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Canada's Olympic M8+ rowing championship followed their 2007 World M8+ Rowing Championship, making the Canadian crew the first world champion in 35 years to follow up with Olympic gold. [3] Canada finished in 5:23.89, about four seconds off the world record time of 5:19.85 set by the U.S. team during the second heat of the Men's eight at the ...
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 ...
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.
For the first time at the Olympics, the coxswain position was open to any gender. [4] The competition used the three-round, single-final format used (unexpectedly) in 2016, when the number of teams was reduced from the expected 8 to 7 due to Russia's exclusion in the doping scandal. For 2020, the 7-boat field was deliberate.
The men's eight (M8+) competition at the 1984 Summer Olympics took place at Lake Casitas in Ventura County, California, United States.It was held from 31 July to 5 August. There were 7 boats (63 competitors) from 7 nations, with each nation limited to a single boat in the event.
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). [4] Races were held in up to six lanes.
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]
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