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This rowing event features nine-person boats, with eight rowers and a coxswain. It is a sweep rowing event, with the rowers each having one oar (and thus each rowing on one side). The competition consists of multiple rounds. The course uses the 2000 metres distance that became the Olympic standard in 1912. [5]
The event was first held for men at the second modern Olympics in 1900, with races taking place on the Seine in Paris, [2] and has been held at every Games since. The women's event was added when women's rowing was added to the Olympic programme in 1976, [3] and has been held at every Games since 1996, it is the only Olympic rowing event that ...
There are 7 qualifying places in the men's eight: [2] 5 from the 2019 World Championship (Germany, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Australia, and the United States) 2 from the final qualification regatta (New Zealand and Romania) The COVID-19 pandemic delayed many of the events for qualifying for rowing.
This was the last Olympics where lightweight rowing was featured, to be replaced by coastal rowing at the 2028 Olympics. [3] Events for the 2024 Paris Olympics consisted of men's and women's events for the two disciplines of rowing: Sweep rowing, where each rower uses a single oar: Coxless pairs; Coxless fours; Eights, with coxswains
The "eight" event featured nine-person boats, with eight rowers and a coxswain. It was a sweep rowing event, with the rowers each having one oar (and thus each rowing on one side). The course used the 2000 metres distance that became the Olympic standard in 1912. [7] The 1936 competition had a six-boat final for the first time.
The men's eight has been held every time that rowing has been contested, beginning in 1900. [2] An event that for decades had been almost entirely predictable had a competitive field in 1972. The United States had won this event at eight of the last ten Olympics, but only one of the last three (1964). West Germany was the defending Olympic ...
The men's eight (M8+) competition at the 1984 Summer Olympics took place at Lake Casitas in Ventura County, California, United States.It was held from 31 July to 5 August. There were 7 boats (63 competitors) from 7 nations, with each nation limited to a single boat in the event.
The men's eight competition was one of six events for male competitors in Rowing at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. [1] It was held from 15 to 22 August. [2] There were 9 boats (81 competitors) from 9 nations, with each nation limited to a single boat in the event.