Lightweight coxless four, men, 2,000 m

What to remember

No cox on board: in a coxless four, a rower handles the rudder, most often through a cable tied to the tip of a shoe that he swivels with his foot. Each of the four has a single oar, two on each side.

In a semi-final at the 2014 World Championships in Amsterdam, the Danish lightweight four of Kasper Winther Jørgensen, Jacob Larsen, Jacob Barsøe and Morten Jørgensen covered 2,000 m in 5 min 43.16 s. In rowing, weather makes times vary too much for world records, hence the term world best time.

Kasper Winther Jørgensen, born in Copenhagen, had won bronze in the lightweight coxless four at the 2012 London Olympics. He was a member of the Gold Four.