Following the conclusion of the Paris 2024 Rowing Qualifier, a total of 502 athletes have qualified - 251 women and 251 men - have qualified across the 14 boat classes.  It was confirmed last week that World Rowing will accept the IOC's request for an additional universal quota slot for Sudan in the Men's Single Sculls, bringing the total number of athletes competing at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games Regatta to 503. 

In addition, the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine has informed World Rowing that it has decided to decline the Women's Single Sculls slot won at the World Rowing European Continental Qualification Regatta in Szeged, Hungary. In accordance with the qualification system, the slot has been reallocated by the World Rowing Executive Committee to the next highest placed crew at this event - Slovenia. 

More than half of the rowers will be competing in their first Olympic Regatta. Romania and the United States of America have qualified the most number of boats with 12 each, followed by the Netherlands and Great Britain with 10 each. Host nation France has qualified five boats. 

Estonian Tonu Endrekson will be competing in his sixth Olympic Games. The 45-year-old, who will be rowing in the men's quadruple sculls, has two Olympic medals to his name and will be aiming for a third. The youngest competitor will be 18-year-old Frida Foldager from Denmark, who qualified at the final Olympic qualifying regatta in Lucerne in May.

There are 33 entries in the men's single sculls and all eyes will be on Germany's Oliver Zeidler. He comes to Paris after a B final finish at the Tokyo Olympics, but has since won two consecutive World Rowing Championships titles. He will be up against reigning Olympic champion Stefanos Ntouskos (or Duskos) of Greece and Simon Van Dorp of the Netherlands, who beat Zeidler in their last meeting before the Games. 

On the women's side, Karolien Florijn of the Netherlands has dominated this boat class in recent years and has not lost a race since switching from the women's four after Tokyo. This will be Florijn's second Olympics and the same goes for her main rival, Australia's Tara Rigney. In her fifth Olympics will be the reigning Olympic champion, New Zealand's Emma Twigg. 

Perhaps the biggest surprise comes from Romania, where the reigning Olympic and world champions in the women's double sculls will not be defending their titles together - Simona Radis will compete in the women's eight, while Ancuta Bodnar will team up with Andrada-Maria Morosanu.

To view the entries, click here. For the official rowing programme, click here.