Rowing at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

This article details the qualifying phase for rowing at the 2020 Summer Olympics (postponed to 2021[2] due to the COVID-19 pandemic). The majority of the spots were awarded to the National Olympic Committees, not to specific athletes, at the 2019 World Rowing Championships, held in Ottensheim, Austria from 25 August to 1 September 2019.[3] At the World Championships countries qualify boats rather than crews and can make crew changes for the Olympic regatta for qualified boats. Further berths are distributed to the nations at four continental qualifying regattas in Asia and Oceania, Africa, Latin America, and Europe. The last berths were distributed at the Final Olympic Qualification Regatta held in Lucerne, Switzerland 15–16 May 2021.

All qualifying NOCs are limited to one berth per event, and only NOCs with fewer than two berths from the World Championships may compete in the continental qualifying regattas. Host nation Japan will be automatically granted a berth each in the men's and women's single sculls, in case the nation fails to qualify for any rowing event at the various regattas.[1]

Timeline

EventDateVenue
2019 World Rowing Championships25 August – 1 September 2019 Ottensheim[3]
African Continental Qualification Regatta10–12 October 2019 Tunis[4]
Americas Continental Qualification Regatta4–5 March 2021[5] Rio de Janeiro[6]
European Continental Qualification Regatta5–8 April 2021[7] Varese
Asian & Oceania Continental Qualification Regatta5–7 May 2021[8] Tokyo[8]
Final Qualification Regatta15–16 May 2021[9] Lucerne

Qualification summary

NationMenWomenCrewsAthletes
M1xM2-M2xLM2xM4-M4xM8+W1xW2-W2xLW2xW4-W4xW8+
 Algeria12
 Argentina12
 Australia940
 Austria23
 Belarus35
 Belgium12
 Benin11
 Bermuda11
 Brazil11
 Canada1029
 Chile12
 China828
 Ivory Coast11
 Croatia23
 Cuba11
 Czech Republic47
 Denmark49
 Dominican Republic11
 Egypt11
 Estonia14
 France512
 Germany724
 Great Britain1041
 Greece34
 Guatemala12
 Hong Kong11
 Hungary11
 India12
 Indonesia12
 Iran11
 Iraq11
 Ireland613
 Italy923
 Japan23
 Kazakhstan11
 Kuwait11
 Libya11
 Lithuania49
 Mexico11
 Monaco11
 Morocco11
 Namibia11
 Netherlands1135
 New Zealand932
 Nicaragua22
 Nigeria11
 Norway37
 Paraguay11
 Peru11
 Philippines11
 Poland620
 Portugal12
 Puerto Rico11
 Qatar11
 Romania936
 ROC610
 Saudi Arabia11
 Serbia23
 Singapore11
 South Africa26
 South Korea11
 Spain36
 Sudan11
 Sweden11
 Switzerland49
 Chinese Taipei11
 Thailand12
 Togo11
 Trinidad and Tobago11
 Tunisia12
 Turkey11
 Uganda11
 Ukraine12
 United States937
 Uruguay12
 Uzbekistan12
 Vanuatu11
 Venezuela12
 Vietnam12
 Zimbabwe11
Total: 80 NOCs32131320101073213131810107208526

Men's events

Men's single sculls

Event # Nation Nominated rower
Host nation (if required) 0
2019 World Rowing Championships 1 GermanyOliver Zeidler
2 DenmarkSverri Sandberg Nielsen
3 NetherlandsFinn Florijn
4 Czech RepublicJan Fleissner
5 LithuaniaMindaugas Griškonis
6 NorwayKjetil Borch
7 New ZealandJordan Parry
8 CroatiaDamir Martin
9 ItalyGennaro Di Mauro
Asian & Oceania Qualification Regatta 1 JapanRyuta Arakawa
2 KazakhstanVladislav Yakovlev
3 PhilippinesCris Nievarez
4 IraqMohammed Al-Khafaji
5 KuwaitAbdulrahman Al-Fadhel
6[note 1] Saudi ArabiaHusein Alireza
African Qualification Regatta 1 EgyptAli Hassan
2 ZimbabwePeter Purcell-Gilpin
3 BeninPrivel Hinkati
4 Ivory CoastFranck N'Dri
5 LibyaHussein Qanboor
Americas Qualification Regatta 1 BrazilLucas Verthein
2 PeruÁlvaro Torres
3 BermudaDara Alizadeh
4 NicaraguaFélix Potoy
5 Dominican RepublicIgnacio Vásquez
European Qualification Regatta 1 GreeceStefanos Ntouskos
2 HungaryBendegúz Pétervári-Molnár
3 TurkeyOnat Kazaklı
Final Qualification Regatta 1 ROCAleksandr Vyazovkin
2 CanadaTrevor Jones
Tripartite Invitation 1 MonacoQuentin Antognelli
2 VanuatuRio Rii
TotalUp to 32

Men's double sculls

Event # Nation Nominated rowers
2019 World Rowing Championships 1 ChinaLiu Zhiyu
Zhang Liang
2 IrelandPhilip Doyle
Ronan Byrne
3 PolandMirosław Ziętarski
Mateusz Biskup
4 RomaniaIoan Prundeanu
Marian Enache
5 SwitzerlandRoman Röösli
Barnabé Delarze
6 Great BritainJohn Collins
Graeme Thomas
7 NetherlandsMelvin Twellaar
Stef Broenink
8 New ZealandChris Harris
Jack Lopas
9 FranceMatthieu Androdias
Hugo Boucheron
10 GermanyStephan Krüger
Marc Weber
11 LithuaniaSaulius Ritter
Aurimas Adomavičius
Final Qualification Regatta 1 ROCIlya Kondratyev
Andrey Potapkin
2 Czech RepublicJakub Podrazil
Jan Cincibuch
Total13

Men's lightweight double sculls

Event # Nation Nominated rowers
2019 World Rowing Championships 1 ItalyStefano Oppo
Pietro Ruta
2 SpainManel Balastegui
Caetano Horta
3 PolandJerzy Kowalski
Artur Mikołajczewski
4 IrelandPaul O'Donovan
Fintan McCarthy
5 GermanyJason-Toby Osborne
Jonathan Rommelmann
6 Norway[10]Kristoffer Brun
Are Strandli
7 BelgiumTim Brys
Niels Van Zandweghe
Asian & Oceania Qualification Regatta 1 IndiaArjun Lal
Arvind Singh
2 UzbekistanShakhboz Kholmurzaev
Sobirjon Safaroliyev
3 ThailandSiwakorn Wongpin
Nawamin Deenoi
African Qualification Regatta 1 AlgeriaSid Ali Boudina
Kamel Ait Daoud
Americas Qualification Regatta 1 UruguayBruno Cetraro
Felipe Klüver
2 ChileEber Sanhueza
César Abaraoa
3 VenezuelaCésar Amaris
José Güipe
European Qualification Regatta 1 UkraineStanislav Kovalov
Ihor Khmara
2 PortugalPedro Fraga
Afonso Costa
Final Qualification Regatta 1 CanadaPatrick Keane
Maxwell Lattimer
2 Czech RepublicMiroslav Vraštil Jr.
Jiří Šimánek
Total18

Men's quadruple sculls

Event # Nation Nominated rowers
2019 World Rowing Championships 1 NetherlandsAbe Wiersma
Dirk Uittenbogaard
Koen Metsemakers
Tone Wieten
2 PolandFabian Barański
Szymon Pośnik
Wiktor Chabel
Dominik Czaja
3 ItalySimone Venier
Andrea Panizza
Luca Rambaldi
Giacomo Gentili
4 AustraliaJack Cleary
Caleb Antill
Cameron Girdlestone
Luke Letcher
5 GermanyMax Appel
Hans Gruhne
Tim Ole Naske
Karl Schulze
6 ChinaYi Xudi
Zang Ha
Liu Dang
Zhang Quan
7 Norway[10]Martin Helseth
Olaf Tufte
Oscar Stabe Helvig
Erik Solbakken
8 Great BritainHarry Leask
Angus Groom
Tom Barras
Jack Beaumont
Final Qualification Regatta 1 EstoniaKaspar Taimsoo
Tõnu Endrekson
Allar Raja
Jüri-Mikk Udam
 ROC[11]Artyom Kosov
Nikita Eskin
Nikolay Pimenov
Alexander Matveev
2 LithuaniaDominykas Jančionis
Dovydas Nemeravičius
Armandas Kelmelis
Martynas Džiaugys
Total10

Men's coxless pair

Event # Nation Nominated rowers
2019 World Rowing Championships 1 CroatiaMartin Sinković
Valent Sinković
2 ItalyGiovanni Abagnale
Marco Di Costanzo
3 SpainJaime Canalejo
Javier García
4 New ZealandStephen Jones
Brook Robertson
5 AustraliaSam Hardy
Joshua Hicks
6 FranceGuillaume Turlan
Thibaud Turlan
7 SerbiaMartin Mačković
Miloš Vasić
8 CanadaKai Langerfeld
Conlin McCabe
9 South AfricaLuc Daffarn
Jake Green
10 RomaniaMarius Cozmiuc
Ciprian Tudosă
11 BelarusDzmitry Furman
Siarhei Valadzko
Final Qualification Regatta 1 DenmarkJoachim Sutton
Frederik Vystavel
2 NetherlandsGuillaume Krommenhoek
Niki van Sprang
Total13

Men's coxless four

Event # Nation Nominated rowers
2019 World Rowing Championships 1 PolandMikołaj Burda
Mateusz Wilangowski
Marcin Brzeziński
Michał Szpakowski
2 RomaniaMihăiță Țigănescu
Mugurel Semciuc
Ștefan Berariu
Cosmin Pascari
3 Great BritainOliver Cook
Matthew Rossiter
Rory Gibbs
Sholto Carnegie
4 ItalyMatteo Castaldo
Bruno Rosetti
Matteo Lodo
Giuseppe Vicino
5 United StatesAnders Weiss
Clark Dean
Michael Grady
Andrew Reed
6 AustraliaAlexander Purnell
Spencer Turrin
Jack Hargreaves
Alexander Hill
7 NetherlandsBoudewijn Röell
Jan van der Bij
Nelson Ritsema
Sander de Graaf
8 SwitzerlandPaul Jaquot
Markus Kessler
Andrin Gulich
Joel Schürch
Final Qualification Regatta 1 South AfricaLawrence Brittain
Kyle Schoonbee
John Smith
Sandro Torrente
2 CanadaJakub Buczek
Luke Gadsdon
Gavin Stone
Will Crothers
Total10

Men's eight

Event # Nation Nominated rowers
2019 World Rowing Championships 1 GermanyLaurits Follert
Malte Jakschik
Torben Johannesen
Hannes Ocik
Olaf Roggensack
Martin Sauer
Richard Schmidt
Jakob Schneider
Johannes Weißenfeld
2 NetherlandsBjorn van den Ende
Bram Schwarz
Jasper Tissen
Maarten Hurkmans
Mechiel Versluis
Robert Lücken
Ruben Knab
Simon van Dorp
Eline Berger
3 Great BritainJosh Bugajski
Jacob Dawson
Thomas George
Moe Sbihi
Charles Elwes
Oliver Wynne-Griffith
James Rudkin
Thomas Ford
Henry Fieldman
4 AustraliaNicholas Lavery
Angus Widdicombe
Angus Dawson
Simon Keenan
Nicholas Purnell
Timothy Masters
Joshua Booth
Jack O'Brien
Stuart Sim
5 United StatesAustin Hack
Justin Best
Liam Corrigan
Ben Davison
Conor Harrity
Nick Mead
Alex Miklasevich
Alexander Richards
Julian Venonsky
Final Qualification Regatta 1 New ZealandDan Williamson
Matt Macdonald
Tom Mackintosh
Phillip Wilson
Shaun Kirkham
Hamish Bond
Michael Brake
Tom Murray
Sam Bosworth
2 RomaniaAlexandru Chioseaua
Florin Lehaci
Constantin Radu
Sergiu Bejan
Vlad Dragoș Aicoboae
Constantin Adam
Florin Arteni
Ciprian Huc
Adrian Munteanu(cox)
Total7

Women's events

Women's single sculls

Event # Nation Nominated rower
Host nation (if required) 0
2019 World Rowing Championships 1 United StatesKara Kohler
2 Great BritainVictoria Thornley
3 SwitzerlandJeannine Gmelin
4 IrelandSanita Pušpure
5 New ZealandEmma Twigg
6 CanadaCarling Zeeman
7 ChinaJiang Yan
8 NetherlandsSophie Souwer
9 AustriaMagdalena Lobnig
Asian & Oceania Qualification Regatta 1 IranNazanin Malaei
2 Chinese TaipeiHuang Yi-ting
3 South KoreaJeong Hye-jeong
4 Hong KongWinnie Hung
5 QatarTala Abujbara
6[note 1] SingaporeJoan Poh
African Qualification Regatta 1 NamibiaMaike Diekmann
2 MoroccoSarah Fraincart
3 UgandaKathleen Grace Noble
4 TogoClaire Akossiwa
5 NigeriaEsther Toko
Americas Qualification Regatta 1 MexicoKenia Lechuga
2 ParaguayAlejandra Alonso
3 Trinidad and TobagoFelice Chow
4 CubaMilena Venega
5 Puerto RicoVeronica Toro
European Qualification Regatta 1 ROCHanna Prakatsen
2 SerbiaJovana Arsić
3 SwedenLovisa Claesson
Final Qualification Regatta 1 GreeceAnneta Kyridou
2 BelarusTatsiana Klimovich
Tripartite Invitation 1 SudanEsraa Khogali
2 NicaraguaEvidelia González Jarquin
TotalUp to 32

Women's double sculls

Event # Nation Nominated rowers
2019 World Rowing Championships 1 New ZealandBrooke Donoghue
Hannah Osborne
2 RomaniaSimona Radiș
Nicoleta-Ancuţa Bodnar
3 NetherlandsLisa Scheenaard
Roos de Jong
4 CanadaGabrielle Smith
Andrea Proske
5 United StatesGenevra Stone
Kristina Wagner
6 FranceHélène Lefebvre
Élodie Ravera-Scaramozzino
7 ItalyAlessandra Patelli
Chiara Ondoli
8 Czech RepublicLenka Antošová
Kristýna Fleissnerová
9 LithuaniaDonata Karalienė
Milda Valčiukaitė
10 ChinaShen Shuangmei
Liu Xiaoxin
11 AustraliaAmanda Bateman
Tara Rigney
Final Qualification Regatta 1 ROCEkaterina Pitirimova
Ekaterina Kurochkina
2 GermanyLeonie Menzel
Annekatrin Thiele
Total13

Women's lightweight double sculls

Event # Nation Nominated rowers
2019 World Rowing Championships 1 NetherlandsIlse Paulis
Marieke Keijser
2 Great BritainEmily Craig
Imogen Grant
3 RomaniaIonela-Livia Cozmiuc
Gianina-Elena Beleagă
 New Zealand[12]
4 BelarusIna Nikulina
Alena Furman
5 FranceClaire Bové
Laura Tarantola
6 ItalyValentina Rodini
Federica Cesarini
7 CanadaJill Moffatt
Jennifer Casson
Asian & Oceania Qualification Regatta 1 JapanChiaki Tomita
Ayami Oishi
2 VietnamLường Thị Thảo
Đinh Thị Hảo
3 IndonesiaMutiara Rahma Putri
Melani Putri
African Qualification Regatta 1 TunisiaNour El-Houda Ettaieb
Khadija Krimi
Americas Qualification Regatta 1 ArgentinaMilka Kraljev
Evelyn Silvestro
2 GuatemalaYulissa López
Jenniffer Zúñiga
European Qualification Regatta 1 ROCAnastasia Lebedeva
Maria Botalova
2 AustriaLouisa Altenhuber
Valentina Cavallar
Final Qualification Regatta 1 United StatesMichelle Sechser
Molly Reckford
2 SwitzerlandFrédérique Rol
Patricia Merz
3[12] IrelandAoife Casey
Margaret Cremen
Total18

Women's quadruple sculls

Event # Nation Nominated rowers
2019 World Rowing Championships 1 NetherlandsInge Janssen
Laila Youssifou
Nicole Beukers
Olivia van Rooijen
2 ChinaChen Yunxia
Zhang Ling
Lü Yang
Cui Xiaotong
3 PolandAgnieszka Kobus-Zawojska
Marta Wieliczko
Katarzyna Zillmann
Maria Sajdak
4 GermanyFrieda Hämmerling
Franziska Kampmann
Carlotta Nwajide
Daniela Schultze
5 Great BritainMathilda Hodgkins-Byrne
Hannah Scott
Charlotte Hodgkins-Byrne
Lucy Glover
6 New ZealandOlivia Loe
Eve MacFarlane
Ruby Tew
Georgia Nugent-O'Leary
7 United StatesMeghan O'Leary
Ellen Tomek
Cicely Madden
Alie Rusher
8 ItalyValentina Iseppi
Alessandra Montesan
Veronica Lisi
Stefania Gobbi
Final Qualification Regatta 1 AustraliaCaitlin Cronin
Harriet Hudson
Rowena Meredith
Ria Thompson
2 FranceEmma Lunatti
Marie Jacquet
Margaux Bailleul
Violaine Aernoudts
Total10

Women's coxless pair

Event # Nation Nominated rowers
2019 World Rowing Championships 1 New ZealandKerri Gowler
Grace Prendergast
2 AustraliaAnnabelle McIntyre
Jessica Morrison
3 CanadaCaileigh Filmer
Hillary Janssens
4 United StatesMegan Kalmoe
Tracy Eisser
5 SpainAina Cid
Virginia Díaz
6 ItalyKiri Tontodonati
Aisha Rocek
7 RomaniaAdriana Ailincăi
Iuliana Buhuș
8 IrelandAileen Crowley
Monika Dukarska
9 ChinaHuang Kaifeng
Liu Jinchao
10 Great BritainHelen Glover
Polly Swann
11 GreeceChristina Bourmpou
Maria Kyridou
Final Qualification Regatta 1 ROCVasilisa Stepanova
Elena Oriabinskaia
2 DenmarkFie Udby Erichsen
Hedvig Rasmussen
Total13

Women's coxless four

Event # Nation Nominated rowers
2019 World Rowing Championships 1 AustraliaAnnabelle McIntyre
Jessica Morrison
Rosemary Popa
Lucy Stephan
2 NetherlandsEllen Hogerwerf
Karolien Florijn
Veronique Meester
Ymkje Clevering
3 DenmarkIda Gørtz Jacobsen
Christina Juhl Johansen
Frida Sanggaard Nielsen
Trine Dahl Pedersen
4 PolandMaria Wierzbowska
Olga Michałkiewicz
Joanna Dittmann
Monika Chabel
5 RomaniaMădălina Hegheş
Elena Logofătu
Cristina Georgiana Popescu
Roxana Iuliana Anghel
6 United StatesGrace Luczak
Kendall Chase
Claire Collins
Madeleine Wanamaker
7 Great BritainRowan McKellar
Harriet Taylor
Karen Bennett
Rebecca Shorten
8 CanadaStephanie Grauer
Nicole Hare
Jennifer Martins
Kristina Walker
Final Qualification Regatta 1 IrelandAifric Keogh
Eimear Lambe
Fiona Murtagh
Emily Hegarty
2 ChinaQin Miaomiao
Wang Fei
Lin Xinyu
Lu Shiyu
Total10

Women's eight

Event # Nation Nominated rowers
2019 World Rowing Championships 1 New ZealandKelsey Bevan
Emma Dyke
Kirstyn Goodger
Jackie Gowler
Ella Greenslade
Beth Ross
Lucy Spoors
Phoebe Spoors
Caleb Shepherd (cox)
2 AustraliaOlympia Aldersey
Molly Goodman
Sarah Hawe
Genevieve Horton
Bronwyn Cox
Giorgia Patten
Georgina Rowe
Katrina Werry
James Rook
3 United StatesKatelin Guregian
Meghan Musnicki
Charlotte Buck
Olivia Coffey
Gia Doonan
Brooke Mooney
Kristine O'Brien
Regina Salmons
Jessica Thoennes
4 CanadaSusanne Grainger
Kasia Gruchalla-Wesierski
Madison Mailey
Sydney Payne
Andrea Proske
Lisa Roman
Christine Roper
Avalon Wasteneys
Kristen Kit
5 Great BritainFiona Gammond
Sara Parfett
Rebecca Edwards
Chloe Brew
Katherine Douglas
Caragh McMurtry
Rebecca Muzerie
Emily Ford
Matilda Horn
Final Qualification Regatta 1 ChinaWang Zifeng
Wang Yuwei
Xu Fei
Miao Tian
Zhang Min
Ju Rui
Li Jingjing
Guo Linlin
2 RomaniaMaria-Magdalena Rusu
Viviana-Iuliana Bejinariu
Georgiana Dedu
Maria Tivodariu
Ioana Vrînceanu
Amalia Beres
Mădălina Bereș
Denisa Tîlvescu
Daniela Druncea(cox)
Total7

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Notes

  1. Reallocated host quota
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