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2026 World Rowing Championships
2026 World Rowing Championships, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 24–30 August 2026, at the Bosbaan; 814 athletes from 64 nations in 23 boat classes; Netherlands topped the medal table with four golds.
Coxswain
Coxswain (cox): the non-rowing crew member in sweep rowing who steers, calls commands, and manages race strategy and safety. Minimum weight 55 kg; the 8+ always carries one.
Coxswain (rowing)
Coxswain (cox), the non-rowing crew member who steers a rowing shell via a cable-controlled rudder, calls commands, and manages race strategy; serves coxed boats such as the 8+ and 4+.
Ejler Allert
Ejler Allert (Ejler Arild Emil Allert, 1881–1953), Danish rower and blacksmith; won gold in coxed fours, inriggers, at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics for Nykøbing Falster Roklub, beating Sweden by 12 seconds.
Glossary of rowing terms
The glossary of rowing terms, also called a list of rowing terms, defines the sport's vocabulary: boat codes, the coxswain, stroke phases, and race formats like regattas.
Henley Royal Regatta
Henley Royal Regatta, held since 1839 on the Thames at Henley-on-Thames, is a six-day knock-out rowing regatta over 2,112 m upstream, royal patronage since 1851, 862 entries from 21 nations in 2026.
Hunter Lott
Hunter Lott (Harry Hunter Lott, 1880-1949), American Olympic rower with Vesper Boat Club, won gold in the men's eights at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics; later an otolaryngology professor at Jefferson Medical College. Not the squash champion Hunter Lott Jr.
Morgan Bolding
Morgan Bolding (born 1995, Leeds) is a British rower, men's eight specialist, Olympic gold medallist at Paris 2024, double world champion (2022, 2023) and triple European champion, rowing for Oxford Brookes University Boat Club.
Oar
Oar: a long shaft with a flat blade used to propel boats, in sculling and sweep rowing. Parts are handle, button, sleeve, shaft, blade; World Rowing rules set blade thickness minima of 5 mm (sweep) and 3 mm (sculls).
Rowing (sport)
Rowing (sport): competitive boat racing with sculling (two oars per rower) and sweep (one oar), governed by World Rowing (formerly FISA); ancient origins, Olympic sport, new beach sprint format at LA 2028.
Rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's eight
Men's eight (coxed) at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, also the Boys in the Boat race: University of Washington crew won gold for the USA in 6:25.4, ahead of Italy and Germany at Grünau.
Rowing at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Rowing at the 2020 Summer Olympics (Tokyo 2020 regatta): 14 gender-equal events, 526 athletes from 80 countries, raced 23–30 July 2021 at the Sea Forest Waterway, Tokyo Bay, after pandemic postponement.
Rowing coastal beach sprints
Rowing coastal beach sprints: a head-to-head coastal rowing format with a beach run, 250 m slalom row, buoy turn, and sprint finish, about 600 m in 2–4 minutes. Debuting at LA28 after the 2015 Mediterranean Beach Games and 2019 Shenzhen Finals; raced in C1x, C2x, C4x+, and mixed boats.
Sculling
Sculling: rowing with two oars per rower, one in each hand, denoted "x" in boat classes; contrasted with sweep rowing (one oar). Includes oar lengths, stroke phases, and history.
The Boat Race
The Boat Race: annual Oxford vs Cambridge rowing races, first held 1829 at Henley, now over 6.8 km Putney to Mortlake on the Thames; men's and women's eights, record 16:19 (Cambridge 1998).
The Boys in the Boat
The Boys in the Boat: Daniel James Brown's 2013 nonfiction bestseller about the 1936 University of Washington varsity eight that won Olympic gold in Berlin, adapted into George Clooney's 2023 film.
Vallam kali
Vallam kali (വള്ളംകളി), Kerala's traditional snake boat race held during Onam; crews of 100+ row Chundan Vallams of 100-140 ft in competitive races like the Nehru Trophy and ritual races like Aranmula.