World Rowing Coaches Conference

Following the successful staging of the 1st Virtual World Rowing Coaches Conference in 2020 with the participation of over 450 coaches and participants from all around the world, the 2nd Virtual 2022 World Rowing Coaches Conference will take place from Saturday 29 January  to Wednesday 02 February 2022.

The Conference will include a series of pre-recorded video presentations and an opening live session, which will be held on the platform Zoom on Saturday 29 January 2022 following the World Rowing Awards 2021.

Each day’s video presentation will be online as of 09:00 CET, and you will receive via email the link to access them the evening before.

In due time, you will also receive the link to access the live session on Zoom.

Presentations from 2020 Gold medal Olympic and Paralympic coaches Michelle Darville, Gianni Postiglione and Johan Flodin. Hear how programmes delivered performance with minimal resources or with smaller rowers. Coastal Rowing coaches share their expertise on how to make the coastal environment work for you. Eric Murray, a double Olympic Champion, and Fran Houghton, a 5x Olympian and 3x silver medalist, will speak on sustaining success, and keeping a physical and mental edge for performance, and the lessons learnt from rowing over 20 years and in 5 Olympic Games and with 5 different coaches. Hear about how the USA Junior Rowing Team succeeded in Plovdiv 2022, and what is it like to be a coach for the first time at a Junior World Championships. Other topics include recovery from Long Covid, Coaching young rowers and building successful Para programmes.