2025 World Rowing Championships Start Sunday

Shanghai hosts the 2025 World Rowing Championships Sept. 21-28, the first-ever senior worlds held in China. Over 700 athletes, representing 56 nations will compete in 23 boat classes on Dianshan Lake.

Also for the first time at a World Rowing Championships, men and women will race in the same boat, in the mixed double sculls and mixed eights. All mixed-boat rowers are doubling up in other events at the regatta, with the exception of some coxswains.

The U.S., entered in 15 events, seeks to break a streak going back to 2019, the last time a USRowing crew won gold in a senior World Rowing Championship (women’s lightweight pair and PR3 women’s pair). Favorites to earn gold include the women’s four—winners, in different line-ups—of both World Rowing Cup races this summer, lightweight single sculler Michelle Sechser, and the mixed eight, winners of the three-boat Lucerne World Rowing Cup race agains Germany and Italy.

Canada sent a young squad—roughly half of whom will be racing in their first senior world championships—early to Shanghai to race in 10 events, including both the men’s and women’s eights.

“We’re basically leaving 26 to 28 degree [Celsius, 78-83 Fahrenheit] British Columbia in service of 26 to 28 degree China, factoring humidity there, but that’s why we’re going a few days earlier than a lot of people,” said Canadian Olympic coach Tom Morris. “We’re not too stressed about it. It’s year one of this [Olympic] quadrennial and so I wanted to make sure that we keep our process really strong, really simple, and able to be reviewed with robustness and thoroughly at the end rather than pulling out too many tricks too early.”

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