USRowing is pleased to announce the first 21 athletes who will represent the United States at the 2024 Paris Olympics this summer. In addition, USRowing has named eight men to represent the United States at the 2024 World Rowing Olympic Final Qualifying Regatta this May for a chance to qualify for Paris.
Liam Corrigan (Old Lyme, CT/Harvard University/California Boat Club), Michael Grady (Pittsburgh, PA/Cornell University/California Boat Club), Nick Mead (Strafford, PA/Princeton University/New York) Athletic Club) and Justin Best (Kennet Square, Pa./Drexel University/California Rowing Club) take home silver medals in the men's four events at the 2023 World Rowing Championships and will return to represent the United States at the event in Paris. It's planned. All four rowers will be competing in their second Olympics. Corrigan, Mead and Best were part of the eight men who placed fourth in Tokyo, and Grady was part of the four men who placed fifth. The quartet brings a wealth of international racing experience to the team having raced in 28 national teams across under-19, under-23 and senior levels.
Four men, Corrigan, Grady, Meade and Best, will return as USA M4s.
After winning bronze at the 2023 World Rowing Championships, Sophia Vitas (Franklin, Wis./University of Wisconsin/Sarasota Rowing Training Center) and Christy Wagner (Weston, Mass./Yale University/ARION) will be aiming for their next goal. Return to medal stand in women's double sculls in Paris. Wagner, now a five-time national team member, will be competing in her second Olympics after finishing fifth at the Tokyo Games. Vitas, who is also a five-time national team member, will be making her Olympic debut in Paris.
Christie Wagner and Sophia Vitas race as American W2x
In the women's lightweight double sculls, Michelle Sexer (Folsom, Calif./University of Tulsa/US Rowing Training Center – Princeton) and Molly Reckford (Short Hills, N.J./Dartmouth College/New York Athletic Club) will head to Paris after the race. We met again. Sexer and Reckford finished fifth in this event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and won silver at the 2022 World Rowing Championships, with Sexer winning silver in the same event in 2023. Both have participated in the Olympics twice. Sexer will be racing on his 12th varsity team, while Reckford will compete on his fifth.
USRowing also announced the 13 women who will make up the women's 8th and 4th places in Paris: Charlotte Buck (Nyack, NY/Columbia University/USRowing Training Center – Princeton), Molly Bruggeman ( Dayton, Ohio/University of Notre Dame/USRowing Training Center – Princeton), Nina Castagna (Cincinnati, Ohio/University of Washington/US Rowing Training Center – Princeton), Olivia Coffey (Watkins Glen, NY/Harvard University/US Rowing Training Center) – Princeton), Claire Collins (McLean, VA/Princeton University/US Rowing Training Center – Princeton), Margaret Hedeman (Concord, MA/Yale University/US Rowing Training Center – Princeton), Emily Kalfelz (RI) Jamestown/Princeton University/Cambridge Rowing Club), Caitlin Knifton (Austin, Texas/University) Texas/USA Rowing Training Center – Princeton), Mary Mazzio Munson (Wellesley, Massachusetts/Yale University/Craftsbury Green)・Racing Project), Megan Musnicki (Naples, New York/Ithaca College/California Rowing Club), Kelsey Rielich (Brookfield, CT)./Princeton University/US Rowing Training Center – Princeton), Regina Salmons (Massachusetts) Methuen, WI/University of Pennsylvania/US Rowing Training Center – Princeton), Madeline Wanamaker (Neenah, WI/University of Wisconsin/US Rowing Training Center – Princeton). The list includes six Olympic veterans and eight first-time Olympians. This will be Musnicki's fourth Olympic appearance, and she has competed in the women's top eight at the past three Games, including gold medals in 2012 and 2016. In addition to Musnicki, Buck, Coffey and Salmons were also part of the women's top eight, which placed fourth. At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Collins and Wanamaker finished seventh out of four events. Bruggemann was a substitute for Tokyo. At the 2023 World Rowing Championships, the United States won silver medals in eight women's events and placed fourth in four women's events.
USRowing has also named eight men to compete in the 2024 World Rowing Olympic Final Qualifying Regatta. The United States finished sixth at last year's world championships, missing out on a spot in Paris, and will need to finish in the top two at the qualifying regatta in Lucerne, Switzerland, to qualify for the Olympics. The crew consists of Clark Dean (Sarasota, Fla./Harvard University/Boston Rowing Federation), Chris Carlson (Bedford, N.H./University of Washington/New York Athletic Club), and Peter Chattain (Winnetka, Ill./Stanford University). Masu. / California Boat Club), Henry Hollingsworth (Dover, Massachusetts / Brown University / California Boat Club), Riley Milne (Woodinville, Washington / University of Washington), Nick Lasher (West Bend, Wisconsin / Yale University / California ), Evan Olson (Bothell, Wash./University of Washington/Seattle Scholars/Penn AC), Peter Quinton (Portland, Ore./Harvard University/California Rowing Club), Christian Tabash (Alexandria, Va./Harvard) University/University) Berkeley, California/USRowing Training Center – Sarasota). Dean finished fifth in the men's four events at the Tokyo Olympics and will be aiming to make his second Olympic team, while the other team members are aiming to make his first Olympic team.
With selection camp complete, the focus now turns to the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Team Trials – Rowing, April 4-7 in Sarasota, Florida. Click here for a quick guide to Olympic and Paralympic qualification. Pending USOPC approval, the full Olympic team will be named by June 7th and the full Paralympic team by July 1st. Visit our Row to Paris page for information, updates and athlete features.
The rowing competition at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games will be held from July 27th to August 4th. The 2024 Paris Paralympic Games are scheduled for August 28th to September 8th, with para-rowing competition starting on August 30th. USRowing previously named its first two boats for the Paralympics in January.
