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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 ...
not included in the Olympic program: 1920 Antwerp details Paul Costello and John B. Kelly Sr. Pietro Annoni and Erminio Dones Gaston Giran and Alfred Plé 1924 Paris details Paul Costello and John B. Kelly Sr. Marc Detton and Jean-Pierre Stock Rudolf Bosshard and Heini Thoma 1928 Amsterdam details Paul Costello
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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All eight participants were members of a student rowing club called VSR (Vlaamse Studentenvereniging der Roeiers [translates to Flanders Student Rowing Club]). The greatest distance rowed in 1 hour is 17,555 m (10.91 miles) by the Delftse Studenten Roeiverening Proteus-Eretes during the Hour boat race on 17 December 2017.
This balancing was achieved by deleting the men's lightweight four and adding the women's coxless four boat classes. The women's coxless four previously ran at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics; the only time this boat class was an Olympic event. The changes to the Olympic rowing schedule were the first since the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. [2]