2025 World University Games – Rhine-Ruhr, Germany
These championships were conducted in Rhine-Ruhr (Duisburg) Germany from on 16-27 July 2025. There were 234 medal events over 18 sports. Japan took first place in the medal table with 79 medals, including 34 golds. Interestingly, rowing was one of the sports with sell out crowds. Sadly the Australian rowing team did not feature in the medal count.
Geoff Northam in his jury report summed up the event as follows: The FISU World University Summer Games were held over two weeks in the Berlin and the Rhine-Ruhr regions of Germany, with the rowing element of the games held in the Duisberg Regatta Bahn sports complex . The rowing race program was scheduled for the final three days of the Games period (25-27 July 2025), which coincided with the World Rowing Under 23 Championships at Poznan Poland. The FISU rowing regatta is normally attended by national team Under 23 rowers and was expected to result in a reduced attendance at the FISU regatta. However, to the contrary entries were higher than normal, possibly because the absence of Under 23 national team rowers opened up the possibilities for rowers to achieve a podium finish outcome at the FISU regatta. ... The Duisburg Regattabahn course was created through the donation of an old quarry site owned by the Krupp family (a large industrial organisation today) to the Duisburg city on the condition that the site was developed into a sports park for the people of Duisberg. The level of investment in the sports park has been significant. ... The regatta competition schedule conformed to the new FISA progression system where repechage events are no longer used. This allowed the regatta to be compressed to 3 days duration in line with FISA objections. This meant day 1 included all heats, and where entries were greater than 24 crews quarterfinals at the end of the first day. Day 2 included all semi finals, and a number of B/C/D/E finals to reduce the number of finals the following day. Day 3 started with the remainder of B/C/D/E finals, followed by all A finals.
Australian Men's Four in the semi-finals
Photo courtesy of rhineruhr2025.com Photographer Moritz Mueller
Medal tally
| Rank | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | Rank by total |
| 1 | UK | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
| 2 | Netherlands | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 1 |
| 3 | Italy | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
| 4 | Lithuania | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
| 5 | Czechia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 6 | Moldova | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 |
| 7 | Germany | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 8 | Poland | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 9 | Croatia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 |
| 9 | South Africa | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 |
| 11 | New Zealand | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
| 11 | Turkey | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
| 11 | USA | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
| 11 | 11 | 11 | 33 |
Australian Team
Women's Scull - Fifteenth
Sophie Reinehr (VIC)
Women's Double Scull - Fourteenth
Liesel Page (NSW)
Ella Spaulding (NSW)
Women's Four - Seventh
Elly Ready (QLD)
Nancy Duncan-Banks (QLD)
April Draney (NSW)
Alice Ready (QLD)
Men's Scull - Twenty first
Nicholas Szigeter (VIC)
Men's Four - Eleventh
Reilly Williams (QLD)
Mitchell Bridge (QLD)
Oscar Beregi (NSW)
Nicholas Barlow (QLD)
Jury member: Geoff Northam (ACT)
Results
Men's Single Sculls
1st Moldova Ivan CORSUNOV, 2nd United Kingdom Joshua Jennison KNIGHT, 3rd Lithuania Arnedas KELMELIS, 4th Switzerland Bojan REUFFURTH, 5th Germany Jonas GELSEN, 6th Netherlands Percijn VAN HAERINGEN, 7th Individual Neutral Athletes Maksim ZHEVLACHENKO, 8th Austria Konrad HULTSCH, 9th Poland Cezary Szymon LITKA, 10th New Zealand Arie Geoffry RASMUSSEN MAGASIVA, 11th Italy Giovanni BORGONOVO, 12th Norway Nicolai Enstad HARALDSETH, 13th Canada Charles-etienne TABET, 14th Czechia Marek DIBLIK, 15th Uzbekistan Mekhrojbek MAMATKULOV, 16th Japan Rikuto SUGAWARA, 17th Slovakia Jakub HERHONEK, 18th Hungary Balázs SZOLLOSI, 19th Belgium Savin Zoran RODENBURG, 20th Thailand Narongsak NAKSAENG, 21st Australia Nicholas SZIGETER, 22nd Kazakhstan Bapan ASKHANBEK, 23rd Azerbaijan Nurlan PASHAYEV, 24th Chinese Taipei LEE Jui-che, 25th Republic of Korea SEO Sung Woo, 26th Ukraine Yan KAMANOV, 27th India Pratik GUPTA, 28th Spain Alexander JURADO PÉREZ, 29th United States of America Nathan John Christen DAMAS
Men's Double Sculls
1st Netherlands, 2nd Croatia, 3rd Italy, 4th Lithuania, 5th Moldova, 6th Japan, 7th Germany, 8th France, 9th Canada Country, 10th Austria, 11th Poland, 12th Norway, 13th Spain, 14th Czechia, 15th Türkiye, 16th New Zealand, 17th Kazakhstan, 18th South Africa, 19th Hungary, 20th Republic of Korea, 21th India, 22nd Ukraine, 23rd Argentina
Men's Pair
1st Lithuania, 2nd Italy, 3rd United Kingdom, 4th Canada, 5th Germany, 6th Czechia, 7th South Africa, 8th Austria, 9th Azerbaijan, 10th Netherlands, 11th Türkiye, 12th Kazakhstan, 13th Hong Kong, China, 14th Belgium, 15th Hungary, 16th Spain, 17th India, 18th Japan, 19th Republic of Korea, 20th Ukraine
Men's Four
1st Netherlands, 2nd Italy, 3rd Czechia, 4th Belgium, 5th Germany, 6th Kazakhstan, 7th United States, 8th New Zealand, 9th South Africa, 10th Spain, 11th Australia, 12th Norway, 13th India
Men's Eight
1st United Kingdom, 2nd Poland, 3rd Netherlands, 4th Germany, 5th Italy, 6th Spain, 7th India
Women's Single Sculls
1st Czechia Anna SANTRUCKOVA, 2nd Germany Alexandra FÖSTER, 3rd Türkiye Elis OZBAY, 4th Switzerland Olivia NEGRINOTTI, 5th United Kingdom Zara Grace POVEY, 6th Italy Ilaria CORAZZA, 7th Individual Neutral Athletes Veronika SHLIAPTSEVA, 8th Poland Jessika Krystyna SOBOCINSKA, 9th Hungary Eszter FEHÉRVÁRI, 10th Estonia Rachel KÕLLO, 11th Uzbekistan Malika TAGMATOVA, 12th Belgium Eloïse Anne E JORIS, 13th Netherlands Jacobien Willemijn VAN WESTREENEN, 14th Kazakhstan Mariya CHERNETS, 15th AustraliaSophie REINEHR, 16th Japan Sachino INOUE, 17th Spain Martina MOYA LLOPIS, 18th Slovakia Anastasia IAKOVLEV, 19th Canada Emily MUNROE, 20th United States of America Ingrid Therese LOFGREN, 21st Bulgaria Antoaneta KARAIVANOVA, 22nd Latvia Laura POHEVICA, 23rdChinese Taipei LIN Yu-han, 24thRepublic of Korea PARK Seoyeon, 25th India Dhanshree Bhaskar SANGALE, 26th Sri Lanka Kalpani Kavindhya ALETHTHUGE
Women's Double Sculls
1st Italy, 2nd Netherlands, 3rd Poland, 4th United Kingdom, 5th New Zealand, 6th Czechia, 7th Canada, 8th Hungary, 9th Japan, 10th United States of America, 11th Kazakhstan, 12th Slovakia, 13th Croatia, 14thAustralia, 15th Spain, 16th Ukraine, 17th Republic of Korea
Women's Pair
1st Lithuania, 2nd South Africa, 3rd New Zealand, 4th Poland, 5th United Kingdom, 6th Netherlands, 7th Italy, 8th Czechia, 9th Germany, 10th Austria, 11th United States of America, 12th France, 13th Sri Lanka
Women's Four
1st United Kingdom, 2nd Germany, 3rd Netherlands, 4th Italy, 5th Canada, 6th Poland, 7th Australia, 8thSpain, 9th Czechia, 10th Norway, 11th United States of America, 12th India
Women's Eight
1st United Kingdom, 2nd Netherlands, 3rd United States of America, 4th Germany, 5th Italy, 6th Spain
Mixed Quadruple Sculls
1st Italy, 2nd Germany, 3rd Lithuania, 4th Hungary, 5thCroatia, 6th Thailand, 7th United States of America, 8th Chinese Taipei, 9th India, 10th Republic of Korea, 11th Ukraine