Other sportsRowing world best time
Lightweight double sculls, men, 2,000 m
Record
6 min 05.33 s
- Holder
- Fintan McCarthy Paul O'Donovan
- Date
- Place
- Tokyo, Japan
- Standing since
- 2021 (5 years)
What to remember
Rowing has no official world records: weather conditions make times vary too much. Instead there are world best times, set over the international distance of 2,000 m.
In the lightweight double sculls, the benchmark was set by Ireland's Fintan McCarthy and Paul O'Donovan on 28 July 2021 in Tokyo, in an Olympic semi-final: 6 min 05.33 s. In this boat each of the two rowers holds an oar in each hand.
The pair had already won the 2019 World Championships. In Tokyo they went on to take Olympic gold, and McCarthy, born in Skibbereen in County Cork, won Olympic gold again at the 2024 Paris Games.
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Sources and licences
- Value, holder and date: Wikipedia article “List of world best times in rowing” (revision used 1377189194). Data from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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