# 2017 World Rowing Championships

The 2017 World Rowing Championships were the 47th edition of the World Rowing Championships that were held from 24 September to 1 October 2017 in Sarasota, Florida.

## Host selection

During 2013, Plovdiv and Sarasota, Florida both applied to host the 2017 World Rowing Championships. In April 2013, a committee of International Rowing Federation (FISA) officials visited Sarasota and then Plovdiv the following month. It was then noted that Plovdiv had hosted the 2012 World Rowing Championships and bid documentation for 2017 had not been finalized. Before the next FISA congress, the bid from Plovdiv was changed to apply for the 2018 hosting rights. At the FISA Congress held on 2 September 2013, hosting rights were assigned by unanimous decision for World Rowing Championships to Sarasota for 2017, Plovdiv for 2018, and Plovdiv for the 2015 World Rowing U23 Championships.

## Medals
### Rowing

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Italy | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 |
| 2 | New Zealand | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| 3 | Australia | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 4 | France | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | Ireland | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | Romania | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | Netherlands | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | Germany | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 9 | Czech Republic | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Hungary | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Lithuania | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | South Africa | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Switzerland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | Great Britain | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 15 | United States | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 16 | Poland | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 17 | Russia | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 18 | Canada | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 18 | Croatia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 18 | Cuba | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 21 | China | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 22 | Austria | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 22 | Brazil | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 22 | Denmark | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 22 | Estonia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 22 | Greece | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 22 | Norway | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (27 entries) | Totals (27 entries) | 21 | 21 | 21 | 63 |

### Para rowing

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Australia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | Brazil | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | Great Britain | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | Netherlands | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | Norway | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Ukraine | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | France | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Israel | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | United States | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Germany | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 11 | Italy | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 11 | Poland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 11 | Russia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (13 entries) | Totals (13 entries) | 5 | 5 | 5 | 15 |

## Medal summary

Non-Olympic classes

### Men's events

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| Openweight events |||||||
| M1x details | Ondřej Synek Czech Republic | 6:40.64 | Ángel Fournier Cuba | 6:43.49 | Tom Barras Great Britain | 6:45.14 |
| M2x details | New Zealand John Storey Chris Harris | 6:10.07 | Poland Mirosław Ziętarski Mateusz Biskup | 6:10.66 | Italy Filippo Mondelli Luca Rambaldi | 6:11.33 |
| M4x details | Lithuania Dovydas Nemeravičius Martynas Džiaugys Rolandas Maščinskas Aurimas Adomavičius | 5:43.10 | Great Britain Jack Beaumont Jonathan Walton John Collins Graeme Thomas | 5:45.03 | Estonia Kaur Kuslap Allar Raja Tõnu Endrekson Kaspar Taimsoo | 5:45.32 |
| M2− details | Italy Matteo Lodo Giuseppe Vicino | 6:16.22 | Croatia Martin Sinković Valent Sinković | 6:16.56 | New Zealand Tom Murray James Hunter | 6:20.85 |
| M4− details | Australia Joshua Hicks Spencer Turrin Jack Hargreaves Alexander Hill | 5:55.24 | Italy Marco Di Costanzo Giovanni Abagnale Matteo Castaldo Domenico Montrone | 5:57.19 | Great Britain Matthew Rossiter Moe Sbihi Matthew Tarrant Will Satch | 5:57.99 |
| M2+ details | Hungary Adrián Juhász Béla Simon Andrea Vanda Kolláth | 6:54.80 | Australia Darcy Wruck Angus Widdicombe James Rook | 6:56.60 | Germany Malte Großmann Finn Schröder Jonas Wiesen | 6:58.37 |
| M8+ details | Germany Johannes Weißenfeld Felix Wimberger Max Planer Torben Johannesen Jakob Schneider Malte Jakschik Richard Schmidt Hannes Ocik Martin Sauer | 5:26.85 | United States Dariush Aghai Yohann Rigogne Alexander Karwoski Jordan Vanderstoep Thomas Peszek Nicholas Mead Andrew Reed Patrick Eble Julian Venonsky | 5:28.45 | Italy Cesare Gabbia Emanuele Liuzzi Luca Parlato Paolo Perino Bruno Rosetti Mario Paonessa Davide Mumolo Leonardo Pietra Enrico D'Aniello | 5:28.90 |
| Lightweight events |||||||
| LM1x details | Ireland Paul O'Donovan | 6:48.87 | New Zealand Matthew Dunham | 6:52.16 | Norway Kristoffer Brun | 6:52.35 |
| LM2x details | France Pierre Houin Jérémie Azou | 6:13.10 | Italy Stefano Oppo Pietro Ruta | 6:15.15 | China Sun Man Fan Junjie | 6:15.40 |
| LM4x details | France François Teroin Damien Piqueras Maxime Demontfaucon Stany Delayre | 5:51.85 | Great Britain Edward Fisher Zak Lee-Green Peter Chambers Gavin Horsburgh | 5:52.02 | Greece Ninos Nikolaidis Panagiotis Magdanis Spyridon Giannaros Eleftherios Konsolas | 5:53.64 |
| LM2− details | Ireland Mark O'Donovan Shane O'Driscoll | 6:32.42 | Italy Giuseppe Di Mare Alfonso Scalzone | 6:34.20 | Brazil Xavier Vela Willian Giaretton | 6:35.30 |
| LM4− details | Italy Federico Duchich Leone Barbaro Lorenzo Tedesco Piero Sfiligoi | 5:59.60 | Russia Maksim Telitcyn Aleksandr Bogdashin Alexander Chaukin Aleksey Vikulin | 6:01.91 | Germany Patrik Stöcker Sven Keßler Jonathan Koch Julius Peschel | 6:03.37 |

### Women's events

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| Openweight events |||||||
| W1x details | Jeannine Gmelin Switzerland | 7:22.58 | Victoria Thornley Great Britain | 7:24.50 | Magdalena Lobnig Austria | 7:26.56 |
| W2x details | New Zealand Brooke Donoghue Olivia Loe | 6:45.08 | United States Meghan O'Leary Ellen Tomek | 6:46.57 | Australia Olympia Aldersey Madeleine Edmunds | 6:49.76 |
| W4x details | Netherlands Olivia van Rooijen Inge Janssen Sophie Souwer Nicole Beukers | 6:16.72 | Poland Agnieszka Kobus Marta Wieliczko Maria Springwald Katarzyna Zillmann | 6:17.71 | Great Britain Bethany Bryan Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne Jessica Leyden Holly Nixon | 6:19.93 |
| W2− details | New Zealand Grace Prendergast Kerri Gowler | 7:00.53 | United States Megan Kalmoe Tracy Eisser | 7:04.37 | Denmark Hedvig Rasmussen Christina Johansen | 7:06.21 |
| W4− details | Australia Lucy Stephan Katrina Werry Sarah Hawe Molly Goodman | 6:33.58 | Poland Olga Michałkiewicz Joanna Dittmann Monika Ciaciuch Maria Wierzbowska | 6:34.25 | Russia Elena Oriabinskaia Anastasia Tikhanova Ekaterina Potapova Alevtina Savkina | 6:34.67 |
| W8+ details | Romania Ioana Vrînceanu Viviana-Iuliana Bejinariu Mihaela Petrilă Iuliana Popa Mădălina Bereș Denisa Tîlvescu Adelina Boguș Laura Oprea Daniela Druncea | 6:06.40 | Canada Lisa Roman Kristin Bauder Nicole Hare Hillary Janssens Christine Roper Susanne Grainger Jennifer Martins Rebecca Zimmerman Kristen Kit | 6:07.09 | New Zealand Ashlee Rowe Ruby Tew Georgia Perry Kelsey Bevan Kelsi Walters Rebecca Scown Lucy Spoors Emma Dyke Sam Bosworth | 6:07.27 |
| Lightweight events |||||||
| LW1x details | South Africa Kirsten McCann | 7:38.78 | Netherlands Marieke Keijser | 7:41.00 | United States Mary Jones | 7:42.45 |
| LW2x details | Romania Ionela-Livia Lehaci Gianina Beleagă | 6:55.88 | New Zealand Zoe McBride Jackie Kiddle | 6:56.09 | United States Emily Schmieg Michelle Sechser | 6:56.38 |
| LW4x details | Italy Asja Maregotto Paola Piazzolla Federica Cesarini Giovanna Schettino | 6:33.97 | Australia Amy James Alice Arch Georgia Miansarow Georgia Nesbitt | 6:35.47 | China Xuan Xulian Shen Ling Pan Dandan Chen Fang | 6:36.33 |

### Pararowing (adaptive) events

All boat classes (except PR3Mix2x) are also Paralympic.
| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| PR1M1x details | Erik Horrie Australia | 9:39.48 | Roman Polianskyi Ukraine | 9:47.89 | Alexey Chuvashev Russia | 9:52.25 |
| PR1W1x details | Birgit Skarstein Norway | 11:14.17 | Moran Samuel Israel | 11:20.81 | Sylvia Pille-Steppart Germany | 11:55.75 |
| PR2Mix2x details | Netherlands Annika van der Meer Corne de Koning | 8:11.00 | Ukraine Iaroslav Koiuda Iryna Kyrychenko | 8:28.71 | Poland Michał Gadowski Jolanta Majka | 8:29.77 |
| PR3Mix2x details | Brazil Diana Barcelos de Oliveira Jairo Klug | 7:28.95 | France Antoine Jesel Guylaine Marchand | 7:34.70 | Germany Jessica Dietz Valentin Luz | 7:40.72 |
| PR3Mix4+ details | Great Britain Grace Clough Giedrė Rakauskaitė Oliver Stanhope James Fox Anna Corderoy (c) | 6:55.70 | United States Jaclyn Smith Michael Varro Zachary Burns Danielle Hansen Jennifer Sichel (c) | 7:18.80 | Italy Lucilla Aglioti Tommaso Schettino Luca Agoletto Paola Protopapa Gaetano Iannuzzi (c) | 7:23.52 |

### Event codes

| | Single sculls | Double sculls | Quadruple sculls | Coxless pair | Coxless four | Coxed pair | Coxed four | Eight |
| Men's | M1x | M2x | M4x | M2− | M4− | M2+ | | M8+ |
| Lightweight men's | LM1x | LM2x | LM4x | LM2− | LM4− | | | |
| Women's | W1x | W2x | W4x | W2− | W4− | | | W8+ |
| Lightweight women's | LW1x | LW2x | LW4x | | | | | |
| PR1 men's | PR1M1x | | | | | | | |
| PR1 women's | PR1W1x | | | | | | | |
| PR2 mixed | | PR2Mix2x | | | | | | |
| PR3 mixed | | PR3Mix2x | | | | | PR3Mix4+ | |
    Para-rowing classification — PR1: arms & shoulders, PR2: trunk & arms, PR3: legs, trunk, arms