Double sculls, women, 2,000 m

What to remember

A semi-final was enough. At the 2014 World Championships in Amsterdam, Australians Olympia Aldersey and Sally Kehoe covered 2,000 m in the double sculls in 6 min 37.31 s.

In rowing, weather affects times too much for world records: instead there are world best times, always over 2,000 m. The double scull carries two rowers who each hold two oars, one on each side, with the starboard oar always crossing over the port one. Long, narrow and broadly semicircular in cross-section to reduce drag, the boat usually has a fin at the rear. Wood has given way almost entirely to composite materials for the hull.

Olympia Aldersey was an Australian national champion, a two-time Olympian and world champion in the coxless four in 2019. At the Tokyo 2020 Olympics she rowed in the Australian eight.