2021 European Rowing Confederation General Assembly elects Annamarie Phelps Chair

The 2021 European Rowing General Assembly was held virtually on 6 November 2021. Delegates from 25 Member Federations registered to attend virtually. Voting was facilitated by the well-known electronic voting service provider Lumi.

Annamarie Phelps of Great Britain was elected Chair to replace retiring Ryszard Stadniuk of Poland who has served in the position since 2008. Annamarie was first elected to the European Rowing Board in 2017 and served many years as Chairman of British Rowing. She is also vice-Chair of the British Olympic Association among other prominent positions.

There were also elections for five positions on the European Rowing Board. The ERB consists of four representatives of the Member Federations and three representatives nominated by the World Rowing Council but subject to vote by the General Assembly. Two of the four Member Federation representative positions were up for election and were won by Annamarie Phelps and Asuncion Loriente of Spain. Phelps’ position is for a four-year term on the ERB while Loriente’s is a mandate of three years on the ERB. This completes the transitional arrangement period defined when the European Rowing Confederation was founded in November 2018. The other two MF positions are held by Eva Szanto of Hungary and Nebojsa Jevremovich of Serbia. Elections for the three positions for representatives of the World Rowing Council on the ERB were put to vote. Patrick Rombaut of Belgium, Dusan Machacek of the Czech Republic and Algirdas Raslanas of Lithuania were elected for four-year terms.

European Rowing announced the launch of the 2022 Strategic Event Attribution Process (SEAP) ending with attribution at the 2022 General Assembly on 13 August 2022 in Munich, Germany. The SEAP was developed to recognise the significant investment by government authorities in facilities for the sport of rowing and offers them a chance to take a more strategic approach to staging international events. The events open for bid are listed below.

Two editions of a new event were attributed by the General Assembly: the European Rowing Coastal Championships including both the endurance and Beach Sprint formats. The first edition will take place in San Sebastian, Spain in 27-31 October 2022 and the second in La Seyne-Sur-Mer, France from 31 August to 4 September 2023. Both will offer the two Coastal Rowing formats in a five-day framework.

It was the last General Assembly of long serving Chair Ryszard Stadniuk of Poland who has served as Chair since 2008. Other members of the European Rowing Board paid tribute to and congratulated Ryszard for his strong leadership and the vast expansion of European Rowing events during his chairmanship for the benefit and development of European rowers.

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2022 European Rowing Strategic Event Attribution Process

• 2025 European Rowing Championships
• 2025, 2026 European Rowing Under 23 Championships
• 2025, 2026 European Rowing Under 19 Championships
• 2024, 2025 European Rowing Coastal Championships *
• 2024, 2025 European Rowing Beach Sprint Championships *
• 2024, 2025 European Rowing Indoor Championships

* Possible to submit a combined bid