Winter racing on Italy’s River Po
15/02/2012 - 11:46:00 CET
Every year about 1,500 hardy rowers pack their cold weather rowing gear and head for Turin, Italy for the d’Inverno sul Po. This head race holds a special spot on the racing calendar, especially in Italy, and this year was no exception.
Three records broken at Dutch Ergohead
25/01/2012 - 16:04:00 CET
The appeal of 1,000 Euros going to anyone who could break an indoor rowing record helped motivate three competitors at the 15th edition of the Amsterdam World Ergohead to do just that.
Full steam ahead for new United States rowing venue
13/01/2012 - 11:31:00 CET
Progress continues at what may become the United States’ most prestigious world class rowing venue. At Nathan Benderson Park in Sarasota, Florida a 2,000m rowing course is being developed and the project has the backing at the local, state and federal level.
Ricardo Ibarra 1950-2011
16/12/2011 - 12:04:00 CET
Ricardo Daniel Ibarra, one of the greatest athletes in the history of Argentinian rowing, passed away on 15 December 2011 at the age of 61.
Chile’s next generation of rowers looking strong
09/12/2011 - 17:07:00 CET
South America’s next generation of rowers raced recently at the South American Junior and Under 23 Championships. Chile finished at the top of the overall medals points table after taking first amongst the junior rowers and second in the under-23 category.
PRESS RELEASE: FISA and WWF Strategic Alliance
02/12/2011 - 16:04:00 CET
The Clean Water Strategic Alliance between FISA, the International Rowing Federation and WWF, World Wide Fund for Nature, has been formalised with an official contract signing.
The best of social media for November
01/12/2011 - 17:08:00 CET
World Rowing has embraced social media. The pace is fast, the amount of information is vast and the interest is big. We would like to share with you the best of the month of November on our Facebook pages. Enjoy.
Gearing up for the 2011 Youth Coaches Conference
22/09/2011 - 12:16:00 CET
Registration is under way for this year’s FISA Youth Coaches Conference. It is scheduled for 13 – 16 October in Princeton, New Jersey, United States.
Juniors become World Champions and Eton is tested
09/08/2011 - 13:37:00 CET
It was a test for the rowing regatta at the London 2012 Olympic Games. It was also a chance for the best juniors in the world to become World Champions.
High point of the year for rowing’s juniors
07/08/2011 - 11:49:00 CET
The final day of the 2011 World Rowing Junior Championships in Eton Dorney, Great Britain was squashed into the morning after inclement weather was predicted for later in the day. This worked out well for the rowers who got to enjoy relatively flat water but had to deal with unpredictable cross-tail wind gusts.
Following on from yesterday’s finals, seven more finals were raced and at the end of it history had been made for Ireland in the women’s single with their first ever junior champion medal. Romania has come back to press Germany for the top spot overall and Germany, again, had proved their strength at the junior level.
