Lausanne, 14 June 2019

The World Rowing Federation, FISA, welcomes media to 2019 World Rowing Cup II in Poznan, Poland.

This second World Rowing Cup of the 2019 season takes place 21-23 June 2019. There are entries from 45 nations with over 800 athletes taking part. This is the largest turnout at a World Rowing Cup since 2011. This regatta also includes para-rowing boat classes.

World Rowing supplies information to media with the media guide available here. This guide includes a Who to Watch for all boat classes, media information, a review of the 2019 season so far, many useful statistics from all major regattas and the current World Best Times.

The World Rowing website, www.worldrowing.com will be the main channel containing:

·         Entries and results

·         Race reports

·         Live race tracker for all races

·         Audio commentary 

·         Photos

·         Live blog

·         Medals table

Live video coverage will be available on the World Rowing website for A-finals on Sunday 23 June.  

The racing draw will take place at 15:00 CET on Thursday 20 June and will be live streamed on World Rowing’s Facebook page: www.Facebook.com/WorldRowing

A selection of photos will be available through: https://www.flickr.com/photos/worldrowingofficial

World Rowing also posts information on its social media channels. The official hashtag for the event is #WRCPoznan or #Poznan2019. The official Twitter account of World Rowing is @WorldRowing. Instagram is @WorldRowingOfficial and Facebook is WorldRowing. World Rowing will provide updates, video, photos and short commentary via Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Athletes and fans are encouraged to tweet messages of support using the official hashtag.

The official Facebook page is www.Facebook.com/WorldRowing.
There will also be updates on our You Tube channel: www.youtube.com/WorldRowingFISA
For media queries:  media@fisa.org

2019 World Rowing Cup series:
World Rowing Cup I     10-12 May, Plovdiv, Bulgaria  
World Rowing Cup II   21-23 June, Poznan, Poland
World Rowing Cup III   12-14 July, Rotterdam, Netherlands