Rowing at The Summer Olympics - Events

Events

At the current Olympics the following 14 events are offered:

  • Men: Single Sculls, Double sculls, Quad sculls, Coxless pair, Coxless four, Eight.
  • Lightweight Men: Double Sculls, Coxless Four
  • Women: Single Sculls, Double Sculls, Quad Sculls, Coxless Pair, Eight
  • Lightweight Women: Double Sculls

The lightweight events were threatened in 2002 when the Programme Commission of the IOC recommended that, outside of combat sports (boxing & wrestling, but not fencing, shooting, and archery) and weightlifting, there should not be weight-category events. The Executive Board overturned this recommendation and the lightweight rowing has been continued.

In the early games (1900 and 1904) there were several other categories of events (Junior, Novice, Association, and Intermediate). A number of other boat classes have made an appearance at several games (sometimes for a long time) but have been subsequently dropped – as recently as the 1990s. The primary loss has been in boats with coxwains, except for the eights, which have always been coxed. These were:

  • Men's Coxed Pair (1900–1992)
  • Men's Coxed Four (1900–1992)
  • Women's Coxed Four (1976–1988)
  • Women's Coxed Quad Sculls (1976–1984)
  • Women's Coxless Four (1992 only)
  • Men's Coxed Four with Inriggers (1912 only)
  • Six-Man Naval Rowing Boats (1906 only)
  • 17-Man Naval Rowing Boats (1906 only)

The non-Olympic boatclasses (which still compete in World Championships) are today LM1X, LM4X, LM2-, LM8+, LW1X, LW4X, and M2+.

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