# 2014 World Rowing Championships

The 2014 World Rowing Championships were the 44th edition of the World Rowing Championships and were held from 24 to 31 August 2014 at Bosbaan, Amsterdam in the Netherlands, the second occasion on which the event had been held in Amsterdam, or the Netherlands.
The annual week-long rowing regatta is organised by FISA (the International Rowing Federation and in non-Olympic Games years such as 2014 he regatta is the highlight of the international rowing calendar, where all classes of boats compete.
The 2014 championships were notable for the number of world best times set on days seven & eight of competition. New Zealand rowers Eric Murray and Hamish Bond achieved a rare double in the coxed and coxless pairs.
Medal summary

## Men's events

Non-Olympic classes
| Event: | Gold: | Time | Silver: | Time | Bronze: | Time |
| M1x | Czech Republic Ondřej Synek | 6:37.12 | New Zealand Mahé Drysdale | 6:37.85 | Cuba Ángel Fournier | 6:44.31 |
| M2x | Croatia Martin Sinković Valent Sinković | 6:00.52 | Italy Romano Battisti Francesco Fossi | 6:04.42 | Australia James McRae Alexander Belonogoff | 6:04.43 |
| M4x | Ukraine Dmytro Mikhay Artem Morozov Oleksandr Nadtoka Ivan Dovhodko | 5:32.26 | Great Britain Graeme Thomas Sam Townsend Charles Cousins Peter Lambert | 5:32.35 | Germany Karl Schulze Tim Grohmann Kai Fuhrmann Philipp Wende | 5:36.97 |
| M2- | New Zealand Eric Murray Hamish Bond | 6:09.34 | Great Britain James Foad Matt Langridge | 6:13.75 | South Africa Vincent Breet Shaun Keeling | 6:16.85 |
| M4- | Great Britain Alex Gregory Moe Sbihi George Nash Andrew Triggs Hodge | 5:40.24 | United States Grant James Michael Gennaro Henrik Rummel Seth Weil | 5:42.90 | Australia Fergus Pragnell Josh Dunkley-Smith Spencer Turrin Alexander Lloyd | 5:43.47 |
| M2+ | New Zealand Eric Murray Hamish Bond Caleb Shepherd | 6:33.26 | Great Britain Alan Sinclair Scott Durant Henry Fieldman | 6:43.45 | Germany Peter Kluge Alexander Egler Jonas Wiesen | 6:45.85 |
| M8+ | Great Britain Nathaniel Reilly-O'Donnell Matthew Tarrant Will Satch Matt Gotrel Pete Reed Paul Bennett Tom Ransley Constantine Louloudis Phelan Hill | 5:24.11 | Germany Max Planer Malte Jakschik Andreas Kuffner Felix Drahotta Richard Schmidt Eric Johannesen Maximilian Reinelt Felix Wimberger Martin Sauer | 5:24.77 | Poland Zbigniew Schodowski Mateusz Wilangowski Marcin Brzeziński Robert Fuchs Krystian Aranowski Michał Szpakowski Mikołaj Burda Piotr Juszczak Daniel Trojanowski | 5:26.90 |
| Men's lightweight events |||||||
| LM1x | Italy Marcello Miani | 6:43.37 | Germany Lars Hartig | 6:46.73 | Switzerland Michael Schmid | 6:50.88 |
| LM2x | South Africa James Thompson John Smith | 6:05.36 | France Stany Delayre Jérémie Azou | 6:05.45 | Norway Kristoffer Brun Are Strandli | 6:05.79 |
| LM4x | Greece Georgios Konsolas Spyridon Giannaros Panagiotis Magdanis Eleftherios Konsolas | 5:42.75 | Germany Daniel Lawitzke Max Röger Jost Schömann-Finck Konstantin Steinhübel | 5:45.65 | China Li Hui Tian Bin Wang Tiexin Dong Tianfeng | 5:46.69 |
| LM2- | Switzerland Simon Niepmann Lucas Tramèr | 6:22.91 | France Augustin Mouterde Thomas Baroukh | 6:25.02 | Great Britain Sam Scrimgeour Jono Clegg | 6:25.48 |
| LM4- | Denmark Kasper Winther Jørgensen Jacob Larsen Jacob Barsøe Morten Jørgensen | 5:47.15 | New Zealand James Hunter Alistair Bond Peter Taylor Curtis Rapley | 5:48.76 | Great Britain Mark Aldred Peter Chambers Richard Chambers Chris Bartley | 5:49.58 |
| LM8+ | Germany Tobias Franzmann Simon Barr Torben Neumann Stefan Wallat Daniel Wisgott Jonas Kilthau Sven Keßler Can Temel Frederik Böhm | 5:31.29 | Italy Luca De Maria Vincenzo Serpico Jiri Vlcek Leone Barbaro Livio La Padula Armando Dell'Aquila Guido Gravina Giorgio Tuccinardi Gianluca Barattolo | 5:33.87 | Turkey Mert Kartal Bayram Sönmez Ahmet Yumrukaya Cem Yılmaz Burak Özdemir Engin Özkan Hüseyin Kandemir Dogsah Boluk Kaan Şahin | 5:34.20 |

## Women's events

Non-Olympic classes
| Event: | Gold: | Time | Silver: | Time | Bronze: | Time |
| W1x | New Zealand Emma Twigg | 7:14.95 | Australia Kim Crow | 7:17.33 | China Duan Jingli | 7:22.57 |
| W2x | New Zealand Fiona Bourke Zoe Stevenson | 6:38.04 | Poland Magdalena Fularczyk Natalia Madaj | 6:39.36 | Australia Olympia Aldersey Sally Kehoe | 6:41.71 |
| W4x | Germany Annekatrin Thiele Carina Bär Julia Lier Lisa Schmidla | 6:06.84 | China Jiang Yan Shen Xiaoxing Lü Yang Zhang Xinyue | 6:10.51 | United States Grace Latz Tracy Eisser Olivia Coffey Felice Mueller | 6:12.03 |
| W2- | Great Britain Helen Glover Heather Stanning | 6:50.61 | United States Megan Kalmoe Kerry Simmonds | 6:52.87 | New Zealand Louise Trappitt Rebecca Scown | 6:54.79 |
| W4- | New Zealand Kayla Pratt Kelsey Bevan Grace Prendergast Kerri Gowler | 6:14.36 | United States Susan Francia Emily Regan Tessa Gobbo Adrienne Martelli | 6:20.69 | China He Sihui Miao Tian Zhang Min Zhang Huan | 6:23.31 |
| W8+ | United States Victoria Opitz Meghan Musnicki Amanda Polk Lauren Schmetterling Grace Luczak Caroline Lind Elle Logan Heidi Robbins Katelin Snyder | 5:56.83 | Canada Cristy Nurse Lisa Roman Rosanne Deboef Natalie Mastracci Susanne Grainger Christine Roper Ashley Brzozowicz Lauren Wilkinson Lesley Thompson-Willie | 5:59.66 | China Zhang Dan Guo Linlin Yi Liqin Gao Qiuqiu Cui Xiaotong Ju Rui Zhang Min Zhang Huan Zhao Li | 6:00.52 |
| Women's lightweight events |||||||
| LW1x | Belgium Eveline Peleman | 7:31.31 | Greece Aikaterini Nikolaidou | 7:31.73 | United States Kathleen Bertko | 7:33.97 |
| LW2x | New Zealand Sophie MacKenzie Julia Edward | 6:48.56 | Canada Lindsay Jennerich Patricia Obee | 6:50.41 | China Huang Wenyi Pan Dandan | 6:53.40 |
| LW4x | Netherlands Mirte Kraaijkamp Elisabeth Woerner Maaike Head Ilse Paulis | 6:15.95 | Australia Laura Dunn Sarah Pound Maia Simmonds Hannah Every-Hall | 6:19.54 | Germany Katrin Thoma Judith Anlauf Wiebke Hein Leonie Pieper | 6:22.79 |

## Para-rowing (adaptive) events

All boat classes (except LTAMix2x) are also Paralympic.
| Event: | Gold: | Time | Silver: | Time | Bronze: | Time |
| ASW1x | Norway Birgit Skarstein | 5:22.12 | Israel Moran Samuel | 5:33.86 | Belarus Liudmila Vauchok | 5:39.10 |
| ASM1x | Australia Erik Horrie | 4:50.68 | Great Britain Tom Aggar | 4:53.41 | Russia Alexey Chuvashev | 4:58.96 |
| TAMix2x | Australia Gavin Bellis Kathryn Ross | 4:02.55 | France Perle Bouge Stéphane Tardieu | 4:05.11 | Brazil Josiane Lima Michel Gomes Pessanha | 4:07.54 |
| LTAMix2x | Ukraine Kateryna Morozova Dmytro Aleksieiev | 3:28.39 | Australia Jeremy McGrath Kathleen Murdoch | 3:35.26 | France Guylaine Marchand Antoine Jesel | 3:36.47 |
| LTAMix4+ | Great Britain Grace Clough Pam Relph Daniel Brown James Fox Oliver James | 3:20.45 | United States Jaclyn Smith Richard Vandegrift Zachary Burns Danielle Hansen Jennifer Sichel | 3:25.49 | Italy Lucilla Aglioti Valentina Grassi Tommaso Schettino Omar Airolo Giuseppe Di Capua | 3:30.39 |

## 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- | | | LM8+ |
| Women's | W1x | W2x | W4x | W2- | W4- | | | W8+ |
| Lightweight women's | LW1x | LW2x | LW4x | | | | | |
| AS women's | ASW1x | | | | | | | |
| AS men's | ASM1x | | | | | | | |
| TA mixed | | TAMix2x | | | | | | |
| LTA mixed | | LTAMix2x | | | | | LTAMix4+ | |
    Adaptive rowing categories — AS: arms & shoulders, TA: trunk & arms, LTA: legs, trunk, arms

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | New Zealand | 6 | 2 | 1 | 9 |
| 2 | Great Britain | 4 | 4 | 2 | 10 |
| 3 | Australia | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 |
| 3 | Germany | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 |
| 5 | Ukraine | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | United States | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 |
| 7 | Italy | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 8 | Greece | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | Norway | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | South Africa | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | Switzerland | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 12 | Belgium | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Croatia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Czech Republic | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Denmark | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Netherlands | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 17 | France | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 18 | Canada | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 19 | China | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 20 | Poland | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 21 | Israel | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 22 | Belarus | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 22 | Brazil | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 22 | Cuba | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 22 | Russia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 22 | Turkey | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (26 entries) | Totals (26 entries) | 27 | 27 | 27 | 81 |

## World records

The championships were notable for the number of world best times set on days seven & eight of competition (30 & 31 August) with fourteen long standing world marks set in addition to a number of world best times beaten then bettered during the regatta. Tail winds and fast water affected the conditions on the Bosbaan but the new marks were allowed to stand by FISA. The records included the sixteen fastest ever times rowed at World Championships, with fourteen of those also being the world's best time. As of 2021 eleven of those marks still stand as the world's best times.
| Boat | Time | Crew | Nation | Day /Event | Record | Standing |
| M2- Coxless pairs | 6:09:34 | Hamish Bond Eric Murray | New Zealand | Final 30 Aug 2014 | Best time at a World Championship | Standing in 2021 |
| W2- Coxless pairs | 6:50.61 | Helen Glover Heather Stanning | Great Britain | Final 30 Aug 2014 | World's Best Time | Beaten in 2017 |
| LM4x Lightweight quad sculls | 5:42.75 | Georgios Konsolas Spyridon Giannaros Panagiotis Magdanis Eleftherios Konsolas | Greece | Semi Final 30 Aug 2014 | World's Best Time | Standing in 2021 |
| LW4x Lightweight single sculls | 6:43.37 | Marcello Miani | Italy | Final 30 Aug 2014 | World's Best Time | Beaten in 2018 |
| LW4x Lightweight quadruple sculls | 6:15.95 | Mirte Kraaijkamp Elisabeth Woerner Maaike Head Ilse Paulis | Netherlands | Final 30 Aug 2014 | World's Best Time | Standing in 2021 |
| LM2- Lightweight coxless pairs | 6:22.91 | Simon Niepmann Lucas Tramèr | Switzerland | Final 30 Aug 2014 | World's Best Time | Standing in 2021 |
| M2+ Coxed pairs | 6:33.26 | Hamish Bond Eric Murray Caleb Shepherd (cox) | New Zealand | Final 30 Aug 2014 | World's Best Time | Standing in 2021 |
| W4- Coxless four | 6:14.36 | Grace Prendergast Kayla Pratt Kerri Gowler Kelsey Bevan | New Zealand | Final 30 Aug 2014 | World's Best Time | Standing in 2021 |
| LM4- Lightweight coxless four | 5:43.16 | Kasper Winther Jørgensen Jacob Larsen Jacob Barsøe Morten Jørgensen | Denmark | Semi-final 30 Aug 2014 | World's Best Time | Standing in 2021 |
| W2x Double sculls | 6:37.31 | Olympia Aldersey Sally Kehoe | Australia | Semi-final 30 Aug 2014 | World's Best Time | Standing in 2021 |
| M2x Double sculls | 5:59.72 | Martin Sinković Valent Sinković | Croatia | Semi-final 30 Aug 2014 | World's Best Time | Standing in 2021 |
| M4x Quad sculls | 5:32.26 | Artem Morozov Oleksandr Nadtoka Dmytro Mikhay Ivan Dovhodko | Ukraine | Semi-final 31 Aug 2014 | World's Best Time | Standing in 2021 |
| LW2x Lightweight double sculls | 6:43.79 | Sophie MacKenzie Julia Edward | New Zealand | Final 31 Aug 2014 | World's Best Time | Beaten in 2016 |
| W4x Quad sculls | 6:06.84 | Carina Bär Julia Lier Annekatrin Thiele Lisa Schmidla | Germany | Final 31 Aug 2014 | World's Best Time | Standing in 2021 |
| M4- Coxless four | 5:40.24 | Andrew Triggs Hodge Alex Gregory George Nash Moe Sbihi | Great Britain | Final 31Aug 2014 | Best time at a World Championship | Standing in 2021 |
| LM2x Lightweight double sculls | 6:05.36 | John Smith James Thompson | South Africa | Final 31Aug 2014 | World's Best Time | Standing in 2021 |