# Rowing at the 2024 Summer Olympics

The rowing competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris ran from 27 July to 3 August at the Stade nautique de Vaires-sur-Marne, National Olympic Nautical Stadium of Île-de-France in Vaires-sur-Marne. The number of rowers competing across fourteen gender-based categories at these Games was reduced from 526 to 502, with an equal distribution between men’s and women’s events. Despite the slight changes in athlete figures, the rowing program for Paris 2024 remained constant from the previous edition as the competition featured an equal number of categories for men and women, with seven each.

## Competition format

The rowing program featured a total of fourteen events, seven each for both men and women in identical boat classes. The program was the same as that of the 2020 Olympics. This was the last Olympics where lightweight rowing was featured, to be replaced by coastal rowing at the 2028 Olympics.
Events for the 2024 Paris Olympics consisted of men's and women's events for the two disciplines of rowing:
* Sweep rowing, where each rower uses a single oar:
   * Coxless pairs
   * Coxless fours
   * Eights, with coxswains
* Sculling, where rowers use two oars placed on opposite sides of the boat:
   * Single sculls
   * Double sculls
   * Lightweight (weight restricted) double sculls
   * Quadruple sculls

## Qualification

502 rowing quota places were available for Paris 2024, about twenty-four less overall than those in Tokyo 2020. Qualified NOCs were entitled to enter a single boat for each of the fourteen categories.
The qualification period commenced at the 2023 World Rowing Championships, on 3 to 10 September in Belgrade, Serbia, where about two-thirds of the total quota were awarded to the highest-ranked crews across fourteen categories. These quota places were distributed to the NOCs, not to specific rowers, finishing among the top nine in the single sculls (both men and women), top seven in the lightweight double sculls, fours, and quadruple sculls, top five in the eights, and top eleven each in the pairs and double sculls. The remainder of the total quota were attributed to the eligible rowers at each of the four continental qualification regattas in Asia and Oceania, the Americas, Africa, and Europe, and at the final Olympic qualification regatta in Lucerne, Switzerland.
As the host country, France reserved one quota place in the men's and women's single sculls had they not qualified in other classes. Four quota places (two per gender) are entitled to the NOCs competing in the same category under the Tripartite Commission.

## Competition schedule

Men's and women's races in each boat class are held on the same day. :
| Event↓/Date → | Sat 27 | Sun 28 | Mon 29 | Tues 30 | Wed 31 | Thu 1 | Fri 2 | Sat 3 |
| Men's single sculls Women's single sculls | H | R | ½ | ¼ | ½ | ½ | F | F |
| Men's pair Women's pair | | H | R | | ½ | | F | |
| Men's double sculls Women's double sculls | H | R | | ½ | | F | | |
| Men's lightweight double sculls Women's lightweight double sculls | | H | R | | ½ | | F | |
| Men's four Women's four | | H | | R | | F | | |
| Men's quadruple sculls Women's quadruple sculls | H | | R | | F | | | |
| Men's eight Women's eight | | | H | | | R | | F |

## Participating nations

There were 64 participating nations:
* Algeria (2)
* Angola (1)
* Argentina (4)
* Australia (37)
* Austria (3)
* Azerbaijan (1)
* Belgium (3)
* Bermuda (1)
* Brazil (2)
* Bulgaria (2)
* Canada (11)
* Chile (4)
* China (14)
* Croatia (5)
* Cuba (2)
* Czech Republic (6)
* Denmark (16)
* Egypt (3)
* Estonia (4)
* France (12)
* Germany (23)
* Great Britain (42)
* Greece (7)
* Hong Kong (1)
* Hungary (1)
* India (1)
* Individual Neutral Athletes (2)
* Indonesia (1)
* Iran (3)
* Ireland (16)
* Italy (34)
* Japan (5)
* Kazakhstan (1)
* Kuwait (1)
* Libya (1)
* Lithuania (8)
* Mexico (3)
* Monaco (1)
* Morocco (1)
* Netherlands (33)
* New Zealand (20)
* Nicaragua (1)
* Norway (10)
* Paraguay (2)
* Peru (3)
* Philippines (1)
* Poland (6)
* Romania (45)
* Serbia (4)
* Singapore (1)
* Slovenia (1)
* South Africa (3)
* Spain (9)
* Switzerland (17)
* Thailand (1)
* Togo (1)
* Tunisia (3)
* Uganda (1)
* Ukraine (6)
* Uruguay (1)
* United States (42)
* Uzbekistan (3)
* Vietnam (1)
* Zimbabwe (1)

## Medal summary

A total of 42 medals were won by 15 NOC's.

### Medal table

* Host nation (France)
| Rank | NOC | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Netherlands | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| 2 | Great Britain | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
| 3 | Romania | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 4 | New Zealand | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | Germany | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | Ireland | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | United States | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | Croatia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Italy | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 | Canada | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| – | Individual Neutral Athletes | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Greece | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 12 | Australia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Lithuania | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Poland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Switzerland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (15 entries) | Totals (15 entries) | 14 | 14 | 14 | 42 |

### Men's events

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Single sculls details | Oliver Zeidler Germany | Yauheni Zalaty Individual Neutral Athletes | Simon van Dorp Netherlands |
| Double sculls details | Romania Andrei Cornea Marian Enache | Netherlands Melvin Twellaar Stef Broenink | Ireland Daire Lynch Philip Doyle |
| Quadruple sculls details | Netherlands Lennart van Lierop Finn Florijn Tone Wieten Koen Metsemakers | Italy Luca Chiumento Luca Rambaldi Giacomo Gentili Andrea Panizza | Poland Fabian Barański Mateusz Biskup Dominik Czaja Mirosław Ziętarski |
| Coxless pair details | Croatia Martin Sinković Valent Sinković | Great Britain Oliver Wynne-Griffith Thomas George | Switzerland Roman Röösli Andrin Gulich |
| Coxless four details | United States Nick Mead Justin Best Michael Grady Liam Corrigan | New Zealand Oliver Maclean Logan Ullrich Tom Murray Matt Macdonald | Great Britain Oliver Wilkes David Ambler Matt Aldridge Freddie Davidson |
| Eight details | Great Britain Morgan Bolding Sholto Carnegie Rory Gibbs Thomas Ford Jacob Dawson Charles Elwes Thomas Digby James Rudkin Harry Brightmore c | Netherlands Ralf Rienks Olav Molenaar Sander de Graaf Ruben Knab Gert-Jan van Doorn Jacob van de Kerkhof Jan van der Bij Mick Makker Dieuwke Fetter c | United States Henry Hollingsworth Nicholas Rusher Christian Tabash Clark Dean Christopher Carlson Peter Chatain Evan Olson Pieter Quinton Rielly Milne c |
| Lightweight double sculls details | Ireland Fintan McCarthy Paul O'Donovan | Italy Stefano Oppo Gabriel Soares | Greece Petros Gkaidatzis Antonios Papakonstantinou |

### Women's events

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Single sculls details | Karolien Florijn Netherlands | Emma Twigg New Zealand | Viktorija Senkutė Lithuania |
| Double sculls details | New Zealand Brooke Francis Lucy Spoors | Romania Ancuța Bodnar Simona Radiș | Great Britain Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne Becky Wilde |
| Quadruple sculls details | Great Britain Lauren Henry Hannah Scott Lola Anderson Georgina Brayshaw | Netherlands Laila Youssifou Bente Paulis Roos de Jong Tessa Dullemans | Germany Maren Völz Tabea Schendekehl Leonie Menzel Pia Greiten |
| Coxless pair details | Netherlands Ymkje Clevering Veronique Meester | Romania Ioana Vrînceanu Roxana Anghel | Australia Jessica Morrison Annabelle McIntyre |
| Coxless four details | Netherlands Marloes Oldenburg Hermijntje Drenth Tinka Offereins Benthe Boonstra | Great Britain Helen Glover Esme Booth Samantha Redgrave Rebecca Shorten | New Zealand Jackie Gowler Phoebe Spoors Davina Waddy Kerri Williams |
| Eight details | Romania Adriana Adam Roxana Anghel Amalia Bereș Ancuta Bodnar Maria-Magdalena Rusu Maria Lehaci Ioana Vrînceanu Simona Radiș Victoria-Ștefania Petreanu c | Canada Abigail Dent Caileigh Filmer Kasia Gruchalla-Wesierski Maya Meschkuleit Sydney Payne Jessica Sevick Kristina Walker Avalon Wasteneys Kristen Kit c | Great Britain Annie Campbell-Orde Holly Dunford Emily Ford Lauren Irwin Heidi Long Rowan McKellar Eve Stewart Harriet Taylor Henry Fieldman c |
| Lightweight double sculls details | Great Britain Emily Craig Imogen Grant | Romania Gianina van Groningen Ionela Cozmiuc | Greece Dimitra Kontou Zoi Fitsiou |