Rowing at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Rowing at the XV Paralympic Games
Venue	Lagoa Stadium
Dates	9–11 September
Competitors	96

Rowing competitions at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro were held from 9 to 11 September 2016, at Lagoa Stadium at the Games' Copacabana hub.

Classification

Rowers are given a classification depending on the type and extent of their disability. The classification system allows rowers to compete against others with a similar level of function.

The three rowing classes are:

• LTA (Legs, Trunk and Arms) - Mixed coxed fours
• TA (Trunk and Arms) - Mixed double sculls
• AS (Arms and shoulders) - Men's and women's singles

Events

Four rowing events are scheduled to be held, each over a course of 1000 metres:

• Men's single sculls AS
• Women's single sculls AS
• Mixed double sculls TA
• Mixed four coxed LTA

Qualification

Ninety-six athletes (48 male, 48 female) are expected to take part in this sport.

The majority of the spots were awarded based on the results at the 2015 World Rowing Championships, held at Lac d'Aiguebelette, France from August 30 to September 6, 2015. Places are awarded to National Olympic Committees, not to specific athletes. Further berths are distributed at the final Paralympic qualification regatta in Gavirate, Italy. A minimum of two places were held over for the host, Brazil, one rower of each gender. In the event, however, Brazil qualified that minimum number via the World Championships, and the host nation places were therefore added to the Bipartite commission quota distribution. Russia have now been excluded from the 2016 Paralympics, and Germany and USA, as the fastest non-qualifiers in AS M1x and TA X2x respectively, will take Russia's place in those events.

Qualifiers for the Paralympic Games 2016 - Rowing
Qualification Event	AS M1x	AS W1x	TA X2x	LTA X4+
2015 World Rowing Championships Lucerne, Switzerland (Top 8 boats per event - 64 athletes)	Australien  Great Britain  Ukraine  Russland  Vereinigte Staaten  Niederlande  Brasilien  Italien	Israel  Great Britain  Norwegen  Brasilien  Weißrussland  Italien  Südafrika  Vereinigte Staaten	Australien  Great Britain  Frankreich  Ukraine  Niederlande  Polen  Brasilien  Israel	Great Britain  Vereinigte Staaten  Kanada  Italien  Südafrika  Ukraine  Deutschland  Frankreich
2016 Final Paralympic Regatta Gavirate, Italy (Top 2 boats per event - 16 athletes)	China  Südkorea  Deutschland	China  Südkorea	China  Russland  Vereinigte Staaten	Australien  China
Host Nation Quotas	—
Bipartite Commission quotas (8 male, 8 female rowers - 16 athletes)	Litauen  Kenia	Ungarn  Argentinien	Japan  Lettland	Österreich  Simbabwe

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Great Britain (GBR)	3	0	1	4
2	Ukraine (UKR)	1	0	0	1
3	China (CHN)	0	2	0	2
4	Australien (AUS)	0	1	0	1
	Vereinigte Staaten (USA)	0	1	0	1
6	Kanada (CAN)	0	0	1	1
	Frankreich (FRA)	0	0	1	1
	Israel (ISR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		4	4	4	12

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's single sculls	Roman Polianskyi  Ukraine	Erik Horrie  Australien	Tom Aggar  Great Britain
Women's single sculls	Rachel Morris  Great Britain	Wang Lili  China	Moran Samuel  Israel
Mixed double sculls	Great Britain (GBR) Lauren Rowles Laurence Whiteley	China (CHN) Liu Shuang Fei Tianming	Frankreich (FRA) Perle Bouge Stéphane Tardieu
Mixed coxed four	Great Britain (GBR) Grace Clough Daniel Brown Pam Relph James Fox Oliver James	Vereinigte Staaten (USA) Jaclyn Smith Danielle Hansen Zachary Burns Dorian Weber Jennifer Sichel	Kanada (CAN) Victoria Nolan Meghan Montgomery Andrew Todd Curtis Halladay Kristen Kit

See also

• Rowing at the 2016 Summer Olympics

External links

• Official Site of the 2016 Summer Paralympics Archived 10 October 2016 at archive.today