Ogreman

Bro I linked the qualifying document for a reason. I know that is what I understood the rule but it explicitly says this isn't the case.

[hide] Knockout Stage September 5th - September 10th, 2023 4 Nations, The Winning Nations from each Semifinal will qualify for the Final. The Losers of each Semifinal will play the Third-Place Match. Semifinals Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 8th 2023, h. 16:45 Serbia 5 Canada September 8th 2023, h. 20:40 United States 8 Germany [/hide]

It is overall. No gender related rules at all.

I thought the rule was that 1. if you want to qualify two boats at a continental qualifier they had to both win their respective event and you can't have any previous boats qualified but according to the current version of the qualifying document neither of those are now the case. https://stillmed.olympics.com/media/Documents/Olympic-Games/Paris-2024/Paris2024-QS-Rowing.pdf?_ga=2.162527548.1298230565.1694115107-1188876414.1686749288 This seems to suggest that if you don't have any boats already qualified you can qualify two as long as their within the quota and if you have one boat already qualified you can qualify more than one extra boat if multiple boats win. Although as I say this was not my understanding of the rules.

Tentatively Canada and New Zealand. Look it is a very close semifinal where five different boat could all conceivably win it. France might miss out. Ireland might miss out. The US and their new combination could easily miss out. Technically the US was the slowest in the heats even if they did win theirs. Lets see what happens.

I realised, I edited my post it just didn't seem edit properly. Anyway as my post now says. There are no restrictions on how many boats you can qualify at the Final Qualifying regatta. Russia qualified 4/5 at the last one. P.S What do you mean I underestimated the pride of Italian rowing. You were even more pessimistic about their chances than I was.

The French LW2X have way more than a close to zero chance. Finishing third in their heat was surprising but I'm still picking them to make the final and if they don't I would probably pick them to win the B final. They are still likely qualifiers. The M4- should qualify. Not a gaurantee but they are likely qualifiers here. On paper they are significantly better than the Italian M4-. There are no restrictions on how many boats you can qualify at the Final Olympic qualifying regatta. Only the continental ones

Its complicated. If you dont have any boats already qualified you can qualify 2 boats gender doesnt matter. I thought I understood the rules for these fully but I just checked the qualifying document and it (now) says something completely different to what I thought. Anyway the above statement is true.

So 122/144 (84.7%) of semifinalists I had ranked in the top 12. (Obviously not counting the eights here). Only two boats not in the top 16 made the semis and one was the AIN (Belarus) boat which obviously had zero form to go off. Accounting for a few errors on my part and quarterfinal/repechage draws meaning in some cases 4 or 5 boats I had picked were competing for the same spots in the semis I think this estimation has gone pretty well. Obviously we will see how many actual qualifiers it gets right and medals well might be less accurate so not sure how useful it would be as say an Olympic predictor. It no longer looks quite as clean but at least nine of the semifinalists were right in every boat class so we should be on for an 80+% hit rate on correct Olympic qualifiers. It was a bad day for Greece and Belgium who had multiple projected qualifiers miss out on the semis. Italy are the big winners so far.

Yep that race is going to singlehandedly ruin my so far pretty clean looking spreadsheet.

France men's lightweight double is gone. First big shock of the championships

I have said seven before I'll stick with it even if the women's four is very close at this point. I'm pretty confident in the women's lightweight double even if it will be close. The semi final is against switzerland, Canada, USA, New Zealand and France. Its annoying to get France who ended up in the rep but still it could be worse. It is a bit of a everyone could beat anyone else semi-final apart from Switzerland. The womens four are up against Canada, Denmark, USA, GB and China. Honestly that is a pretty good draw. We are unlikely to beat USA and GB but Canada, Denmark and China are all beatable. Only makes it more dissapointing if we miss out though. Our heat time was pretty slow but I don't know if we should read into that too much. The other 5 boats should definetely qualify. Our three quarter finals tomorrow are all fairly straightforward draws and obviously the womens pair and womens double are basically home and dry in terms of Olympic qualification. The quad looked a lot better today than yesterday. This boat has potential but it is tricky to row and just throwing four athletes albeit good ones together in a boat was unlikely to yield immediate results. I also do wonder if we have the coaches to produce a good quad. Quads are more about technique more so than any other boat and good clean technique hasnt exactly been what our previous succesful boats have been built on. Plus I dont trust Fran keane and the men's heavyweight coaches yet. Finding a good double and pair this year is encouraging but this is two years in a row now where the mens squad has on the whole underperformed compared to its talent level. I suspect what will happen is that despite one being a sculling boat and the other a sweep boat next year we will probably end up either focusing on the four or the quad next year. Could easily see John Kearney/Jack Dorney moving into the quad or vice versa and trying Brian Colsh out with one oar.

This is proving fairly accurate. 11 of 12 semifinalists in the womens pair and all 12 in the women's lightweight double. Men's four was always going to be close between the boats in the b and c finals and in the men's quad well, I might have been a bit high on Ireland's brand new men's quad given how tricky a boat it is to row fast. They improved a lot from their heat in the rep so at least that is encouraging for next year for what is a very young boat.

[hide] Knockout Stage September 5th - September 10th, 2023 8 Nations, The Winning Nations from each Quarterfinal will qualify for the Semfinals. Quarterfinals Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 5th 2023, h. 16:45 Lithuania 6 Serbia September 5th 2023, h. 20:40 Italy 8 United States September 6th 2023, h. 16:45 Germany 4 Latvia September 6th 2023, h. 20:30 Canada 5 Slovenia [/hide]

They are all on the previous page but both singles, the women's quad and I have them in the men's eight but I'm not sure about that one.

Olympic qualifiers according to my rankings Netherlands 10 Romania 10 Australia 9 Great Britain 9 USA 9 Ireland 7 Greece 5 New Zealand 5 China 4 France 4 Germany 4 Italy 4 Spain 4 Switzerland 4 Denmark 3 Lithuania 3 Belgium 2 Croatia 2 Poland 2 Serbia 2 Austria 1 AIN (BELARUS) 1 Bulgaria 1 Canada 1 Chile 1 Czechia 1 Estonia 1 Japan 1 Moldova 1 Norway 1 Ukraine 1 Uzbekistan 1 114 114 So I probably should have checked this before I posted the form/my mostly useless opinion guide. Anyway I apparently have managed to rank 9 American boats in qualifying positions which seems a bit on the optimistic side for the quality of that squad.(I managed to do that while being kinda harsh on their men's eight and women's quad). Maybe they are that good though and my perception is warped by their lack of medal contenders. (I just checked how many they would have qualified if last year had been the qualifiers and apparently they would have had 8 boats qualified which is way better than my memory of their one medal performance thought.) On the other end of the scale I have Canada only qualifying one boat. They have a couple of close calls though so they probably will get a second but even then that is still bad. Other than that it seems a fairly reasonable projection although given Germany's last couple of years four boats qualified would be pretty positive. If these pan out to be remotely accurate Ireland, Greece, Spain, Switzerland and honestly Serbia would be set for a very good champs. Not so much for Italy, the aforementioned Canada, China and Poland.

Ye I'm bullish on the Irish prospects. Its the mens four and the mens quad i dont expect to qualify. I do expect the womens four to qualify. Look there are loads of boats from lots of different countries and different boat classes that havent raced world cups or Europeans. I just ranked them based on whatever results they do have and the if boats have new combinations then just judge on whether the new combination is stronger or weaker than the previous. It gets pretty subjective when you start taking the under 23 boats or even junior boats into things but I tried to be fairly consistent with those and there is normally some reference point. This boat beat that boat which finished in such and such place at a world cup but now have a better athlete in the boat so should be faster. Like this is not an objective form guide, my opinion does definitely weigh in a lot. Anyway, the new Irish women's pair is our best two sweep athletes so ye I have them ranked higher than where our previous boats finished. So, I just looked back at the one I did last year and on that occasion I appear to have overestimated 4 Irish boats, underestimated 3 and hit 2 bang on so I don't think I have a bias towards Irish boats. If anything given my knowledge of them they might be the most accurately ranked of any country's.

M1X W1X M2- W2- M2X W2X LM2X LW2X M4- W4- M4X W4X M8+ W8+ 1 GER NED GBR< AUS NED ROU IRL GBR GBR AUS POL NED GBR ROU< 2 DEN AUS ROU> ROU CRO< LTU FRA ROU< AUS ROU NED CHN NED GBR 3 NZL NZL SWI NED ITA CHN< SWI FRA NZL GBR ITA GBR AUS CAN 4 JPN SWI ESP IRL IRL> USA ITA USA< NED USA GBR SWI ROU< AUS 5 GRE GER IRL GRE ROU FRA CZE IRL USA NED AUS UKR GER USA 6 BEL USA LTU GBR ESP IRL ESP GRE> FRA IRL ROU GER USA> CHN 7 CRO AUT SRB USA BEL AUS GRE NZL ROU CHN EST< ITA< CHN ITA 8 BUL UZB< AUS LTU CHN GRE< BEL CHN UKR DEN UKR< USA> ITA GER 9 NED> SRB< DEN< CHI NZL NED NZL ITA SWI< NZL IRL CAN CAN 10 LTU CHN> USA DEN MDA NOR UKR CAN CHN< ESP GER AUS AUT 11 CAN BUL AIN (B) ESP USA POL MEX> POL GER> POL NOR FRA 12 AIN (R) ESP CRO< CZE> FRA GER NOR SWI POL GER SWI ROU 13 SRB LTU NZL CRO AUS GBR POL AUS RSA> CAN LTU CZE 14 HUN ITA< ITA GER NOR< ITA CHN AUT IRL> MEX CHN 15 ITA> AIN (B)< RSA POL GER NZL GER GER ITA USA 16 NOR CZE CAN ITA GBR CZE POR ESP DEN CAN 17 URU< TUR NED NZL GRE CAN AUS DEN CZE 18 BRA ROU TUR CAN CZE SWI> USA TUN 19 ESP GBR> POL AIN (B) SRB RSA TUR> PER 20 AUS UKR FRA FRA POL> AUT EGY 21 USA AIN (R) CHN CHN UKR< EST 22 POR FRA GER PAR SWE< URU 23 AIN (B) JPN HUN LTU UZB> 24 CHN POL SLO BUL ISR 25 SLO NOR< CZE URU> EGY 26 TUN LAT< EGY RSA 27 TUR SLO CUB 28 MON PER EGY 29 ROU KUW PER 30 CYP BRN BRN 31 ISR TOG 32 AZE 33 SWE> 34 EGY 35 MEX> 36 ESA< 37 BER 38 FIN 39 PAR 40 ZIM 41 CIV< 42 IRQ 43 GEO 44 BAR 45 ANG 46 BEN 47 SUD 48 LIB I posted this on the rowing world champs page as well but I said I would post it here if I did it. Anyway, so I did the exercise of trying to rank every boat's form coming into these champs. I did this last year as well and well it wasn't particularly accurate in terms of trying to predict results but hopefully offers some perspective on where our boats might rank and should be useful in assessing how tricky heat draws are and stuff. > means I think a given boat will finish higher than where I have ranked them and < means I think it will actually finish lower than where it is ranked here.

Form rankings M1X W1X M2- W2- M2X W2X LM2X LW2X M4- W4- M4X W4X M8+ W8+ 1 GER NED GBR< AUS NED ROU IRL GBR GBR AUS POL NED GBR ROU< 2 DEN AUS ROU> ROU CRO< LTU FRA ROU< AUS ROU NED CHN NED GBR 3 NZL NZL SWI NED ITA CHN< SWI FRA NZL GBR ITA GBR AUS CAN 4 JPN SWI ESP IRL IRL> USA ITA USA< NED USA GBR SWI ROU< AUS 5 GRE GER IRL GRE ROU FRA CZE IRL USA NED AUS UKR GER USA 6 BEL USA LTU GBR ESP IRL ESP GRE> FRA IRL ROU GER USA> CHN 7 CRO AUT SRB USA BEL AUS GRE NZL ROU CHN EST< ITA< CHN ITA 8 BUL UZB< AUS LTU CHN GRE< BEL CHN UKR DEN UKR< USA> ITA GER 9 NED> SRB< DEN< CHI NZL NED NZL ITA SWI< NZL IRL CAN CAN 10 LTU CHN> USA DEN MDA NOR UKR CAN CHN< ESP GER AUS AUT 11 CAN BUL AIN (B) ESP USA POL MEX> POL GER> POL NOR FRA 12 AIN (R) ESP CRO< CZE> FRA GER NOR SWI POL GER SWI ROU 13 SRB LTU NZL CRO AUS GBR POL AUS RSA> CAN LTU CZE 14 HUN ITA< ITA GER NOR< ITA CHN AUT IRL> MEX CHN 15 ITA> AIN (B)< RSA POL GER NZL GER GER ITA USA 16 NOR CZE CAN ITA GBR CZE POR ESP DEN CAN 17 URU< TUR NED NZL GRE CAN AUS DEN CZE 18 BRA ROU TUR CAN CZE SWI> USA TUN 19 ESP GBR> POL AIN (B) SRB RSA TUR> PER 20 AUS UKR FRA FRA POL> AUT EGY 21 USA AIN (R) CHN CHN UKR< EST 22 POR FRA GER PAR SWE< URU 23 AIN (B) JPN HUN LTU UZB> 24 CHN POL SLO BUL ISR 25 SLO NOR< CZE URU> EGY 26 TUN LAT< EGY RSA 27 TUR SLO CUB 28 MON PER EGY 29 ROU KUW PER 30 CYP BRN BRN 31 ISR TOG 32 AZE 33 SWE> 34 EGY 35 MEX> 36 ESA< 37 BER 38 FIN 39 PAR 40 ZIM 41 CIV< 42 IRQ 43 GEO 44 BAR 45 ANG 46 BEN 47 SUD 48 LIB So I did this exercise of trying to rank every boat's form coming into these champs. I did this last year for myself and well it wasn't particularly accurate in terms of trying to predict results but hopefully offers some perspective on where boats might finish and expectations for number of Olympic qualifiers. > means I think a given boat will finish higher than where I have ranked them and < means I think it will actually finish lower than where it is ranked here. Anyone know why Japan withdrew all their boats except for their single scullers. I assume it is Asian games related but the likes of their W4- would have at least been competitive here

[hide] Group Stage - Second Round September 1st - September 3rd, 2023 16 Nations, The 1st and 2nd-Placed Nations from each Group will qualify for the Quarterfinals. Group I Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 1st 2023, h. 16:00 Serbia 3 Italy September 1st 2023, h. 20:00 Dominican Republic 12 Puerto Rico September 3rd 2023, h. 16:00 Italy 13 Puerto Rico September 3rd 2023, h. 20:00 Dominican Republic 8 Serbia Group J Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 1st 2023, h. 16:40 United States 21 Montenegro September 1st 2023, h. 20:40 Lithuania 5 Greece September 3rd 2023, h. 16:40 Greece 5 Montenegro September 3rd 2023, h. 20:40 United States 14 Lithuania Group K Date & Time (GMT +9) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 1st 2023, h. 17:30 Germany 15 Georgia September 1st 2023, h. 21:10 Slovenia 7 Australia September 3rd 2023, h. 16:30 Australia 10 Georgia September 3rd 2023, h.20:10 Germany 2 Slovenia Group L Date & Time (GMT +7) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 1st 2023, h. 16:45 Spain 8 Latvia September 1st 2023, h. 20:30 Canada 16 Brazil September 3rd 2023, h. 16:45 Brazil 11 Latvia September 3rd 2023, h. 20:30 Spain 12 Canada [/hide]

They absolutey do deserve the benefit of the doubt. They have done the best job basically anyone has ever done in Ireland in terms of growing a sport even if part of that was inheriting a squad with talents like Paul O'Donovan and Sanita. Its not really a short term concern but management will very possibly change for the next Olympic cycle because I kind of doubt Maurogiovanni will stick around and honestly if these worlds and Olympics go well Id be pretty surprised if he and the likes of Giuseppe de Vita dont get bigger money offers elsewhere given the number of traditional powerhouses struggling right now. Long term I trust Maurogiovanni's decisions even if occasionally they appear quite illogical I just dont know that I would trust someone else to try and run the same system. Its not really relevant for next week but I do think it is important to note that while our current squad is amongst the best in the world we dont yet have the structures or the infrastructure to maintain that long term.

Its a really strange phenomenon that we have these really strict standards to get selected for Europeans or a world cup and then we just seem to select basically everyone for worlds. I mean I guess the optimistic explanation is that athletes tend to hit form at the right time and therefore are hitting times/numbers now that they wouldn't have hit early in the season although you would think that would be taken into account when selecting crews earlier in the season. Maurogiovanni has said his standards are A finals at a world cup/ Europeans or top ten at worlds/ Olympics (Imagine if he pulls the withdraw a crew from the Olympics move. Don't think it would happen but I mean half of our crews at the last Olympics technically finished outside the top ten.). Anyway these two standards arent actually equivalent in most boat classes with very few boat classes having 4 of the top 10 boats be non European. It also fails to take into account the wildly different standards depending on which world cup you attend and the discrepancy between the standards and depth from one boat class to another (Top ten in a single is much harder than in an eight is the easiest example. A more complex one would be the fact that the womens four is currrently disproportionally the priority sweep boat in a lot of the big nations.). Again though I would kind of assume the actual standards for selection would take these sort of things into account. Anyway the most likely actual explanation is that it is just a funding thing both in terms of rowing Ireland's funding is in part tied to the size of the squad they take to worlds and that Sport Ireland's performance standards will value top 15/20s in the world in a way that Rowing Ireland may not. Also selecting athletes for worlds ensures they get carded and receive more financial support than they otherwise would so you would rapidly run out of depth in your squad if you selected small squads for worlds. This is all to say are we not just kind of hurting ourselves by adopting strict standards for Europeans and world cups. I understand it fosters competition that may ultimately push some boats on but it also likely leads to lower retention rates from athletes from season to season and surely some of the younger boats could benefit from competing more often. I get the logic behind it and honestly plenty of other sports could do with demanding higher standards and a bit of ambition. I do have concerns though that as a long term strategy for a country of our size and with the current rate at which we seem to produce world class rowers that if at some point in the future we stagnate a bit and the squad shrinks with a bunch of retirements we might not have the depth to replenish it and our current period of success could end being a kind of golden generation esque blip. Obviously this is probably an overly pessimistic apocalyptic way of viewing things but for example probably around half of the womens squad is likely to retire post Paris Olympics and we could very easily be left in a spot where we may only have two or so women's boats competing in 2025/2026. Then again obviously the hope is that rowing's growth continues and we start to produce more and more world class rowers over the next few years and tough selection standards actually drive us on to stay near the top of medal tables.

I'm not saying you are definetely wrong but as someone who tries to track where every boat in the world ranks relative to eachother I do think this i overly pessimistic. One of the important things to remember is that the field at world cup iii was ridiculously good, with only Italy and the USA being the only notable nations to miss it. So for example while on its own a sixth placed finish for the mens pair at any world cup may well indicate that boat isn't good enough to qualify for the Olympics in this case it probably ranks them sixth/seventh in the world. I did literally rank every boat last year with somewhat limited accuracy but if I have time to do it again this week i'll post it here. Anyway hopefully without going on any tangents this is how I would rank our boats qualification chances. 1. Mens Lightweight double- Should win 2. Women's pair- We have tried so many women's pairs over the past couple of years and on paper this is by far the best of them. We have had a pretty much unbroken five year period where no matter the combination we finish in the 6-11 range. This boat should break that and in a positive sense. This is absolutely nailed on to qualify. Whether it can medal is the question. 3. Men's double- Men's Double is an inherently risky boat but this has been at worst the fourth fastest boat in the world behind the Dutch, Croatians and Italians. The risk here is like we saw last year where we got a tough quarter final finished fourth in a four way sprint and missed the semis but otherwise this is a very safe bet to qualify. 4.Men's pair- As i said earlier despite finishing sixth at world cup iii I think that still puts them sixth/seventh in the world this year. This boat should be aiming for the A final and look you never know especially with a young crew but I am very comfortable picking this boat to finish in the top 11. 5. Women's double- Look its a new combination but the womens double isn't an especially strong boat class and I don't think it is deep enough to be worrying about not qualifying here. Whether this boat is a medal contender or a mid b final boat is unclear at this point but it should absolutely qualify. 6. Women's lightweight double- Why is everyone so pessimistic about this boat? It was third in the world last year and while it has regressed a bit it hasn't regressed that much. Look I'm nervous about this boat too but even with their terrible performances and swapping positions at world cup iii they still rank in the top 6 in the world (Americans changed their combination and who knows whether Greece can actually perform when it matters so we might even be higher). It will be a nervous semi final ( I know top 7 qualify but winning a b final can be a bit of a lottery) and the gap back to the 8th/9th best boats in the world isn't a big one but this is much better than 50/50 more like 80/20. Significant risk but likely qualifiers. 7. Women's four- The last time we failed to make a global final in the womens four was 2019. This boat has struggled a lot in A finals going back to last year's World champs but has looked very good in heats/ semi finals. Look this is a new combination and its possible Sanita is regressing and that Natalie Long and Imogen Magner are just good rather than great. I'm not sure about this one. We obviously are putting out a weaker less powerful boat than last year/ earlier this year but because of how incosistent those boats have been I'm not sure this new four will actually end up with a worse result. The previous four was ultimately performing like the sixth/seventh best boat in the world in finals but they were much more talented that that. This boat might make an A final and we will wonder why we ever doubted it or might finish at the back of a b final. I dont know but i'd put us the 6-8 range provisionally. The guage here is Denmark (and maybe New Zealand too), if we are better/faster than them in the heats we probably will qualify, if we're slower we almost certainly won't and if we're level with them well then this is going to be very close. I would lean on the confident side of this projection just because the limited interviews we have had coming from the likes of Maurogiovanni seem to indicate qualifying the most boats is the priority here more so than medals so its unlikely we would have just sacrificed the four in order for the pair to have a chance to medal. 8. Men's quad- Look the easiest comparison for this boat is the men's four last year which lost a photo finish for seventh. This boat is in a very similar spot and may well end up in a similar situation casing that seventh and final qualifying spot although the final is definitely not beyond them. It's unproven at senior level and the one athlete that is Ronan Byrne has had a rough couple of years. Talent wise there is a potential Olmypic medal winning boat here but whether it qualifies here or not is a very different question. Probably just misses out but is a good backup plan if one of the women's lightweight double or womens four. 9. Men's four- We have survived todaywithout any news, are now in world champs week and the examiner had a piece on Jack Dorney a couple of days ago so looks like we probably are getting to see the four actually race. Three of these athletes have been under 23 world medallists in the past 3 years so this boat should still be good even if our best two sweep rowers are together in the pair. Obviously the fact that this boat failed to race at world cup iii is discouraging but I would still expect a b final finish here and while top 7 looks very unlikely, these champs will hopefully leave us confident of its chances at FOQR next year given the age profile of this boat. I'm sticking with seven boats qualified as the baseline for success here maybe 6.5 if i'm generous. My concern is much less with qualifying boats but with medals though. On paper this is the most talented squad we have ever had and yet we are only really on track for one medal. I'd expect one of the numerous boats I expect to make an A final to sneak a medal (or maybe Siobhan McCrohan in the lightweight single) probably the mens double although relying on anything in that boat class is risky. Our medal tallys for the last four global champs have gone 2018-2(2 gold) 2019-3 (2 gold), 2021-2 (1 gold) and 2022- 3 (1 gold) so given the bigger and in theory improved squad we really should be pushing for 4 or so medals rather than hoping for 2 but sure look.

[hide] Group Stage - First Round August 25th - August 30th, 2023 32 Nations, The 1st and 2nd-Placed Nations from each Group will qualify for the Second Round. Group A Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 August 25th 2023, h. 10:00 Angola 18 Italy August 25th 2023, h. 14:00 Dominican Republic 6 Philippines August 27th 2023, h. 10:00 Italy 14 Dominican Republic August 27th 2023, h. 14:00 Philippines 2 Angola August 29th 2023, h. 10:00 Angola 8 Dominican Republic August 29th 2023, h. 14:00 Philippines 23 Italy Group B Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 August 26th 2023, h. 10:00 South Sudan 3 Puerto Rico August 26th 2023, h. 14:00 Serbia 20 China August 28th 2023, h. 10:00 China 8 South Sudan August 28th 2023, h. 14:00 Puerto Rico 15 Serbia August 30th 2023, h. 10:00 South Sudan 10 Serbia August 30th 2023, h. 14:00 China 4 Puerto Rico Group C Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 August 26th 2023, h. 10:45 Jordan 19 Greece August 26th 2023, h. 14:40 United States 30 New Zealand August 28th 2023, h. 10:45 New Zealand 8 Jordan August 28th 2023, h. 14:40 Greece 13 United States August 30th 2023, h. 10:40 United States 30 Jordan August 30th 2023, h. 14:40 Greece 15 New Zealand Group D Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 August 25th 2023, h. 10:45 Mexico 15 Montenegro August 25th 2023, h. 14:30 Egypt 25 Lithuania August 27th 2023, h. 10:45 Montenegro 20 Egypt August 27th 2023, h. 14:30 Lithuania 20 Mexico August 29th 2023, h. 10:45 Egypt 5 Mexico August 29th 2023, h. 14:30 Montenegro 5 Lithuania Group E Date & Time (GMT +9) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 August 25th 2023, h. 10:00 Finland 8 Australia August 25th 2023, h. 14:10 Germany 14 Japan August 27th 2023, h. 10:30 Australia 5 Germany August 27th 2023, h. 14:10 Japan 5 Finland August 29th 2023, h. 09:30 Germany 17 Finland August 29th 2023, h. 13:10 Australia 15 Japan Group F Date & Time (GMT +9) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 August 26th 2023, h. 10:00 Cape Verde 15 Georgia August 26th 2023, h. 13:30 Slovenia 24 Venezuela August 28th 2023, h. 10:00 Venezuela 12 Cape Verde August 28th 2023, h. 13:30 Georgia 18 Slovenia August 30th 2023, h. 10:00 Georgia 6 Venezuela August 30th 2023, h. 13:30 Slovenia 26 Cape Verde Group G Date & Time (GMT +7) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 August 26th 2023, h. 11:45 Iran 13 Brazil August 26th 2023, h. 15:30 Spain 25 Cote d'Ivoire August 28th 2023, h. 11:45 Cote d'Ivoire 5 Iran August 28th 2023, h. 15:30 Brazil 16 Spain August 30th 2023, h. 11:45 Cote d'Ivoire 12 Brazil August 30th 2023, h. 15:30 Iran 19 Spain Group H Date & Time (GMT +7) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 August 25th 2023, h. 11:15 Latvia 22 Lebanon August 25th 2023, h. 15:30 Canada 7 France August 27th 2023, h. 11:45 Lebanon 27 Canada August 27th 2023, h. 15:30 France 11 Latvia August 29th 2023, h. 11:45 Lebanon 32 France August 29th 2023, h. 15:30 Canada 14 Latvia Top 3 Place 1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place Nation USA France Slovenia [/hide]

To be fair to the Austrian eight while it did finish 7nth of 7 at World cup iii. It was surprisingly competitive and nearly knocked Canada out in the rep. They could have put out a pair and a four but it is not like they would be likely to qualify in those boats anyway and then your leaving two extra athletes at home. Besides eights are just cool.