# 2016 World Rowing Championships

The 2016 World Rowing Championships was the 46th edition and held from 21 to 28 August 2016 at the Willem-Alexander Baan in Rotterdam, Netherlands in conjunction with the World Junior Rowing Championships and the World Rowing U23 Championships. The annual week-long rowing regatta is organized by FISA (the International Rowing Federation), and held at the end of the northern hemisphere summer. Because the 2016 Summer Olympics and the 2016 Summer Paralympics were the major rowing events in 2016, the World Championships programme was limited to non-Olympic events, non-Paralympic events, and the World Rowing Junior Championships were held at the same time, and also the World Rowing U23 Championships.

## Medal summary
### Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Great Britain | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 2 | France | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 3 | Germany | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | Ireland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | New Zealand | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Canada | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | Austria | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Denmark | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Hungary | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Sweden | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | United States | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | China | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Greece | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Italy | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Russia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Slovakia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (16 entries) | Totals (16 entries) | 8 | 8 | 8 | 24 |

### Events

The lightweight men's eight was discontinued after the 2015 World Rowing Championships due to low participation in three consecutive championships.
| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| Openweight events |||||||
| M2+ details | Great Britain Oliver Cook Callum McBrierty Henry Fieldman | 7:29:69 | Canada Andrew Stewart-Jones Benjamin de Wit Kevin Chung | 7:32:05 | Italy Mario Paonessa Vincenzo Capelli Andrea Riva | 7:32:22 |
| W4− details | Great Britain Fiona Gammond Donna Etiebet Holly Nixon Holly Norton | 7:16:28 | United States Molly Bruggeman Emily Huelskamp Corinne Schoeller Kristine O'Brien | 7:21:53 | Germany Melanie Hansen Ronja Schütte Charlotte Reinhardt Lea-Kathleen Kühne | 7:26:15 |
| Lightweight events |||||||
| LM1x details | Paul O'Donovan Ireland | 7:32:84 | Péter Galambos Hungary | 7:36:95 | Lukáš Babač Slovakia | 7:38:89 |
| LM4x details | Germany Patrik Stöcker Florian Roller Johannes Ursprung Cedric Kulbach | 6:23:09 | France François Teroin Damien Piqueras Maxime Demontfaucon Morgan Maunoir | 6:24:72 | Greece Georgios Konsolas Spyridon Giannaros Panagiotis Magdanis Eleftherios Konsolas | 6:26:58 |
| LM2− details | France Augustin Mouterde Alexis Guérinot | 7:14.18 | Denmark Emil Espensen Jens Vilhelmsen | 7:15.30 | Great Britain Joel Cassells Sam Scrimgeour | 7:16.49 |
| LW1x details | Zoe McBride New Zealand | 8:28:45 | Emma Fredh Sweden | 8:29:12 | Katherine Sauks Canada | 8:37:96 |
| LW4x details | Great Britain Brianna Stubbs Emily Craig Imogen Walsh Eleanor Piggott | 7:10:60 | Germany Judith Anlauf Leonie Pieper Lena Reuss Katrin Thoma | 7:12:45 | China Xuan Xulian Zhang Weixiao Zhang Weimiao Yan Xiaohua | 7:21:04 |
| Pararowing (adaptive) events |||||||
| LTAMix2x details | France Guylaine Marchand Fabien Saint-Lannes | 8:38.53 | Austria Johanna Beyer Rainer Putz | 9:06.51 | Russia Valentina Zhagot Evgenii Borisov | 9:27.74 |

### Event codes

| | Single sculls | Double sculls | Quadruple sculls | Coxless pair | Coxless four | Coxed pair | Coxed four | Eight |
| Men's | Olympics | Olympics | Olympics | Olympics | Olympics | M2+ | | Olympics |
| Women's | Olympics | Olympics | Olympics | Olympics | W4− | | | Olympics |
| Lightweight men's | LM1x | Olympics | LM4x | LM2− | Olympics | | | |
| Lightweight women's | LW1x | Olympics | LW4x | | | | | |
| AS men's | Paralympics | | | | | | | |
| AS women's | Paralympics | | | | | | | |
| TA mixed | | Paralympics | | | | | | |
| LTA mixed | | LTAMix2x | | | | | Paralympics | |
    Adaptive rowing classification — AS: arms & shoulders, TA: trunk & arms, LTA: legs, trunk, arms