2008 Olympic Games

Rowing competitions at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing will be held from August 9 to August 17, at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park.

14 sets of medals will be awarded in the following events:

• Single Sculls Men
• Pairs Men
• Double Sculls Men
• Fours Men
• Quadruple Sculls Men
• Eights Men
• Double Sculls Lightweight Men
• Fours Lightweight Men
• Single Sculls Women
• Pairs Women
• Double Sculls Women
• Quadruple Sculls Women
• Eights Women
• Double Sculls Lightweight Women

The events programme for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games is quite similar to that of the Athens Games held in 2004. The 2008 Olympics will see the return of 28 sports, and will hold 302 events (165 men’s events, 127 women’s events, and 10 mixed events), one more event in total than in Athens.The following are the sports to be contested at the games (The number of events to be contested in each sport is indicated in parentheses):

• Aquatics (46)
• Archery (4)
• Athletics (47)
• Badminton (5)
• Baseball (1)
• Basketball (2)
• Boxing (11)
• Canoe / kayak (16)
• Cycling (18)
• Equestrian (6)
• Fencing (10)
• Football/Soccer (2)
• Gymnastics (18)
• Handball (2)
• Hockey (2)
• Judo (14)
• Modern pentathlon (2)
• Rowing (14)
• Sailing (11)
• Shooting (15)
• Softball (1)
• Table tennis (4)
• Taekwondo (8)
• Tennis (4)
• Triathlon (2)
• Volleyball (4)
• Weightlifting (15)
• Wrestling (18)