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2025 World Rowing Beach Sprint Finals

Antalya (TUR), November 6th - 9th, 2025
 

The 2025 World Rowing Beach Sprint Finals will be taking place in Antalya, Türkiye, from 6 to 9 November 2025. The event, set to make its Olympic debut at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games, will see fifty-five nations participating, a record number (compared to 51 in 2024) and 342 athletes competing in ten Championships boat classes, the most ever offered at the World Rowing Beach Sprint Finals. Host nation Türkiye, alongside Egypt, Great Britain, and the United States, are coming with entries in all 10 boat classes. With the discipline now being Olympic, the competition has attracted nations that will compete in their first-ever Beach Sprint Finals : Iraq, Thailand, Paraguay, American Samoa, Bulgaria, Uzbekistan, El Salvador, Georgia, Kuwait, and Mexico.

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