Whether it was technique, physiology, people, or ideas, row2k covered the full spectrum of rowing again in 2024. Below are our our ten most-read rowing features from the past year!

1: Recording of Bob Moch, Gold Medalist, 1936 USA Men's Olympic Eight, as He Recalls the 1936 Race

Listen in on Bob Moch's comments about the crew, recorded in 2000, well before their story became a book and movie   Read more

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2: Average A-Final Stroke Rate of 40.2 - Analysis of Paris Olympic Rowing Stroke Rates, Times, and Boat Speed

The highest ever average stroke rate was recorded in the A finals in Paris   Read more

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3: Rowing Science: Analysis of Angles of Body Segments in the World's Best Rowers

Winners at the 2023 World showed more knee "compression" at catch   Read more

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4: Rowing Science: Speed and Stroke Rate Analysis of 2023 Worlds in Belgrade

Weather made this Worlds the sixth slowest out of the last 30 World Championship regattas   Read more

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5: Video of the day, week, month, year? The USA Men's Four

The crew displayed a combination of almost perfect technique, good length, superb fitness, perfect rigging and other logistics. "There was no stone left unturned."   Read more

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Interview
6: US Para Team's Collegians

Five of the athletes recently named to the 2024 Paralympic Team are still in college. As part of our 2024 spring collegiate racing preview, we chat with four of them about making the US Team, the accessibility of Para Rowing, and balancing it all with still being on college teams.   Read more

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7: Rowing Science: Observations from Averaged Biomechanical Curves

Observations from the analysis of the averaged biomechanical curves on over 50,000 data samples   Read more

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8: American Athletic Conference Will No Longer Sponsor Women's Rowing Championship After 2024

The American Athletic Conference (AAC) will no longer sponsor a Women's Rowing Championship after 2024.   Read more

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9: How the End of the PAC-12 Impacts Rowing

2024 will be the last year for the PAC-12 Rowing Championship in its current form as schools head to new conferences.   Read more

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Olympic Comment
10: Rage! Rage Against the Dying of the Light (weights)

The ripples of the Paris Olympic rowing regatta have scarcely subsided, and the rowing world has turned its gaze to Los Angeles, and 2028, but we should pause a moment and bid a soft (and angry) 'Adieu' to lightweight rowing in the Olympics, which is being dropped from the program after this year.   Read more

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