26 September 2022

The 2022 World Rowing Championships finished yesterday in Račice, Czech Republic, with some exciting races. It was the first time since 2019 as the championships were cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to COVID-19.

(Nations in bold received medals in the finals.)

Here are the results in the A-finals from Friday:

PR2 Men’s Single Sculls (PR2 M1x)
NED, ITA, GER, UZB, USA, ESP

PR2 Women’s Single Sculls (PR2 W1x)
IRL, AUS, UKR, USA

PR3 Men’s Pair (PR3 M2-)
GBR, AUS, UKR, FRA, JPN

PR3 Women’s Pair (PR3 W2-)
GBR, AUS, ITA

PR3 Mixed Double Sculls (PR3 Mix2x)
FRA, BRA, UKR, ISR, USA, AUT

Lightweight Men’s Pair (LM2-)
ITA, HUN, CZE, EGY, TUR, USA

Lightweight Women’s Pair (LW2-)
ITA, USA, GER, BRA

Lightweight Men’s Single Sculls (LM1x)
ITA, GRE, SLO, URU, FRA, SUI

Lightweight Women’s Single Sculls (LW1x)
ROU, NED, NZL, RSA, GRE, ITA

Lightweight Men’s Quadruple Sculls (LM4x)
ITA, CHN, GER, ESP, USA

Lightweight Women’s Quadruple Sculls (LW4x)
ITA, USA

Details from the finals on Friday can be found here.

Here are the results in the A-finals from Saturday:

PR2 Mixed Double Sculls (PR2 Mix2x)
UKR, POL, FRA, NED, IRL, UZB

PR3 Mixed Coxed Four (PR3 Mix4+)
GBR, GER, FRA, AUS, USA, ITA

Women’s Pair (W2-)
NZL, NED, USA, ROU, GBR, CRO

Men’s Pair (M2-)
ROU, ESP, GBR, SRB, AUS, NZL

Lightweight Women’s Double Sculls (LW2x)
GBR, USA, IRL, FRA, SUI, GRE

Lightweight Men’s Double Sculls (LM2x)
IRL, ITA, UKR, SUI, CZE, FRA

Women’s Four (W4-)
GBR, NED, AUS, ROU, CHN, IRL

Men’s Four (M4-)
GBR, AUS, NED, ROU, SUI, UKR

Women’s Quadruple Sculls (W4x)
CHN, NED, GBR, UKR, SUI, AUS

Men’s Quadruple Sculls (M4x)
POL, GBR, ITA, NED, EST, ROU

Details from the finals on Saturday can be found here.

Here are the results in the A-finals from Sunday:

PR1 Men’s Single Sculls (PR1 M1x)
UKR, ITA, GBR, AUS, GER, UZB

PR1 Women’s Single Sculls (PR1 W1x)
NOR, FRA, UKR, GER, ISR, BRA

 Men’s Double Sculls (M2x)
FRA, ESP, AUS, CRO, MDA, GRE

Women’s Double Sculls (W2x)
ROU, NED IRL, AUT, USA, GER

Men’s Eight (M8+)
GBR, NED, AUS, USA, CAN, ROU

Women’s Single Sculls (W1x)
NED, NZL, AUS, CHN, GBR, ESP

Men’s Single Sculls (M1x)
GER, NED, GBR, NZL, NOR, GRE

Women’s Eight (W8+)
ROU, NED, CAN, USA, AUS, CHN

The “Grand Finale”

World Rowing and the Organising Committee of the 2022 World Rowing Championships had arranged a 500-metre race to honour the Czech sculler Ondřej Synek, who retired from elite rowing last year. Invited to this exhibition race, which HTBS wrote about on 14 September, were five of Synek’s main rivals and close friends: Alan Campbell of Great Britain, Iztok Čop of Slovenia, Mahé Drysdale of New Zealand, Lassi Karonen of Sweden and Olaf Tufte of Norway. The Norwegian was in the lead for most of the race but “faded” just in front of the finish line as did the other scullers except Synek, who crossed the finish line as the winner.
CZE, Everyone else

Details from the finals on Sunday can be found here.