# 2000 World Rowing Championships

The 2000 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held from 1 to 6 August 2000 in conjunction with the World Junior Rowing Championships in Zagreb, Croatia. Since 2000 was an Olympic year for rowing, the World Championships did not include Olympic events scheduled for the 2000 Summer Olympics.

## Medal summary
### Men's events

| Event | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| M4+ | Great Britain Rick Dunn (b) Toby Garbett (2) Graham Smith (3) Steve Williams (s) Alistair Potts (c) | 6:16.81 | United States Ben Holbrook (b) James Neil (2) Garrett Klugh (3) Ryan Torgerson (s) Jeffrey Lindy (c) | 6:18.53 | Germany Lars Erdmann (b) Wolfram Huhn (2) Lars Krisch (3) Andreas Werner (s) Joerg Dederding (c) | 6:21.57 |
| M2+ | United States Matthew Guerrieri (b) Kurt Borcherding (s) Nicholas Anderson (c) | 7:07.15 | Romania Daniel Măstăcan (b) Nicolae Țaga (s) Marin Gheorghe (c) | 7:10.11 | France Vincent Maliszewski (b) Bernard Roche (s) Anthony Cornet (c) | 7:10.66 |
| Men's lightweight events |||||||
| LM1x | Czech Republic Michal Vabroušek | 7:21.32 | Ireland Sam Lynch | 7:22.02 | Slovakia Lubos Podstupka | 7:27.94 |
| LM4x | Japan Hitoshi Hase (b) Takehiro Kubo (2) Kazuaki Mimoto (3) Daisaku Takeda (s) | 6:06.43 | Italy Simone Forlani (b) Daniele Gilardoni (2) Franco Sancassani (3) Mauro Baccelli (s) | 6:08.84 | Spain Juan Luis Aguirre Barco (b) Rubén Álvarez (2) Alberto Domínguez (3) Juan Zunzunegui (s) | 6:09.34 |
| LM2- | Canada Ben Storey (b) Edward Winchester (s) | 6:49.55 | Great Britain Peter Haining (b) Nick Strange (s) | 6:50.18 | Denmark Morten Hansen Skov (b) Jesper Krogh (s) | 6:50.26 |
| LM8+ | United States Erik Miller (b) David Mack (2) John Cashman (3) Gabe Winkler (4) William Fedyna (5) Martin Schwartz (6) Angus Maclaurin (7) Steve Warner (s) Joshua Fien-Helfman (c) | 5:55.04 | Great Britain Phil Baker (b) Matt Beechey (2) James Brown (3) Ned Kittoe (4) Stephen Lee (5) James McGarva (6) Jim McNiven (7) Tim Middleton (s) Christian Cormack (c) | 5:58.06 | Australia Andrew Black (b) Shane Broad (2) Andrew Butler (3) Ben Cureton (4) Glen Loftus (5) Karl Parker (6) Matthew Russell (7) Michael Wiseman (s) Kenneth Chan (c) | 5:59.70 |

### Women's events

| Event | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| W4- | Belarus Iryna Bazyleuskaya (b) Natallia Helakh (2) Olga Tratsevskaya (3) Marina Znak (s) | 6:44.90 | Poland Aneta Bełka (b) Honorata Motylewska (2) Iwona Tybinkowska (3) Iwona Zygmunt (s) | 6:47.16 | Romania Marioara Ciobanu-Popescu (b) Crina Serediuc (2) Doina Spircu-Craciun (3) Aurica Barascu-Chirita (s) | 6:49.90 |
| Women's lightweight events |||||||
| LW1x | Finland Laila Finska-Bezerra | 8:13.50 | Germany Angelika Brand | 8:20.53 | Ireland Sinead Jennings | 8:24.30 |
| LW2- | Great Britain Malindi Myers (b) Miriam Taylor (s) | 7:32.93 | United States Stacey Borgman (b) Catherine Humblet (s) | 7:35.80 | Germany Janet Radünzel (b) Gunda Reimers (s) | 7:49.94 |
| LW4x | Germany Maja Darmstadt (b) Michelle Darvill (2) Anna Kleinz (3) Karin Stephan (s) | 6:54.16 | Australia Eliza Blair (b) Sally Causby (2) Amber Halliday (3) Catriona Roach (s) | 6:56.78 | China Tan Meiyun (b) Wang Yanni (2) Sun Yue (3) Song Xiujuan (s) | 6:58.21 |

## Medal table

| Place | Nation | | | | Total |
| 1 | United States | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1 | Great Britain | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 3 | Germany | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 4 | Japan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Canada | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Finland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Czech Republic | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Belarus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Australia | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | Ireland | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | Romania | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 12 | Italy | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Poland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | France | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 14 | China | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 14 | Spain | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 14 | Slovakia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 14 | Denmark | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | Total | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |