Creve Coeur Lake hosted the rowing events for the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis.Lake Albano hosted the rowing events for the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.Lake of Banyoles hosted the rowing events for the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.
For the Summer Olympics, there are 28 venues that have been or will be used for rowing. These venues have occurred at lakes, rivers, shipping canals, and their own specialized courses. The first specialized course took place at 1932 and would serve as a model for other Olympic venues, most notably in 1972, 1976, 1980, 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012.
Games
Venue
Other sports hosted at venues for those games
Capacity
Ref.
1900 Paris
Seine
Swimming, Water polo
Not listed.
[1]
1904 St. Louis
Creve Coeur Lake
None
Not listed.
[2]
1908 London
Henley Royal Regatta
None
Not listed.
[3]
1912 Stockholm
Djurgårdsbrunnsviken
Diving, Modern pentathlon (swimming), Swimming, Water polo
Not listed.
[4]
1920 Antwerp
Brussels–Scheldt Maritime Canal
None
Not listed.
[5]
1924 Paris
Bassin d'Argentuil
None
2,216
[6]
1928 Amsterdam
Sloten
None
2,230
[7]
1932 Los Angeles
Long Beach Marine Stadium
None
17,000
[8]
1936 Berlin
Berlin-Grünau Regatta Course
Canoeing
19,000
[9]
1948 London
Henley Royal Regatta
Canoeing
Not listed.
[10]
1952 Helsinki
Meilahti
None
12,763
[11]
1956 Melbourne
Lake Wendouree
Canoeing
14,300
[12]
1960 Rome
Lake Albano
Canoeing
10,000
[13]
1964 Tokyo
Toda Rowing Course
None
8,300
[14][15]
1968 Mexico City
Virgilio Uribe Rowing and Canoeing Course
Canoeing
17,600
[16]
1972 Munich
Regattastrecke Oberschleißheim
Canoeing (sprint)
41,000
[17]
1976 Montreal
Notre Dame Island
Canoeing
27,000
[18]
1980 Moscow
Krylatskoye Sports Complex Canoeing and Rowing Basin
Canoeing
21,600
[19]
1984 Los Angeles
Lake Casitas
Canoeing
4,680
[20]
1988 Seoul
Han River Regatta Course/Canoeing Site
Canoeing
25,000
[21]
1992 Barcelona
Lake of Banyoles
None
4,500
[22]
1996 Atlanta
Lake Lanier
Canoeing (sprint)
17,300
[23][24]
2000 Sydney
Sydney International Regatta Centre
Canoeing (sprint)
20,000
[25]
2004 Athens
Schinias Olympic Rowing and Canoeing Centre
Canoeing (sprint)
14,000
[26]
2008 Beijing
Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park
Canoeing, Swimming (marathon)
37,000
[27]
2012 London
Dorney Lake
Canoeing (sprint)
30,000 maximum
[28]
2016 Rio de Janeiro
Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas
Canoeing (sprint)
14,000
[29]
2020 Tokyo
Sea Forest Waterway
Canoeing (sprint)
24,000
[30]
^1900 Summer Olympics official report. pp. 17-18. Accessed 14 November 2010. (in French)
^Spalding's report of the 1904 Summer Olympics. Archived 2011-08-29 at the Wayback Machine p. 213. Accessed 4 October 2010.
^1908 Summer Olympics official report. p. 237. Accessed 5 October 2010.
^1912 Summer Olympics official report. pp. 211-7, 221-2. Accessed 5 October 2010.
^1924 Olympics official report. Archived 2008-04-10 at the Wayback Machine pp. 165-7. (in French)
^1928 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-04-08 at the Wayback Machine pp. 172, 267-72.
^1932 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-04-10 at the Wayback Machine pp. 70-73.
^1936 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2007-07-09 at the Wayback Machine Volume 2. pp. 996-1029. Accessed 17 October 2010.
^1948 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine pp. 43, 47-8. Accessed 19 October 2010.
^1952 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-04-11 at the Wayback Machine pp. 54-5. Accessed 21 October 2010.
^1956 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-09-12 at the Wayback Machine p. 42. Accessed 25 October 2010.
^1960 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 1. pp. 82-3. Accessed 28 October 2010.
^1964 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2010-07-07 at the Wayback Machine Volume 1. Part 1. p. 115. Accessed 31 October 2010.
^1964 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2010-07-07 at the Wayback Machine Volume 1. Part 1. pp. 130-1. Accessed 31 October 2010.
^1968 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. Part 1. p. 75. Accessed 4 November 2010. (in English and French)
^1972 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. Part 2. pp. 204-5. Accessed 8 November 2010.
^1976 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. pp. 112-7. Accessed 14 November 2010.
^1980 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. Part 1. pp. 91-4. Accessed 18 November 2010.
^1984 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2010-11-02 at the Wayback Machine Volume 1. Part 1. pp. 108-12. Accessed 24 November 2010.
^1988 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 1. Part 1. pp. 186-7. Accessed 1 December 2010.
^1992 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. pp. 288-92. Accessed 6 December 2010.
^1996 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 1. p. 541. Accessed 9 December 2010.
^1996 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine Volume 3. pp. 452, 460. Accessed 9 December 2010.
^2000 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2000-11-09 at the Wayback Machine Volume 1. p. 389. Accessed 17 December 2010.
^2004 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-08-19 at the Wayback Machine Volume 2. pp. 283, 372. Accessed 24 December 2010.
^"Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park". Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. Archived from the original on 2008-08-09. Retrieved 2008-08-10.
^London2012.com profile of Dorney Lake (Eton Dorney). Archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today Accessed 30 December 2010.
^"Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas", Rio de Janeiro 2016 Candidate File(PDF), vol. 2, (BOC), February 16, 2009, pp. 70–73, archived from the original (PDF) on May 23, 2013, retrieved December 2, 2009.
^"8 Sports and venues", Tokyo 2020 Candidate File(PDF), vol. 2, Tokyo 2020, archived from the original (PDF) on April 5, 2013, retrieved September 10, 2013.
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