"VAN" (Sports Desk - 23.10.2025) :: The 2025 World Rowing Beach Sprint Finals will be taking place in Antalya, Türkiye, from 6 to 9 November 2025.
The event, set to make its Olympic debut at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games, will see fifty-five nations participating, a record number (compared to 51 in 2024) and 342 athletes competing in ten Championships boat classes, the most ever offered at the World Rowing Beach Sprint Finals.
Host nation Türkiye, alongside Egypt, Great Britain and the United States, are coming with entries in all 10 boat classes. With the discipline now being Olympic, the competition has attracted many nations that will compete in their first-ever Beach Sprint Finals: Iraq, Thailand, Paraguay, American Samoa, Bulgaria, Uzbekistan, El Salvador, Georgia, Kuwait, and Mexico.
The men’s solo has attracted 40 entries and sees some well-known names on the international scene, such as Joel Naukkarinen of Finland, Finlay Hamill of New Zealand, Tokyo 2020 Olympic Champion Spencer Turrin of Australia or recent European Beach Sprint Champion, James Cox of Great Britain. They will all try to dethrone Chris Bak of the United States of America, the reigning World Rowing Beach Sprint Champion, looking to defend his title.
The women's solo has 33 entries as all eyes will be on the rematch between Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold and bronze medallists, Emma Twigg (NZL) and Magdalena Lobnig (AUT), the reigning World Rowing Beach Sprint Champion from Genoa, who comes in fresh off a European title earlier this month. Watch out too for Christine Cavallo (USA), Laura Mackenzie (GBR), and the Beach Sprint debuts of Olympians Martyna Radosz (POL) and Anna Prakaten (UZB).
The mixed double sculls also has 33 entries and the reigning World Beach Sprint Champions of Lithuania are back to defend their title. Competition will be fierce, with the Asia, Americas, and European Champions all competing, plus multi-gold medallist Adrian Miramon Quiroga of Spain, and Tokyo 2020 Olympic champion Federica Cesarini of Italy looking to add a title to their resume. The mixed quadruple sculls will also have some top names to watch, including recent World Rowing Champions Giacomo Gentili and Andrea Panizza of Italy, making their Beach Sprint debuts.
For the first time, the Inclusion Mixed Double Sculls (INMix2x) will be featured as a Championships event, after being included in 2023 and 2024 as a demonstration event (previously called PR3 CMix2x). An inclusion double consists of one able bodied rower and one para rower with a valid national or international classification. Six crews will compete in this newly championship event.
There will be record entries in the under 19 men and women's solo, and the under 19 mixed double sculls, with some of the first-time competitors having their eyes on a potential participation to the Youth Olympic Games in Dakar, Senegal, next year.
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