2020 World Rowing season media accreditation open

Lausanne, 18 February 2020

The World Rowing Federation, FISA, wishes to advise international media that accreditation is now open for the 2020 World Rowing regatta season.

This season includes:

• World Rowing Cup I, Sabaudia, ITA,                                                              10-12 April
• European Continental Qualification Regatta, Varese, ITA                              27-29 April 
• World Rowing Cup II, Varese, ITA                                                                  1-3 May 
• Final Olympic Qualification Regatta, Lucerne, SUI                                        17-19 May
• World Rowing Cup III, Lucerne, SUI                                                              22-24 May
• European Rowing Junior Championships, Belgrade, SRB                            30-31 May
• European Rowing Championships, Poznan, POL                                          5-7 June
• World Rowing Senior/Under-23/Junior Championships, Bled, SLO              16-23 Aug
• European Rowing Under 23 Championships, Duisburg, GER                        5-6 Sept 
• World Rowing Masters Regatta, Linz-Ottensheim, AUT                                 2-6 Sept 
• World Rowing Beach Sprint Finals, Oeiras, POR                                           25-27 Sept
• World Rowing Coastal Championships, Oeiras, POR                                    2-4 Oct

This Olympic year sees the remaining qualification regattas being contested followed by a build-up to the biggest event in rowing, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in July. Following the Olympics, the season is far from over. After the Paralympic Games in August, the ‘mega’ World Rowing Championships takes place, combining non-Olympic senior boat classes with the under-23 and junior World Championships. Expect over 2000 athletes to be racing and an electric atmosphere.

The season finishes off with the World Rowing Masters Regatta followed by the top events of the year in coastal rowing; the second ever World Rowing Beach Sprint Finals and then the World Rowing Coastal Championships.   

Para-rowing races will be contested at World Rowing Cup II, European Rowing Championships and World Rowing Championships.

The World Rowing website, www.worldrowing.com,  is the main communications channel for rowing related information including; event dedicated page, entries, results, race reports, live race tracker, audio commentary, photos, feature stories, athlete biographies and live blog and, for most events, live streaming.

Follow World Rowing:
www.Facebook.com/WorldRowing
www.twitter.com/WorldRowing
www.instagram.com/worldrowingofficial/
www.youtube.com/WorldRowingFISA

To apply for media accreditation, please fill in the corresponding form found on the World Rowing website: www.worldrowing.com/mediacenter

For media accreditation queries:  media@fisa.org

* Media Accreditation for the Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games is not administered by World Rowing.