2025 World Rowing Championships

2025 World Rowing Championships
Venue	Dianshan Lake
Location	Shanghai, China
Dates	21–28 September
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The World Rowing Championships were the 53rd edition, held from 21 to 28 September 2025 in Shanghai, China, under the organization of the International Federation of Rowing Societies (FISA) and the Chinese Rowing Federation. ^[1]

Shanghai was supposed to hold the 2021 World Rowing Championships at the Shanghai Water Sports Centre on Dianshan Lake, but the competition was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. ^[2] The 2025 event used the venue that had been chosen for the 2021 competition. ^[3] The competition consisted of all 12 Olympic flatwater events (but not coastal rowing), and a full programme of Paralympic pararowing events. in addition to a further series of non-Olympic lightweight events, and mixed sex events for able-bodied rowers.

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (China)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Netherlands	4	1	1	6
2	Great Britain	3	4	1	8
3	China*	3	3	1	7
4	Romania	2	4	0	6
5	Ireland	2	0	2	4
	United States	2	0	2	4
7	Germany	1	2	3	6
8	Ukraine	1	2	0	3
9	Italy	1	1	0	2
10	New Zealand	1	0	2	3
11	Poland	1	0	1	2
12	Greece	1	0	0	1
	Uruguay	1	0	0	1
14	Austria	0	1	0	1
	France	0	1	0	1
	Indonesia	0	1	0	1
	Serbia	0	1	0	1
	South Korea	0	1	0	1
	Tunisia	0	1	0	1
20	Australia	0	0	2	2
	Individual Neutral Athletes	0	0	2	2
	Switzerland	0	0	2	2
23	Denmark	0	0	1	1
	Israel	0	0	1	1
	Mexico	0	0	1	1
	Peru	0	0	1	1
Totals (26 entries)		23	23	23	69

  Non-Olympic/Paralympic classes

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Openweight events
M1x details	Stefanos Ntouskos   Greece	6:36.75	Oliver Zeidler   Germany	6:37.17	Yauheni Zalaty   Individual Neutral Athletes	6:38.60
M2x details	Poland (b) Mirosław Ziętarski (s) Mateusz Biskup	6:11.97	Serbia (b) Martin Mačković (s) Nikolaj Pimenov	6:13.57	Ireland (b) Philip Doyle (s) Fintan McCarthy	6:15.13
M4x details	Italy (b) Luca Chiumento (2) Luca Rambaldi (3) Andrea Panizza (s) Giacomo Gentili	5:48.08	Great Britain (b) Cedol Dafydd (2) Callum Dixon (3) Matt Haywood (s) Rory Harris	5:50.06	Poland (b) Dominik Czaja (2) Piotr Płomiński (3) Jakub Woźniak (s) Konrad Domański	5:51.34
M2− details	New Zealand (b) Oliver Welch (s) Benjamin Taylor	6:37.87	Romania (b) Florin Arteni (s) Florin Lehaci	6:42.85	Switzerland (b) Jonah Plock (s) Patrick Brunner	6:43.84
M4− details	Great Britain (b) Daniel Graham (2) James Robson (3) Douwe De Graaf (s) George Bourne	5:48.48	Romania (b) Ștefan Berariu (2) Sergiu Bejan (3) Andrei Mândrilă (s) Ciprian Tudosă	5:50.56	Netherlands (b) Lennart van Lierop (2) Melvin Twellaar (3) Guillaume Krommenhoek (s) Gert-Jan van Doorn	5:52.01
M8+ details	Netherlands Eli Brouwer Finn Florijn Wibout Rustenburg Jorn Salverda Sander de Graaf Pieter van Veen Jan van der Bij Mick Makker Jonna de Vries (F) (c)	5:27.67	Great Britain William Stewart Archie Drummond David Bewicke-Copley Fergus Woolnough Miles Beeson Samuel Nunn Matt Aldridge Matthew Rowe William Denegri (c)	5:29.93	United States Christian Tabash Jacob Hudgins Michael Herman Alexander Hedge Madison Molitor Billy Bender Gus Rodríguez Pieter Quinton Rachel Rane (F) (c)	5:30.09
Lightweight events
LM1x details	Felipe Klüver   Uruguay	6:54.10	Julian Schöberl   Austria	6:57.85	Jacob McCarthy   Ireland	6:59.07
LM2x details	China (b) Li Yawei (s) Sun Man	6:44.90	Indonesia (b) Ali Mardiansyah (s) Rafiq Wijdan Yasir	6:47.40	Germany (b) Joachim Agne (s) Paul Maissenhälter	6:50.24

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Openweight events
W1x details	Fiona Murtagh   Ireland	7:12.27	Lauren Henry   Great Britain	7:12.30	Frida Sanggaard Nielsen   Denmark	7:15.89
W2x details	Netherlands (b) Roos de Jong (s) Benthe Boonstra	6:49.34	China (b) Chen Yunxia (s) Zhang Ling	6:50.22	Individual Neutral Athletes (b) Tatsiana Klimovich (s) Alena Furman	6:53.26
W4x details	Netherlands (b) Lisa Bruijnincx (2) Margot Leeuwenburgh (3) Willemijn Mulder (s) Tessa Dullemans	6:32.92	Great Britain (b) Sarah McKay (2) Hannah Scott (3) Lola Anderson (s) Becky Wilde	6:34.52	Germany (b) Sarah Wibberenz (2) Frauke Hundeling (3) Lisa Gutfleisch (s) Pia Greiten	6:36.00
W2− details	Romania (b) Maria Magdalena Rusu (s) Simona Radiș	7:08.52	France (b) Emma Cornelis (s) Hézékia Péron	7:13.31	United States (b) Jessica Thoennes (s) Holly Drapp	7:13.93
W4− details	United States (b) Camille Vandermeer (2) Azja Czajkowski (3) Teal Cohen (s) Kaitlin Knifton	6:27.71	Romania (b) Ancuța Bodnar (2) Dumitrița Juncănariu (3) Adriana Adam (s) Amalia Bereș	6:28.44	New Zealand (b) Juliette Lequeux (2) Rebecca Leigh (3) Isla Blake (s) Alana Sherman	6:31.11
W8+ details	Netherlands Linn van Aanholt Nika Johanna Vos Lisanne Van Der Lelij Vera Sneijders Hermijntje Drenth Ilse Kolkman Ymkje Clevering Tinka Offereins Dieuwke Fetter (c)	6:08.10	Romania Cristina Druga Roxana Anghel Iulia-Liliana Balauca Maria Lehaci Ancuța Bodnar Dumitrița Juncănariu Adriana Adam Amalia Bereș Victoria-Ștefania Petreanu (c)	6:10.83	Great Britain Eleanor Brinkhoff Juliette Perry Amelia Standing Martha Birtles Lauren Irwin Eve Stewart Heidi Long Megan Slabbert Jack Tottem (M) (c)	6:12.66
Lightweight events
LW1x details	Michelle Sechser   United States	7:30.14	Pan Dandan   China	7:30.45	Kenia Lechuga   Mexico	7:32.23
LW2x details	China (b) Zou Jiaqi (s) Fu Ling	7:26.12	Tunisia (b) Khadija Krimi (s) Selma Dhaouadi	7:40.90	Peru (b) Alessia Palacios (s) Valeria Palacios	7:46.04

Mixed

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Mix2x details	Ireland (b) Fintan McCarthy (s) Margaret Cremen	6:24.22	Netherlands (b) Roos de Jong (s) Melvin Twellaar	6:24.91	Switzerland (b) Celia Dupre (s) Raphael Ahumada	6:27.18
Mix8+ details	Romania Maria Magdalena Rusu Maria Lehaci Andrada-Maria Moroșanu Florin Lehaci Florin Arteni Ciprian Tudosă Ștefan Berariu Simona Radiș Victoria-Ștefania Petreanu (c)	5:34.46	Italy Laura Meriano Elisa Mondelli Aisha Rocek Alice Codato Giacomo Gentili Andrea Panizza Nunzio Di Colandrea Giovanni Codato Alessandra Faella (c)	5:39.58	New Zealand Isla Blake Juliette Lequeux Rebecca Leigh Flynn Eliadis-Watson Campbell Crouch Benjamin Taylor Oliver Welch Alana Sherman Harrison Molloy (c)	5:41.06

Pararowing

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
PR1M1x details	Benjamin Pritchard   Great Britain	8:55.65	Roman Polianskyi   Ukraine	9:02.74	Erik Horrie   Australia	9:04.10
PR1W1x details	Anna Sheremet   Ukraine	10:18.49	Kim Se-jeong   South Korea	10:47.53	Shao Shasha   China	10:50.78
PR2Mix2x details	China (b) Liu Shuang (s) Jiang Jijian	8:07.75	Germany (b) Jasmina Bier (s) Paul Umbach	8:15.58	Israel (b) Shahar Milfelder (s) Saleh Shahin	8:17.15
PR3Mix2x details	Germany Valentin Luz Kathrin Marchand	6:58.64	Ukraine Stanislav Samoliuk Dariia Kotyk	7:05.33	Australia Lisa Greissl Sam Stunell	7:06.60
PR3Mix4+ details	Great Britain (b) Francesca Allen (2) Giedrė Rakauskaitė (3) Edward Fuller (s) Joshua O'Brien (c) Tom Bryce	6:52.12	China (b) Wang Xixi (2) Zeng Wanbin (3) Wu Yunlong (s) Jiang Lingtao (c) Yu Li	6:59.06	Germany (b) Kathrin Marchand (2) Hermine Krumbein (3) Philipp Dosse (s) Marc Lembeck (c) Inga Thöne	7:04.98

Participating nations

672 rowers from 56 countries participated: ^[4]

•   Australia (41)
•   Austria (3)
•   Belgium (4)
•   Brazil (12)
•   Canada (26)
•   Chile (26)
•   China (56) (host)
•   Croatia (9)
•   Czech Republic (17)
•   Denmark (14)
•   Egypt (3)
•   Estonia (3)
•   France (24)
•   Georgia (2)
•   Germany (46)
•   Ghana (1)
•   Great Britain (48)
•   Greece (6)
•   Hong Kong (12)
•   Hungary (2)
•   India (2)
• Individual Neutral Athletes (13)
•   Indonesia (6)
•   Iraq (2)
•   Ireland (22)
•   Israel (2)
•   Italy (40)
•   Japan (9)
•   Kazakhstan (4)
•   Kuwait (2)
•   Lithuania (10)
•   Malaysia (5)
•   Mexico (7)
•   Moldova (1)
•   Netherlands (35)
•   New Zealand (18)
•   Norway (4)
•   Peru (3)
•   Poland (31)
•   Romania (40)
•   Serbia (4)
•   Slovenia (1)
•   South Africa (5)
•   South Korea (8)
•   Spain (22)
•   Sudan (1)
•   Sweden (4)
•   Switzerland (15)
•   Togo (1)
•   Tunisia (5)
•   Turkey (4)
•   Ukraine (18)
•   United States (44)
•   Uruguay (3)
•   Uzbekistan (11)

References

1. "2022 World Rowing Congress attributes 2025 World Rowing Championships to Shanghai". World Rowing. 26 September 2022. Retrieved 22 April 2024.
2. "World Rowing – Definitive Cancellation of the 2021 World Rowing Championships". World Rowing. 14 July 2021. Retrieved 5 May 2025.
3. "2025 World Rowing Championships". World Rowing . Retrieved 5 May 2025.
4. Entry list by country