Rowing at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification

This article details the qualifying phase for rowing at the 2016 Summer Olympics. The majority of the spots were awarded based on the results at the 2015 World Rowing Championships, held at Lac d'Aiguebelette, France from August 30 to September 6, 2015. Places gained there were awarded to National Olympic Committees, not to specific athletes. Further berths are distributed to the nations at four continental qualifying regattas in Asia and Oceania, Africa, Latin America, and Europe (with the additional participation of the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand), the latter being the final Olympic qualification regatta in Lucerne, Switzerland. In July 2016, four Russian crews were removed because of doping concerns, and FISA announced which NOCs would replace them.

Summary

Nation	Men								Women						Crews	Athletes
	M1x	M2-	M2x	M4-	M4x	M8+	LM2x	LM4-	W1x	W2-	W2x	W4x	W8+	LW2x
Algeria	X								X						2	2
Angola							X								1	2
Argentina	X								X						2	2
Australia	X	X	X	X	X				X		X	X	X		9	29
Austria							X		X						2	3
Azerbaijan			X												1	2
Bahamas									X						1	1
Belarus	X			X					X	X	X				5	10
Belgium	X														1	1
Bermuda									X						1	1
Brazil							X							X	2	4
Bulgaria			X												1	2
Canada				X	X			X	X	X			X	X	7	26
Chile							X							X	2	4
China							X	X	X	X	X	X		X	7	17
Croatia	X		X												2	3
Cuba	X		X				X							X	4	7
Czech Republic	X	X						X	X		X				5	8
Denmark							X	X	X	X	X			X	6	12
Ecuador	X														1	1
Egypt	X								X						2	2
Estonia					X										1	4
France		X	X	X			X	X		X	X				7	18
Germany			X	X	X	X	X	X		X	X	X		X	10	35
Great Britain	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X		X	X		X	X	12	43
Greece				X				X			X				3	10
Hong Kong							X							X	2	4
Hungary	X	X													2	3
India	X														1	1
Indonesia	X								X						2	2
Iran									X						1	1
Iraq	X														1	1
Ireland							X		X					X	3	5
Italy		X	X	X		X	X	X		X				X	8	27
Japan							X							X	2	4
Kazakhstan	X								X						2	2
Libya	X														1	1
Lithuania	X		X		X				X		X				5	10
Mexico	X								X						2	2
Netherlands		X		X		X		X		X		X	X	X	8	36
New Zealand	X	X	X		X	X		X	X	X	X		X	X	11	38
Nigeria									X						1	1
Norway	X		X				X								3	5
Paraguay	X								X						2	2
Peru	X								X						2	2
Poland	X				X	X	X			X	X	X		X	8	26
Romania		X		X						X			X	X	5	19
Russia				X											1	4
Serbia		X	X												2	4
Singapore									X						1	1
South Africa		X		X			X			X				X	5	12
South Korea	X								X						2	2
Spain		X								X					2	4
Sweden									X						1	1
Switzerland					X		X	X	X						4	11
Chinese Taipei									X						1	1
Thailand	X								X						2	2
Togo									X						1	1
Trinidad and Tobago									X						1	1
Tunisia	X													X	2	3
Turkey							X								1	2
Ukraine					X							X			2	8
United States		X		X		X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	11	41
Uruguay	X														1	1
Uzbekistan	X														1	1
Vanuatu	X														1	1
Venezuela	X														1	1
Vietnam														X	1	2
Zimbabwe	X								X						2	2
Total: 69 NOCs	32	13	13	13	10	7	20	13	32	15	13	7	7	20	215	550

Timeline

Event	Date	Venue
2015 World Rowing Championships	August 30 – September 6, 2015	Lac d'Aiguebelette
African Continental Qualification Regatta	October 5–7, 2015	Tunis
Latin America Continental Qualification Regatta	March 22–24, 2016	Valparaiso
Asia & Oceania Continental Qualification Regatta	April 23–25, 2016	Chungju
European and Final Qualification Regatta	May 22–24, 2016	Lucerne

Men's events

Single sculls

Event	#	Nation	Qualified rower
2015 World Rowing Championships	1	Czech Republic	Ondřej Synek
	2	New Zealand	Mahé Drysdale
	3	Lithuania	Armandas Kelmelis
	4	Norway	Nils Jakob Hoff
	5	Croatia	Damir Martin
	6	Cuba	Ángel Fournier
	7	Belarus	Stanislau Shcharbachenia
	8	Great Britain	Alan Campbell
	9	Poland	Natan Węgrzycki-Szymczyk
Asia & Oceania Qualification Regatta	1	South Korea	Kim Dong-yong
	2	India	Dattu Baban Bhokanal
	3	Indonesia	Memo
	4	Thailand	Jaruwat Saensuk
	5	Kazakhstan	Vladislav Yakovlev
	6	Iraq	Mohammed Riyadh
	7	Uzbekistan	Shakhboz Kholmirzayev
African Qualification Regatta	1	Egypt	Abdelkhalek El-Banna
	2	Tunisia	Mohamed Taieb
	3	Algeria	Sid Ali Boudina
	4	Zimbabwe	Andrew Peebles
Latin American Qualification Regatta	1	Mexico	Juan Carlos Cabrera
	2	Argentina	Brian Rosso
	3	Peru	Renzo Leon Garcia
	4	Uruguay	Jhonatan Esquivel
	5	Venezuela	Jakson Vicent Monasterio
	6	Ecuador	Bryan Sola Zambrano
	7	Paraguay	Arturo Rivarola
European Qualification Regatta	1	Belgium	Hannes Obreno
	2	Australia	Rhys Grant
	3	Hungary	Bendegúz Pétervári-Molnár
Tripartite Invitation	1	Libya	Al-Hussein Gambour
	1	Vanuatu	Luigi Teilemb
Total	32

Information updated after choices made by NOCs after Latin American qualification regatta.

Double sculls

Event	#	Nation	Qualified rowers
2015 World Rowing Championships	1	Croatia	Martin Sinković Valent Sinković
	2	Lithuania	Mindaugas Griškonis Saulius Ritter
	3	New Zealand	Chris Harris Robbie Manson
	4	Germany	Marcel Hacker Stephan Krüger
	5	Australia	Chris Morgan David Watts
	6	France	Matthieu Androdias Hugo Boucheron
	7	Azerbaijan	Aleksandar Aleksandrov Boris Yotov
	8	Great Britain	John Collins Jonathan Walton
	9	Cuba	Adrián Oquendo Eduardo Rubio
	10	Italy	Romano Battisti Francesco Fossi
	11	Bulgaria	Georgi Bozhilov Kristian Vasilev
Final Olympic Qualification Regatta	1	Norway	Kjetil Borch Olaf Tufte
	2	Serbia	Marko Marjanovic Andrija Sljukic
Total	13

Lightweight double sculls

Event	#	Nation	Qualified rowers
2015 World Rowing Championships	1	France	Jérémie Azou Pierre Houin
	2	Great Britain	Richard Chambers Will Fletcher
	3	Norway	Kristoffer Brun Are Strandli
	4	South Africa	John Smith James Thompson
	5	Italy	Marcello Miani Andrea Micheletti
	6	Germany	Moritz Moos Jason Osborne
	7	Poland	Miłosz Jankowski Artur Mikołajczewski
	8	United States	Andrew Campbell Joshua Konieczny
	9	Austria	Bernhard Sieber Paul Sieber
	10	Switzerland	Michael Schmid Daniel Wiederkehr
	11	Ireland	Paul O'Donovan Gary O'Donovan
Asia & Oceania Qualification Regatta	1	China	Sun Man Wang Chunxin
	2	Japan	Hiroshi Nakano Hideki Omoto
	3	Hong Kong	Chiu Hin Chun Tang Chiu Mang
African Qualification Regatta	1	Angola+	André Matias Jean-Luc Rasamoelina
Latin American Qualification Regatta	1	Brazil	William Giaretton Xavier Vela
	2	Cuba	Raúl Hernández Liosbel Hernández
	3	Chile	Felipe Cárdenas Bernardo Guerrero
European Qualification Regatta	1	Turkey	Hüseyin Kandemir Enes Kuşku
	2	Denmark	Mads Rasmussen Rasmus Quist Hansen
Total	20

+ EGY won LM2x and M1x at Continental Qualification Regatta, but NOC had to decide which boat to confirm for the Games due to the one-boat quota rule on each gender at the Continental Qualification Regatta. EGY chose M1x, hence LM2x place went to ANG.

Information updated after choices made by NOCs after Latin American qualification regatta.

BEL chose M1x after European Qual Regatta, hence LM2x place went to DEN.

Quadruple sculls

Event	#	Nation	Qualified rowers
2015 World Rowing Championships	1	Germany	Hans Gruhne Lauritz Schoof Karl Schulz Philipp Wende
	2	Australia	Alexander Belonogoff Karsten Forsterling Cameron Girdlestone James McRae
	3	Estonia	Tõnu Endrekson Andrei Jämsä Allar Raja Kaspar Taimsoo
	4	Great Britain	Angus Groom Peter Lambert Sam Townsend Graeme Thomas
	5	Switzerland	Barnabé Delarze Augustin Maillefer Roman Röösli Nico Stahlberg
	6	Lithuania	Aurimas Adomavičius Martynas Džiaugys Dominykas Jančionis Dovydas Nemeravičius
	7	Poland	Mateusz Biskup Wiktor Chabel Dariusz Radosz Mirosław Ziętarski
	8	Ukraine	Dmytro Mikhay Artem Morozov Oleksandr Nadtoka Ivan Dovhodko
Final Olympic Qualification Regatta	—	Russia	Nikita Morgachyov Artyom Kosov Vladislav Ryabtsev Sergey Fedorovtsev *
	1	Canada	Julien Bahain Robert Gibson Will Dean Pascal Lussier
	2	New Zealand	George Bridgewater Nathan Flannery John Storey Jade Uru
Total	10

• Russia were disqualified on 1 July 2016 following the nullification of all results following a failure in an anti-doping test by Sergey Fedorovtsev. Their quota place was transferred to New Zealand.

Pair

Event	#	Nation	Qualified rowers
2015 World Rowing Championships	1	New Zealand	Hamish Bond Eric Murray
	2	Great Britain	Stewart Innes Alan Sinclair
	3	Serbia	Nenad Beđik Miloš Vasić
	4	Netherlands	Roel Braas Mitchel Steenman
	5	Italy	Giovanni Abagnale Vincenzo Capelli
	6	Australia	Alexander Lloyd Spencer Turrin
	7	South Africa	Lawrence Brittain Shaun Keeling
	8	France	Germain Chardin Dorian Mortelette
	9	United States	Nareg Guregian Anders Weiss
	10	Spain	Alex Sigurbjornsson Pau Vela
	11	Romania	Cristi-Ilie Pârghie George Alexandru Pălămariu
Final Olympic Qualification Regatta	1	Czech Republic	Jakub Podrazil Lukáš Helešic
	2	Hungary	Béla Simon Adrián Juhász
Total	13

Four

Event	#	Nation	Qualified rowers
2015 World Rowing Championships	1	Italy	Marco Di Costanzo Matteo Lodo Domenico Montrone Giuseppe Vicino
	2	Australia	Josh Booth Josh Dunkley-Smith Alexander Hill William Lockwood
	3	Great Britain	Alex Gregory Constantine Louloudis George Nash Moe Sbihi
	4	Canada	Will Crothers Kai Langerfeld Conlin McCabe Tim Schrijver
	5	Germany	Anton Braun Maximilian Korge Max Planer Felix Wimberger
	6	Netherlands	Harold Langen Peter van Schie Govert Viergever Vincent van der Want
	7	United States	Charlie Cole Henrik Rummel Matt Miller Seth Weil
	8	Belarus	Vadzim Lialin Dzianis Mihal Mikalai Sharlap Ihar Pashevich
	9	Greece	Dionisis Angelopoulos Ioannis Christou Ioannis Tsilis Georgios Tziallas
	10	Russia	Anton Zarutskiy Artyom Kosov Vladislav Ryabtsev Nikita Morgachyov
	11	Romania	Vlad-Dragos Aicoboae Constantin Adam Marius Cozmiuc Toader-Andrei Gontaru
Final Olympic Qualification Regatta	1	South Africa	David Hunt Jonty Smith Vincent Breet Jake Green
	2	France	Benjamin Lang Mickaël Marteau Théophile Onfroy Valentin Onfroy
Total	13

Lightweight four

Event	#	Nation	Qualified rowers
2015 World Rowing Championships	1	Switzerland	Mario Gyr Simon Niepmann Simon Schürch Lucas Tramèr
	2	Denmark	Jacob Barsøe Morten Jørgensen Kasper Winther Jørgensen Jacob Larsen
	3	France	Thomas Baroukh Thibault Colard Guillaume Raineau Franck Solforosi
	4	New Zealand	Alistair Bond James Hunter James Lassche Peter Taylor
	5	Netherlands	Björn van den Ende Jort van Gennep Tim Heijbrock Joris Pijs
	6	Italy	Martino Goretti Livio La Padula Stefano Oppo Pietro Ruta
	7	United States	Anthony Fahden Edward King Tyler Nase Robin Prendes
	8	China	Jin Wei Zhao Jingbin Yu Chenggang Wang Tiexin
	9	Great Britain	Mark Aldred Chris Bartley Peter Chambers Jono Clegg
	10	Czech Republic	Jiří Kopáč Jan Vetešník Ondřej Vetešník Miroslav Vraštil Jr.
	11	Canada	Brendan Hodge Maxwell Lattimer Nicolas Pratt Eric Woelfl
Final Olympic Qualification Regatta	1	Russia
	1	Germany	Tobias Franzmann Jonathan Koch Lucas Schäfer Lars Wichert
	2	Greece	Spyridon Giannaros Panagiotis Magdanis Stefanos Ntouskos Ioannis Petrou
Total	13

Eight

Event	#	Nation	Qualified rowers
2015 World Rowing Championships	1	Great Britain	Paul Bennett Scott Durant Matt Gotrel Matt Langridge Tom Ransley Pete Reed Will Satch Andrew Triggs Hodge Phelan Hill (cox)
	2	Germany	Felix Drahotta Malte Jakschik Eric Johannesen Andreas Kuffner Maximilian Munski Hannes Ocik Maximilian Reinelt Richard Schmidt Martin Sauer (cox)
	3	Netherlands	Kaj Hendriks Robert Lücken Boaz Meylink Boudewijn Röell Olivier Siegelaar Dirk Uittenbogaard Mechiel Versluis Tone Wieten Peter Wiersum (cox)
	4	New Zealand	Michael Brake Isaac Grainger Stephen Jones Alex Kennedy Shaun Kirkham Tom Murray Brook Robertson Joe Wright Caleb Shepherd (cox)
	5	Russia
Final Olympic Qualification Regatta	1	United States	Mike DiSanto Sam Dommer Austin Hack Alex Karwoski Stephen Kasprzyk Rob Munn Glenn Ochal Hans Struzyna Sam Ojserkis (cox)
	2	Poland	Zbigniew Schodowski Mateusz Wilangowski Marcin Brzeziński Robert Fuchs Krystian Aranowski Michał Szpakowski Mikołaj Burda Piotr Juszczak Daniel Trojanowski (cox)
	3	Italy	Luca Agamennoni Vincenzo Capelli Pierpaolo Frattini Fabio Infimo Emanuele Liuzzi Mario Paonessa Matteo Stefanini Simone Venier Enrico D’Aniello (cox)
Total	7

Women's events

Single sculls

Event	#	Nation	Qualified rower
2015 World Rowing Championships	1	Australia	Kim Brennan
	2	Czech Republic	Miroslava Knapková
	3	China	Duan Jingli
	4	United States	Genevra Stone
	5	Switzerland	Jeannine Gmelin
	6	Canada	Carling Zeeman
	7	Sweden	Anna Malvina Svennung
	8	Lithuania	Lina Šaltytė
	9	Austria	Magdalena Lobnig
Asia & Oceania Qualification Regatta	1	South Korea	Kim Ye-ji
	2	Iran	Mahsa Javar
	3	Chinese Taipei	Huang Yi-ting
	4	Kazakhstan	Svetlana Germanovich
	5	Indonesia	Dewi Yuliawati
	6	Singapore	Saiyidah Aisyah
	7	Thailand	Phuttharaksa Neegree
African Qualification Regatta	1	Zimbabwe	Micheen Thornycroft
	2	Algeria	Amina Rouba
	3	Nigeria	Chierika Ukogu
	4	Egypt	Heba Ahmed
Latin American Qualification Regatta	1	Bermuda	Michelle Pearson
	2	Mexico	Kenia Lechuga
	3	Trinidad and Tobago	Felice Chow
	4	Argentina	Lucia Palermo
	5	Paraguay	Gabriela Mosqueira
	6	Peru	Camila Valle
	7	Bahamas	Emily Morley
European & Final Olympic Qualification Regatta	1	New Zealand	Emma Twigg
	2	Ireland	Sanita Pušpure
	3	Belarus	Ekaterina Karsten
	4	Denmark	Fie Udby Erichsen
Tripartite Invitation	—	Togo	Claire Akossiwa
Total	32

Information updated after choices made by NOCs after Latin American qualification regatta.

Double sculls

Event	#	Nation	Qualified rowers
2015 World Rowing Championships	1	New Zealand	Eve MacFarlane Zoe Stevenson
	2	Greece	Sofia Asoumanaki Aikaterini Nikolaidou
	3	Germany	Mareike Adams Marie-Cathérine Arnold
	4	Poland	Magdalena Fularczyk Natalia Madaj
	5	Lithuania	Milda Valčiukaitė Donata Vištartaitė
	6	Great Britain	Katherine Grainger Victoria Thornley
	7	China	Lü Yang Zhu Weiwei
	8	France	Hélène Lefebvre Elodie Ravera
	9	Belarus	Yuliya Bichyk Tatsiana Kukhta
	10	Australia	Genevieve Horton Sally Kehoe
	11	United States	Meghan O'Leary Ellen Tomek
Final Olympic Qualification Regatta	1	Czech Republic	Lenka Antošová Kristýna Fleissnerová
	2	Denmark	Lisbet Jakobsen Nina Hollensen
Total	13

Lightweight double sculls

Event	#	Nation	Qualified rowers
2015 World Rowing Championships	1	New Zealand	Julia Edward Sophie MacKenzie
	2	Great Britain	Katherine Copeland Charlotte Taylor
	3	South Africa	Ursula Grobler Kirsten McCann
	4	Canada	Lindsay Jennerich Patricia Obee
	5	Denmark	Anne Lolk Thomsen Juliane Rasmussen
	6	Germany	Marie-Louise Dräger Fini Sturm
	7	China	Huang Wenyi Pan Feihong
	8	Poland	Weronika Deresz Martyna Mikolajczak
	9	Ireland	Sinéad Jennings Claire Lambe
		Russia
	10	United States	Kate Bertko Devery Karz
Asia & Oceania Qualification Regatta	1	Japan	Ayami Oishi Chiaki Tomita
	2	Vietnam	Tạ Thanh Huyền Hồ Thị Lý
	3	Hong Kong	Lee Yuen Yin Lee Ka Man
African Qualification Regatta	1	Tunisia	Nour El-Houda Ettaieb Khadija Krimi
Latin American Qualification Regatta	1	Brazil	Fernanda Nunes Vanessa Cozzi
	2	Cuba	Yislena Hernandez Licet Hernandez
	3	Chile	Melita Abraham Josefa Vila
European Qualification Regatta	1	Netherlands	Ilse Paulis Maaike Head
	2	Romania	Gianina-Elena Beleaga Ionela-Livia Lehaci
	3	Italy	Laura Milani Valentina Rodini
Total	20

Quadruple sculls

Ukrainian quad sculls at the 2016 Final Olympic Qualification Regatta

Event	#	Nation	Qualified rowers
2015 World Rowing Championships	1	United States	Tracy Eisser Megan Kalmoe Grace Latz Adrienne Martelli
	2	Germany	Carina Bär Julia Lier Lisa Schmidla Annekatrin Thiele
	3	Netherlands	Chantal Achterberg Nicole Beukers Carline Bouw Inge Janssen
	4	Poland	Monika Ciaciuch Maria Springwald Joanna Leszczyńska Agnieszka Kobus
	5	Australia	Jennifer Cleary Madeleine Edmunds Jessica Hall Kerry Hore
Final Olympic Qualification Regatta	1	China	Zhang Ling Jiang Yan Wang Yuwei Zhang Xinyue
	2	Ukraine	Daryna Verkhohliad Olena Buryak Anastasiya Kozhenkova Ievgeniia Nimchenko
Total	7

Pair

Event	#	Nation	Qualified rowers
2015 World Rowing Championships	1	Great Britain	Helen Glover Heather Stanning
	2	New Zealand	Genevieve Behrent Rebecca Scown
	3	United States	Grace Luczak Felice Mueller
	4	Denmark	Anne Dsane Andersen Lærke Rasmussen
	5	South Africa	Lee-Ann Persse Kate Christowitz
	6	Canada	Jennifer Martins Nicole Hare
	7	Romania	Cristina Grigoraș Laura Oprea
	8	Germany	Kerstin Hartmann Kathrin Marchand
	9	France	Noémie Kober Marie Le Nepvou
	10	Belarus	Alena Furman Ina Nikulina
	11	Netherlands	Aletta Jorritsma Karien Robbers
Final Olympic Qualification Regatta	1	Spain	Anna Boada Aina Cid
	2	China	Zhang Min Miao Tian
	3	Italy	Alessandra Patelli Sara Bertolasi
	4	Poland	Anna Wierzbowska Maria Wierzbowska
Total	15

Eight

Event	#	Nation	Qualified rowers
2015 World Rowing Championships	1	United States	Amanda Elmore Tessa Gobbo Elle Logan Meghan Musnicki Amanda Polk Emily Regan Lauren Schmetterling Kerry Simmonds Katelin Snyder (cox)
	2	New Zealand	Genevieve Behrent Kelsey Bevan Emma Dyke Kerri Gowler Grace Prendergast Kayla Pratt Rebecca Scown Ruby Tew Francie Turner (cox)
	3	Canada	Ashley Brzozowicz Susanne Grainger Jennifer Martins Natalie Mastracci Cristy Nurse Lisa Roman Christine Roper Lauren Wilkinson Lesley Thompson (cox)
	4	Great Britain	Karen Bennett Olivia Carnegie-Brown Jessica Eddie Katie Greves Frances Houghton Zoe Lee Polly Swann Melanie Wilson Zoe de Toledo (cox)
	5	Russia
Final Olympic Qualification Regatta	1	Romania	Mădălina Bereș Andreea Boghian Adelina Bogus Roxana Cogianu Irina Dorneanu Laura Oprea Mihaela Petrilă Ioana Strungaru Daniela Druncea (cox)
	2	Netherlands	Wianka van Dorp Sophie Souwer Lies Rustenburg José van Veen Ellen Hogerwerf Claudia Belderbos Monica Lanz Olivia van Rooijen Ae-Ri Noort (cox)
	3	Australia	Fiona Albert Olympia Aldersey Molly Goodman Alexandra Hagan Jessica Morrison Lucy Stephan Charlotte Sutherland Meaghan Volker Sarah Banting (cox)
Total	7