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The Oarsome Foursome is the nickname for an Australian men's rowing coxless four crew who competed with a clear lineage between 1990 and 2012, winning two Olympic gold medals and one silver medal, two world championships as a coxless four, and additional world championship titles in coxed boats.
An octuple sculling shell, often simply called an oct and abbreviated as an 8x [1] or 8x+, [2] is a racing shell used in the sport of rowing.. Unlike the eight (8+), a racing shell with a crew of eight rowers and a coxswain (cox) [2] that can be seen at the Olympic Games and the Boat Race, [2] in which each of the eight rowers have one oar (or blade) which they pull with both arms, [note 1] in ...
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If the boat is sculled by rowers, each with two oars, the combination is called a quad scull.In that boat the riggers apply forces symmetrically. However most rowing clubs cannot afford to have a four-seat quad-only format delicate boat, which might be rarely used and instead generally opt for versatility in their fleet by using stronger "standard, versatile" shells to be rigged as either boat.
He again represented the United States at the 2023 World Rowing Championships, and finished in sixth place in the men's eight. [3] [4] Hollingsworth represented the United States at the 2024 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal in the men's eight, with a time of 5:25.28. [5] [6]
Rowing at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul featured 14 events in total, for men and women, held on the Han River Regatta Course. [ 1 ] The women's quadruple sculls event was held without coxswain for the first time at this Olympics (from its debut in 1976 through 1984 it was coxed for women and coxless for men).
The coxed four was a rowing event held at the Summer Olympics.The event was first held for men at the second modern Olympics in 1900. It was not held in 1904 or 1908. It returned in 1912 with two versions: the standard one as well as one with inriggers (the only time that version was held).
This rowing event is a sweep rowing event, meaning that each rower has one oar and rows on only one side. Four rowers crew each boat, and no coxswain is used. The competition consists of multiple rounds.