Rowing at the Summer Paralympics

Through the 2016 Rio Paralympics all races were raced over a 1000 m^[1] straight course. Beginning with the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, competition is raced over the same 2000 m course as the Olympics. ^[2]

There is a limited number of crews permitted to race, so the International Rowing Federation holds qualification events in order to determine who competes at the Paralympic Games. At the Paralympic Games, each National Olympic Committee can only have one boat per event.

As of the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris, the most successful Paralympic rower is Great Britain's Lauren Rowles, the only para rower with three Games gold medals, all achieved in the mixed double sculls. While a Great Britain team has won four consecutive mixed coxed four gold medals, itself a record for an individual event, no rower has appeared in that team more than twice. Five British rowers have won two gold medals.

The only non-British rower with two gold medals is the Ukrainian single sculler, Roman Polianskyi in 2016 and 2021, and who added a silver in 2024, making him the most successful male rower in Paralympic history. Australian single sculler Erik Horrie is the most decorated para rowing athlete with four medals, three silvers and a bronze, and the only medalist across four editions of the Games, but is yet to win gold.

Men

Single sculls - 2008–

More information Event, Gold ...

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2008 details	Tom Aggar  Great Britain	Oleksandr Petrenko  Ukraine	Eli Nawi  Israel
2012 details	Cheng Huang  China	Erik Horrie  Australia	Aleksey Chuvashev  Russia
2016 details	Roman Polianskyi  Ukraine	Erik Horrie  Australia	Tom Aggar  Great Britain
2020 details	Roman Polianskyi  Ukraine	Erik Horrie  Australia	Renê Pereira  Brazil
2024 details	Benjamin Pritchard  Great Britain	Roman Polianskyi  Ukraine	Giacomo Perini  Italy

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Women

Single sculls - 2008–

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Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2008 details	Helene Raynsford  Great Britain	Liudmila Vauchok  Belarus	Laura Schwanger  United States
2012 details	Alla Lysenko  Ukraine	Nathalie Benoit  France	Liudmila Vauchok  Belarus
2016 details	Rachel Morris  Great Britain	Wang Lili  China	Moran Samuel  Israel
2020 details	Birgit Skarstein  Norway	Moran Samuel  Israel	Nathalie Benoit  France
2024 details	Moran Samuel  Israel	Birgit Skarstein  Norway	Nathalie Benoit  France

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Mixed

Mixed double sculls AD - 2008–2020

More information Event, Gold ...

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2008 details	China (CHN) Zhou Yangjing Shan Zilong	Australia (AUS) John Maclean Kathryn Ross	Brazil (BRA) Elton Santana Josiane Lima
2012 details	China (CHN) Lou Xiaoxian Fei Tianming	France (FRA) Perle Bouge Stephane Tardieu	United States (USA) Oksana Masters Rob Jones
2016 details	Great Britain (GBR) Lauren Rowles Laurence Whiteley	China (CHN) Liu Shuang Fei Tianming	France (FRA) Perle Bouge Stéphane Tardieu
2020 details	Great Britain Laurence Whiteley Lauren Rowles	Netherlands Annika van der Meer Corné de Koning	China Liu Shuang Jiang Jijian

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In 2024, the mixed double sculls was split into two events;

• the Mix2xPR2, which included most of the previous double scullers, and
• the higher ability Mix2xPR3 class

Mixed double sculls PR2 - 2020–

More information Event, Gold ...

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2024 details	Great Britain Lauren Rowles Gregg Stevenson	China Liu Shuang Jiang Jijian	Israel Shahar Milfelder Saleh Shahin

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Mixed double sculls PR3 - 2020–

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Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2024 details	Australia Nikki Ayers Jed Altschwager	Great Britain Sam Murray Annie Caddick	Germany Jan Helmich Hermine Krumbein

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Mixed cox four - 2008–^[3]

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Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2008 details	Italy (ITA) Paola Protopapa Luca Agoletto Daniele Signore Graziana Saccocci Cox: Alessandro Franzetti	United States (USA) Emma Preuschl Tracy Tackett Jesse Karmazin Jamie Dean Cox: Simona Chin	Great Britain (GBR) Vicki Hansford Naomi Riches Alastair McKean James Morgan Cox: Alan Sherman
2012 details	Great Britain (GBR) Pam Relph Naomi Riches David Smith James Roe Lily van den Broecke (Cox)	Germany (GER) Anke Molkenthin Astrid Hengsbach Tino Kolitscher Kai Kruse Katrin Splitt (Cox)	Ukraine (UKR) Andrii Stelmakh Kateryna Morozova Olena Pukhaieva Denys Sobol Volodymyr Kozlov (Cox)
2016 details	Great Britain (GBR) Grace Clough Daniel Brown Pam Relph James Fox Oliver James	United States (USA) Jaclyn Smith Danielle Hansen Zachary Burns Dorian Weber Jennifer Sichel	Canada (CAN) Victoria Nolan Meghan Montgomery Andrew Todd Curtis Halladay Kristen Kit
2020 details	Great Britain Ellen Buttrick Giedrė Rakauskaitė James Fox Oliver Stanhope Erin Kennedy	United States Allie Reilly Danielle Hansen Charley Nordin John Tanguay Karen Petrik	France Erika Sauzeau Antoine Jesel Rémy Taranto Margot Boulet Robin le Barreau
2024 details	Great Britain Francesca Allen Giedrė Rakauskaitė Josh O'Brien Ed Fuller Erin Kennedy (cox)	United States Skylar Dahl Gemma Wollenschlaeger Alex Flynn Ben Washburne Emelie Eldracher (cox)	France Candyce Chafa Rémy Taranto Grégoire Bireau Margot Boulet Émilie Acquistapace (cox)

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Updated after the 2024 Summer Paralympics

More information Rank, Nation ...

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Great Britain (GBR)	11	1	2	14
2	China (CHN)	3	3	1	7
3	Ukraine (UKR)	3	2	1	6
4	Australia (AUS)	1	4	0	5
5	Israel (ISR)	1	1	3	5
6	Norway (NOR)	1	1	0	2
7	Italy (ITA)	1	0	1	2
8	United States (USA)	0	4	2	6
9	France (FRA)	0	2	5	7
10	Belarus (BLR)	0	1	1	2
	Germany (GER)	0	1	1	2
12	Netherlands (NED)	0	1	0	1
13	Brazil (BRA)	0	0	2	2
14	Canada (CAN)	0	0	1	1
	Russia (RUS)	0	0	1	1
Totals (15 entries)		21	21	21	63

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List of all athletes that participated in all events (both men's and women's).

More information Event, Total ...

Event	60	64	68	72	76	80	84	88	92	96	00	04	08	12	16	20	24	Total
Argentina (ARG)														1	1	1		3
Australia (AUS)													3	3	8	8		22
Austria (AUT)															5			5
Belarus (BLR)													1	8	1	1		11
Brazil (BRA)													9	9	4	9		31
Canada (CAN)													8	6	5	7		26
China (CHN)													9	8	9	2		28
Denmark (DEN)													5					5
Spain (ESP)													1	1		5		7
France (FRA)													1	8	7	8		24
Great Britain (GBR)													9	8	9	8		34
Germany (GER)													7	6	6	2		21
Hong Kong (HKG)													1					1
Hungary (HUN)													1	1	1			3
Ireland (IRL)														5				5
Israel (ISR)													9	3	3	7		22
Italy (ITA)													9	7	7	7		30
Japan (JPN)													2	1	2	6		11
Kenya (KEN)															1	1		2
South Korea (KOR)													1	2	2	1		6
Latvia (LAT)															2			2
Lithuania (LTU)															1			1
Mexico (MEX)																1		1
Netherlands (NED)													5		3	2		10
Niger (NIG)																1		1
New Zealand (NZL)														1				1
Norway (NOR)															1	1		2
Poland (POL)													3	3	2	2		10
Portugal (POR)													1	1				2
South Africa (RSA)													5	1	6			12
Russia (RUS)													5	8				13
Russia (RUS)																6		6
Sri Lanka (SRI)																1		1
Ukraine (UKR)													4	9	8	9		30
United States (USA)													9	8	9	10		36
Uzbekistan (UZB)																2		2
Zimbabwe (ZIM)															5			5
Nations													23	23	25	25
New Nations													23	3	6	5	37
Competitors													108	108	108	108	432
Year	60	64	68	72	76	80	84	88	92	96	00	04	08	12	16	20

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