* Lake Malta in Poznań hosted the World Rowing Championships in 2009 and has previously hosted some regattas in the Rowing World Cup.

Rowing has also been conducted at the Olympic Games since 1900 ( cancelled at the first modern Games in 1896 due to bad weather ).

Kew has several sports clubs and gyms including Kew Cricket Club, North Sheen Bowling Club, Pensford Tennis Club, Putney Town Rowing Club and Richmond Gymnastics Association.

Putney Town Rowing Club, although retaining Putney's name, has now moved to Kew.

Wallingford has also a Rugby Football Club, Hockey Club, Rowing Club, Cricket Club and Tennis Club.

The St Ives Rowing Club was once captained by John Goldie and has had a number of members who have competed at Olympic and Commonwealth championships.

The town also has a local Rugby club St Neots RUFC and rowing club St Neots Rowing Club.

The Rowing Club has captured the Royal Canadian Henley Championships several times.

He has also won three Commonwealth Games gold medals and nine World Rowing Championships gold medals.

Rowing and Paddling on the Susquehanna River has a long history.

Swanage Sea Rowing Club, formed in 2001 has been highly successful and currently has over 100 members and four Cornish pilot gigs of its own

Weybridge also has a variety of sports clubs including the Weybridge Vandals Rugby club, Elmbridge Canoe Club, Weybridge Bowls Club, Weybridge Rowing Club, Weybridge Mariners Recreational Rowing Club and Weybridge Cricket Club, all serving the area for many years.

Marlow Rowing Club, founded in 1871, is one of Britain's premier rowing clubs and has produced many Olympic oarsmen including Sir Steve Redgrave.

The baseball team has won sixteen IAC titles in the last twenty years ; crew won the Virginia State Rowing Championships in 2010 and 2011, placed second at the Stotesbury Cup Regatta in 2010 and first in 2011, and placed fourth at the Scholastic Rowing Association of America Regatta in 2010 and third in 2011 ; cross-country has won seven IAC banners in the last ten years, and in 2009, won the DC-MD Private Schools Championship ; football has won three IAC banners in the last four years ; lacrosse won the IAC in 2007.

The area is popular for angling and watersports, with waterskiing, Rowing and wakeboarding being amongst the most popular ; the stretch of water alongside the Broadmeadow, Enniskillen, has hosted stages of the World Waterski Championships annually since 2005, and in 2007, a pro-wakeboard competition, ' Wakejam ' was hosted by the Erne Wakeboard Club ( EWC ) after successful national wakeboard competitions in the previous years.

As the regatta pre-dates any national or international rowing organisation, it has its own rules and organisation, although it is recognised by both British Rowing ( the governing body of rowing in England and Wales ) and FISA ( the International Federation of Rowing Associations ).

Rowing technique on the erg broadly follows the same pattern as that of a normal rowing stroke on water, but with minor modifications: it is not necessary to " tap down " at the finish, since there are no blades to extract from water ; but many who also row on water do this anyway.

A large number of indoor rowing competitions are held all over the world, including the indoor rowing world championships ( also known as CRASH-B Sprints ) held in Boston, Massachusetts, United States in February and the British Indoor Rowing Championships held in Birmingham, England in November ; both are rowed on Concept2s.

Events are held at the World Rowing Championships and were also held at the 2008 Summer Paralympics.

Monmouth is also home to Monmouth Rowing Club, taking advantage of the River Wye.

King's also fields a Rowing 1st VIII every year, which competes at high levels of competition, including Henley Royal Regatta, for which King's holds the record for most finals reached without winning.

The beach of Schinias is located southeast of the town and it is a popular windsurfing spot and the Olympic Rowing Center for the 2004 Summer Olympics is also located there.

The headquarters of the national governing body, the Amateur Rowing Association, is also on Lower Mall, in a building, The Priory, which used to be occupied by rowing clubs.

He also loves sport and was a Rowing Brown for the University in his youth ( a pun on the Blue at Oxford and Cambridge Universities ).

He also enjoyed success in indoor rowing, winning the World Championship for Indoor Rowing in 1991.

He is also involved in starting a Rowing academy in India at Lavasa, the new Hill City being developed near Pune City.

The Island is also home to Twickenham Rowing Club, one of the oldest rowing clubs on the Thames, and Richmond Yacht Club.

He met Bette at a Boxing Day party at Auriol and, while courting her, he also coached her clubmates at Stuart Ladies ' Rowing Club on the River Lea.

Rowing races are also held on the river.

Rowing is also available at Riverway Rowing Club and caters to competitive masters, social, learn to row and school based rowing programs.

See also: College rowing ( United States ) and Intercollegiate sports team champions # Rowing

: See also: Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges ( EARC ) and Goldthwait Cup

: See also: Eastern Association of Women's Rowing Colleges ( EAWRC )

The nearby Whanganui River is used by students for rowing training and competitions ; Rowing being one of the sports in which Collegiate has traditionally excelled, having won the Maadi Cup 17 times, a national record.

Rowing matches have been taking place on the river Thames at Gravesend since from at least the year of 1698, and the first organized Regatta was in 1715.

For example the Marylebone Cricket Club ( MCC ) and the Leander Rowing Club in England had both been male-only establishments since their founding in 1787 and 1818, respectively, but both opened their doors to female members at the end of the 20th century at least partially due to the requirements of the United Kingdom Lottery Sports Fund.

Many clubs have been founded in MR, these include: An Art club ( with five divisions for: Visual art, music, dancing, literature and films ), Herranótt acting guild ( the oldest theatric club in northern Europe ), Computer academy and a Nerd club ( which merged and became known as The Academy ), Traveller's club, Sport's club, Riding club, Science club, Novelist club, Chess club and the Rowing club ( which was historically a club for rowing, but is now a male-cheerleading team ).

Major retrospective exhibitions have been held at Tate Britain ( 1983 – 1984 ), the Dulwich Picture Gallery, the Imperial War Museum, the River and Rowing Museum, and the Museum of Reading.

Lake Lisgar, a small lake located in the centre of town, has been rehabilitated and is home for the Tillsonburg Rowing Club and the Lake Lisgar Water Park.

Nearby is the clubhouse of Carrick-on-Shannon Rowing Club, which has been one of the foremost in the country since its establishment in 1827.

The name has since been changed to the " Schools ' Regatta " by the Heads of Rowing Schools Committee, a committee of the Headmasters / Principals of the Head of the River Schools.

The club rented out rack space for its boats in Tees Rowing Club's boathouse down Boathouse Lane, which had been the site of Tees Rowing Club's boathouse since 1864.

The Colombo Rowing Club ( commonly known as CRC ) is the premier boat club in Sri Lanka having been founded in 1864.

The boathouse, which the sport's governing body, the Amateur Rowing Association, has nominated as the North West Centre of Excellence, also hosts the Two Cities Boat Race, which has been held on the river since 1972.

There is sailing and waterskiing on the Caversham Lakes across the river and the Redgrave Pinsent Rowing Lake has recently been created there as well.

The World Rowing Cup has only once been staged outside of Europe.

Rowing at the Summer Olympics has been part of the competition since the 1900 Summer Olympics.

The West End Rowing Club has been based on the Whau since 2001.

The first regatta was hosted here in 1933 and since been the venue of a large number of international rowing events ( including the first ever World Rowing Championships ).

Rowing was an essential skill for warriors during the Anglo-Saxon era, thus a rowing competition between Beowulf and Breca would not have been out of the question.

Hampton has produced three treble winning 1st VIIIs in its history and has been strongly represented at the Junior World Rowing Championships.

He has been a Steward of Henley Royal Regatta since 1978 and President of The River and Rowing Museum since 1997.

It is home to the Hollingworth Lake Rowing Club, which has been in continuous existence since 1872.

In particular, a rowing lake has now been formed, named the Redgrave Pinsent Rowing Lake, after Olympic oarsmen Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent.

Rowing by older oarsmen ( and more recently oarswomen ) has been a part of the club's activities throughout its history, but has increased since the 1970s in line with the greater opportunities for veteran competition now on offer.