Rowing

How partnerships on and off the water are helping World Rowing to democratise the sport, attract new audiences and lessen the governing body’s reliance on Olympic revenues.

World Rowing is working on a plan to launch a franchise-based league for Beach Sprint, its newest discipline that will debut at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics, which it will operate as a joint venture with…

Szeged in Hungary and Belgrade in Serbia have been awarded hosting rights to the European Rowing Championships in 2024 and 2025, respectively

Shanghai and Amsterdam have been awarded hosting rights to the World Rowing Championships

World Rowing has announced that scheduled World and European Championship events in Sabaudia, Italy will no longer take place due to recent “unforeseen political changes”.

Shanghai has returned to the bidding table for the World Rowing Championships as one of three contenders for the hosting rights to the 2025 event

The Boat Race, the annual rowing competition between Cambridge and Oxford Universities, has renewed its sponsorship deal with wine producer Chapel Down

Morinari Watanabe has been re-elected as president of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) after seeing off rival challenger Farid Gayibov, while Jean-Christophe Rolland has secured a further…

Vincent Gaillard, the former chief executive of European Professional Club Rugby, is to take up a new role as executive director of World Rowing

World Rowing’s leadership appears set to remain intact for another four-year term after Jean-Christophe Rolland and Tricia Smith were today (Monday) confirmed to be running unopposed as president and v…

Sunset+Vine, the UK-based sports production and media company, has widened its work with the Henley Royal Regatta by securing a press contract with the showpiece British rowing event

World Rowing has announced that its 2021 World Rowing Championships have been cancelled due to Covid-19, following a request from host city Shanghai

The 2022 World Rowing Indoor Championships will be staged as a hybrid event, giving athletes a choice to compete either in person or virtually from across the globe

Cryptocurrency exchange brand Gemini will title sponsor this year’s Boat Race between Cambridge and Oxford Universities in a one-event deal.

The Tencent Cloud division of Chinese digital media company Tencent has agreed a deal with World Rowing to provide global live streaming of the federation’s upcoming World Indoor Championships.

Eurovision Sport, the sports arm of the European Broadcasting Union, has retained broadcast rights in Europe to the major events organised by World Rowing in a four-year agreement with the Lausanne-based…

British Rowing has extended its contract with global analytics partner SAS. The deal will now run until December 2021, meaning it will cover the rescheduled 2021 Olympic Games and Paralympics in Tokyo

Fifa has created a new international match window in 2022, from January 24 to February 1, to ease fixture congestion caused by the Covid-19 pandemic - Japan Today