Mohammed Riyadh Jasim Al-Khafaji (born 20 February 1994 in Baghdad) is an Iraqi rower. He placed 21st in the men's single sculls event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. [1] [2]
Ondřej Synek is a Czech former rower. He is a five-time World Champion in Single Sculls, winning in 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2017. He won Olympic silver medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and 2012 Summer Olympics in London. In Beijing he came in as the chief rival of Mahé Drysdale, but despite Drysdale coming down with a painful stomach flu and falling in the final stages of the final to bronze, he was upset for the gold by defending Olympic Champion Olaf Tufte, who Synek had regularly been beating the previous couple years. In London he was jointly favored for gold with Drysdale after trading gold and silver at the previous two World Championships, but fell short to Drysdale in the final.
Marcel Hacker is a German rower.
Jérémie Azou is a French former rower. He is an Olympic, World, and European champion in the men's lightweight double sculls.
Carina Bär is a German rower. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro she competed in the women's quadruple sculls competition in which the German team won the gold medal. She had previous won the silver medal in the same event at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Jonathan Koch is a German lightweight rower.
The 2015 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held from 30 August to 6 September 2015 at the Lac d'Aiguebelette, Aiguebelette-le-Lac in France.
The rowing competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro took place from 6 to 13 August 2016 at the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon in Lagoa. Fourteen medal events were being contested by 547 athletes, 334 men and 213 women.
Italy competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 September to 18 September 2016. The first places the team qualified were for three athletes in sailing events. Martina Caironi has been chosen to carry the nation's flag at the opening ceremony.
Denmark competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. Danish athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games throughout the modern era, except for the sparsely attended 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis. The Danish team consisted of 120 athletes, 79 men and 41 women, across sixteen sports. Before the start of the games, DIF sat an official medal goal of 10 medals for the Rio games.
Stefanos Ntouskos is a Greek competitive rower. He won a gold medal in the men's single sculls, at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Sid Ali Boudina is an Algerian rower. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the men's single sculls event, in which he placed 23rd.
Bendegúz Pétervári-Molnár is a Hungarian rower.
Kim Dong-yong is a South Korean rower. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he finished in 22nd place in the men's single sculls. He placed 17th in the men's single sculls event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Shakhboz Kholmurzaev is an Uzbekistani rower. He placed 22nd in the men's single sculls event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Arturo Rivarola is a Paraguayan rower. He placed 24th in the men's single sculls event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Andrew Peebles is a Zimbabwean rower. He placed 25th in the men's single sculls event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Mohamed Taieb is a Tunisian rower. He placed 27th in the men's single sculls event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Al-Hussein Gambour is a Libyan rower. He placed 32nd in the men's single sculls event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Saiyidah Aisyah Mohamed Rafa’ee, commonly known as Aisyah, is a Singaporean rower. She placed 23rd in the women's single sculls event at the 2016 Summer Olympics, making her Singapore's first Olympic rower.