2024 Paralympic Games: Boat-By-Boat Preview

The U.S. will have two boats competing at the Paralympic Games Paris 2024 including the PR3 mixed double sculls and PR3 mixed four with coxswain.

Last year, the U.S. won two Para medals at the 2023 World Rowing Championships including silver in the PR3 mixed double sculls and silver in the PR3 mixed four with coxswain. 

All seven athletes who will be competing in Paris are first-time Paralympians and are all coming off silver-medal performances at the 2023 World Rowing Championships in Belgrade, Serbia. 

At the Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020, the U.S. won the silver medal in the PR3 mixed four with coxswain.

PR3 Mixed Double Sculls

The PR3 mixed double sculls crew of Saige Harper and Todd Vogt finished fourth at the 2024 World Rowing Cup III in Poznan, Poland. Vogt won a silver medal in the event with Gemma Wollenschlaeger at the 2023 World Rowing Championships, while Harper was part of the silver-medal four at last year’s world championships. Australia’s Jed Altschwager and Nikki Ayers won the race in Poznan in June, with Great Britain’s Annabel Caddick and Samuel Murray taking silver and Germany’s Hermine Krumbein and Jan Helmich winning  bronze. Altschwager and Ayers also won gold at the 2023 World Rowing Championships, with France taking third. This will be the first year that the event will be contested at the Paralympic Games.

PR3 Mixed Four with Coxswain

The PR3 four with coxswain of Emelie Eldracher, Ben Washburne, Alex Flynn, Skylar Dahl, and Gemma Wollenschlaeger recently won a silver medal at the 2024 World Rowing Cup III in Poznan, Poland. All but Wollenschlaeger were part of the crew that won silver at the 2023 World Rowing Championships last year in Belgrade, Serbia. In both cases, the U.S. finished behind Great Britain. The British boat has won the event 13 years in a row at the world and Paralympic levels including in Tokyo in 2021. France finished third at World Cup III earlier this year, while Germany took the bronze medal at last year’s world championships and finished fourth in Poznan. The U.S. won silver in the event at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.