The 31st World Rowing Championships were held between July 22 and July 27, 2008 in conjunction with the World Junior Rowing Championships in Linz/Ottensheim, Austria.

Since 2008 is an Olympic year for rowing, the World Championships did not include Olympic events scheduled for the 2008 Summer Olympics or the adaptive rowing events at the 2008 Summer Paralympics.

[edit] Medal summary

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
Men's Events
M2+	Canada Gabriel Bergen (b) James Dunaway (s) Mark Laidlaw (c)	7:06.69	France Sebastien Lente (b) Benjamin Lang (s) Benjamin Manceau (c)	7:08.64	Australia Nick Baxter (b) Fergus Pragnell (s) Hugh Rawlinson (c)	7:09.30
LM1x	New Zealand Duncan Grant	6:52.38	Netherlands Jaap Schouten	6:52.73	Greece Ilias Pappas	6:55.00
LM4x	Italy Franco Sancassani (b) Daniele Gilardoni (2) Stefano Basalini (3) Daniele Danesin (s)	5:57.30	France Remi Di Girolamo (b) Jeremie Azou (2) Fabrice Moreau (3) Pierre-Etienne Pollez (s)	5:57.56	Germany Stephan Schad (b) Knud Lange (2) Felix Oevermann (3) Michael Wieler (s)	5:59.50
LM2-	Greece Nikolaos Gkountoulas (b) Apostolos Gkountoulas (s)	6:40.92	Italy Andrea Caianiello (b) Armando Dell'Aquila(s)	6:42.88	Serbia Goran Nedeljkovic (b) Milos Tomic (s)	6:45.25
LM8+	United States Simon Carcagno (b) Andrew Bolton (2) Colin Farrell (3) Mike Altman (4) Patrick Todd (5) Will Daly (6) Thomas Paradiso (7) Matt Muffelman (s) Ned del Guercio (c)	5:50.29	Germany Matthias Veit (b) Marc Rippel (2) Johann-Sebastian Diemann (3) Jonas Schuetzeberg (4) Matthias Schoemann-Finck (5) Adrian Bretting (6) Olaf Beckmann (7) Axel Schuster (s) Martin Sauer (c)	5:51.69	Netherlands Pieter Rom Colthoff (b) Diederick van den Bouwhuijsen (2) Reinoud de Groot (3) Dennis Beemsterboer (4) Rutger Bruil (5) Jolmer van der Sluis (6) Maarten Tromp (7) Maarten De Boer (s) Ryan Den Drijver (c)	5:52.37
Women's Events
W4-	Belarus Hanna Nakhayeva (b) Volha Shcharbachenia (2) Natallia Helakh (3) Yuliya Bichyk (s)	6:39.89	United States Karen Colwell (b) Stesha Carle (2) Sarah Trowbridge (3) Esther Lofgren (s)	6:43.56	Denmark Maria Pertl (b) Lisbet Jakobsen (2) Fie Graugaard (3) Lea Jakobsen (s)	6:44.69
LW1x	Switzerland Pamela Weisshaupt	7:43.26	Ireland Sinead Jennings	7:43.81	Croatia Mirna Rajle Brodanac	7:47.15
LW4x	Australia Ingrid Fenger (b) Bronwen Watson (2) Miranda Bennett (3) Alice McNamara (s)	6:36.41	Poland Monika Myszk (s) Magdalena Kemnitz (2) Weronika Deresz (3) Ilona Mokronowska (s)	6:39.38	United States Elizabeth Peters (b) Wendy Tripician (2) Rebecca Smith (3) Hannah Moore (s)	6:40.77

[edit] Medals table

Place	Nation				Total
1	United States	1	1	1	3
2	Italy	1	1	0	2
3	Australia	1	0	1	2
	Greece	1	0	1	2
5	Belarus	1	0	0	1
	Canada	1	0	0	1
	New Zealand	1	0	0	1
	Switzerland	1	0	0	1
9	France	0	2	0	2
10	Germany	0	1	1	2
	Netherlands	0	1	1	2
12	Ireland	0	1	0	1
	Poland	0	1	0	1
14	Croatia	0	0	1	1
	Denmark	0	0	1	1
	Serbia	0	0	1	1
Total		8	8	8	24

Preceded by 2007

World Rowing Championships 2008

Succeeded by 2009