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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 ...
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]
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 "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. [1] East Germany had for many years been the dominating country for this boat class. From the 1976 Summer Olympics to the 1980 Summer Olympics, the country won every gold at Olympic and World Rowing Championships level.
The final race, men's eights, was won by a working-class United States team from the University of Washington who, in what had become their trademark, started slow and outsprinted the competition to an exceedingly close finish, with only one second separating the top three finishers at the end of a six-and-a-half minute race.
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 (with the exception of 1948). [3] Races were held in up to six lanes.
The men's eight event was a rowing event conducted as part of the 1964 Summer Olympics programme. [1] It was held from 12 to 15 October at the Toda Rowing Course. [2] There were 14 boats (126 competitors) from 14 nations, with each nation limited to a single boat in the event. [2]