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This list of rowing venues contains the rowing sites, that allow for international rowing regattas (2,000 m), as described by FISA. Most of these sites have hosted an Olympic or world championship regatta.
Tuxedo Park's Tuxedo 1886 Regatta is a head-to-head race that draws Olympians and National Team members to the gated community's majestic lake.
1864 – Rowing became the first organized sport at Rutgers. Six-mile races were held on the Raritan River among six-oared boats. 1870 – The Rowing Association of American Colleges was established by Bowdoin, Brown and Harvard Universities and Massachusetts Agricultural College, now known as the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
The regatta is split into six regions: the Mid-Atlantic region, the Great Lakes region, the Plains region, the Northeast region, the South region, and the West Coast region. [3] The ACRA is a broadcast partner of The Rowers Consortium of Huntington Harbour, California, who has broadcast the regatta on The Rowing Channel since 2014.
The Croco's Cup, international rowing regatta at University level held every year in Paris since 1985, organised by students of ENSTA (Paristech). Tour du Lac, around the lake Geneva is the 160 km (99 mi) the longest non-stop rowing regatta in the world. Kontxako Bandera, rowing regatta in Donostia-San Sebastian, Basque Country.
Rowing, often called crew in the United States, is the sport of racing boats using oars. It differs from paddling sports in that rowing oars are attached to the boat using rowlocks, while paddles are not connected to the boat. Rowing is divided into two disciplines: sculling and sweep rowing. In sculling, each rower holds two oars, one in each ...
Rowing, along with the "country club" sports of golf and tennis, was a popular sport for American prep schools in the 1920s, especially in the mid-Atlantic and New England. [ 9 ] The American Henley Regatta added an eight-oared schoolboy event in 1904, and this was considered the national championships for secondary schools.
The Harvard–Yale Regatta or Yale-Harvard Boat Race (often abbreviated The Race) is an annual rowing race between the men's heavyweight rowing crews of Harvard University and Yale University. First contested in 1852, it has been held annually since 1859 with exceptions during major wars fought by the United States and the COVID-19 pandemic .