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2005 World Rowing Championships

rowing regatta

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ80491 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2005 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held from 29 August to 4 September 2005 at the Nagaragawa International Regatta Course in Kaizu, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. The international rowing season usually ends with the World Championship regatta. Apart from the Olympic Games, this is the most prestigious international rowing event attracting over 1,000 rowers. The 2005 championships were the first championships to be held in Asia.

Medal summary

Men's events

Non-Olympic classes

Women's events

Non-Olympic classes

Pararowing

World Rowing Championship races in the Para classes are usually held over the Paralympic distance of 1000 meters. Exceptionally at 2005 World Rowing Championships, the LTA mixed coxed four was raced over the Olympic distance of 2000 meters as a trial.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “2005 World Rowing Championships” is rowing regatta. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through World, Rowing and Championships, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005, 1000, 2000—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, World, Rowing and Championships is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q80491. Authority coordinates are 35.164, 136.673. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2005, 1000 and 2000.

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This entry incorporates text from “2005 World Rowing Championships” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.