2024 World Rowing Cup III, Poznan, Poland © World Rowing / Benedict Tufnell
2024 World Rowing Cup III, Poznan, Poland © World Rowing / Benedict Tufnell

The 2025 World Rowing Under 23 Championships are coming up in just under two weeks, taking place in Poznan, Poland, from 23 to 27 July. A total of 239 crews from 53 nations will try to reach the podium across the eighteen boat classes.

Germany and Italy are sending the largest teams, both with entries in 17 of the 18 boat classes offered. The event will see a new record number of entries in both the men’s and women’s eight, with 14 and 10 entries each, respectively.

​​It will also include the first ever appearance of the PR3 Under 23 Men’s and Women’s Single Sculls (PR3 BM1x, PR3 BW1x), with four and two entries each.

The Under 23 men’s single sculls has the most entries with 29 boats entered, and all eyes will be on the battle between Aaron Andries of Belgium, Oscar Ruston of New Zealand and Diogo Goncalves of Portugal – all of them were in the A-Final last year in Canada. The U23 men’s single will also see, for the very first time, entries from Malaysia and Somalia.

The Under 23 women’s single sculls standout is Aurelia-Maxima Janzen, who will be participating in her fifth World Rowing Under 23 Championships (the most of all the competitors in Poznan). She is one of six Olympians who will be competing.

One of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games’ medallist is Dimitra Kontou of Greece. She started her season with a silver medal at the European Championships, and will now try to add a third World Rowing U23 title to her pedigree, with a new partner in the women’s double sculls, Varvara Lykomitrou.

The blue ribband event, the eight, has 14 entries on the men’s side, and fireworks are expected between Great Britain, the USA, Romania, and Australia in this hotly contested event. The women’s eight sees a record number of ten entries, with multiple athletes from last year returning to the biggest stage.

Racing will be held at Poznan’s international regatta venue, on Lake Malta, which has previously hosted the World Rowing Under 23 Championships in 2018. Poznan also played host to the 2009 World Rowing Championships and more recently, stages of the World Rowing Cup in 2024 and 2022.

Live race tracker, live video streaming, results, race reports, photo gallery and live blog will be available throughout the regatta on www.worldrowing.com, as well as updates on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. Live video streaming will be available on worldrowing.com for all days of racing.

The official hashtags for the event are: #WRU23CHPoznan, #WorldRowingU23Champs

About the World Rowing Under 23 Championships:
The top event of the year for the Under 23 classic rowers is the World Rowing Under 23 Championships (WRU23CH). The WRU23CH have been hosted annually since 2005, with the exception of 2020. A rower may compete in an Under 23 event until 31st of December of the year in which they reach the age of 22.