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With the Olympics done and dusted, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the international rowing season is done and dusted. But no, there’s still one more outing; the World Rowing Championships. This isn’t a full programme World Rowing Championships however – it’s just for lightweight and para-rowing events that weren’t included in the Olympic/Paralympic programmes. For the first time since 2016, these are being combined with a full programme age group world championships at both U19 and U23 levels – the so-called “Mega Worlds”.
The 2024 World Rowing Championships are being hosted by St. Catharines, Canada, the venue for the annual Royal Canadian Henley, who are hosting a senior World Rowing event for the first time since the 1999 World Rowing Championships.
The senior worlds offered events in the Lwt1X, Lwt2-, Lwt4X, PR2 1X and PR3 2- for both men and women, however there were no entries for the LW4X and only two entries for the PR3 M2-.
So, without further ado here’s a look at those crews who have entered.
Entries: 2
2023 Champions: Ukraine (Ivan Kupriichuk & Andrii Syvykh)
A straight contest between Italy and Japan. Italy is represented by Luca Conti and Igor Zappa. Conti was in the PR3 Mix4+ at the 2023 worlds that won the B-Final and 17-year-old Zappa makes his international debut in Canada. Japan is represented by 52-year-old Toshihiro Nishioka and 30-year-old international debutant Yuta Sakaguchi. Nishioka raced at the Tokyo Paralympics, finishing 12th in the PR3 Mix4+ and then moved to the PR3 M2- in 2022 finishing fifth.
Prediction
Italy to take the title.
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