List of Olympic best times in rowing

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Hamish Bond and Murray at the 2012 London Olympics, where they broke the world best time in the coxless pair

In rowing, there are no world records due to the variability of weather conditions. Instead there are world best times, which are set over the international rowing distance of 2000 meters.[citation needed]

Men's records[]

† denotes a performance that is also a current world best time.

Event Record Athlete(s) Country Games Date Ref(s).
Past events
Coxed four – Inriggers[a] 7:39.2
 Sweden 1912 Stockholm 17 July 1912
Coxed pair 6:49.83
 Great Britain 1992 Barcelona 2 August 1992
Coxed four 5:59.37
 Romania 1992 Barcelona 1 August 1992
Lightweight coxless four 5:47.76
 Denmark 2008 Beijing 17 August 2008
Current events
Single sculls 6:41.34[b] Mahé Drysdale  New Zealand 2016 Rio 13 August 2016 [1]
Double sculls 6:08.38
 Netherlands 2020 Tokyo 23 July 2021 [2][3]
Quadruple sculls 5:32.03†
 Netherlands 2020 Tokyo 28 July 2021 [4]
Coxless pair 6:08.50†
 New Zealand 2012 London 28 July 2012 [5]
Coxless four 5:42.76
 Australia 2020 Tokyo 28 July 2021 [6]
Eight 5:19.85
 United States 2004 Athens 15 August 2004
Lightweight double sculls 6:05.33†
 Ireland 2020 Tokyo 28 July 2021 [7]

Women's records[]

† denotes a performance that is also a current world best time.

Event Record Athlete(s) Country Games Date Ref(s).
Past events
Coxed four 6:56.00
 East Germany 1988 Seoul 24 September 1988
Current events
Single sculls 7:13.97 Emma Twigg  New Zealand 2020 Tokyo 30 July 2021
Double sculls 6:44.33
 Great Britain 2012 London 30 July 2012
Quadruple sculls 6:05.13†
 China 2020 Tokyo 28 July 2021 [8]
Coxless pair 6:57.29
 Great Britain 2012 London 28 July 2021
Coxless four 6:15.37
 Australia 2020 Tokyo 28 July 2021 [9]
Eight 5:56.55
 United States 2004 Athens 15 August 2004
Lightweight double sculls 6:49.90
 Australia 2004 Athens 15 August 2004

References[]

Notes

  1. ^ Coxed four with inriggers was only held once (1912).
  2. ^ Drysdale's winning time of the Final of the Men's Single sculls rowing event at the 2016 Summer Olympics was tied down to the second with Damir Martin (Croatia), only split by centiseconds.

Citations

  1. ^ "RIO 2016 ROWING SINGLE SCULLS 1X MEN RESULTS". International Olympic Committee (IOC). Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Rowing – Heat 3 Results". olympics.com. International Olympic Committee (IOC). 23 July 2021. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  3. ^ Tennery, Amy (23 July 2021). "Rowing-Twigg, Borch blaze through field as Tokyo competition kicks off". Reuters. Retrieved 24 July 2021. The Netherlands dominated across the board as men's double sculls pair Melvin Twellaar and Stef Broenink set a new Olympic best, scorching their opening heat in 6:08.38 and upending an Olympic best set minutes earlier by 2018 World Champions Hugo Boucheron and Matthieu Androdias of France.
  4. ^ "Men's Quadruple Sculls Final Results" (PDF). olympics.com. 28 July 2021. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
  5. ^ "OLYMPIC ROWING ROCKS OFF WITH WORLD BEST TIME". World Rowing Federation. 28 July 2012. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  6. ^ "Australian Four set Olympic best – London 2012 – Rowing". olympics.com. International Olympic Committee (IOC). Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  7. ^ "Men's Lightweight Double Sculls Semi-Final Results" (PDF). olympics.com. 28 July 2021. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
  8. ^ "Women's Quadruple Sculls Final Results" (PDF). olympics.com. 28 July 2021. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
  9. ^ @7olympics (24 July 2021). "It keeps getting better for the Aussie rowers. The women's four of Jessica Morrison, Annabelle McIntyre, Rosemary Popa & Lucy Stephan are through to final A with a new Olympic Best time" (Tweet). Retrieved 24 July 2021 – via Twitter.
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