Rowing

Rowing
Events

World Rowing has stepped up its association with rowing equipment manufacturer Concept2, with the extension of a longstanding partnership set to focus on developing indoor, ‘connected’ rowing globally.
Rowing
Sponsorship & Marketing

Luxury fashion brand Chanel has made its first foray into sport sponsorship by becoming title sponsor of The Boat Race
Rowing
Governance

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.
Rowing
Governance

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…
Rowing
Events

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

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

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”.
Rowing
Events

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
Rowing
Sponsorship & Marketing

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

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…
Rowing
Industry Moves

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

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…
Rowing
Host Broadcast & Production

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
Rowing
Events

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

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
Rowing
Sponsorship & Marketing

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

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.
Rowing
Media

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…