Lausanne, 31 August 2018

The World Rowing Federation, FISA, wishes to advise international media about the information available for the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

This is the most important event of the 2018 season and it will take place from 9 to 16 September 2018. The media guide is now available here. It includes a Who to Watch for all boat classes, media information, a review of the season so far, many useful statistics from all major regattas and the current World Best Times.

The World Rowing website, www.worldrowing.com will be the main channel containing:

·         Entries, results, and related PDFs

·         Race reports

·         Live race tracker

·         Audio commentary 

·         Photos

·         Live blog

Live video coverage will be available on the World Rowing website for then entire eight days of the regatta starting at 09:30 EEST on Sunday 9 September 2018.

The racing draw will take place at 15:00 EEST on Saturday 8 September and will be live streamed on World Rowing’s Facebook page: www.Facebook.com/WorldRowing

Photos will be available through: https://www.flickr.com/photos/worldrowingofficial

World Rowing also posts information on its social media channels. The official hashtag for the event is #WRChamps or #Plovdiv2018. The official Twitter account of World Rowing is @WorldRowing. Instagram is @WorldRowingOfficial and Facebook is WorldRowing. World Rowing will provide updates, video, photos and short commentary via Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Athletes and fans are encouraged to tweet messages of support using the official hashtag.

The official Facebook page is www.Facebook.com/WorldRowing.

There will also be updates on our You Tube channel: www.youtube.com/WorldRowingFISA

For media accreditation queries:  media@fisa.org