Volunteer for rowing at the Rio Olympic Games

“Our goal is to recruit as many rowing ‘sport specific volunteers’ as possible,” says Rowing Competition Manager Colleen Orsmond. “These are the volunteers who will work in the Blue Zone at the rowing venue,  i.e. they will be the ones in direct contact with the athletes and officials. So it is important that they have a feeling for the sport and understand what an athlete needs.” Orsmond says they are looking to recruit rowers, rowing coaches, umpires, administrators and anyone that has been involved in rowing or in rowing events.

“I know that there are many members of the rowing community outside of Brazil that are keen to get involved,” says Orsmond. “All are welcome, of course, although as is usual for the Games, all volunteers will have to get themselves to the host city and arrange their own accommodation.”

Orsmond says the key point for all would-be volunteers is that they need to receive a special code if they want to volunteer specifically at the rowing regatta. This code is submitted along with their application. If volunteers do not add the code they will go in the pool of generic volunteers with no guarantee that they will be directed towards the rowing event. The code makes sure that the volunteers is identified as a ‘rowing expert’ from the get-go.

Anyone interested in volunteering, please send an email to: colleen.orsmond@rio2016.com to receive more information and the sport code for rowing.

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