World Championships
The World Rowing Championships are the climax of each rowing season outside of Olympic years.
The first rowing World Championships were held in 1962 with women’s events and men’s lightweight events being added in 1974, lightweight women’s events in 1985 and adaptive rowing making its debut in 2003.
The annual regatta, organised by rowing’s world governing body FISA and held at a different location each year now features crews from more than 68 nations and 1,200 rowers competing in both Olympic and non-Olympic “international-class” events.
In Olympic years the Championships are merged with the Junior World Championships in the absence of the world’s top senior crews and only feature non-Olympic class events at senior level.
GB Rowing Team medals at the World Rowing Championships
| World Championships | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 2011 (Lake Bled, Slovenia)* | 7 | 3 | 4 | 14 |
| 2010 (Lake Karapiro, NZ)* | 5 | 5 | 1 | 11 |
| 2009 (Poznan, Poland)* | 3 | 5 | 1 | 9 |
| 2008 (Linz, Austria) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2007 (Munich, Germany)* | 3 | 2 | 6 | 11 |
| 2006 (Eton, Great Britain)* | 5 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| 2005 (Gifu, Japan)* | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 2004 (Banyoles, Spain)* | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 2003 (Milan, Italy)* | 2 | 5 | 1 | 8 |
| 2002 (Seville, Spain) | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 2001 (Lucerne, Switzerland) | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 2000 (Zagreb, Croatia) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1999 (St Catherine’s, Canada) | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| 1998 (Cologne, Germany) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1997 (Aiguebelette, France) | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| 1996 (Strathclyde, Great Britain) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1995 (Tampere, Finland) | 2 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| 1994 (Indianapolis, USA) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 1993 (Roundice, Czech Rep.) | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
*Events at the World Championship include Olymplic, Paralympic and non-Olympic ‘International’ classes. In 2011 GB won gold in three Olympic-class events, two Paralympic-class events and two International-class events.
GB Rowing Team medallists at World Championships
2011: Lake Bled, Slovenia
Olympic classes:
- Women’s Double Scull – GOLD Anna Watkins, Katherine Grainger
- Men’s four – GOLD Matt Langridge, Ric Egington, Tom James, Alex Gregory
- Lightweight men’s double scull – GOLD Zac Purchase, Mark Hunter
- Women’s pair – SILVER Helen Glover, Heather Stanning
- Men’s pair – SILVER Pete Reed, Andy Triggs Hodge
- Men’s eight – SILVER Nathaniel Reilly O’Donnell, Cameron Nichol, James Foad, Alex Partridge, Mohamed Sbihi, Greg Searle, Tom Ransley, Dan Ritchie, cox Phelan Hill
- Women’s eight – BRONZE Alison Knowles, Jo Cook, Jess Eddie, Lindsey Maguire, Natasha Page, Louisa Reeve, Katie Solesbury, Vicky Thornley, cox Caroline O’Connor
- Men’s single scull – BRONZE Alan Campbell
- Lightweight women’s double scull – BRONZE Hester Goodsell, Sophie Hosking
- Lightweight men’s four – BRONZE Chris Bartley, Paul Mattick, Rich Chambers, Rob Williams
Paralympic classes:
- Adaptive men’s single scull – GOLD Tom Aggar
- Adaptive mixed coxed four – GOLD Pamela Relph, Naomi Riches, David Smith, James Roe, cox Lily van den Broecke
International classes:
- Lightweight women’s quadruple scull – GOLD Steph Cullen, Kathryn Twyman, Imogen Walsh, Andrea Dennis
- Lightweight men’s pair – GOLD Peter Chambers, Kieren Emery
View past GB Rowing Team medalists
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