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  2. Rowing at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's eight - Wikipedia

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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. [3]

  3. Rowing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's eight - Wikipedia

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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]

  4. Rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's eight - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Eight at the Olympics - Wikipedia

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    The eight is a rowing event held at the Summer Olympics. [1] 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.

  6. List of Olympic best times in rowing - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  7. Rowing at the Summer Olympics - Wikipedia

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    From 1912 to 2024, all men's races have been over a 2000m course, except for London 1948, where the course was 1850m. In 2024, World Rowing announced that Rowing at the 2028 Olympics will take place over 1500 meters due to limitations of the Long Beach Marine Stadium. This would be shortest ever used for men's Olympic rowing. [4]

  8. List of world best times in rowing - Wikipedia

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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.

  9. Rowing at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's eight - Wikipedia

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    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.