Rowing at the Summer World University Games
Events	14 (men: 7; women: 7)
Games
1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1970 1970 1973 1972 1975 1975 1977 1978 1979 1981 1983 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019 2021 2025

Rowing is an Universiade optional sport since the 1987 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia. After this, rowing was an optional sport at the 1989, 1993, 2013 and 2015 editions. The sport returned with the same status at the 2021 Summer Universiade, which were held in Chengdu, China, and was also chosen with same status to the subsequent editions scheduled for the 2025 Summer Universiade, to be held in Duisburg, Germany and the 2027 Summer Universiade, to be held in Chungcheong Province, South Korea.

Games	Year	Host city	Host country	Winner	Second	Third
XIV	1987	Zagreb	Yugoslavia	Romania	Italy	West Germany
XV	1989	Duisburg	West Germany	Romania	China  West Germany
XVII	1993	St. Catharines	Canada	Canada	Romania	United States
XXVII	2013	Kazan	Russia	Russia	Germany	Lithuania
XXVIII	2015	Gwangju	South Korea	Lithuania	Japan	Ukraine
XXXI	2021	Chengdu	China	China	Poland	Italy
XXXII	2025	Duisburg	Germany
XXXIII	2027	Chungcheong Province	South Korea

Last updated after the 2021 Summer Universiade

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Romania (ROM)	13	2	0	15
2	China (CHN)	9	5	6	20
3	Lithuania (LTU)	9	2	0	11
4	Italy (ITA)	7	10	11	28
5	Canada (CAN)	5	8	7	20
6	Germany (GER)	5	6	6	17
7	Poland (POL)	5	5	3	13
8	Ukraine (UKR)	3	8	3	14
9	West Germany (FRG)	3	5	2	10
10	Netherlands (NED)	3	4	10	17
11	Bulgaria (BUL)	3	3	1	7
12	Russia (RUS)	3	1	3	7
13	United States (USA)	2	5	5	12
14	Soviet Union (URS)	2	3	0	5
15	Japan (JPN)	2	1	2	5
16	France (FRA)	1	2	4	7
17	South Africa (RSA)	1	2	1	4
18	Belarus (BLR)	1	1	1	3
19	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	1	0	2
20	Hungary (HUN)	1	0	3	4
21	East Germany (GDR)	1	0	2	3
22	Turkey (TUR)	1	0	1	2
23	Austria (AUT)	1	0	0	1
	Finland (FIN)	1	0	0	1
25	Great Britain (GBR)	0	3	2	5
26	Spain (ESP)	0	2	1	3
27	Yugoslavia (YUG)	0	1	2	3
28	Brazil (BRA)	0	1	0	1
	Iran (IRI)	0	1	0	1
	Mexico (MEX)	0	1	0	1
	New Zealand (NZL)	0	1	0	1
32	Australia (AUS)	0	0	1	1
	Azerbaijan (AZE)	0	0	1	1
	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
	Greece (GRE)	0	0	1	1
	Latvia (LAT)	0	0	1	1
	Moldova (MDA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (37 entries)		83	84	82	249

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