About the FISA World Rowing Tour

The FISA World Rowing Tour is held every year and the target participants are recreational rowers.

Recreational rowers combine rowing, tourism, sight-seeing and friendship. Crews do not compete against one another, instead rowers participate in tours around the world in an effort to introduce recreational rowing to nations who are not familiar with it or who only view rowing as an Olympic sport. For the past 33 years, recreational rowers of all nationalities, ages and abilities have toured lakes, rivers and seas in Europe, the Americas and Australia. Recreational rowers can be any age and in 2012 the oldest male on the FISA tour was 87 while the oldest female was 78. The youngest participant this year was 27 years old.

Ireland has been given the privilege of hosting the FISA World tour in 2013. The tour will take place between June 15th and June 22nd. It will start in Carrick-on-Shannon and finish in Limerick and we plan to cater for 80 participants. The standard boat used on FISA Tours is a touring 4x+ or 4+.

View the full event invitation here.

Regular updates will be posted on the event website here.