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2000m Row Times
Rowing Standards By Age And Ability
What is a good 2000m row time?
A
good 2000m time
is 07:22.3. This is the
average 2000m time
across all ages and genders. The
fastest 2000m time
is 05:35.8.
Male 2000m Rowing Times
A
good 2000m time for a man
is 07:04.1. This is the
average 2000m time across men
of all ages. The
fastest 2000m time rowed by a man
is 05:35.8.
Average 2000m row time by age and ability
Age
Beginner
Novice
Intermediate
Advanced
Elite
WR
10
10:05.1
09:26.0
08:47.6
08:11.9
07:40.1
06:57.8
15
08:48.6
08:14.4
07:40.9
07:09.7
06:41.9
06:05.0
20
08:17.6
07:45.4
07:13.9
06:44.5
06:18.3
05:43.6
25
08:10.6
07:38.8
07:07.8
06:38.8
06:13.0
05:38.7
30
08:06.9
07:35.4
07:04.6
06:35.9
06:10.2
05:36.2
35
08:13.6
07:41.6
07:10.4
06:41.3
06:15.3
05:40.8
40
08:23.7
07:51.1
07:19.2
06:49.5
06:23.0
05:47.8
45
08:33.8
08:00.5
07:28.0
06:57.7
06:30.7
05:54.8
50
08:43.9
08:10.0
07:36.8
07:05.9
06:38.3
06:01.7
55
08:59.6
08:24.7
07:50.6
07:18.7
06:50.3
06:12.6
60
09:11.4
08:35.7
08:00.8
07:28.2
06:59.2
06:20.7
65
09:29.9
The elite group of indoor rowers who’ve gone sub 5:40 for 2000m
With the arrival of the 2021 World Rowing Indoor Championships (WRICH), I was prompted to take a look at the history of an iconic benchmark – the sub 5:40 time for 2000m on the Concept2 indoor rowing machine.
To put that performance in context for the rest of us, 5:40 requires a 1:25 per 500m split or 570 watts. That is 19 per cent more power than covering the distance in six minutes, 89 per cent more power than seven minutes and 181 per cent more power than eight minutes.
For many years the CRASH-B Indoor Sprints, held in Boston, United States each year, was the place where the world’s best rowers came to test themselves against each other on the indoor rower. The standard indoor distance was 2500m until 1996 when it moved to 2000m to be in line with the international standard distance on the water.
The record holder over 2500m was (and is) the giant Polish/ German rower Matthias Siejkowski with a time of 7:10.7. The 1997 CRASH-B race saw a dramatic 2000m race between Siejkowski and the New Zealand sculler Rob Waddell. Siejkowski was trailing Waddell the whole way but managed to outsprint him in the final few
Brooke Mooney Set the 2,000-Meter Rowing Record at 6:21.1. Now She Wants to Beat it.
On March 25, 2021, United States Rowing Association (USRowing) National Team Member
Brooke Mooney blazed the fastest two-kilometer time for a female ever recorded on a rowing machine indoors
. Saddled into a Concept2 rower during training at the Princeton Training Center in New Jersey, the six-foot, two-inch tall
Mooney rowed two kilometers in a time of 6:21.1
. Her average 500-meter split was 1:35.2 at 36 strokes per minute with the following:
500 meters —
1:37.2
1,000 meters —
1:37.2
1,500 meters —
1:34.4
2,000 meters —
1:32.4
According to
Concept2
, Mooney shaved 1.7 seconds off the previous world record set by 2019 World Rowing Indoor Championships gold medalist Olena Buryak of Ukraine at the 2017 World Games — a time of 6:22.8.
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Unintentional World Record
Mooney didn’t plan to set a world record. Initially, her rowing session was a test mandated by USRowing Olympic coaches. (Mooney is vying for a spot on the team to represent the USA at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.) She told
On Saturday 10 March 2018, Dunkley-Smith broke the World Record for fastest ever 2000m on an indoor rowing machine with a time of 5 minutes 35.8 seconds. The 28-year-old’s performance saw him post a time bettering New Zealander Rob Waddell’s 10-year-old record of 5:36.6, by almost a second.
“Towards the end when things started to get a little bit dire I was able to compensate for fatigue.”
Josh Dunkley-Smith
In this video produced by Rowing Australia Josh talks through his approach to the record breaking test. Having fallen just short of the record in an attempt last year Josh says that he changed his tactics to a more front loaded-strategy.
“I had an attempt last year and did it mainly on power” says Dunkley-Smith “pretty low rate and hauling on it. Giving it a little more work, opening the system up more in the first 200-300 [metres] was a better approach.”
“Getting that front loading of lactate, getting the system started so it wasn’t only coming on line half way through was one of the changes and also keeping the rate up a bit more. Towards the end when things started to get a little bit dire I was able to compe