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Hamish Bond and Murray at the 2012 London Olympics, where they broke the world best time in the coxless pair In rowing, there are no world records due to the variability of weather conditions. Instead there are world best times, which are set over the international rowing distance of 2000 meters. Men's records † denotes a performance that is also a current world best time. Event Record ...
Only men were allowed to compete until the women's events were introduced at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal which gave national federations the incentive to support women's events and catalysed growth in women's rowing. [2] Lightweight rowing events (which have weight-limited crews) were introduced to the games in 1996. Qualifying for the ...
Games Gold Silver Bronze 1904 St. Louis details John Mulcahy and William Varley Jamie McLoughlin and John Hoben Joseph Ravannack and John Wells (): 1908–1912: not included in the Olympic program
A side by side race at the 2012 Olympic Games – Men's lightweight coxless four. The standard length races for the Olympics and the World Rowing Championships is 2 kilometres (1.24 mi) long. In the United States, some scholastic (high school) races are 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi), while many youth races are the standard 2 kilometres.
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For most of its history, rowing has been a male dominated sport. Although rowing's roots as a sport in the modern Olympics can be traced back to the original 1896 games in Athens, it was not until the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal that women were allowed to participate (at a distance of 1000 metres) – well after their fellow athletes in similar sports such as swimming, athletics, cycling ...
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. [3]
The men's rowing events became most notable for Great Britain's Steve Redgrave, who won his fifth consecutive Olympic gold medal for the coxless four. He first won at Los Angeles in 1984, followed by gold medals in 1988, 1992, 1996, and 2000, a record span of 16 years between his first and last gold medal.