List of Olympic venues in rowing

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Creve Coeur Lake hosted the rowing events for the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis. Creve Coeur park.jpg
Creve Coeur Lake hosted the rowing events for the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis.
Lake Albano hosted the rowing events for the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. Castel Gandolfo.jpg
Lake Albano hosted the rowing events for the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.
Lake of Banyoles hosted the rowing events for the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. Aerea estany de banyoles.png
Lake of Banyoles hosted the rowing events for the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.

For the Summer Olympics, there are 28 venues that have been or will be used for rowing. These venues have occurred at lakes, rivers, shipping canals, and their own specialized courses. The first specialized course took place at 1932 and would serve as a model for other Olympic venues, most notably in 1972, 1976, 1980, 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012.

GamesVenueOther sports hosted at
venues for those games		CapacityRef.
1900 Paris Seine Swimming, Water polo Not listed. [1]
1904 St. Louis Creve Coeur Lake NoneNot listed. [2]
1908 London Henley Royal Regatta NoneNot listed. [3]
1912 Stockholm Djurgårdsbrunnsviken Diving, Modern pentathlon (swimming), Swimming, Water polo Not listed. [4]
1920 Antwerp Brussels–Scheldt Maritime Canal NoneNot listed. [5]
1924 Paris Bassin d'Argentuil None2,216 [6]
1928 Amsterdam Sloten None2,230 [7]
1932 Los Angeles Long Beach Marine Stadium None17,000 [8]
1936 Berlin Berlin-Grünau Regatta Course Canoeing 19,000 [9]
1948 London Henley Royal Regatta Canoeing Not listed. [10]
1952 Helsinki Meilahti None12,763 [11]
1956 Melbourne Lake Wendouree Canoeing 14,300 [12]
1960 Rome Lake Albano Canoeing 10,000 [13]
1964 Tokyo Toda Rowing Course None8,300 [14] [15]
1968 Mexico City Virgilio Uribe Rowing and Canoeing Course Canoeing 17,600 [16]
1972 Munich Regattastrecke Oberschleißheim Canoeing (sprint)41,000 [17]
1976 Montreal Notre Dame Island Canoeing 27,000 [18]
1980 Moscow Krylatskoye Sports Complex Canoeing and Rowing Basin Canoeing 21,600 [19]
1984 Los Angeles Lake Casitas Canoeing 4,680 [20]
1988 Seoul Han River Regatta Course/Canoeing Site Canoeing 25,000 [21]
1992 Barcelona Lake of Banyoles None4,500 [22]
1996 Atlanta Lake Lanier Canoeing (sprint)17,300 [23] [24]
2000 Sydney Sydney International Regatta Centre Canoeing (sprint)20,000 [25]
2004 Athens Schinias Olympic Rowing and Canoeing Centre Canoeing (sprint)14,000 [26]
2008 Beijing Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park Canoeing (slalom and sprint), Swimming (marathon)37,000 [27]
2012 London Dorney Lake Canoeing (sprint)30,000 maximum [28]
2016 Rio de Janeiro Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas Canoeing (sprint)14,000 [29]
2020 Tokyo Sea Forest Waterway Canoeing (sprint)24,000 [30]
2024 Paris Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium Canoeing (slalom and sprint)24,000
2028 Los Angeles Long Beach Marine Stadium Canoeing (sprint)Not listed.
2032 Brisbane Wyaralong Flatwater Centre Canoeing (sprint)14,000

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For the 1964 Summer Olympics, a total of thirty-three sports venues were used. Six of the venues were built before the International Olympic Committee awarded the 1964 Games to Tokyo in 1959. This included two venues that hosted the 1958 Asian Games. There were thirteen new, eight temporary, and five reconstructed and/or renovated venues that were used during the event. During the Olympics, wind and weather had issues with two athletic events. After the Olympics, one venue hosted both a FIFA World Cup and a World Athletics Championship event while another also hosted a World Athletics Championship event.

References

  1. ↑ 1900 Summer Olympics official report. pp. 17-18. Accessed 14 November 2010. (in French)
  2. ↑ Spalding's report of the 1904 Summer Olympics. Archived 2011-08-29 at the Wayback Machine p. 213. Accessed 4 October 2010.
  3. ↑ 1908 Summer Olympics official report. p. 237. Accessed 5 October 2010.
  4. ↑ 1912 Summer Olympics official report. pp. 211-7, 221-2. Accessed 5 October 2010.
  5. ↑ Sports-reference.com 1920 Summer Olympics rowing website.
  6. ↑ 1924 Olympics official report. Archived 2008-04-10 at the Wayback Machine pp. 165-7. (in French)
  7. ↑ 1928 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-04-08 at the Wayback Machine pp. 172, 267-72.
  8. ↑ 1932 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-04-10 at the Wayback Machine pp. 70-73.
  9. ↑ 1936 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2007-07-09 at the Wayback Machine Volume 2. pp. 996-1029. Accessed 17 October 2010.
  10. ↑ 1948 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine pp. 43, 47-8. Accessed 19 October 2010.
  11. ↑ 1952 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-04-11 at the Wayback Machine pp. 54-5. Accessed 21 October 2010.
  12. ↑ 1956 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-09-12 at the Wayback Machine p. 42. Accessed 25 October 2010.
  13. ↑ 1960 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 1. pp. 82-3. Accessed 28 October 2010.
  14. ↑ 1964 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2010-07-07 at the Wayback Machine Volume 1. Part 1. p. 115. Accessed 31 October 2010.
  15. ↑ 1964 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2010-07-07 at the Wayback Machine Volume 1. Part 1. pp. 130-1. Accessed 31 October 2010.
  16. ↑ 1968 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. Part 1. p. 75. Accessed 4 November 2010. (in English and French)
  17. ↑ 1972 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. Part 2. pp. 204-5. Accessed 8 November 2010.
  18. ↑ 1976 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. pp. 112-7. Accessed 14 November 2010.
  19. ↑ 1980 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. Part 1. pp. 91-4. Accessed 18 November 2010.
  20. ↑ 1984 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2010-11-02 at the Wayback Machine Volume 1. Part 1. pp. 108-12. Accessed 24 November 2010.
  21. ↑ 1988 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 1. Part 1. pp. 186-7. Accessed 1 December 2010.
  22. ↑ 1992 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. pp. 288-92. Accessed 6 December 2010.
  23. ↑ 1996 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 1. p. 541. Accessed 9 December 2010.
  24. ↑ 1996 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine Volume 3. pp. 452, 460. Accessed 9 December 2010.
  25. ↑ 2000 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2000-11-09 at the Wayback Machine Volume 1. p. 389. Accessed 17 December 2010.
  26. ↑ 2004 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-08-19 at the Wayback Machine Volume 2. pp. 283, 372. Accessed 24 December 2010.
  27. ↑ "Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park". Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. Archived from the original on 2008-08-09. Retrieved 2008-08-10.
  28. ↑ London2012.com profile of Dorney Lake (Eton Dorney). Archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today Accessed 30 December 2010.
  29. ↑ "Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas", Rio de Janeiro 2016 Candidate File (PDF), vol. 2, (BOC), February 16, 2009, pp. 70–73, archived from the original (PDF) on May 23, 2013, retrieved December 2, 2009.
  30. ↑ "8 Sports and venues", Tokyo 2020 Candidate File (PDF), vol. 2, Tokyo 2020, archived from the original (PDF) on April 5, 2013, retrieved September 10, 2013.
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