Coxless four, women, 2,000 m

What to remember

Weather conditions affect rowing times so much that the sport keeps no world records. It lists world best times instead, all measured on the 2,000 m course used in international racing. The women's coxless four mark dates from 2014: 6 min 14.36 s, set by the New Zealand crew in the World Championships final in Amsterdam.

The boat carried Grace Prendergast, Kayla Pratt, Kerri Gowler and Kelsey Bevan. In a coxless four each rower holds a single oar, two on each side, and nobody steers from a cox seat: one of the crew normally works the rudder through a cable attached to the toe of her shoe.

2014 was also the start of a lasting partnership, as Grace Prendergast and Kerri Gowler went on to row together in the coxless pair. From Christchurch, where she took up rowing at the Avon Rowing Club in 2007, Prendergast later won gold in the coxless pair in Tokyo, with a world best time, and silver in the eight.