Entries are in for the European Rowing Under 23 Championships in Krefeld

Entries are in for the European Rowing Under 23 Championships, to take place in Krefeld, Germany. Nearly 330 competitors are entered in the regatta.

The regatta course on the Elfrather See in Krefeld has proved to be a highly successful regatta venue in the past and one of Germany’s top rowing courses. It is also the 140^th anniversary of the Crefelder Rowing Club this year, which will be celebrated in great fashion with the best European Under 23 athletes.

Both the men’s and women’s single sculls have attracted a large and very competitive field of 14 boats. On the women’s side, all eyes will be on Aurelia-Maxima Janzen of Switzerland, the reigning World Under 23 Champion and silver medallist at the senior European Championships earlier this year. She is the heavy favorite, and might only be challenged by Anna Santruckova of the Czech Republic, who recently won a gold medal at the FISU University games in China.

The men’s single will see recent silver medallist at the World Under 19 Championships, Panagiotis Makrygiannis of Greece, take on Italy’s Marco Prati who was crowned World Rowing Under 19 Champion last year on his home waters in Varese. Watch out too for Bojan Reuffurth of Switzerland, who was in the A-Final in Plovdiv earlier this year in the men’s single, and just a few seconds out of podium places.

The men’s pair will see the recent World Under 19 Champions of Turkey, Aytimur Selcuk and Enes Biber, try to add another gold medal to their tally this summer. Competition will be fierce with the silver medallists from last year’s World Rowing Under 19 Championships, Andrei-Petrisor Axintoi and Claudiu Neamtu of Romania.

The event will see lots of gold medallists from the 2023 World Under 23 Championships earlier this year : Poland’s Barbara Jechorek and Anna Potrzuska in the women’s pair, Romania’s Alexandra Ungureanu and Iulia-Liliana Balauca in the women’s double sculls, and Toby Lassen, lone returner from the GB Men’s Eight that took home gold in Plovdiv – he will this time be in the men’s four.

Host nation Germany is boating the biggest team, having entered 13 of the 22 boat classes, including both the men’s and the women’s eight.

The European Rowing Under 23 Championships are raced in 22 boat classes and is open to all European Member National Federations (which includes Israel) for athletes under the age of 23. A rower may compete in an Under 23 rowing event until 31 December of the year in which he/she reaches the age of 22.

Racing begins on Saturday 26 September 2023 with heats and progresses through repechages, semifinals and to the finals on Sunday 27 September. All races will be live streamed on World Rowing’s YouTube page.

Keep track of results, race information, photographs on www.worldrowing.com and on World Rowing’s Instagram, Twitter and Facebook channels.