How to become eligible to rowing in Paris in 2024. The qualification process for the Olympics

Learn about the tournaments, quotas, and athlete count for the rowing qualification pathway for the Olympic Games in Paris 2024. Olympic fans can buy Olympic Rowing Tickets from our website.

Since 1900, rowing has been a component of the summer Olympic programmer. The sport will once again be on the schedule for Paris 2024 and will once again take place in breath-taking settings. Following Tokyo 2020, there will be an equal number of events for men and women for the second time ever.

Find out the major questions regarding the route rowers will take to guarantee their places at Paris 2024.

How many athletes will compete in rowing at Paris 2024?

At Paris 2024, 502 rowers will compete: 251 athletes from each gender, or 24 fewer than at Tokyo 2020. This number includes universality places (two for each gender) and host country quotas (one for each gender), which were distributed to ensure widespread participation in the Olympic Games regatta.

496 competitors (248 men and women) will compete in the seven Olympic boat classes in addition to these six spots, with the following distribution:

58 athletes (29 per gender): Single Sculls

52 athletes (26 per gender): Pair

52 athletes (26 per gender): Double Sculls

72 athletes (36 per gender): Coxless Four

72 athletes (36 per gender): Quadruple Sculls

126 athletes (63 per gender): Eight

64 athletes (32 per gender): Lightweight Double Sculls

What is the rowing qualification pathway to Paris 2024?

As the host country, France is entitled to one quota for both the men’s and women’s competitions. Additionally, two quotas will be granted to the Universality Places, with the Tripartite Commission of the International Olympic Committee making that decision (IOC).

At the 2024 Summer Olympic Games, there will be three chances to fulfil the quota for each of the 14 Olympic boat classes:

1. 2023 World Rowing Championships

At the 2023 World Rowing Championships in Belgrade, Serbia from September 3–10, 2023, 336 athletes (168 men and 168 women) will have the opportunity to earn a spot in the 2024 Olympic Games. All NOCs with national Member Federations who are World Rowing members are eligible to compete. The boats will qualify for their National Olympic Committee based on the highest placing crews in each event according to the qualification quota.

2. Continental Qualification Regattas in 2023

Four continental qualification regattas will offer 64 competitors (32 men and 32 women) the chance to advance: Asia/Oceania, Africa, the Americas, and Europe. The NOCs that haven’t competed, haven’t qualified in any class, or have qualified just one boat at the 2023 World Rowing Championships can qualify through those events. Each Continental Qualification Regatta will have four events, and by the end of 2022, World Rowing will announce the locations and dates of the Continental Qualification Regattas.

3. Final Olympic Qualification Regatta (TBC in May 2024)

48 men and 48 women (a total of 96 athletes) will have one more opportunity to qualify for the Olympic Games in Paris in 2024 at the Final Olympic Qualification Regatta. The occasion will occur in May 2024 in Lucerne, Switzerland. Any NOC may compete in any event for which they have not already qualified; in this instance, the number of events for which a NOC may qualify at the Final Olympic Qualification Regatta is unrestricted.

Based on the results from each qualification regatta, World Rowing will inform the respective NOCs that they have secured a quota spot. The NOC must next declare that they would accept the eligible boats within 14 days of this. Olympic fans can buy Olympic Tickets from our website.

Whenever the NOC rejects

The first eligible boat among the unqualified will take the spot if the NOC declines it. (The timeline with all the significant dates is below.)

What is the Paris 2024 rowing competition schedule?

Seven events will be held in both the men’s and women’s contests in Paris 2024:

Single sculls (women’s / men’s)

Pair (women’s / men’s)

Double sculls (women’s / men’s)

Coxless four (women’s / men’s)

Quadruple sculls (women’s / men’s)

Eight (women’s / men’s)

Lightweight double sculls (women’s / men’s)

The 14 rowing competitions will be between July 27 and August 3. The magnificent Varies-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium, 39 kilometers from the Olympic and Paralympic Village, will host competitions.

Rowers to watch at Paris 2024

Fintan McCarthy and Paul O’Donovan’s victory in the men’s lightweight double sculls and Stefanos Ntouskos’ victory in the single sculls represent two of the most touching moments from Tokyo 2020. Both countries won their first gold medals in rowing.

With one gold and two bronze medals from Tokyo 2020, Chinese athletes also had a podium appearance. They will once again be ones to watch in Paris 2024.

Great Britain, one of the world’s leading rowing nations, only managed to win two medals in Tokyo, and the US returned home empty-handed when the women’s eight finished fourth in their attempt to capture a fourth straight gold medal.

Hugo Boucheron and Matthieu Androdias, who had already won the world championship in the double sculls in 2018, finished just ahead of People’s Republic of China in the medal standings. Laura Tarantola and Claire Bove, who were both young enough to compete in their home Games, took home a silver medal in the women’s lightweight double sculls. Italy’s Valentina Rodini and Federica Cesarini, who won gold by just 0.14 seconds in Tokyo, could challenge them there.

Ancuta Bodnar and Simona Radis of Romania easily won the gold medal in the double sculls. They should be around for Paris and beyond because they are both 22 years old.

The Netherlands’ young crew set a world record to win the men’s quadruple sculls. After brothers Martin and Valent Sinkovic created history in Tokyo by adding a gold medal in the pairs to their double sculls victory from Rio 2016, Croatia also wants to recreate its greatest Olympic rowing memories.

Rowing qualification timeline to Paris 2024

World Rowing will choose the location of continental Olympic Qualification Regattas by December 31, 2022.

2023 World Rowing Championships, September 3–10, Belgrade, Serbia

15 September 2023: World Rowing notifies the NOCs in writing of the quota spots secured.

The NOCs must attest to World Rowing by September 29, 2023, that the reserved quota slots have been used.

World Rowing will reallocate every open quota spot on October 6, 2023.

Africa: TBD Race to Determine Continental Qualification

Americas Continental Qualification Regatta; to be determined

A&O: To Be Determined Race to Determine Continental Qualification

Regatta for European Continental Qualification: TBD

Final Olympic Qualification Regatta, Lucerne, Switzerland, 19–21 May 2024 (TBC)

Regarding the corresponding qualifying regattas: World Rowing notifies the NOCs in writing of the quota spots won within five days of the competition.

The NOCs must notify World Rowing two weeks after the event that the reserved quota spots have been used.

Five days after each of the preceding steps: World Rowing will redistribute all vacant quota spots.

The allocation of Universality spaces to the NOCs will be confirmed in writing by the Tripartite Commission at a later date (where applicable).

Regarding the corresponding qualifying regattas:

World Rowing notifies the NOCs in writing of the quota spots won within five days of the competition.

The NOCs must notify World Rowing two weeks after the event that the reserved quota spots have been used.

Five days after each of the preceding steps: World Rowing will redistribute all vacant quota spots.

The allocation of Universality spaces to the NOCs will be confirmed in writing by the Tripartite Commission at a later date (where applicable).

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