List of Olympic best times in rowing

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File:Bond and Murray at the London Olympics.jpg
Hamish Bond and Murray at the 2012 London Olympics, where they broke the world best time in the coxless pair

In rowing, there are no world records due to the variability of weather conditions. Instead there are world best times, which are set over the international rowing distance of 2000 meters.[citation needed]

Men's records

† denotes a performance that is also a current world best time.

Event Record Athlete(s) Country Games Date Ref(s).
Past events
Coxed four – Inriggers[lower-alpha 1] 7:39.2 <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
 Sweden 1912 Stockholm 17 July 1912
Coxed pair 6:49.83 <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
 Great Britain 1992 Barcelona 2 August 1992
Coxed four 5:59.37 <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
 Romania 1992 Barcelona 1 August 1992
Lightweight coxless four 5:47.76 <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
 Denmark 2008 Beijing 17 August 2008
Current events
Single sculls 6:41.34[lower-alpha 2] Mahé Drysdale  New Zealand 2016 Rio 13 August 2016 [1]
Double sculls 6:08.38 <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
 Netherlands 2020 Tokyo 23 July 2021 [2][3]
Quadruple sculls 5:32.03† <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
 Netherlands 2020 Tokyo 28 July 2021 [4]
Coxless pair 6:08.50† <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
 New Zealand 2012 London 28 July 2012 [5]
Coxless four 5:42.76 <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
 Australia 2020 Tokyo 28 July 2021 [6]
Eight 5:19.85 <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
 United States 2004 Athens 15 August 2004
Lightweight double sculls 6:05.33† <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
 Ireland 2020 Tokyo 28 July 2021 [7]

Women's records

† denotes a performance that is also a current world best time.

Event Record Athlete(s) Country Games Date Ref(s).
Past events
Coxed four 6:56.00 <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
 East Germany 1988 Seoul 24 September 1988
Current events
Single sculls 7:13.97 Emma Twigg  New Zealand 2020 Tokyo 30 July 2021 [8]
Double sculls 6:44.33 <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
 Great Britain 2012 London 30 July 2012
Quadruple sculls 6:05.13† <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
 China 2020 Tokyo 28 July 2021 [9]
Coxless pair 6:47.41 <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
 New Zealand 2020 Tokyo 28 July 2021 [10]
Coxless four 6:15.37 <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
 Australia 2020 Tokyo 28 July 2021 [11]
Eight 5:52.99 <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
 Romania 2020 Tokyo 28 July 2021 [12]
Lightweight double sculls 6:41.36 <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
 Italy 2020 Tokyo 28 July 2021 [13]

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Coxed four with inriggers was only held once (1912).
  2. ↑ Drysdale's winning time of the Final of the Men's Single sculls rowing event at the 2016 Summer Olympics was tied down to the second with Damir Martin (Croatia), only split by centiseconds.

Citations

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