The rowing competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo took place between 23 and 30 July 2021 at the Sea Forest Waterway (Central Breakwater) in Tokyo Bay. Fourteen medal events were contested by 526 athletes (266 men and 260 women --- three of the seven coxes in the women's eights were male).

Competition format The rowing programme featured a total of fourteen events, seven each for both men and women in identical boat classes. This gender equality was suggested by the World Rowing Federation at its February 2017 congress, with the recommendation adopted by the International Olympic Committee in June 2017. This balancing was achieved by deleting the men's lightweight four and adding the women's coxless four boat classes. The women's coxless four previously ran at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics; the only time this boat class was an Olympic event. The changes to the Olympic rowing schedule were the first since the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

Events for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics included both disciplines of rowing: sweep rowing, where competitors each use a single oar, and sculling, where they use two placed on opposite sides of the boat. There was also one lightweight (weight restricted) event for each gender: the lightweight double sculls. Sculling events include men's and women's singles, doubles, lightweight doubles, and quads. Sweep events included men's and women's coxless pairs, coxless fours, and eights.

Regatta venue

The event took at the Sea Forest Waterway, a new venue constructed specifically for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games and Paralympic Games. The water is about 6 metres deep. The course is 2335 meters long and 198 meters wide. Each lane is 12.5 m wide. There were 8 lanes.

Qualification

A total of 526 quota spots were available. Each qualified nation entered one boat for each of the fourteen events. The majority of the berths were awarded based on the results at the 2019 World Rowing Championships, held in Ottensheim, Austria from 25 August to 1 September 2019. Places were awarded to National Olympic Committees, not to specific athletes, finishing in the top 9 in the single sculls (both men and women), top 5 in the eights, top 8 in the fours and quadruple sculls, top 7 in the lightweight double sculls, and top 11 each in the pairs and double sculls. Further berths were distributed to the nations (and in this case to specific competitors) at four continental qualifying regattas in Asia and Oceania, Africa, Latin America, and Europe, and at a final Olympic qualification regatta in Lucerne, Switzerland.

Competition schedule

+Men's and women's races held on the same days Event↓/Date → Fri 23 Sat 24 Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30 Men's single scullsWomen's single sculls H R ¼/½ ½F Men's pairWomen's pair H R ½F Men's double scullsWomen's double sculls H R ½ F Men's lightweight double scullsWomen's lightweight double sculls H R ½F Men's fourWomen's four H R F Men's quadruple scullsWomen's quadruple sculls H R F Men's eightWomen's eight H R F

On 23 July, World Rowing announced changes to the schedule due to forecasted inclement weather for 26 July. All racing originally scheduled for 26 July was moved to 25 July. The eights heats were also moved from 25 to 24 July to accommodate the new schedule. Further revisions were made on 25 July, cancelling racing on 27 July due to Tropical Storm Nepartak hitting parts of Japan.

Participation Events by number of boats entered Each event has the same number of boats entered for men and women. Event Number of boats per gender Single sculls32 Pair13 Double sculls13 Lightweight double sculls18 Coxless four10 Quadruple sculls10 Eight7

Participating nations (number of rowers)

Medalists

Medal table

Men’s Single scullsDouble scullsHugo BoucheronMatthieu AndrodiasMelvin TwellaarStef BroeninkLiu ZhiyuZhang LiangQuadruple sculls Dirk UittenbogaardAbe WiersmaTone WietenKoen MetsemakersHarry LeaskAngus GroomTom BarrasJack BeaumontJack ClearyCaleb AntillCameron GirdlestoneLuke LetcherCoxless pairMartin SinkovićValent SinkovićMarius CozmiucCiprian TudosăFrederic VystavelJoachim SuttonCoxless fourAlexander PurnellSpencer TurrinJack HargreavesAlexander HillMihăiță ȚigănescuMugurel SemciucȘtefan BerariuCosmin PascariMatteo CastaldoMarco Di CostanzoMatteo LodoGiuseppe VicinoBruno RosettiCoxed eightTom MackintoshHamish BondTom MurrayMichael BrakeDan WilliamsonPhillip WilsonShaun KirkhamMatt MacdonaldSam Bosworth Johannes WeißenfeldLaurits FollertOlaf RoggensackTorben JohannesenJakob SchneiderMalte JakschikRichard SchmidtHannes OcikMartin Sauer Josh BugajskiJacob DawsonThomas GeorgeMoe SbihiCharles ElwesOliver Wynne-GriffithJames RudkinThomas FordHenry Fieldman Lightweight double scullsFintan McCarthyPaul O'DonovanJonathan RommelmannJason OsborneStefano OppoPietro Ruta

Women’s Single sculls Double scullsNicoleta-Ancuța BodnarSimona RadișBrooke DonoghueHannah OsborneRoos de JongLisa ScheenaardQuadruple sculls Chen YunxiaZhang LingLü YangCui XiaotongAgnieszka KobusMarta WieliczkoMaria SajdakKatarzyna ZillmannRia ThompsonRowena MeredithHarriet HudsonCaitlin CroninCoxless pairGrace PrendergastKerri GowlerVasilisa StepanovaElena OriabinskaiaCaileigh FilmerHillary JanssensCoxless fourLucy StephanRosemary PopaJessica MorrisonAnnabelle McIntyreEllen HogerwerfKarolien FlorijnYmkje CleveringVeronique MeesterAifric KeoghEimear LambeFiona MurtaghEmily HegartyCoxed eightSusanne GraingerKasia Gruchalla-WesierskiMadison MaileySydney PayneAndrea ProskeLisa RomanChristine RoperAvalon WasteneysKristen Kit Ella GreensladeEmma DykeLucy SpoorsKelsey BevanGrace PrendergastKerri GowlerBeth RossJackie GowlerCaleb Shepherd Guo LinlinJu RuiLi JingjingMiao TianWang ZifengWang YuweiXu FeiZhang MinZhang Dechang Lightweight double scullsValentina RodiniFederica CesariniLaura TarantolaClaire BovéMarieke KeijserIlse Paulis

Records

EventRoundNameNationTimeDateRecord Men's double sculls Heats Melvin TwellaarStef Broenink 6:08.38 24 July OR Women's coxless four Heats Lucy StephanRosemary PopaJessica MorrisonAnnabelle McIntyre 6:28.76 24 July OR Women's double sculls Final Nicoleta-Ancuța BodnarSimona Radiș 6:41.03 28 July OR Men's double sculls Final Hugo BoucheronMatthieu Androdias 6:00.33 28 July OR Women's coxless four Final Lucy StephanRosemary PopaJessica MorrisonAnnabelle McIntyre 6:15.37 28 July OR Men's coxless four Final Alexander PurnellSpencer TurrinJack HargreavesAlexander Hill 5:42.76 28 July OR Men's quadruple sculls Final Dirk UittenbogaardAbe WiersmaTone WietenKoen Metsemakers 5:32.03 28 July OR, WR Women's quadruple sculls Final Chen YunxiaZhang LingLü YangCui Xiaotong 6:05.13 28 July OR, WR Men's lightweight double sculls Semifinal Fintan McCarthyPaul O'Donovan 6:05.33 28 July OR, WR

See also Rowing at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

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