About The Sport
A sport involving 14 different classes of boat and between one and eight rowers. Rowing requires athletes with incredible upper body strength and a commitment to the sport from an early age in order to develop the correct physical shape and muscle definition.
Rowing has given us the man who many regard as the Athlete of the Century in Sir Steve Redgrave, winner of six World Championship and five Olympic Gold Medals. It has also been an event in which Team GB has excelled since its inclusion in the Olympics, with well over 100 medals in total and golds in each of the last five Olympics.