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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

AgeBeginnerNoviceIntermediateAdvancedEliteWR
1010:05.109:26.008:47.608:11.907:40.106:57.8
1508:48.608:14.407:40.907:09.706:41.906:05.0
2008:17.607:45.407:13.906:44.506:18.305:43.6
2508:10.607:38.807:07.806:38.806:13.005:38.7
3008:06.907:35.407:04.606:35.906:10.205:36.2
3508:13.607:41.607:10.406:41.306:15.305:40.8
4008:23.707:51.107:19.206:49.506:23.005:47.8
4508:33.808:00.507:28.006:57.706:30.705:54.8
5008:43.908:10.007:36.807:05.906:38.306:01.7
5508:59.608:24.707:50.607:18.706:50.306:12.6
6009:11.408:35.708:00.807:28.206:59.206:20.7
6509:29.9

Concept2 Forum

Re: 2k-leaderboard

Postby Carl Watts » November 12th, 2022, 10:57 pm

Unfortunately its not impossible for the older monitors like the PM3 to develop a fault due to corrosion mainly and give erratic readings.

Otherwise its pretty difficult to fake a result that is just a bit faster than the finest on the board.

I decided to see how hard or easy it was to phony a result and posted a 6:00 2K time but you need a broad range of electronics skills to be qualified to do it so its way beyond the average rower.

The process was done to see how reliable the results would be for verified rows and verified meters only and I'm pretty confident in summary that they would be 99.99% reliable moving forward with a monitor like the PM5.

You could fake a result with the early PM2 with just a mechanical change and then it got subsequently harder and harder with each generation of monitor to fake a result.

Concept 2 must be proficient to pull what monitor is being used for a verified time and should display it. The PM5 got a whole lot smarter, lets leave it at that.

I have been pushing for verified meters only rows for Challenges for years now, or at least one monthly Chal

96-year-old Val Coleman breaks 2,000m and 100m indoor rowing world records

Indoor Rowing

Coleman smashed two Concept2 world records at the West Wales Indoor Rowing Championships

Val Coleman made history at the West Wales Indoor Rowing Championships, breaking the Women’s 95-99 2,000m world record in a time of 12:45.4 – this replaced her own previous record, set in 2023, by 22.9 seconds.

The Fishguard and Goodwick Jemima Rowing Club member didn’t stop there, and went on to break the Women’s 95-99 100m world record in a time of 35.3 seconds.

Inspired by her daughter, Val took up rowing during the Covid pandemic in 2020. Just a year later, she set the Women’s 90-94 1,000m British record in 6:16.1. In 2022, she set the Women’s 90-94 2,000m British record in 12:53.9, followed by the Women’s 90-94 four-minute world record in 2023, covering 682m. In 2024, she went on to break the Women’s 95-99 500m world record with a time of 2:57.8 and the Women’s 95-99 1,000m world record at 6:28.8.*

Val holds a strong history competing in indoor rowing competitions, becoming two-time British Champion at the 2021 British Rowing Indoor Championships in the Women’s 90–94 2,000m rac

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

world record erg 2k

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