Rowing at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification

This article details the qualifying phase for rowing at the 2016 Summer Olympics. The majority of the spots were awarded based on the results at the 2015 World Rowing Championships, held at Lac d'Aiguebelette, France from August 30 to September 6, 2015.[1][2] Places gained there were awarded to National Olympic Committees, not to specific athletes. Further berths are distributed to the nations at four continental qualifying regattas in Asia and Oceania, Africa, Latin America, and Europe (with the additional participation of the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand), the latter being the final Olympic qualification regatta in Lucerne, Switzerland. In July 2016, four Russian crews were removed because of doping concerns, and FISA announced which NOCs would replace them.[3]

Summary

Nation Men Women Crews Athletes
M1x M2- M2x M4- M4x M8+ LM2x LM4- W1x W2- W2x W4x W8+ LW2x
 Algeria X X 2 2
 Angola X 1 2
 Argentina X X 2 2
 Australia X X X X X X X X X 9 29
 Austria X X 2 3
 Azerbaijan X 1 2
 Bahamas X 1 1
 Belarus X X X X X 5 10
 Belgium X 1 1
 Bermuda X 1 1
 Brazil X X 2 4
 Bulgaria X 1 2
 Canada X X X X X X X 7 26
 Chile X X 2 4
 China X X X X X X X 7 17
 Croatia X X 2 3
 Cuba X X X X 4 7
 Czech Republic X X X X X 5 8
 Denmark X X X X X X 6 12
 Ecuador X 1 1
 Egypt X X 2 2
 Estonia X 1 4
 France X X X X X X X 7 18
 Germany X X X X X X X X X X 10 35
 Great Britain X X X X X X X X X X X X 12 43
 Greece X X X 3 10
 Hong Kong X X 2 4
 Hungary X X 2 3
 India X 1 1
 Indonesia X X 2 2
 Iran X 1 1
 Iraq X 1 1
 Ireland X X X 3 5
 Italy X X X X X X X X 8 27
 Japan X X 2 4
 Kazakhstan X X 2 2
 Libya X 1 1
 Lithuania X X X X X 5 10
 Mexico X X 2 2
 Netherlands X X X X X X X X 8 36
 New Zealand X X X X X X X X X X X 11 38
 Nigeria X 1 1
 Norway X X X 3 5
 Paraguay X X 2 2
 Peru X X 2 2
 Poland X X X X X X X X 8 26
 Romania X X X X X 5 19
 Russia X 1 4
 Serbia X X 2 4
 Singapore X 1 1
 South Africa X X X X X 5 12
 South Korea X X 2 2
 Spain X X 2 4
 Sweden X 1 1
 Switzerland X X X X 4 11
 Chinese Taipei X 1 1
 Thailand X X 2 2
 Togo X 1 1
 Trinidad and Tobago X 1 1
 Tunisia X X 2 3
 Turkey X 1 2
 Ukraine X X 2 8
 United States X X X X X X X X X X X 11 41
 Uruguay X 1 1
 Uzbekistan X 1 1
 Vanuatu X 1 1
 Venezuela X 1 1
 Vietnam X 1 2
 Zimbabwe X X 2 2
Total: 69 NOCs 32 13 13 13 10 7 20 13 32 15 13 7 7 20 215 550

Timeline

Event Date Venue
2015 World Rowing Championships August 30 – September 6, 2015 France Lac d'Aiguebelette[2]
African Continental Qualification Regatta October 5–7, 2015 Tunisia Tunis[4]
Latin America Continental Qualification Regatta March 22–24, 2016 Chile Valparaiso
Asia & Oceania Continental Qualification Regatta April 23–25, 2016 South Korea Chungju
European and Final Qualification Regatta May 22–24, 2016 Switzerland Lucerne[1]

Men's events

Single sculls

Event # Nation Qualified rower
2015 World Rowing Championships 1  Czech Republic Ondřej Synek
2  New Zealand Mahé Drysdale
3  Lithuania Armandas Kelmelis
4  Norway Nils Jakob Hoff
5  Croatia Damir Martin
6  Cuba Ángel Fournier
7  Belarus Stanislau Shcharbachenia
8  Great Britain Alan Campbell
9  Poland Natan Węgrzycki-Szymczyk
Asia & Oceania Qualification Regatta 1  South Korea Kim Dong-yong
2  India Dattu Baban Bhokanal
3  Indonesia Memo
4  Thailand Jaruwat Saensuk
5  Kazakhstan Vladislav Yakovlev
6  Iraq Mohammed Riyadh
7  Uzbekistan Shakhboz Kholmirzayev
African Qualification Regatta 1  Egypt Abdelkhalek El-Banna
2  Tunisia Mohamed Taieb
3  Algeria Sid Ali Boudina
4  Zimbabwe Andrew Peebles
Latin American Qualification Regatta 1  Mexico Juan Carlos Cabrera
2  Argentina Brian Rosso
3  Peru Renzo Leon Garcia
4  Uruguay Jhonatan Esquivel
5  Venezuela Jakson Vicent Monasterio
6  Ecuador Bryan Sola Zambrano
7  Paraguay Arturo Rivarola
European Qualification Regatta 1  Belgium Hannes Obreno
2  Australia Rhys Grant
3  Hungary Bendegúz Pétervári-Molnár
Tripartite Invitation 1  Libya Al-Hussein Gambour
1  Vanuatu Luigi Teilemb
Total 32

Information updated after choices made by NOCs after Latin American qualification regatta.[5]

Double sculls

Event # Nation Qualified rowers
2015 World Rowing Championships 1  Croatia Martin Sinković
Valent Sinković
2  Lithuania Mindaugas Griškonis
Saulius Ritter
3  New Zealand Chris Harris
Robbie Manson
4  Germany Marcel Hacker
Stephan Krüger
5  Australia Chris Morgan
David Watts
6  France Matthieu Androdias
Hugo Boucheron
7  Azerbaijan Aleksandar Aleksandrov
Boris Yotov
8  Great Britain John Collins
Jonathan Walton
9  Cuba Adrián Oquendo
Eduardo Rubio
10  Italy Romano Battisti
Francesco Fossi
11  Bulgaria Georgi Bozhilov
Kristian Vasilev
Final Olympic Qualification Regatta 1  Norway Kjetil Borch
Olaf Tufte
2  Serbia Marko Marjanovic
Andrija Sljukic
Total 13

Lightweight double sculls

Event # Nation Qualified rowers
2015 World Rowing Championships 1  France Jérémie Azou
Pierre Houin
2  Great Britain Richard Chambers
Will Fletcher
3  Norway Kristoffer Brun
Are Strandli
4  South Africa John Smith
James Thompson
5  Italy Marcello Miani
Andrea Micheletti
6  Germany Moritz Moos
Jason Osborne
7  Poland Miłosz Jankowski
Artur Mikołajczewski
8  United States Andrew Campbell
Joshua Konieczny
9  Austria Bernhard Sieber
Paul Sieber
10  Switzerland Michael Schmid
Daniel Wiederkehr
11  Ireland Paul O'Donovan
Gary O'Donovan
Asia & Oceania Qualification Regatta 1  China Sun Man
Wang Chunxin
2  Japan Hiroshi Nakano
Hideki Omoto
3  Hong Kong Chiu Hin Chun
Tang Chiu Mang
African Qualification Regatta 1  Angola+ André Matias
Jean-Luc Rasamoelina
Latin American Qualification Regatta 1  Brazil William Giaretton
Xavier Vela
2  Cuba Raúl Hernández
Liosbel Hernández
3  Chile Felipe Cárdenas
Bernardo Guerrero
European Qualification Regatta 1  Turkey Hüseyin Kandemir
Enes Kuşku
2  Denmark Mads Rasmussen
Rasmus Quist Hansen
Total 20

+ EGY won LM2x and M1x at Continental Qualification Regatta, but NOC had to decide which boat to confirm for the Games due to the one-boat quota rule on each gender at the Continental Qualification Regatta. EGY chose M1x, hence LM2x place went to ANG.

Information updated after choices made by NOCs after Latin American qualification regatta.[5]

BEL chose M1x after European Qual Regatta, hence LM2x place went to DEN.

Quadruple sculls

Event # Nation Qualified rowers
2015 World Rowing Championships 1  Germany Hans Gruhne
Lauritz Schoof
Karl Schulz
Philipp Wende
2  Australia Alexander Belonogoff
Karsten Forsterling
Cameron Girdlestone
James McRae
3  Estonia Tõnu Endrekson
Andrei Jämsä
Allar Raja
Kaspar Taimsoo
4  Great Britain Angus Groom
Peter Lambert
Sam Townsend
Graeme Thomas
5  Switzerland Barnabé Delarze
Augustin Maillefer
Roman Röösli
Nico Stahlberg
6  Lithuania Aurimas Adomavičius
Martynas Džiaugys
Dominykas Jančionis
Dovydas Nemeravičius
7  Poland Mateusz Biskup
Wiktor Chabel
Dariusz Radosz
Mirosław Ziętarski
8  Ukraine Dmytro Mikhay
Artem Morozov
Oleksandr Nadtoka
Ivan Dovhodko
Final Olympic Qualification Regatta  Russia Nikita Morgachyov
Artyom Kosov
Vladislav Ryabtsev
Sergey Fedorovtsev
*
1  Canada Julien Bahain
Robert Gibson
Will Dean
Pascal Lussier
2  New Zealand George Bridgewater
Nathan Flannery
John Storey
Jade Uru
Total 10
  • Russia were disqualified on 1 July 2016 following the nullification of all results following a failure in an anti-doping test by Sergey Fedorovtsev. Their quota place was transferred to New Zealand.

Pair

Event # Nation Qualified rowers
2015 World Rowing Championships 1  New Zealand Hamish Bond
Eric Murray
2  Great Britain Stewart Innes
Alan Sinclair
3  Serbia Nenad Beđik
Miloš Vasić
4  Netherlands Roel Braas
Mitchel Steenman
5  Italy Giovanni Abagnale
Vincenzo Capelli
6  Australia Alexander Lloyd
Spencer Turrin
7  South Africa Lawrence Brittain
Shaun Keeling
8  France Germain Chardin
Dorian Mortelette
9  United States Nareg Guregian
Anders Weiss
10  Spain Alex Sigurbjornsson
Pau Vela
11  Romania Cristi-Ilie Pârghie
George Alexandru Pălămariu
Final Olympic Qualification Regatta 1  Czech Republic Jakub Podrazil
Lukáš Helešic
2  Hungary Béla Simon
Adrián Juhász
Total 13

Four

Event # Nation Qualified rowers
2015 World Rowing Championships 1  Italy Marco Di Costanzo
Matteo Lodo
Domenico Montrone
Giuseppe Vicino
2  Australia Josh Booth
Josh Dunkley-Smith
Alexander Hill
William Lockwood
3  Great Britain Alex Gregory
Constantine Louloudis
George Nash
Moe Sbihi
4  Canada Will Crothers
Kai Langerfeld
Conlin McCabe
Tim Schrijver
5  Germany Anton Braun
Maximilian Korge
Max Planer
Felix Wimberger
6  Netherlands Harold Langen
Peter van Schie
Govert Viergever
Vincent van der Want
7  United States Charlie Cole
Henrik Rummel
Matt Miller
Seth Weil
8  Belarus Vadzim Lialin
Dzianis Mihal
Mikalai Sharlap
Ihar Pashevich
9  Greece Dionisis Angelopoulos
Ioannis Christou
Ioannis Tsilis
Georgios Tziallas
10  Russia Anton Zarutskiy
Artyom Kosov
Vladislav Ryabtsev
Nikita Morgachyov
11  Romania Vlad-Dragos Aicoboae
Constantin Adam
Marius Cozmiuc
Toader-Andrei Gontaru
Final Olympic Qualification Regatta 1  South Africa David Hunt
Jonty Smith
Vincent Breet
Jake Green
2  France Benjamin Lang
Mickaël Marteau
Théophile Onfroy
Valentin Onfroy
Total 13

Lightweight four

Event # Nation Qualified rowers
2015 World Rowing Championships 1  Switzerland Mario Gyr
Simon Niepmann
Simon Schürch
Lucas Tramèr
2  Denmark Jacob Barsøe
Morten Jørgensen
Kasper Winther Jørgensen
Jacob Larsen
3  France Thomas Baroukh
Thibault Colard
Guillaume Raineau
Franck Solforosi
4  New Zealand Alistair Bond
James Hunter
James Lassche
Peter Taylor
5  Netherlands Björn van den Ende
Jort van Gennep
Tim Heijbrock
Joris Pijs
6  Italy Martino Goretti
Livio La Padula
Stefano Oppo
Pietro Ruta
7  United States Anthony Fahden
Edward King
Tyler Nase
Robin Prendes
8  China Jin Wei
Zhao Jingbin
Yu Chenggang
Wang Tiexin
9  Great Britain Mark Aldred
Chris Bartley
Peter Chambers
Jono Clegg
10  Czech Republic Jiří Kopáč
Jan Vetešník
Ondřej Vetešník
Miroslav Vraštil Jr.
11  Canada Brendan Hodge
Maxwell Lattimer
Nicolas Pratt
Eric Woelfl
Final Olympic Qualification Regatta 1  Russia
1  Germany Tobias Franzmann
Jonathan Koch
Lucas Schäfer
Lars Wichert
2  Greece Spyridon Giannaros
Panagiotis Magdanis
Stefanos Ntouskos
Ioannis Petrou
Total 13

Eight

Event # Nation Qualified rowers
2015 World Rowing Championships 1  Great Britain Paul Bennett
Scott Durant
Matt Gotrel
Matt Langridge
Tom Ransley
Pete Reed
Will Satch
Andrew Triggs Hodge
Phelan Hill (cox)
2  Germany Felix Drahotta
Malte Jakschik
Eric Johannesen
Andreas Kuffner
Maximilian Munski
Hannes Ocik
Maximilian Reinelt
Richard Schmidt
Martin Sauer (cox)
3  Netherlands Kaj Hendriks
Robert Lücken
Boaz Meylink
Boudewijn Röell
Olivier Siegelaar
Dirk Uittenbogaard
Mechiel Versluis
Tone Wieten
Peter Wiersum (cox)
4  New Zealand Michael Brake
Isaac Grainger
Stephen Jones
Alex Kennedy
Shaun Kirkham
Tom Murray
Brook Robertson
Joe Wright
Caleb Shepherd (cox)
5  Russia
Final Olympic Qualification Regatta 1  United States Mike DiSanto
Sam Dommer
Austin Hack
Alex Karwoski
Stephen Kasprzyk
Rob Munn
Glenn Ochal
Hans Struzyna
Sam Ojserkis (cox)
2  Poland Zbigniew Schodowski
Mateusz Wilangowski
Marcin Brzeziński
Robert Fuchs
Krystian Aranowski
Michał Szpakowski
Mikołaj Burda
Piotr Juszczak
Daniel Trojanowski (cox)
3  Italy Luca Agamennoni
Vincenzo Capelli
Pierpaolo Frattini
Fabio Infimo
Emanuele Liuzzi
Mario Paonessa
Matteo Stefanini
Simone Venier
Enrico D’Aniello (cox)
Total 7

Women's events

Single sculls

Event # Nation Qualified rower
2015 World Rowing Championships 1  Australia Kim Brennan
2  Czech Republic Miroslava Knapková
3  China Duan Jingli
4  United States Genevra Stone
5  Switzerland Jeannine Gmelin
6  Canada Carling Zeeman
7  Sweden Anna Malvina Svennung
8  Lithuania Lina Šaltytė
9  Austria Magdalena Lobnig
Asia & Oceania Qualification Regatta 1  South Korea Kim Ye-ji
2  Iran Mahsa Javar
3  Chinese Taipei Huang Yi-ting
4  Kazakhstan Svetlana Germanovich
5  Indonesia Dewi Yuliawati
6  Singapore Saiyidah Aisyah
7  Thailand Phuttharaksa Neegree
African Qualification Regatta 1  Zimbabwe Micheen Thornycroft
2  Algeria Amina Rouba
3  Nigeria Chierika Ukogu
4  Egypt Heba Ahmed
Latin American Qualification Regatta 1  Bermuda Michelle Pearson
2  Mexico Kenia Lechuga
3  Trinidad and Tobago Felice Chow
4  Argentina Lucia Palermo
5  Paraguay Gabriela Mosqueira
6  Peru Camila Valle
7  Bahamas Emily Morley
European & Final Olympic Qualification Regatta 1  New Zealand Emma Twigg
2  Ireland Sanita Pušpure
3  Belarus Ekaterina Karsten
4  Denmark Fie Udby Erichsen
Tripartite Invitation  Togo Claire Akossiwa
Total 32

Information updated after choices made by NOCs after Latin American qualification regatta.[5]

Double sculls

Event # Nation Qualified rowers
2015 World Rowing Championships 1  New Zealand Eve MacFarlane
Zoe Stevenson
2  Greece Sofia Asoumanaki
Aikaterini Nikolaidou
3  Germany Mareike Adams
Marie-Cathérine Arnold
4  Poland Magdalena Fularczyk
Natalia Madaj
5  Lithuania Milda Valčiukaitė
Donata Vištartaitė
6  Great Britain Katherine Grainger
Victoria Thornley
7  China Lü Yang
Zhu Weiwei
8  France Hélène Lefebvre
Elodie Ravera
9  Belarus Yuliya Bichyk
Tatsiana Kukhta
10  Australia Genevieve Horton
Sally Kehoe
11  United States Meghan O'Leary
Ellen Tomek
Final Olympic Qualification Regatta 1  Czech Republic Lenka Antošová
Kristýna Fleissnerová
2  Denmark Lisbet Jakobsen
Nina Hollensen
Total 13

Lightweight double sculls

Event # Nation Qualified rowers
2015 World Rowing Championships 1  New Zealand Julia Edward
Sophie MacKenzie
2  Great Britain Katherine Copeland
Charlotte Taylor
3  South Africa Ursula Grobler
Kirsten McCann
4  Canada Lindsay Jennerich
Patricia Obee
5  Denmark Anne Lolk Thomsen
Juliane Rasmussen
6  Germany Marie-Louise Dräger
Fini Sturm
7  China Huang Wenyi
Pan Feihong
8  Poland Weronika Deresz
Martyna Mikolajczak
9  Ireland Sinéad Jennings
Claire Lambe
 Russia
10  United States Kate Bertko
Devery Karz
Asia & Oceania Qualification Regatta 1  Japan Ayami Oishi
Chiaki Tomita
2  Vietnam Tạ Thanh Huyền
Hồ Thị Lý
3  Hong Kong Lee Yuen Yin
Lee Ka Man
African Qualification Regatta 1  Tunisia Nour El-Houda Ettaieb
Khadija Krimi
Latin American Qualification Regatta 1  Brazil Fernanda Nunes
Vanessa Cozzi
2  Cuba Yislena Hernandez
Licet Hernandez
3  Chile Melita Abraham
Josefa Vila
European Qualification Regatta 1  Netherlands Ilse Paulis
Maaike Head
2  Romania Gianina-Elena Beleaga
Ionela-Livia Lehaci
3  Italy Laura Milani
Valentina Rodini
Total 20

Quadruple sculls

Ukrainian quad sculls at the 2016 Final Olympic Qualification Regatta
Event # Nation Qualified rowers
2015 World Rowing Championships 1  United States Tracy Eisser
Megan Kalmoe
Grace Latz
Adrienne Martelli
2  Germany Carina Bär
Julia Lier
Lisa Schmidla
Annekatrin Thiele
3  Netherlands Chantal Achterberg
Nicole Beukers
Carline Bouw
Inge Janssen
4  Poland Monika Ciaciuch
Maria Springwald
Joanna Leszczyńska
Agnieszka Kobus
5  Australia Jennifer Cleary
Madeleine Edmunds
Jessica Hall
Kerry Hore
Final Olympic Qualification Regatta 1  China Zhang Ling
Jiang Yan
Wang Yuwei
Zhang Xinyue
2  Ukraine Daryna Verkhohliad
Olena Buryak
Anastasiya Kozhenkova
Ievgeniia Nimchenko
Total 7

Pair

Event # Nation Qualified rowers
2015 World Rowing Championships 1  Great Britain Helen Glover
Heather Stanning
2  New Zealand Genevieve Behrent
Rebecca Scown
3  United States Grace Luczak
Felice Mueller
4  Denmark Anne Dsane Andersen
Lærke Rasmussen
5  South Africa Lee-Ann Persse
Kate Christowitz
6  Canada Jennifer Martins
Nicole Hare
7  Romania Cristina Grigoraș
Laura Oprea
8  Germany Kerstin Hartmann
Kathrin Marchand
9  France Noémie Kober
Marie Le Nepvou
10  Belarus Alena Furman
Ina Nikulina
11  Netherlands Aletta Jorritsma
Karien Robbers
Final Olympic Qualification Regatta 1  Spain Anna Boada
Aina Cid
2  China Zhang Min
Miao Tian
3  Italy Alessandra Patelli
Sara Bertolasi
4  Poland Anna Wierzbowska
Maria Wierzbowska
Total 15

Eight

Event # Nation Qualified rowers
2015 World Rowing Championships 1  United States Amanda Elmore
Tessa Gobbo
Elle Logan
Meghan Musnicki
Amanda Polk
Emily Regan
Lauren Schmetterling
Kerry Simmonds
Katelin Snyder (cox)
2  New Zealand Genevieve Behrent
Kelsey Bevan
Emma Dyke
Kerri Gowler
Grace Prendergast
Kayla Pratt
Rebecca Scown
Ruby Tew
Francie Turner (cox)
3  Canada Ashley Brzozowicz
Susanne Grainger
Jennifer Martins
Natalie Mastracci
Cristy Nurse
Lisa Roman
Christine Roper
Lauren Wilkinson
Lesley Thompson (cox)
4  Great Britain Karen Bennett
Olivia Carnegie-Brown
Jessica Eddie
Katie Greves
Frances Houghton
Zoe Lee
Polly Swann
Melanie Wilson
Zoe de Toledo (cox)
5  Russia
Final Olympic Qualification Regatta 1  Romania Mădălina Bereș
Andreea Boghian
Adelina Bogus
Roxana Cogianu
Irina Dorneanu
Laura Oprea
Mihaela Petrilă
Ioana Strungaru
Daniela Druncea (cox)
2  Netherlands Wianka van Dorp
Sophie Souwer
Lies Rustenburg
José van Veen
Ellen Hogerwerf
Claudia Belderbos
Monica Lanz
Olivia van Rooijen
Ae-Ri Noort (cox)
3  Australia Fiona Albert
Olympia Aldersey
Molly Goodman
Alexandra Hagan
Jessica Morrison
Lucy Stephan
Charlotte Sutherland
Meaghan Volker
Sarah Banting (cox)
Total 7

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