Rowing

Edirne has welcomed scores of rowers in the 2024 Balkan Rowing Championship, which took place between Sept. 14 and 15 on the course built on the Meriç River.

Following the European U23 Rowing Championship last week, this competition marks the second time this year that the Meriç River has hosted an international rowing event.

The northwestern province of Edirne applied to host 2024-25 European Junior Rowing Championships, the officials have said in the opening ceremony of the 2nd Edirne Rowing Festival held on the Meriç River.

Rowing in Istanbul's Golden Horn has become the new sports trend in Turkey's biggest metropolis, with a number of people willing to join an outdoor activity rather than staying indoors following the coronavirus pandemic.

"The growth rate of this sport has increased by five times through the pandemic," Fırat Fırat, a rowing instructor at Haliç Rowing Club, said on April 24.

The Slovenian organisers were supposed to host the world championships for seniors, for under-23 competitors and for juniors, but all events have been cancelled in agreement with the World Rowing Federation (FISA).

Their achievement is for the oldest team

A crew of four Britons crossed the Atlantic with rowing and beat the Guinness record. Their achievement is for the oldest team to cross the ocean with rowing. Their combined age is 257 years, the youngest of them is 61, and the oldest is 67. They have travelled 3,000 miles in 49 days. The record so far has been 223 years combined age.

Visitors wait in line to board an exact replica of an ancient Greek warship built in the mid-1980s by naval architect John F. Coates that is docked at the Palaio Faliro marina, on Athens' southern coast.

A sailing boat race begins on Thursday from the Black Sea port of Constanta, with two top-class sailing boats from Bulgaria departing from Varna.

The SCF Black Sea Tall Ships Regatta, one of the world's top sailing-boat races, this year includes the ports of Varna, Russia's Sochi and Novorossiysk, and Romania's Constanta.

Former Greek model Sandra Tsiligeridu spotted Syrian refugee Mohamed Besmar, exhausted while drifting in the Aegean for 13 hours. The ex-model and her friends pulled him onto their speed boat heading from Kos to the island of Pserimos, close to the Turkish border.

Romania's objective at the 2015 World Rowing Championships to be held August 30 - September 6 on Lake Aiguebelette (France), is to get three crews qualified for the 2016 Olympic Games, according to the Romanian Rowing Federation.

Hundreds of rowers took over Venice for the annual Vogalonga race, which started in 1975 against the rising number of motor boats in the city