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	Ondřej Synek	6:37.12	Mahé Drysdale	6:37.85	Ángel Fournier	6:44.31
M2x	Martin Sinković Valent Sinković	6:00.52	Romano Battisti Francesco Fossi	6:04.42	James McRae Alexander Belonogoff	6:04.43
M4x	Dmytro Mikhay Artem Morozov Oleksandr Nadtoka Ivan Dovhodko	5:32.26	Template:GBR2 Graeme Thomas Sam Townsend Charles Cousins Peter Lambert	5:32.35	Karl Schulze Tim Grohmann Kai Fuhrmann Philipp Wende	5:36.97
M2-	Eric Murray Hamish Bond	6:09.34	Template:GBR2 James Foad Matt Langridge	6:13.75	Vincent Breet Shaun Keeling	6:16.85
M4-	Template:GBR2 Alex Gregory Moe Sbihi George Nash Andrew Triggs Hodge	5:40.24	Grant James Michael Gennaro Henrik Rummel Seth Weil	5:42.90	Fergus Pragnell Josh Dunkley-Smith Spencer Turrin Alexander Lloyd	5:43.47
M2+	Eric Murray Hamish Bond Caleb Shepherd	6:33.26	Template:GBR2 Alan Sinclair Scott Durant Henry Fieldman	6:43.45	Peter Kluge Alexander Egler Jonas Wiesen	6:45.85
M8+	Template:GBR2 Nathaniel Reilly-O'Donnell Matthew Tarrant Will Satch Matt Gotrel Pete Reed Paul Bennett Tom Ransley Constantine Louloudis Phelan Hill	5:24.11	Max Planer Malte Jakschik Andreas Kuffner Felix Drahotta Richard Schmidt Eric Johannesen Maximilian Reinelt Felix Wimberger Martin Sauer	5:24.77	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	Marcello Miani	6:43.37	Lars Hartig	6:46.73	Michael Schmid	6:50.88
LM2x	James Thompson John Smith	6:05.36	Stany Delayre Jérémie Azou	6:05.45	Kristoffer Brun Are Strandli	6:05.79
LM4x	Georgios Konsolas Spyridon Giannaros Panagiotis Magdanis Eleftherios Konsolas	5:42.75	Daniel Lawitzke Max Röger Jost Schömann-Finck Konstantin Steinhübel	5:45.65	Li Hui Tian Bin Wang Tiexin Dong Tianfeng	5:46.69
LM2-	Simon Niepmann Lucas Tramèr	6:22.91	Augustin Mouterde Thomas Baroukh	6:25.02	Template:GBR2 Sam Scrimgeour Jono Clegg	6:25.48
LM4-	Kasper Winther Jørgensen Jacob Larsen Jacob Barsøe Morten Jørgensen	5:47.15	James Hunter Alistair Bond Peter Taylor Curtis Rapley	5:48.76	Template:GBR2 Mark Aldred Peter Chambers Richard Chambers Chris Bartley	5:49.58
LM8+	Tobias Franzmann Simon Barr Torben Neumann Stefan Wallat Daniel Wisgott Jonas Kilthau Sven Keßler Can Temel Frederik Böhm	5:31.29	Luca De Maria Vincenzo Serpico Jiri Vlcek Leone Barbaro Livio La Padula Armando Dell'Aquila Guido Gravina Giorgio Tuccinardi Gianluca Barattolo	5:33.87	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	Emma Twigg	7:14.95	Kim Crow	7:17.33	Duan Jingli	7:22.57
W2x	Fiona Bourke Zoe Stevenson	6:38.04	Magdalena Fularczyk Natalia Madaj	6:39.36	Olympia Aldersey Sally Kehoe	6:41.71
W4x	Annekatrin Thiele Carina Bär Julia Lier Lisa Schmidla	6:06.84	Jiang Yan Shen Xiaoxing Lü Yang Zhang Xinyue	6:10.51	Grace Latz Tracy Eisser Olivia Coffey Felice Mueller	6:12.03
W2-	Template:GBR2 Helen Glover Heather Stanning	6:50.61	Megan Kalmoe Kerry Simmonds	6:52.87	Louise Trappitt Rebecca Scown	6:54.79
W4-	Kayla Pratt Kelsey Bevan Grace Prendergast Kerri Gowler	6:14.36	Susan Francia Emily Regan Tessa Gobbo Adrienne Martelli	6:20.69	He Sihui Miao Tian Zhang Min Zhang Huan	6:23.31
W8+	Victoria Opitz Meghan Musnicki Amanda Polk Lauren Schmetterling Grace Luczak Caroline Lind Elle Logan Heidi Robbins Katelin Snyder	5:56.83	Cristy Nurse Lisa Roman Rosanne Deboef Natalie Mastracci Susanne Grainger Christine Roper Ashley Brzozowicz Lauren Wilkinson Lesley Thompson-Willie	5:59.66	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	Eveline Peleman	7:31.31	Aikaterini Nikolaidou	7:31.73	Kathleen Bertko	7:33.97
LW2x	Sophie MacKenzie Julia Edward	6:48.56	Lindsay Jennerich Patricia Obee	6:50.41	Huang Wenyi Pan Dandan	6:53.40
LW4x	Mirte Kraaijkamp Elisabeth Woerner Maaike Head Ilse Paulis	6:15.95	Laura Dunn Sarah Pound Maia Simmonds Hannah Every-Hall	6:19.54	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	Birgit Skarstein	5:22.12	Moran Samuel	5:33.86	Liudmila Vauchok	5:39.10
ASM1x	Erik Horrie	4:50.68	Template:GBR2 Tom Aggar	4:53.41	Alexey Chuvashev	4:58.96
TAMix2x	Gavin Bellis Kathryn Ross	4:02.55	Perle Bouge Stéphane Tardieu	4:05.11	Josiane Lima Michel Gomes Pessanha	4:07.54
LTAMix2x	Kateryna Morozova Dmytro Aleksieiev	3:28.39	Jeremy McGrath Kathleen Murdoch	3:35.26	Guylaine Marchand Antoine Jesel	3:36.47
LTAMix4+	Template:GBR2 Grace Clough Pam Relph Daniel Brown James Fox Oliver James	3:20.45	Jaclyn Smith Richard Vandegrift Zachary Burns Danielle Hansen Jennifer Sichel	3:25.49	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

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	Ref
M2- Coxless pairs	6:09:34	Hamish Bond Eric Murray	Template:Flagicon 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	Template:Flagicon 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	Template:Flagicon Greece	Semi Final 30 Aug 2014	World's Best Time	Standing in 2021
LW4x Lightweight single sculls	6:43.37	Marcello Miani	Template:Flagicon 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	Template:Flagicon Netherlands	Final 30 Aug 2014	World's Best Time	Standing in 2021
LM2- Lightweight coxless pairs	6:22.91	Simon Niepmann Lucas Tramèr	Template:Flagicon 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)	Template:Flagicon 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	Template:Flagicon 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	Template:Flagicon Denmark	Semi-final 30 Aug 2014	World's Best Time	Standing in 2021
W2x Double sculls	6:37.31	Olympia Aldersey Sally Kehoe	Template:Flagicon Australia	Semi-final 30 Aug 2014	World's Best Time	Standing in 2021
M2x Double sculls	5:59.72	Martin Sinković Valent Sinković	Template:Flagicon 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	Template:Flagicon Ukraine	Semi-final 31 Aug 2014	World's Best Time	Standing in 2021
LW2x Lightweight double sculls	6:43.79	Sophie MacKenzie Julia Edward	Template:Flagicon 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	Template:Flagicon 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	Template:Flagicon 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	Template:Flagicon South Africa	Final 31Aug 2014	World's Best Time	Standing in 2021

External links

• Official website