The World Rowing Coastal Championships & Beach Sprint Finals were officially presented at Palazzo Tursi in Genoa, Italy. This international event will take place in Genoa in Corso Italia, at San Nazaro Beach, from September 6th to 15th, and is part of the Genoa 2024 European Capital of Sport program.

There are two coastal rowing disciplines featured in this double world event: endurance and beach sprint. The first is the premier international competition reserved for clubs, while the second involves one crew per nation in the first world championship since this discipline was included in the Olympic program, debuting at Los Angeles 2028.

Coastal rowing endurance requires athletes to have excellent nautical skills, elaborate tactics, and physical endurance, over a course of 4 to 6 km. The beach sprint is a relatively recent, complex, and spectacular format: athletes are required to sprint on the beach to reach their boats, perform a slalom among buoys, and then return to shore for another sprint.

The location, as mentioned, will be San Nazaro Beach, on Corso Italia. The World Championship is scheduled from September 6th to 15th, with the first weekend featuring the endurance discipline of coastal rowing, while the second will see national crews compete in the Beach Sprint Finals. This will be the second time for Italy, following last year’s edition in Barletta, Apulia.

Also Alessandro Calder and Giacomo Costa were present, two athletes from the crew that became world champions in endurance in Barletta last year in the Senior category, along with Lorenzo Gaione and Edoardo Rocchi, ambassadors of Genoa 2024. With them was Giulio Basso, the federal coach of the crew and technical manager of the Federal University College of Genoa Pra’.