| Event: | Rowing |
| Games: | 2020 Summer |
| Venue: | Sea Forest Waterway |
| Dates: | 27–29 August 2021[1] |
| Competitors: | 96 |
| Prev: | 2016 |
| Next: | 2024 |
Rowing at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan, took place at the Sea Forest Waterway, the same location as the paracanoeing events are located. There were 96 qualified slots across four events (one male, one female, two mixed events); there were two singles events (1 male, 1 female), mixed doubles and mixed fours.[2]
The 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They kept the 2020 name and were held from 24 August to 5 September 2021.[3] [4]
An NPC can only allocate one boat per medal event with a maximum of four male or female rowers (excluding coxswains).
| Means of qualification | Date | Qualified | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PR1M1x Men's single scull | PR1W1x Women's single scull | PR2Mix2X Mixed double scull | PR3Mix4+ Mixed coxed four | |||
2019 World Rowing Championships[5]  Ottensheim62 qualified slots 31 males 31 females | 25 August – 1 September 2019 | |||||
| 2019 Africa Continental Qualification Regatta  Tunis 2 qualified slots 1 male single sculls 1 female single sculls[6] | 10–12 October 2019 | colspan=2 | ||||
| 2021 Americas Continental Qualification Regatta  Rio de Janeiro2 qualified slots 1 male single sculls 1 female single sculls [7] | 4–5 March 2021[8] | colspan=2 | ||||
| 2021 Europe Continental Qualification Regatta  Varese2 qualified slots 1 male single sculls 1 female single sculls [9] | 5–7 April 2021[10] | colspan=2 | ||||
| 2021 Asia/Oceania Continental Qualification Regatta  Tokyo2 qualified slots 1 male single sculls 1 female single sculls [11] | 5–7 May 2021[12] | colspan=2 | ||||
| 2021 Final Paralympic Qualification Regatta Gavirate 14 qualified slots 7 males 7 females[13] | 7–9 May 2021[14] | |||||
| Bipartite Commission Invitation Allocation[15] 8 qualified slots 4 males 4 females | 11–25 May 2020 | |||||
| Total (96 berths) | ||||||
| Men's single sculls | ||||||
| nowrap | Women's single sculls | |||||
| Mixed double sculls | Laurence Whiteley Lauren Rowles | nowrap | Annika van der Meer Corné de Koning | Liu Shuang Jiang Jijian | ||
| Mixed coxed four | nowrap | Ellen Buttrick Giedrė Rakauskaitė James Fox Oliver Stanhope Erin Kennedy | Allie Reilly Danielle Hansen Charley Nordin John Tanguay Karen Petrik | nowrap | Erika Sauzeau Antoine Jesel Rémy Taranto Margot Boulet Robin le Barreau |