2019 World Rowing Championships | |
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Venue | Ottensheim |
Location | Ottensheim, Austria |
Dates | 25 August – 1 September |
2019 World Rowing Championships | ||
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Openweight events | ||
Single sculls | men | women |
Double sculls | men | women |
Quadruple sculls | men | women |
Coxless pair | men | women |
Coxless four | men | women |
Eight | men | women |
Lightweight events | ||
Lwt single sculls | men | women |
Lwt double sculls | men | women |
Lwt quadruple sculls | men | women |
Lwt coxless pair | men | women |
Para-rowing events | ||
PR1 single sculls | men | women |
PR2 single sculls | men | women |
PR2 double sculls | mixed | |
PR3 coxless pair | men | women |
PR3 double sculls | mixed | |
PR3 coxed four | mixed | |
The 2019 World Rowing Championships were held in Ottensheim, Austria from 25 August to 1 September 2019.[1] Apart from Ottensheim, the right to host the championships was contested by Hamburg in Germany, Račice in the Czech Republic, and Varese in Italy.[2]
The event determined the majority of qualifiers to the rowing competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan.[3][4]
On 21 August, three days before the championships, pararower Dzmitry Ryshkevich from Belarus died after he capsized during a training session. He was expected to participate in the PR1M1x at his third consecutive championships.[5]