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Tactically, it sounds as ludicrous as sprinting the first five kilometres of a marathon. To win a 2000-metre rowing race, the crew must sprint for the first 500 metres.
Such are the demands in the sport of the Athlete of the Century and the Oarsome Foursome.
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| History |
 Rowing was first used as a means of transport in the ancient cultures of Egypt,
Greece and Rome. Rowing as a sport probably began in Victorian England in the
17th and early 18th centuries.
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| Equipment |
 Oar
A lever used to propel and steer a boat through water, consisting of a long shaft of wood with a blade at one end.
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| Glossary |
Aligner's hut: A hut near ground level on the starting line occupied by the starting judge and
an official called the aligner.
Back splash: Spray kicked up towards the bow of a boat, created as the oar enters the water
while still travelling towards the bow on the recovery.
Catch a crab: To make a faulty stroke, such as one where the blade either enters the water at
a wrong angle and sinks too deep or is held at the wrong angle and fails to
enter the water at all.
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At the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, Bobby Pearce faced an unexpected challenge in the middle of his quarterfinal race against Victor Saurin of France: a family of ducks passed single-file in front of his boat. |
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Pertti Karppinen, a two-metre tall fireman from Parsio, Finland, won the singles sculls at the 1976 Montr閍l Olympics by coming from behind to upset world champion Peter Michael Kolbe of Germany, and win by more than two and a half seconds. |
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