"At the 1st World Rowing Championships held at Lucerne in 1962, the International Federation of Rowing Associations did not recognise countries with similar names. Selection trials from 2 countries were held the day before the championships. Which ""country"" was this?"
1962 European Rowing Championships represented. FISA did not recognise East Germany as a country and insisted on one German team per boat class. For women's rowing, the West German rowing federation did not want selection trials to be held and preferred that East German crews attend the event; this reflected the dominance of the East German women. For the men who were to compete at the inaugural World Rowing Championships in Switzerland some weeks later, selection trials were agreed on. A Romanian crew was entered for both the coxed four and the coxed quad sculls. They asked the British crew, who had a room
World Rowing Championships 2020 onwards the lightweight men's coxless four will be removed from the Olympics and replaced by women's coxless four. At the 2017 FISA Ordinary Congress there were further revisions, removing M2+ and LM4- from the World Championships, and reinstating LW2-. "incomplete list" World Rowing Championships The World Rowing Championships is an international rowing regatta organized by FISA (the International Rowing Federation). It is a week-long event held at the end of the northern hemisphere summer and in non-Olympic years is the highlight of the international rowing calendar. The first event was held in Lucerne, Switzerland, in 1962. The event then