Entries officially announced for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games Regatta

Twenty-nine National Paralympic Committees will be competing in the Paralympic Rowing Regatta at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games. The Regatta, which will start Friday, 30 August, and run until 1 September, will take place at the Stade Nautique de Vaires-sur-Marne on the outskirts of Paris.

Following the conclusion of the Paris 2024 qualification for Rowing  a total of 104 athletes (excluding coxswains) have qualified in five different classes of boats, for a total of 54 boats. The host nation, France, is the only nation that has qualified a boat in each of the five Paralympic boat classes : the PR1 men’s and women’s single sculls, the PR2 and PR3 mixed double sculls, and the PR3 Mixed Coxed Four.

The PR1 men’s single sculls will see the two-time reigning Paralympic champion, Roman Polianskyi of Ukraine, going for the three-peat. He will have to face familiar foes in Giacomo Perini of Italy, the only rower that beat Polianskyi, and Benjamin Pritchard of Great Britain, who won the last World Rowing Cup in Poznan in June.

Also returning to defend her Paralympic title is Birgit Skarstein of Norway. The two-time reigning World Champion in the PR1 women’s single sculls has looked slightly less dominant this year, but is still the favourite to win it all, although she will face stiff competition from Moran Samuel of Israel or Nathalie Benoit of France.

Perhaps the most dominant crew in the sport, Olympic and Paralympic boat classes combined, Great Britain’s PR3 Mixed Coxed Four boat is riding an unbelievable 14-year winning streak, being undefeated since 2010. Great Britain’s also looking very dominant in the PR2 Mixed Double Sculls, with two-time Paralympic Champion Lauren Rowles and new teammate Gregg Stevenson having won the last two World Championship titles.

Racing on home waters, and for the first time at the Paralympic Games, the French duo of Laurent Cadot and Guylaine Marchand will look to bring home a medal in the PR3 Mixed Double Sculls. Standing on their way will be the reigning World Champions, and World Best Time holders, Nikki Ayers and Jed Altschwager of Australia.

Rowing at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games will start on 29 August 2024 with finals being contested on 1 September.

For the entries, click here.

For the official programme, click here.