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| Nationality | Peruvian | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 6 July 2000 [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Lightweight double sculls | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Team | Regatas Universitario | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Valeria Palacios (born 6 July 2000) is a Peruvian rower. She qualified in the lightweight double sculls for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Her sister Alessia Palacios is also a rower. [2] Both twins race for Regatas Universitario rowing club. [3]
She was a silver medalist in the lightweight coxless pair at the 2022 World Rowing U23 Championships in Italy, alongside her sister. [4] That year, they then won gold at the 2022 Bolivarian Games in Colombia in the same discipline. [5]
Competing alongside her sister Alessia at the Americas Olympic and Paralympic qualification regatta in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in March 2024, she qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics in the lightweight double sculls. [6] [7]
Rowing has been part of the Summer Olympics since its debut in the 1900 Games. Rowing was on the program at the 1896 Summer Olympics but was cancelled due to bad weather. Only men were allowed to compete until the women's events were introduced at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal which gave national federations the incentive to support women's events and catalysed growth in women's rowing. Lightweight rowing events were introduced to the games in 1996. Qualifying for the rowing events is under the jurisdiction of the World Rowing Federation. World Rowing predates the modern Olympics and was the first international sport federation to join the modern Olympic movement.
Emma Kimberley Twigg is a New Zealand rower. A single sculler, she was the 2014 world champion and won gold in her fourth Olympics in Tokyo in July 2021. Previous Olympic appearances were in 2008, 2012, and 2016. She has retired from rowing twice, first for master-level studies in Europe in 2015 and then after the 2016 Olympics, disappointed at having narrowly missed an Olympic medal for the second time. After two years off the water, she started training again in 2018 and won silver at the 2019 World Rowing Championships. Since her marriage in 2020, she has become an outspoken advocate for LGBT athletes. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, Twigg won gold in the woman's single scull. At the 2024 Summer Olympics, Twigg won Silver in the same event.
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.
Micheen Barbara Thornycroft, is a Zimbabwean female rower. Born in Harare, she competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2016 Summer Olympics in the single scull events for the national team.
Genevra Lea 'Gevvie' Stone is an Olympic American rower from Newton, Massachusetts. She is a graduate of Princeton University and Tufts University School of Medicine.
The rowing competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo took place between 23 and 30 July 2021 at the Sea Forest Waterway in Tokyo Bay. Fourteen medal events were contested by 526 athletes.
Paul O'Donovan is an Irish lightweight rower. He is a double Olympic champion in the lightweight double sculls where he set a new world's best time for that event and is a seven-time world champion in single and double sculls.
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.
This article details the qualifying phase for rowing at the 2020 Summer Olympics. The majority of the spots were awarded to the National Olympic Committees, not to specific athletes, at the 2019 World Rowing Championships, held in Ottensheim, Austria from 25 August to 1 September 2019. At the World Championships countries qualify boats rather than crews and can make crew changes for the Olympic regatta for qualified boats. Further berths are distributed to the nations at four continental qualifying regattas in Asia and Oceania, Africa, Latin America, and Europe. The last berths were distributed at the Final Olympic Qualification Regatta held in Lucerne, Switzerland 15–16 May 2021.
Georgia Nesbitt is an Australian former representative lightweight rower who made 10 representative appearaances for Australia between 2013 and 2022. She was a seven-time national champion and she won a silver medal at the 2017 World Rowing Championships. In 2022 prior to a serious cycling accident, she competed in Australian Road National championships and had qualified to participate in her age group at the 2023 Ironman World Championships in Helsinki.
Asiya Sururu Mohammed, also known as Asiya Mohamed, is a Kenyan para-rower. She made her first Paralympic appearance during the 2020 Summer Paralympics. She is the first Kenyan female rower to compete at the Paralympics.
Antonios Papakonstantinou is a Greek rower. He won a gold medal in the lightweight single sculls at the 2022 European Rowing Championships.
The rowing competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris ran from 27 July to 3 August at the Stade nautique de Vaires-sur-Marne, National Olympic Nautical Stadium of Île-de-France in Vaires-sur-Marne. The number of rowers competing across fourteen gender-based categories at these Games was reduced from 526 to 502, with an equal distribution between men’s and women’s events. Despite the slight changes in athlete figures, the rowing program for Paris 2024 remained constant from the previous edition as the competition featured an equal number of categories for men and women, with seven each.
502 athletes qualified for rowing at the 2024 Summer Olympics. About two-thirds of the total quota was awarded to the National Olympic Committees, not to specific athletes, at the 2023 World Rowing Championships on 3 to 10 September in Belgrade, Serbia. The remainder of the total quota was attributed to the eligible rowers at each of the four continental qualification regattas in Asia and Oceania, the Americas, Africa, and Europe, and at the final Olympic qualification regatta in Lucerne, Switzerland.
Rebecca Wilde is a British rower. She won a bronze in double sculls at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
Elis Özbay is a Turkish rower competing in the lightweight single sculls and double sculls events. She is qualified to participate at the 2024 Olympics in Paris, France, as the first Turkish female rower.
Adriana Sanguineti is a Peruvian rower who competed in the single sculls at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Alessia Palacios is a Peruvian rower. She qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics in the lightweight double sculls.
Shannon Cox is a rower from New Zealand. She competed at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Petros Gkaidatzis is a Greek rower. He won a bronze medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the lightweight double sculls.
