EVENT DESCRIPTION
The World Rowing Cup is an annual series of three regattas that act as a lead-up to the World Rowing Championships. It is held over three days with racing a progression system from heats through to finals.
Racing at the World Rowing Cup includes the 14 Olympic boat classes and a selection of International boat classes. Para-rowing is contested at some World Cups. Each Olympic boat class earns points based on the finishing order. The highest placing boat from a country is awarded the following points:
1st = 8 points, 2nd = 6 points, 3rd = 5 points, 4th = 4 points, 5th = 3 points, 6th = 2 points, 7th = 1 point
EVENTS OFFERED
The following World Cup and International events are offered at the 2021 World Rowing Cup I
Men (M): 1x, 2x, 2-, 4x, 4-, 8+
Women (W): 1x, 2x, 2-, 4x, 4-, 8+
Lightweight Men (LM): 1x, 2x, 2-, 4x
Lightweight Women (LW): 1x, 2x, 2-, 4x
EVENT DOCUMENTS
2021 World Rowing Cup I Zagreb Saturday Summary Start List Updated
2021 WRC1 Zagreb Proposed Seeding
PRE-EVENT TEAMS BRIEFING
2021 WRC I Zagreb Teams Briefing slides_22 April
TIME TRIALS
The World Rowing Executive in consultation with various bodies including Tokyo2020 and the World Rowing Athletes Commission, have recommended that all heats at World Rowing Cup 1 – Zagreb, be conducted as Time Trials. The Tokyo Olympic time trial patterns will be practiced and will give NF’s, World Rowing itself, Swiss Timing etc, valuable experience in the procedure. Instructions for crews in the attached document: Time Trials_Instruction for Crews
ENTRY DEADLINE
Friday, 16 April 2021
MF SEMINAR PRESENTATION
2021 WRC I Zagreb Covid-19 Response Plan_highlights
ELIGIBILITY
World Rowing Cup regattas shall be open to all competitors who are authorized to compete by their member federation and who are eligible under the relevant rules. To represent a Member Federation in a World Rowing Cup regatta, a rower must be a citizen of that country or a bona fide member of the rowing club for which he competes in that country. In World Rowing Cup events at World Rowing Cup regattas, rowers shall compete under the name of their Member Federation that shall alone be entitled to enter them. Each member federation may enter up to four crews in each event of the 1st World Rowing Cup regatta and a maximum of two crews in each event of the 2nd and 3rd World Rowing Cup regattas.
ABOUT THE VENUE
Only 7 km south of the city centre is the Jarun lake also called “Zagreb Sea”. It consists of a 2250 m long regatta course and two lakes – Veliko and Malo (Great and Small), and six islands (Universiade Island, Trešnjevka Island, Rowers’ Island, Croatian Youth Island, Wildlife Island and Love Island). With its cycle tracks, lakes for water sports and sports grounds for team sports, Jarun lake is the largest entertainment centre in Zagreb. Most of the venue facilities were built in 1987 for the World University Games that were held in Zagreb the same year. The boat house area is situated on the Southwest end of the racing course and have been in use ever since.
The area of Jarun is a habitat of diverse fauna (130 species of birds and 29 species of fish).
The lakes are naturally fed by groundwater, which passes through the gravel layers and is thus purified. The average depth of the lake is about 4 m, the average annual water temperature is about 14 °C, and the average summer water temperature is about 24 °C.
Lake Jarun and the regatta course were built in 1986 for the 1987 World University Games (Universiade), where rowing was included for the first time. So far, major competitions have been held on the Jarun regatta course, such as the 1987 World University Games, the 1998 University World Rowing Championships, 2000 World Rowing Junior and Non-Olympic Senior Championships, 2007 Masters Regatta, 2008 European University Rowing Championships, and 2016 European University Games.
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