rowing Junior Championships is underway on 26 May 2018.
Less than two years after a devastating fire tore through Chile’s premier Olympic rowing training facility at Curauma, the undaunted Chilean rowing community played host to a continental festival of rowing last week. Junior internationals from across South and Central America and the Caribbean islands came together to train and face off in a series of major events that highlighted many future rowing stars.
The World Rowing Indoor Championships got off to a bang in Alexandria, Virginia, USA. The TC Williams High School gym was filled with more than 120 Concept2 indoor rowing machines divided into six blocks. A mix of championship events and local Erg Sprints events filled the machines from 10am to 3pm.
The first World Rowing Indoor Championships events got underway with the juniors. The junior categories ranged from 15 to 18-year-olds and the final times were compared across categories to determine the winners.
Following the Asian Youth Olympic Games Qualification Regatta in Singapore last October, 2018 has started with Oceanian nations trying to qualify for this year’s Youth Olympic Games, YOG.
