Rowing


Background
Rowing is one of the world’s oldest sports, and one of Canada’s most successful summer sports.  Canadian rowers have won seventeen medals at the last five Olympic Games.  In rowing, individuals or teams of rowers use oars to propel their boats on the water.  Success in rowing requires strength, endurance, technique, and teamwork.

Competition at the Games
Rowing at the BC Games will be open to male and female athletes seventeen years of age and younger.  Athletes who have competed with a National Team or who have attended a previous BC, Western Canada, or Canada Games are not eligible for BC Games.  The competition is intended to provide a first multi-sport games experience for developing athletes.

Rowers will compete in three different events: a 500m match race, a 1000m time trial, and a skills competition.  Each event will be contested by three categories of boat: women’s doubles (two rowers), men’s doubles (two rowers), and mixed coxed quads (two men and two women rowers, plus a coxswain of either gender).  All events will use sculling boats, where each rower uses two oars. 

Rowing events will take place on the Bedford Channel of the Fraser River in Fort Langley.

For more info on Rowing, contact Rowing BC at www.rowingbc.ca or (604) 333-3635