Rowing at the Summer Youth Olympics

Rowing at the Summer Youth Olympics
Rowing at the Summer Youth Olympics
Governing body	FISA
Events	4 (men: 2; womens: 2)
Games
	2010 ; 2014 ; 2018 ;

Last updated September 16, 2024

Rowing has featured as a sport at the Youth Olympic Summer Games since its first edition in 2010. The Youth Olympic Games are multi-sport event and the games are held every four years just like the Olympic Games. Summer Youth Olympics racing is held over a 1000m course as opposed to the 2000m course used at the Olympics.

Summary

Games	Year	Events	Best Nation
1	2010	4	Germany
2	2014	4	Romania
3	2018	4	Argentina
4	2026	5

Medal table

As of the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics.

Participating nations

Nation	10	14	18	Years
Albania (ALB)	1			1
Algeria (ALG)		2	2	4
Argentina (ARG)		2	3	5
Australia (AUS)	4	3	2	9
Austria (AUT)	2	2		4
Azerbaijan (AZE)		1		1
Belgium (BEL)	2	1	1	4
Belarus (BLR)	2	1	1	4
Brazil (BRA)	1	2	1	4
Bulgaria (BUL)	4	1		5
Canada (CAN)		3	1	4
Chile (CHI)		4	4	8
China (CHN)	2	2	3	7
Croatia (CRO)	3	3	4	10
Cuba (CUB)	1	2	2	5
Czech Republic (CZE)	2	3	3	8
Denmark (DEN)	1	1		2
Egypt (EGY)		4	2	6
El Salvador (ESA)	1	1		2
Spain (ESP)	3	2	1	6
Estonia (EST)	1		1	2
France (FRA)	3	2	1	6
Great Britain (GBR)	4	2	3	9
Germany (GER)	2	3	3	8
Greece (GRE)	4	3	3	10
Hong Kong (HKG)			1	1
Hungary (HUN)	3			3
Indonesia (INA)		1		1
India (IND)	4	2	2	8
Ireland (IRL)	1	1		2
Italy (ITA)	4	3	4	11
Japan (JPN)	1	1	1	3
Latvia (LAT)	1			1
Lithuania (LTU)	1	2	2	5
Moldova (MDA)			1	1
Mexico (MEX)			3	3
Netherlands (NED)	2		2	4
Norway (NOR)		2	1	3
New Zealand (NZL)	3	3		6
Paraguay (PAR)		1		1
Peru (PER)		1	1	2
Poland (POL)	1	3		4
Portugal (POR)	1			1
North Korea (PRK)		1		1
Romania (ROM)	2			2
Romania (ROU)	1	4	4	9
South Africa (RSA)	2		2	4
Russia (RUS)	2			2
Singapore (SGP)	2			2
Slovenia (SLO)	4	2	1	7
Serbia (SRB)	3	1		4
Sri Lanka (SRI)		1		1
Sudan (SUD)	2			2
Switzerland (SUI)	1		2	3
Sweden (SWE)	1		1	2
Thailand (THA)			2	2
Togo (TOG)		1		1
Tunisia (TUN)	1	2		3
Turkey (TUR)	3	2	2	7
Uganda (UGA)		1		1
Ukraine (UKR)	2	2	1	5
Uruguay (URU)			1	1
United States (USA)		4	2	6
Uzbekistan (UZB)		2	3	5
Vietnam (VIE)		1		1
Zimbabwe (ZIM)		2		2
Rowers
Singles - Male	21	24	16	61
Singles - Female	22	24	16	62
Doubles - Male	24	24	24	72
Doubles - Female	24	24	24	72
Rowers - Male	45	48	40	133
Rowers - Female	46	48	40	134
Rowers - Total	91	96	80	267
Boats
Boats	67	72	56	195
Nations
Continents
Countries	43	48	40	131
New Countries	43	18	5	66
Year	10	14	18

Medalists

2010 Youth Olympic Games Events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Female Single Sculls details	Judith Sievers Germany	Nataliia Kovalova Ukraine	Noémie Kober France
Female Pair details	Great Britain Georgia Howard-Merrill Fiona Gammond	Australia Emma Basher Olympia Aldersey	Greece Eleni Diamnti Lydia Ntalamagka
Male Single Sculls details	Rolandas Maščinskas Lithuania	Felix Bach Germany	Ioan Prundeanu Romania
Male Pair details	Slovenia Jure Grace Grega Domanjko	Greece Michalis Nastopoulos Apostolos Lampridis	Australia Matthew Chochran David Watts

2014 Youth Olympic Games Events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Male Single Sculls details	Tim Ole Naske Germany	Boris Yotov Azerbaijan	Dan de Groot Canada
Male Pairs details	Romania Gheorghe Robert Dedu Ciprian Tudosă	Czech Republic Miroslav Jech Lukáš Helešic	Turkey Gökhan Güven Eren Can Aslan
Female Single Sculls details	Krystsina Staraselets Belarus	Athina Angelopoulou Greece	Camille Juillet France
Female Pairs details	Romania Cristina Georgiana Popescu Denisa Tîlvescu	China Luo Yadan Pan Jie	Canada Larissa Werbicki Caileigh Filmer

2018 Youth Olympic Games Events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Boys' Single Sculls details	Ivan Tyshchenko Ukraine	Ivan Brynza Belarus	Cormac Kennedy-Leverett Australia
Boys' Pairs details	Italy Alberto Zamariola Nicolas Castelnovo	Romania Florin Nicolae Arteni-Fîntînariu Alexandru Danciu	Argentina Felipe Modarelli Tomas Herrera
Girls' Single Sculls details	Maria Sol Ordas Argentina	Elin Lindroth Sweden	Greta Jaanson Estonia
Girls' Pairs details	Greece Maria Kyridou Christina Bourmpou	Czech Republic Anna Šantrůčková Eliška Podrazilová	Romania Tabita Maftei Alina Maria Balețchi

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