After 2007, which boat class was not run as a World Rowing Championship event?
World Rowing Championships teams generally take less interest in the non-Olympic events, as the Olympic events are considered the "premier" events. The table below shows the boat classes, "O" indicates the boat races at both the Olympics and World Championships. "WC" indicates this is only a World Championship event. After 2007, the coxed fours (4+) no longer runs as a world championship event. Similarly after 2011 the women's coxless four was no longer included, but it was reintroduced in 2013. Lightweight men's eight was removed after 2015. As a result of the IOC's aim for gender parity, it has been agreed that for
European Rowing Championships four was added the year after. The next change after that was the inclusion of women's rowing. In 2007, when the European Rowing Championship was re-introduced, there were 14 Olympic boat classes racing over 2,000m. Historically the leading European nations, notably Great Britain and Germany, had taken a haphazard approach to attending the championships. Following the 2012 Summer Olympics, however, both fully committed to the event going forward, and from that date, the championships have progressed rapidly to represent one of the key events in world rowing; given the historic and modern strength of European rowing, they rank behind only