Lightweight coxless pair, men, 2,000 m

What to remember

Swiss rowers Simon Niepmann and Lucas Tramèr clocked 6 min 22.91 s in the lightweight coxless pair in the final of the 2014 World Championships in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Because weather varies so much from one regatta to the next, rowing has no world records, only world best times, set over 2,000 m. In a coxless pair each rower holds one oar, one on each side, and the two coordinate steering and the timing of their strokes between themselves.

The pair won European and world titles in the lightweight coxless pair in both 2013 and 2014. They later teamed up in the Swiss lightweight four that won Olympic gold at the 2016 Rio Olympics, with Simon Schürch and Mario Gyr.