List of world records in rowing

The Rowing World Records are the fastest times set over the international rowing distance of 2000 m. They are believed to be correct as of 24/8/2014.

On Water Records

Rowing times are strongly affected by weather conditions, and to a lesser extent by water temperature – the majority of these times were set in warm water with a strong tailwind. World best rowing times have also decreased because of improvements in technology to both the boats and the oars, along with improvements in the conditioning of the rowers.

Because environmental conditions have a strong impact on boat speed, FISA recognizes world best times instead of world records. A world best time is one recorded on a regatta course that has previously held the World Championships, Olympic Games, or World Cup since 1980. A number of record times were set at the 2005 World Championships held on the Nagara River at Kaizu, Gifu Prefecture, Japan, but due to a fast current caused by heavy rainfall from the remnants of Typhoon Mawar, FISA declared that the race results were not eligible to be considered as world best times.

There is a category for lightweight rowing. For men the crew average, wearing racing kit, cannot exceed 70 kg (154 lb) and no rower may be over 72.5 kg (160 lb). For women the limits are 57 kg (126 lb) and 59 kg (130 lb).^[1]

Men

Boat	Time	Crew	Nation	Date	Meet	Location	Ref
M1x Single sculls	6:33.35	Mahé Drysdale	New Zealand	2009	World Rowing Championship	Poznań, Poland
M2- Coxless pairs	6:08.50	Hamish Bond Eric Murray	New Zealand	2012	Summer Olympics	Eton Dorney, England	^[2]
M2+ Coxed pairs	6:33.26	Hamish Bond Eric Murray Caleb Shepherd (coxswain)	New Zealand	2014	World Rowing Championship	Amsterdam, Netherlands
M2x Double sculls	5:59.72	Martin Sinković Valent Sinković	Croatia	2014	World Rowing Championship	Amsterdam, Netherlands
M4- Coxless four	5:37.86	Andrew Triggs-Hodge Tom James Pete Reed Alex Gregory	Great Britain	2012	World Rowing Cup II	Lucerne, Switzerland
M4+ Coxed four	5:58.96	Matthias Ungemach Armin Eichholz Armin Weyrauch Bahne Rabe Joerg Dederding (coxswain)	Germany	1991		Vienna, Austria
M4x Quad sculls	5:32.26	Artem Morozov Olexandr Nadtoka Dmytro Mikhay Ivan Dovgodko	Ukraine	2014	World Rowing Championship	Amsterdam, Netherlands
M8+ Eight	5:19.35	Gabriel Bergen Douglas Csima Robert Gibson Conlin McCabe Malcolm Howard Andrew Byrnes Jeremiah Brown Will Crothers Brian Price (coxswain)	Canada	2012	World Rowing Cup II	Lucerne, Switzerland
LM1x Lightweight single sculls	6:43.37	Miani Marcello	Italy	2014	World Rowing Championship	Amsterdam, Netherlands
LM2- Lightweight coxless pairs	6:19.49	James Hunter James Lassche	New Zealand	2016	Cambridge Town Cup	Cambridge, New Zealand
LM2x Lightweight double sculls	6:05.36	John Smith James Thompson	South Africa	2014	World Rowing Championship	Amsterdam, Netherlands
LM4- Lightweight coxless four	5:43.16	Kasper Winther Jørgensen Jacob Larsen Jacob Barsøe Morten Jørgensen	Denmark	2014	World Rowing Championship	Amsterdam, Netherlands
LM4x Lightweight quad sculls	5:42.75	Georgios Konsolas Spyridon Giannaros Panagiotis Magdanis Eleftherios Konsolas	Greece	2014	World Rowing Championship	Amsterdam, Netherlands
LM8+ Lightweight eight	5:30.24	Klaus Altena Christian Dahlke Thomas Melges Bernhard Stomporowski Michael Kobor Uwe Maerz Michael Buchheit Kai von Warburg Olaf Kaska (coxswain)	Germany	1992		Montreal, Canada

The greatest distance rowed in 24 hours is 342 km (212.5 miles) by Hannes Obreno, Pierre Deloof, Tim Brys, Mathieu Foucaud, Thijs Obreno, Giel Vanschoenbeek, Arjan Van Belle and Thibaut Schollaert (all Belgians) on the watersportbaan, Ghent, Belgium, on 02-03 October 2014.

All eight participants are members of the Vlaamse Studenten Roeiers.

Women

Boat	Time	Crew	Nation	Year	Meet	Location	Ref
W1x Single sculls	7:07.71	Rumyana Neykova	Bulgaria	2002		Seville, Spain
W2- Coxless pairs	6:49.06	Rebecca Scown Geneveive Behernt	New Zealand	2016	Cambridge Town Cup	Cambridge, New Zealand
W2x Double sculls	6:37.31	Olympia Aldersey Sally Kehoe	Australia	2014	World Rowing Championship	Amsterdam, Netherlands
W4- Coxless four	6:14.36	Kayla Pratt Kelsey Bevan Grace Prendergast Kerri Gowler	New Zealand	2014	World Rowing Championship	Amsterdam, Netherlands
W4x Quad sculls	6:06.84	Carina Baer Julia Lier Annekatrin Thiele Lisa Schmidla	Germany	2014	World Rowing Championship	Amsterdam Netherlands
W8+ Eight	5:54.16	Amanda Polk Kerry Simmonds Emily Regan Lauren Schmetterling Grace Luczak Caroline Lind Victoria Opitz Heidi Robbins Katelin Snyder (coxswain)	United States	2013		Lucerne, Switzerland	^[3]
LW1x Lightweight single sculls	7:24.46	Zoe McBride	New Zealand	2015		Varese, Italy
LW2- Lightweight coxless pairs	7:18.32	Eliza Blair Justine Joyce	Australia	1997		Lac d'Aiguebelette, France
LW2x Lightweight double sculls	6:48.56	Sophie Mackenzie Julia Edward	New Zealand	2014	World Rowing Championship	Amsterdam, Netherlands
LW4x Lightweight quadruple sculls	6:15.95	Mirte Kraaijkamp Elisabeth Woerner Maaike Head Ilse Paulis	Netherlands	2014	World Rowing Championship	Amsterdam, Netherlands

Indoor Records

These results are based on a standard distance of 2,000 meters.

Category	Time	Split	Nation	Year	Name
Open Men	5:36.6	1:24.1	New Zealand	2008	Rob Waddell
Lightweight Men	5:56.7	1:29.2	Denmark	2013	Henrik Stephansen
Open Women	6:25.0	1:36.2	Ukraine	2015	Olena Buryak
Lightweight Women	6:54.7	1:43.7	United States	2010	Ursula Grobler

Lwt Men: 75 kg (165 lb) maximum weight
Lwt Women: 61.5 kg (136 lb) maximum weight ^[4]

Note: the standard machine for indoor records is the Concept2 indoor rower. "Split" refers to the average time to complete 500 m (i.e. the 2000 m time divided by 4).

References

↑ "FISA rule book - rule 31". FISA. Retrieved 31 August 2014.
↑ "World's best time for New Zealand duo". Official site of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Retrieved 29 July 2012.
↑ "Shockers in the eights at the Lucerne World Cup". World Rowing. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
↑ http://concept2.co.uk/records/

Sources

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Australian rowing	Rowing Australia Rowing Championships Head of the River

Canadian rowing	Canadian Henley Rowing Canada Secondary School Rowing Association University Rowing Association

New Zealand rowing	Maadi Cup Rowing New Zealand The Great Race

UK rowing	Boston Marathon British Rowing British Rowing Championships Head of the River Race Henley Boat Races Henley Royal Regatta Henley Women's Regatta Scottish Boat Race Scottish Rowing Nat. Schools The Boat Race University rowing Welsh Rowing Women's Boat Race Women's Eights Head of the River Race

US rowing	College rowing CRASH-B Sprints Dad Vail Regatta Harvard–Yale Regatta Head of the Charles Regatta Head of the Fish Head of the Hooch Regatta Head of the Ohio Head of the Schuylkill Regatta IRA Championship Regatta NCAA Rowing Championship Poughkeepsie Regatta Stotesbury Cup Regatta

FISA events	European Rowing Championships Olympic Games Paralympic Games World Rowing Championships World Rowing Cup World Rowing Junior Championships World Rowing U23 Championships

Types of rowing	Adaptive Coastal Indoor rower Lightweight Racing shell Sculling Sweep Rowing tank Women's

Lists	Glossary of rowing terms Club oars National oars Rowing boat manufacturers Rowing venues School and university oars World records

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