2023 World Rowing Indoor Championships

03/11/2023

It's now been two weeks since competitors and spectators filled the Paramount Fine Foods Centre in Mississauga for the first-ever World Rowing Indoor Championships to be hosted in 🇨🇦! New world records set, including by a 91-year-old, first-ever Versa Challenge champions crowned! A special thanks to our communications team with Colleen Coderre, Teddy Katz, and Jackie Skender (Pictured below) coxing us through the weekend. Also, a big thanks to our team of Centennial College sports journalism students (Michael Collins and Grace Klodt pictured below in orange) for jumping in and doing everything asked of them and more. Thank you everyone for helping us make history in a great celebration of indoor rowing! Photos from Steve Parr, Stuart Miller-Davis and Spencer Closs.

03/01/2023

What a fantastic weekend of indoor rowing in Mississauga at the first-ever Rowing Indoor Championships to be hosted in Canada. Want to relive the weekend in pictures? Well, our event photographers Steve Parr and Spencer Closs did an amazing job capturing all the action so you can look back on an awesome weekend where history was made! Check out: 197869575@N08/collections/72157721521592954/" rel="ugc" target="_blank">https://www.flickr.com/photos/197869575@N08/collections/72157721521592954/ for a collection of photos taken by our team over the weekend!

02/27/2023

02/27/2023

Canada’s Jason Marshall finishes second as World Rowing holds its first ever Versa Challenge to determine the world’s most versatile indoor rowers. Great finale to first ever World Rowing Indoor Championships in Canada.

/ Inspiring Stories / By admin First Ever Versa Challenge a Big Hit With Spectators and Athletes WRICH 2023 The World’s Most Versatile Rowers Crowned Champions By Alan Oldham For the first time in history, World Rowing crowned two Champions of a completely new kind as Elizabeth Gilmore (USA) and J...

02/27/2023

“International men of mystery” forced to call on emergency back-up en route to World Championship.

/ Inspiring Stories / By admin Emergency Back-Up Helps International Relay Team To A World Championship Title By Stuart Miller-Davis and Patrick Hannon A team of top indoor rowers from around the globe who like to call themselves “The International Men of Mystery” took home the men’s 2000m rel...

02/27/2023

Indoor rowing booming in popularity amongst the next generation and on display Sunday at Full story below.

/ Inspiring Stories / By admin Indoor Rowing booming in popularity amongst the next generation of Canadian athletes By Frank Christie The deepest field of the 2023 World Rowing Indoor Championships (2023 WRICH) took centre stage on Sunday afternoon in Mississauga, ON, as 117 indoor rowers lined up i...

02/27/2023

Ukraine’s Olena Buryak wins gold competing virtually, Canadians 2nd and 3rd in great final day at the World Rowing Indoor Championships. Read the full story here: https://wrichtoronto2023.ca/2023/02/27/18/

/ Inspiring Stories / By admin Buryak Wins Gold for Ukraine, Canadian Olympic Gold Medallists 2nd and 3rd as World Rowing Indoor Championships Make History In Mississauga By Frank Christie In a star-studded race at the 2023 World Rowing Indoor Championship (WRICH), Ukraine’s Olena Buryak came out ...

02/27/2023

Olena Buryak wins gold for Ukraine - Canadian Olympic Gold Medallist’s 2nd and 3rd in one of the marquee events at WRICH2023.

02/26/2023

Day two of history-making at the 2023 World Rowing Indoor Championships! You can still get tickets to see all the action in person from the box office at Paramount Fine Foods Centre including the Women's 23-39 hybrid race featuring Rowing Canada Aviron Tokyo gold medalist teammates Sydney Payne and Kasia Gruchalla-Wesierski on the floor and yesterday's 23-39 500m champion Olena Buryak will be competing virtually from Ukraine.

You can also stream all the action for free on CBC Sports: https://www.youtube.com/ or on CBC Gem starting at 1:30.

World Rowing is also live-streaming all the action for free on their website. There's no charge for this stream.

Photo courtesy: Spencer Closs

02/26/2023

Thanks .sports for sharing Alida’s story and for streaming the action live in Canada here. https://bit.ly/3YZmP9m. Day two is shaping up to be just as exciting!

02/26/2023

World Records, Grandmothers, And Putting Indoor Rowing On The Map - a look at day one as we look ahead to day two. Link here. https://wrichtoronto2023.ca/2023/02/25/17/

special thanks to Steve Parr for the photos.