rowing at the Summer Olympics
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Key facts
- Ioc code
- ROW
- Governing body
- World Rowing
- Events
- 14 (men: 7; women: 7)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Summer Olympic Games
- Sport
- rowing
- Official website
- www.olympic.org/rowing
- Image
- Rowing pictogram.svg
- Organizer
- International Olympic Committee
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- event interval
- 4
- described at URL
- www.sports-reference.com/olympics/sports/ROW
- Commons category
- Rowing at the Olympics
- topic's main category
- Category:Rowing at the Summer Olympics
- topic has template
- Template:Olympic Games Rowing
- inception
- 1896-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
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 (which have weight-limited crews) 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.
Summary
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