Coaching
Coaching Education
General
The World Rowing Development Team has assembled the following resources to guide coach education for World Rowing. World Rowing recognises the high quality of existing national coach education programmes and thanks them for their continued collaboration. This programme has been created for nations or individuals who do not have existing national coach education programmes.
WR_L1_Syllabus_SchemeofWork_25.01.2024
In addition, seminars and conferences add to the overall knowledge of coaching in rowing (see tab “World Rowing Coaches Conferences” at the top of this page).
LEVEL 1 – Learn To Row Classic and Para Rowing
This Learn To Row Book covers the basics of rowing and is aimed for teaching beginners.
LEVEL 1 – Coastal Rowing
The Learn to Row – Coastal Rowing book covers an introduction to coastal rowing for everyone.
In addition, World Rowing recommends these guidelines on safety and athlete selection:
SAFETY
World Rowing’s Minimum Guidelines for the safe practice of Rowing
TESTING ATHLETES FOR SELECTION
Testing Athletes for Selection – English.pdf
Selection Best Times 2018 for Senior and U23.pdf
Reference Documents
Head-Coach – German Rowing Association (Deutscher Ruserverband, DRV)
The German Rowing Association (Deutscher Ruderverband, DRV) is looking to fill the full-time position of Head Coach starting from January 1, 2025. The position is limited initially until December 31, 2026.
2024 Job Ad Head – Coach-Cheftrainer-eng-ger
Head-Coach – French Rowing Federation (Fédération Française d’Aviron, FFA)
The French Rowing Federation (Fédération Française d’Aviron) is looking to fill the full-time position of Olympic Team Head Coach, between the 1st of November and the 1st of January. The position is a permanent, 4 years fixed-term contract (renewable).
FFAviron – Olympic Team Head Coach – fr-en
Head Coach – Estonian Rowing Association
The Estonian Rowing Association is looking for a full-time head coach. The position is a permanent, 4-year (renewable) contract, to start between October 1 – November 1, 2024
Head Coach position – Estonian Rowing Association
Head Coach – Hungarian Rowing Association
The Hungarian Rowing Association is looking for a full-time head coach.
Head Coach position – Hungarian Rowing Federation
Please send a message to info@worldrowing.com if you wish to see your coaching job offer be posted here.
World Rowing annually organises the Coaches Conference and the Youth Coaches Conference.
2024 World Rowing Virtual Coaches Conference – 26-28 January 2024
Find more information here.
2023 World Rowing Virtual Coaches Conference – 3-7 March 2023
Find more information here.
2022 World Rowing Virtual Coaches Conference – 29 January – 2 February 2022
Please find the event page here.
2020 World Rowing Virtual Coaches Conference – 27 November – 6 December 2020
Please find the event page here.
In 2019, the Coaches Conference was organised in London, Great Britain.
The presentations from the event can be found here.
2019 World Rowing Youth Coaches Conference – 6-10 November 2019, Hangzhou, China
Please find the event page here.
The World Rowing Competitive Commission is responsible for the following areas:
- To increase participation in all types of competitive rowing.
- To raise standards in competitive rowing.
- To provide advice to the Council on all matters related to competitive rowing.
- Seeding Criteria
- Fairness
This section displays links to research, papers and other valuable scientific content about rowing.
World Rowing – Women Coaching Toolkit
Case Studies
- WR Women Coaching Toolkit – Case Studies 01
- WR Women Coaching Toolkit – Case Studies 02
- WR Women Coaching Toolkit – Case Studies 03
- WR Women Coaching Toolkit – Case Studies 04
- WR Women Coaching Toolkit – Case Studies 05
- WR Women Coaching Toolkit – Case Studies 06
- WR Women Coaching Toolkit – Case Studies 07
- WR Women Coaching Toolkit – Case Studies 08
- How to Conduct a Focus Group.docx
- What makes a successful coach of female athletes?
- Sport Science and Medical Conference 2015
- The Science of Rowing: Improving Performance Naturally
- Women’s SportsNet conference: Physical literacy