2000 World Rowing Championships

The 23rd World Rowing Championships were held between August 1 and August 6, 2000 in conjunction with the World Junior Rowing Championships in Zagreb, Croatia.

Since 2000 is an Olympic year for rowing, the World Championships did not include Olympic events scheduled for the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Medal summary

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
Men's Events
M4+	United Kingdom Rick Dunn (b) Toby Garbett (2) Graham Smith (3) Steve Williams (s) Alistair Potts (c)	6:16.81	United States Ben Holbrook (b) James Neil (2) Garrett Klugh (3) Ryan Torgerson (s) Jeffrey Lindy (c)	6:18.53	Germany Lars Erdmann (b) Wolfram Huhn (2) Lars Krisch (3) Andreas Werner (s) Joerg Dederding (c)	6:21.57
M2+	United States Matthew Guerrieri (b) Kurt Borcherding (s) Nicholas Anderson (c)	7:07.15	Romania Daniel Mastacan (b) Nicolaie Taga (s) Marin Gheorghe (c)	7:10.11	France Vincent Maliszewski (b) Bernard Roche (s) Anthony Cornet (c)	7:10.66
LM1x	Czech Republic Michal Vabrousek	7:21.32	Ireland Sam Lynch	7:22.02	Slovakia Lubos Podstupka	7:27.94
LM4x	Japan Hitoshi Hase (b) Takehiro Kubo (2) Kazuaki Mimoto (3) Daisaku Takeda (s)	6:06.43	Italy Simone Forlani (b) Daniele Gilardoni (2) Franco Sancassani (3) Mauro Baccelli (s)	6:08.84	Spain Juan Luis Aguirre Barco (b) Ruben Alvarez Hoyos (2) Alberto DOminguez Lorenzo (3) Juan Zunzunegui Guimerans (s)	6:09.34
LM2-	Canada Ben Storey (b) Edward Winchester (s)	6:49.55	United Kingdom Peter Haining (b) Nick Strange (s)	6:50.18	Denmark Morten Hansen Skov (b) Jesper Krogh (s)	6:50.26
LM8+	United States Erik Miller (b) David Mack (2) John Cashman (3) Gabe Winkler (4) William Fedyna (5) Martin Schwartz (6) Angus Maclaurin (7) Steve Warner (s) Joshua Fien-Helfman (c)	5:55.04	United Kingdom Phil Baker (b) Matt Beechey (2) James Brown (3) Ned Kittoe (4) Stephen Lee (5) James McGarva (6) Jim McNiven (7) Tim Middleton (s) Christian Cormack (c)	5:58.06	Australia Andrew Black (b) Shane Broad (2) Andrew Butler (3) Benjamin Ben Cureton (4) Glen Loftus (5) Karl Parker (6) Matt Russel (7) Michael Wiseman (s) Kenneth Chan (c)	5:59.70
Women's Events
W4-	Belarus Iryna Bazyleuskaya (b) Natallia Helakh (2) Olga Tratsevskaya (3) Marina Znak (s)	6:44.90	Poland Aneta Belka (b) Honorata Motylewska (2) Iwona Tybinkowska (3) Iwona Zygmunt (s)	6:47.16	Romania Mariorara Ciobanu-Popescu (b) Crina Serediuc (2) Doina Spircu-Craciun (3) Aurica Barascu-Chirita (s)	6:49.90
LW1x	Finland Laila Finska-Bezerra	8:13.50	Germany Angelika Brand	8:20.53	Ireland Sinead Jennings	8:24.30
LW2-	United Kingdom Malindi Myers (b) Miriam Taylor (s)	7:32.93	United States Stacey Borgman (b) Catherine Humblet (s)	7:35.80	Germany Janet Raduenzel (b) Gunda Reimers (s)	7:49.94
LW4x	Germany Maja Darmstadt (b) Michelle Darvill (2) Anna Kleinz (3) Karin Stephan (s)	6:54.16	Australia Eliza Blair (b) Sally Causby (2) Amber Halliday (3) Catriona Roach (s)	6:56.78	China Meiyun Tan (b) Yanni Wang (2) Yue Sun (3) Xiujuan Song (s)	6:58.21

Medals table

Place	Nation				Total
1	United States	2	2	0	4
	United Kingdom	2	2	0	4
3	Germany	1	1	2	4
4	Japan	1	0	0	1
	Canada	1	0	0	1
	Finland	1	0	0	1
	Czech Republic	1	0	0	1
	Belarus	1	0	0	1
9	Australia	0	1	1	2
	Ireland	0	1	1	2
	Romania	0	1	1	2
12	Italy	0	1	0	1
	Poland	0	1	0	1
14	France	0	0	1	1
	China	0	0	1	1
	Spain	0	0	1	1
	Slovakia	0	0	1	1
	Denmark	0	0	1	1
Total		10	10	10	30