| Event: | Rowing |
| Games: | 2016 Summer |
| Venue: | Lagoa Stadium |
| Dates: | 9–11 September |
| Competitors: | 96 |
| Prev: | 2012 |
| Next: | 2020 |
Rowing competitions at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro were held from 9 to 11 September 2016, at Lagoa Stadium at the Games' Copacabana hub.
Rowers are given a classification depending on the type and extent of their disability. The classification system allows rowers to compete against others with a similar level of function.
The three rowing classes are:
Four rowing events are scheduled to be held, each over a course of 1000 metres:
Ninety-six athletes (48 male, 48 female) are expected to take part in this sport.
The majority of the spots were awarded based on the results at the 2015 World Rowing Championships, held at Lac d'Aiguebelette, France from August 30 to September 6, 2015. Places are awarded to National Olympic Committees, not to specific athletes. Further berths are distributed at the final Paralympic qualification regatta in Gavirate, Italy.[1] A minimum of two places were held over for the host, Brazil, one rower of each gender. In the event, however, Brazil qualified that minimum number via the World Championships, and the host nation places were therefore added to the Bipartite commission quota distribution. Russia have now been excluded from the 2016 Paralympics, and Germany and USA, as the fastest non-qualifiers in AS M1x and TA X2x respectively, will take Russia's place in those events.[2]
| Qualifiers for the Paralympic Games 2016 - Rowing | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qualification Event | AS M1x | AS W1x | TA X2x | LTA X4+ | |
| 2015 World Rowing Championships Lucerne, Switzerland (Top 8 boats per event - 64 athletes) | |||||
| 2016 Final Paralympic Regatta Gavirate, Italy (Top 2 boats per event - 16 athletes) | |||||
| Host Nation Quotas | colspan="4" | ||||
| Bipartite Commission quotas (8 male, 8 female rowers - 16 athletes)[3] | |||||
| Men's single sculls | ||||
| Women's single sculls | ||||
| Mixed double sculls | Lauren Rowles Laurence Whiteley | Liu Shuang Fei Tianming | Perle Bouge Stéphane Tardieu | |
| Mixed coxed four | Grace Clough Daniel Brown Pam Relph James Fox Oliver James | Victoria Nolan Meghan Montgomery Andrew Todd Curtis Halladay Kristen Kit |