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Thomas Robert Bugeaud

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{{Short description|French soldier and colonial governor (1784–1849)}}
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{{Infobox military person
| name = Thomas Robert Bugeaud
| honorific_suffix = [[Marshal of France|M.F.]]
| image = Bugeaud, Thomas - 2.jpg
| caption = Bugeaud by [[Charles-Philippe Larivière]], 1843-1845
| birth_date = {{birth-date|15 October 1784}}
| death_date = {{death-date|10 June 1849}} (aged 64)
| birth_place = [[Limoges]], [[France]]
| death_place = [[Paris]], [[France]]
| nickname =
| allegiance = [[File:Flag of France.svg|18px]] [[France]]
| branch = [[French Army]]
| serviceyears = 1804–1849
| rank = [[Marshal of France]]
| commands =
| battles = {{tree list}}
* [[Napoleonic Wars]]
** [[Battle of Austerlitz]]
** [[Battle of Jena-Auerstedt|Battle of Jena]]
** [[Battle of Eylau]]
** [[Battle of Pultusk]]
** [[Siege of Zaragoza (1809)]]
* [[French conquest of Algeria]]
**[[Battle of Sikkak]]
* [[Franco-Moroccan War]]
** [[Battle of Isly]]
* [[French Revolution of 1848]]
{{tree list/end}}
| awards =
| laterwork = Agriculturalist, [[Chamber of Deputies of France|Deputy]]
}}

'''Thomas Robert Bugeaud, marquis de la Piconnerie, duc d'Isly''' (15 October 1784{{snd}}10 June 1849) was a [[Marshal of France]] and [[Colonial heads of Algeria|Governor-General of Algeria]] during the French [[colonization]]. Born an aristocrat, he has a complex legacy, serving as a soldier during the [[Napoleonic Wars|Napoleonic wars]], focusing on agriculture during [[Bourbon Restoration in France|Bourbon rule]], then serving the [[July Monarchy|July monarchy]] in [[French conquest of Algeria|Algeria]] during which he achieved undoubted military success, also utilised extreme violence and caused outrage at the time.

==Early life==
He was born at [[Limoges]], a member of a noble family of [[Périgord]] ([[Occitania]]), the youngest of thirteen children. He ran away from home, and for some years lived in the country as an agricultural worker. At the age of twenty, he became a private soldier in the ''Vélites'' of the [[Imperial Guard (Napoleon I)|Imperial Guard]], with which he took part in the [[Battle of Austerlitz|Austerlitz]] campaign of the following year. Early in 1806, he was given a commission, and as a [[Second Lieutenant]] he served in the [[Battle of Jena|Jena]] and [[Battle of Eylau|Eylau]] campaigns, winning his promotion to the rank of lieutenant at the [[Battle of Pultusk]].<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=1 |wstitle=Bugeaud de la Piconnerie, Thomas Robert |volume=4 |pages=758–759}}</ref>

In 1808, he was in the first French corps to enter [[Spain]], and was stationed in [[Madrid]] during the [[Dos de Mayo Uprising|revolt of the Dos Mayo]]. At the [[Second Siege of Saragossa|Second Siege of Zaragossa]], he won further promotion to the rank of captain, and in 1809–1810 found opportunities for winning distinction under [[Louis Gabriel Suchet|Suchet]] in the eastern theatre of the [[Peninsular War]], in which he rose to the rank of major and the command of a full regiment. At the first restoration he was made a colonel, but he rejoined [[Napoleon]] during the [[Hundred Days]], and under his old chief Suchet distinguished himself in the war in the [[Alps]].<ref name="EB1911" />
[[File:Bugeaud Dulong duel.jpg|left|thumb|The Bugeaud Dulong duel, in the image the ghostly figure is a reference to King [[Louis Philippe I|Louis-Phillipe]] who it was claimed stoked the tensions as a means to distance himself from the treatment of the Duchess of Berry]]

==July monarchy==
He spent the fifteen years after the fall of Napoleon without employment, returning to agriculture and developing his home district of Périgord.

The [[July Revolution]] of 1830 reopened his military career, and after a short tenure of regimental command he was in 1831 promoted brigadier-general (''maréchal de camp''). In the same year, he was elected to the French parliament's lower house, the [[Chamber of Deputies (France)|Chamber of Deputies]], where he showed himself to be an inflexible opponent of [[democracy]]. In his military capacity, he was noted for his severity in suppressing riots. His conduct as gaoler of the [[Princess Caroline of Naples and Sicily|Duchess of Berry]] led to a duel in 1834 between Bugeaud and the deputy {{ill|François-Charles Dulong|fr}} in which the latter was killed; this affair, and the heavy-handed suppression of a further riot, exposed Bugeaud to ceaseless attacks in the Chamber and in the press, though his opinion was sought by all parties in matters connected with agriculture and industrial development. He was re-elected in 1834, 1837, and 1839.<ref name="EB1911" /><ref>{{cite book|last=Sullivan|first=Anthony Thrall|title=Thomas-Robert Bugeaud. France and Algeria, 1784-1849|publisher=Archon Books|year=1983|page=36}}</ref>

===Algeria===
Although he initially disapproved of the conquest of Algeria, his undeviating adherence to [[Louis-Philippe of France|Louis Philippe]] brought him into agreement with the government. He embarked on a campaign to win the swift, complete, and lasting subjugation of Algeria. He was sent to [[Africa]] with orders from Paris to bring the war in western Algeria to a satisfactory conclusion,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Roughton |first=Richard A. |date=1985-05-01 |title=Economic Motives and French Imperialism: The 1837 Tafna Treaty as a Case Study |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1540-6563.1985.tb00667.x |journal=The Historian |language=en |volume=47 |issue=3 |pages=360–381 |doi=10.1111/j.1540-6563.1985.tb00667.x |issn=0018-2370|url-access=subscription }}</ref> wherein he proceeded to initiate his war of [[flying column]]s. He won his first victory on the 6th of July 1836 in the [[Battle of Sikkak]] against an army of 10,000 regular and tribal warriors of Abd al-Qadir, and returned home with the rank of lieutenant-general. In the following year, he signed the [[Treaty of Tafna]] (30 May 1837), with [[Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza'iri|Abd al-Qadir]], which led to attacks upon him in the [[National Assembly (France)|chamber]], to the refutation of which Bugeaud devoted himself in 1839.<ref name="EB1911"/> Historian [[James McDougall (academic)|James McDougall]] argues in his ''History of Algeria'' that the treaty accomplished little for the French noting that Bugeaud by his own invention styled the amir a 'great vassal of France' and while tribute was initially requested Bugeaud dropped this only securing concessions that Algerian trade would occur only in French held ports, however this provision was flouted by French and Algerian traders alike.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=McDougall |first=J |title=History of Algeria |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2017 |isbn=9781139029230 |edition=1 |pages=}}</ref>

There is also controversy about the language Bugeaud inserted into the differing versions of the treaty, in French article one read that Abd al-Qadir ‘recognised the sovereignty of France in Africa’. The Arabic text instead read that "the amir ‘is aware of the rule of French power" (ya‘rifu hukm saltanat firansa) in Africa’. McDougall argues on the basis of Abd al-Qadir's letters to Bugeaud negotiating the treaty that it cannot have been a translation error and the differing meaning of the texts constitutes duplicity on Bugeaud's part.<ref name=":0" />

[[File:Vernet - Bataille d'Isly - 1846.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|''[[Battle of Isly]]'', propaganda oil painting by [[Horace Vernet]].]]In addition to the public contents of the treaty Bugeaud and Abdelkader came to a number of private agreements in addition to the final treaties text. Bugeaud promised the emir modern weapons, to through French force of arms relocate the Dawa’ir and Zmala tribes away from Abd al-Qadirs domain and to exile from Algeria of their chiefs for which Bugeaud received a cash payment which he utilised to support his political career in France spending it to fund roadworks in his constituency.<ref name=":0" />
[[File:Marshal thomas bugeaud.jpg|thumb|upright|Bugeaud entering the Moroccan camp after Isly, oil painting by Horace Vernet]]
The treaty allowed the French space to prioritise other threats to their control over Algeria, and avenge General [[Bertrand Clauzel|Clauzel's]] [[Battle of Constantine|failure]] to subdue the [[Beylik of Constantine]]. Following the death of [[Charles-Marie Denys de Damrémont|General Damrémont]], at the subsequent years successful [[siege of Constantine]], and the retirement due to ill health of [[Sylvain Charles Valée|Marshal Valée]] in 1840, Bugeaud was nominated governor-general of Algeria.<ref name=":0" />

Early in 1841 he put his system of flying columns, a controversial but successful tactic known as "[[Razzia (military)|Razzia]]" into effect.<ref>Thomas Rid, [https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09546550903153449 Razzia. A Turning point in Modern Strategy], Terrorism and Political Violence, Vol 21, Iss 4, p. 617-635</ref> His swiftness and energy drove back the forces of Abd al-Qadir from place to place, while the devotion of the [[wikt:rank and file|rank and file]] to "Père Bugeaud" enabled him to carry all before him in action.<ref>[[Douglas Porch]], "Bugeard, Galliéni, Lyautey: The Development of French Colonial Warfare", in Peter Paret (ed.), in: Makers of Modern Strategy, p. 376-407, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986</ref> In 1842, he secured the French positions by undertaking the construction of roads. In 1843, Bugeaud was made [[marshal of France]], and in this and the following year he continued his operations with unvarying success. His great victory of [[Battle of Isly|Isly]] on 14 August 1844 defeated a Moroccan army that attempted to intervene in Algeria so decisively that effectively a civil war broke out between the Moroccans and Abd al-Qadir and won him the title of [[duke]].<ref name="EB1911" />

In 1845, however, he had to take the field again in consequence of the disaster of [[Battle of Sidi Brahim|Sidi Brahim]] (22 September 1845), and up to his final retirement from Algeria (July 1846) he was almost constantly employed in the field, by ordering in February 1846 to General [[Jean-François Gentil]] to organize the second campaign against the rebels of [[Kabylia]]. His resignation was due to differences with the home government on the question of the future government of the province. Amidst his other activities he had found time to study the agricultural characteristics of the conquered country, and under his régime the number of French colonists had grown from 17,000 to 100,000.<ref name="EB1911" /><ref name=":0" />

== Counter insurgency strategy in Algeria and his legacy in military strategy ==

=== The Algerian conquest in context ===
Before Bugeaud there had been [[List of French governors of Algeria|nine changes of governor in eleven years]], politics in the [[metropole]] too was in flux with a coup in Paris only weeks after the initial landing in Algiers. France now a constitutional monarchy saw the composition of its legislature and its government change with political fortunes in a way that had not happened since the 1820 franchising reforms. Defeats in Algeria were deemed inexcusable and Generals were fired to quell outrage at home. Together these factors caused colonial policy to change rapidly, and in those eleven years French holdings expanded slowly from their initial coastal enclaves.<ref name=":0" />

Initial French strategy was to fortify, garrison and thus ensure the obedience and loyalty of the native population. However this risked leaving each garrison - especially those in the hinterlands in a position of being so small they could not simultaneously defend their position and conduct some manoeuvre operation outside of it for doing so risked weakening themselves to the point of risking being defeated in detail by Algerian fighters.<ref name=":1" />

Indeed such events transpired at the [[Battle of Macta]] in 1835 where a French force of 2,500 men was destroyed at the hands of Abd al-Qadir, the ensuring outrage provoking the replacement of the then governor by Bugeaud.<ref name=":0" />

Bugeaud's term as governor stands out both for its length in the conquest period, nearly seven years but also for his success. Where before French strategy revolved around garrisoning every new outpost,<ref name=":1" /> Bugeaud attempted to reconcile Algerians to French rule with great cruelty and violence but also self interest leading to some historians citing<ref name=":4">{{Cite book |last=Miron |first=Marina |url=https://librosesmic.com/index.php/editorial/%20catalog/book/27 |title=Counterinsurgency Theory and Practice: From Early Renaissance to Present Day |date=2019-10-31 |publisher=Escuela Militar de Cadetes Jose Maria Cordova |isbn=978-958-52008-9-0 |doi=10.21830/9789585200890}}</ref> him as an early practitioner of counter insurgency operations and was especially influential in French military thinking in regard to colonial campaigns.<ref>Jean Gottmann, "Bugeaud, Galliéni, Lyautey: The Development of French Colonial Warfare", in Edward Mead Earle (ed.), in: Makers of Modern Strategy, 234-59 (Princeton: Princeton University Press 1943)</ref> Especially influenced where Generals [[Joseph Gallieni]] and [[Hubert Lyautey]]<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Thoral |first=Marie-Cecile |date=2015 |title=French Colonial Counter-Insurgency: General Bugeaud and the Conquest of Algeria, 1840-47 Authors |url=https://journals.gold.ac.uk/index.php/bjmh/article/view/608 |journal=British Journal for Military History |volume=1 |issue=2}}</ref> who were active in French colonial campaigns globally who innovated upon many ideas first set out by Bugeaud and subordinates in Algeria to create the [[Counterinsurgency#Oil spot|'oil-spot' method]] of establishing colonial control and gaining local acquiescence. Comparatively, the 'oil-spot' method involved a much lesser focus on violence, destruction of property and coercion than Bugeaud's campaign in Algeria.<ref name=":4" />

=== Trade, propaganda and a Fatwa ===
Bugeaud was aware of the potential of economic opportunities that came with French rule as a factor in increasing support for his occupation;<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Bugeaud |first=T.R |title=L'Algérie: des moyens d'utiliser et de conserver cette conquête |publisher=Dentu |year=1842 |pages= |language=French |trans-title=Algeria: ways to use and preserve this conquest}}</ref>

{{quotation|‘The native Americans were defeated by alcohol, the Arabs can be subjugated through trade; the use of force can [momentarily] defeat them but it cannot lead to lasting domination. Only trade can attach the Algerian population to the French (...) Each Arab Algerian who gets rich is, for the French, one ally gained and one enemy less’|Bugeaud, ''L'Algérie'' (1842)}}

Not only did this strengthen French ties with native Algerians but it also provided propaganda at home that painted the French conquest of Algeria as a moral and civilizing mission ensuring support for his mission from liberal and leftist deputies.<ref name=":1" />

Silvain d’Amboise a French convert to Islam during travels to Mecca, Cairo and Baghdad succeeded in having a fatwa drafted authorising Algerian Muslims to live under French rule, this contradicted an existing fatwa from a Moroccan Imam sought by Abd el-Qadirs which forbade Muslims from living under the rule of the French.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Roches |first=Léon |title=Trente-deux ans à travers l'Islam |publisher=Firmin-Didot |year=1884 |edition=1 |location=Paris |pages=440–441 |language=French |trans-title=Thirty-two years through Islam}}</ref>

=== Razzias and military policy ===
One economic opportunity for native Algerians under French rule was service in native regiments, this not only granted certain tribes [[Tax exemption|tax exemptions]] in exchange for service - under a similar arrangement that had been practiced under the [[Regency of Algiers|Ottoman Regency]].<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> But it also netted friendly tribes a share of the loot obtained from raids undertaken.<ref name=":1" />

Bugeaud was influenced by French experience in the [[War in the Vendée|Vendee]], [[Peninsular War#Iberia in revolt|Spain]] and also native warfare in innovating French [[military doctrine]] to meet the challenges posed by the little war in Algieria.<ref name=":1" />

But the change in French fortunes against Algerian resistance is not solely a product of Bugeaud's doctrinal and organisational reforms, his predecessors operated with less resources and manpower when Bugeaud assumed the governor-generalship total French forces in Algeria comprised some 60,000 men, by 1847 this was 109,000.<ref name=":1" />

Bugeaud was especially keen to recruit native cavalry as to match the capabilities of his opponents and to provide mobility to his flying columns.<ref name=":1" /> One of Bugeaud's major changes in policy compared to his predecessors was to reduce the number of garrisons substantially, in arguing for this change in policy he sent a letter to the war minister including a discussion of the [[Russian conquest of Chechnya and Dagestan#The war as a siege|Russian failures to suppress resistance in the Caucasus]].<ref name=":1" />

{{Quotation|text=You have under your very eyes eighteen years of unsuccessful attempts by the Russians to establish their rule over Circassia (...) Were their hundreds of outposts of any use? Did they enable them to subjugate the country?|author=Bugeaud|title=A letter from Bugeaud to War Minister Marshal Soult|source=Thoral (2015)}}

With reduced garrisoning requirements as well as greater forces available to him Bugeaud was able to increase the number of and size of his '[[Flying column|flying columns]]', one of Bugeauds typical columns consisted of 4,000 [[Infantry#History|infantrymen]], 2,000 [[Cavalry#France|French Cavalrymen]], 1,000 native [[Spahi|Spahis]] and 3 batteries of artillery.<ref name=":1" /> In the artillery too there was a marked difference from his predecessors who had favoured larger calibres, Bugeaud emphasised lighter guns especially [[Mountain artillery|mountain batteries]] for their ability to keep pace with other elements of the column.<ref name=":1" />

The 'flying columns' undertook Razzias as a putative measures against tribes who had been hostile to France. Killing was often indiscriminate, and those not killed were kept in French camps providing additional leverage for their tribe to make peace. Crops were burnt and livestock taken, this had a significant effect on the native Algerian population, whose numbers collapsed from estimates of 3 million in 1830 before the French conquest to 2.5 million by 1851.<ref name=":3" />

French officers under Bugeaud's command justified raids on the basis that the Algerian hinterland by virtue of being an [[agrarian economy]] had no industrial or political centre by which an army could siege or capture and thus win a campaign and thus to wage war they must target the productive heart of the Algerian rural economy - agriculture.<ref name=":1" />

In terms of personnel, in contrast to the situation he inherited was a revolving door of officers, he emphasised the need for army officers who had experience in Algeria to remain there, suggesting in his published work financial incentives to make that possible.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" />

=== Atrocities ===
[[File:Les Grottes du Dahra.jpg|thumb|The Ouled tribe suffocating by '<nowiki/>''enfumade''' of the cave of Dahra.]]Under Bugeaud's command the French army conducted the widespread use of razzias or raids, while they did not officially aim to kill non combatants this was not universally adhered to. One razzia conducted by General Gentil on the Beni Zeroual tribe in 1843 resulted in 150 killed, 712 prisoners, in exchange for 39 French casualties.<ref name=":1" />

The cumulative effect of raids that targeted the agrarian economy of rural Algeria caused widespread famine and it was as much this combined with the leverage gained from taking prisoners that forced tribes to make peace.<ref name=":1" />

A less common occurrence was a policy of '<nowiki/>''enfumades''' where fires would be lit at the entrance to caves into which Algerians had retreated. The massacre of the Ouled Riah tribe in late 1842 killed some 800 members of the tribe indiscriminately. [[War Minister of France|War Minister]] [[Marshal Soult]] attempted to cover up the case but despite that it was leaked to the press and widely condemned in France.<ref name=":1" />

But under Bugeaud the practice continued infrequently with military officers claiming caves represented the final citadel of tribes.<ref name=":1" /> These aspects of his campaign clash sharply with his own writings<ref name=":2" /> that painted the French conquest of Algeria as a civilising mission.<ref name=":1" />

Marina Miron's analysis of Bugeaud as a counter insurgency commander was one on the extreme violent side of the scale, in comparison to other approaches taken by other commanders in similar situations at different points in history. Miron notes Bugeaud was able to adapt to local conditions and methods of war, use coercive force (though extremely) and institute controls upon population movement as well as building local infrastructure - all of the hallmarks of [[Counterinsurgency|modern counter-insurgency doctrines]] (although in different proportions).<ref name=":4" />

==Later life==
[[File:MarechalBugeaudCommemorativePlaque.JPG|thumb|Bugeaud died at 1 Quai Voltaire in Paris (commemorative plate).]]
In 1848, Bugeaud was in [[Paris, France|Paris]] during the [[The Revolutions of 1848 in France|revolution of 1848]], but his orders prevented him from acting effectively to suppress it. He was asked, but eventually refused, to be a candidate for the presidency in opposition to [[Napoleon III of France|Louis Napoleon]]. His last public service was the command of the army of the Alps, formed in 1848–1849 to observe [[First Italian War of Independence|events in Italy]]. He died in Paris in 1849.<ref name="EB1911"/>

Bugeaud's writings were numerous, including his ''Œuvres militaires'', collected by Weil (Paris, 1883), many official reports on Algeria and the war there, and some works on economics and political science. See: Comte d'Ideville, ''Le Maréchal Bugeaud'' (Paris, 1881–1882).<ref name="EB1911"/>

==Homage and criticism==
Streets and places have been given his name in the cities of [[Paris]], [[Brest, France|Brest]], [[Albertville]], [[Auxerre]], [[Lyon]], [[Marseille]], [[Périgueux]], attempts to change these street names have always failed up to now.{{Time needed|date=February 2025}} In 2021, because of the actions committed by Bugeaud during the French conquest of Algeria, the municipality of Marseille decides to change his name of a school, and give it those of Ahmed Litim [<nowiki/>[[:fr:Ahmed_Litim|Fr]]], an [[Algerian Tirailleurs|Algerian tirailleur]] killed during the liberation of the city in 1944.<ref name=":3">{{cite journal |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.fr/life/article/marseille-l-ecole-bugeaud-rebaptisee-ahmed-litim-du-nom-d-un-tirailleur-algerien_210131.html|title=Marseille : l'école Bugeaud rebaptisée Ahmed Litim, du nom d'un tirailleur algérien|journal=Le HuffPost|date=2022}}</ref>

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Boat racing

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'''Boat racing''' is a [[sport]] in which [[boat]]s, or other types of [[watercraft]], race on [[water body|water]]. Boat racing powered by [[oars]] is recorded as having occurred in [[ancient Egypt]],<ref>{{citation |first=Evžen |last=Strouhal |title=Life of the ancient Egyptians |year=1992 |page=46}}</ref> and it is likely that people have engaged in races involving boats and other water-borne craft for as long as such watercraft have existed.<ref>{{Cite web |title=What is Boat Racing? |url=https://www.rookieroad.com/boat-racing/what-is/ |access-date=2023-11-15 |website=www.rookieroad.com |language=en}}</ref>

A '''regatta''' is a series of [[boat]] races.<ref>{{Cite web |title=RRS {{!}} Post |url=https://rrs.sh/posts/94-whats-the-difference-between-a-regatta-and-a-series-longer-than-a-regatta |access-date=2024-07-19 |website=rrs.sh |language=en}}</ref> The term comes from the [[Venetian language]], with ''regata'' meaning "contest, contention for mastery"(from ''regatare'' ("compete, haggle, sell at retail"), possibly from ''recatare'') and typically describes racing events of [[Rowing (sport)|rowed]] or [[Sailing (sport)|sailed]] water craft, although some [[powerboat]] race series are also called regattas. A regatta often includes social and promotional activities which surround the racing event, and except in the case of boat type (or "class") championships, is usually named for the town or venue where the event takes place; for example “valley field”.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Regatta Information {{!}} JUSTICE ROWING |url=https://justicerowing.org/team/regatta-days/ |access-date=2024-07-19 |language=en-US}}</ref>

One of the largest and most popular rowing regattas is the [[Henley Royal Regatta]] held on the [[River Thames]], England. One of the largest and oldest yachting regattas in the world is [[Cowes Week]], which is held annually by the [[Royal Yacht Squadron]] in [[Cowes]], England, and usually attracts over 900 sailing boats. Cowes Week is predated by the Cumberland Cup (1775), [[Port of Dartmouth Royal Regatta]] (1822) and Port of Plymouth Regatta (1823). [[North America]]'s oldest regatta is the [[Royal St. John's Regatta]] held on [[Quidi Vidi Lake]] in [[St. John's, Newfoundland]] every year since 1818.

There exist other traditional and centuries old boat races like [[Vallam kali]] of Kerala, India and [[Dragon boat race|Dragon Boat Race]] from China.

== Dragon Boat Racing ==
The 17th IDBF World Dragon Boat Racing Championships were held 14–20 July 2025 in Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany, featuring over 36 nations and approximately 5,000 athletes competing in small and standard boat categories.<ref name="IDBF2025">“Updated Race Program v2 – 17th IDBF World Dragon Boat Racing Championships, Brandenburg a.d. Havel, Germany, 14–20 July 2025,” International Dragon Boat Federation, https://www.dragonboat.sport/news/race-program-17th-idbf-world-dragon-boat-racing-championships-brandenburg-germany/ (accessed 31 July 2025).</ref>

==Rowing==
[[File:Eights_at_Head_of_the_Schuylkill.jpg|thumb|The [[Head of the Schuylkill Regatta]]]]
[[File:Rowing,_Lucien_Davis,_1898.jpg|thumb|''Rowing'', by Lucien Davis, 1898.]]
{{see also|Head race}}

=== World Rowing Federation championship events ===

* [[World Rowing Cup]]
* [[World Rowing Championships]]
* [[World Rowing Junior Championships]]
* [[World Rowing Under 23 Championships]]
* [[European Rowing Championships]]

=== North America ===

==== United States ====

* [[American Henley Regatta]], first world championships in the United States
* [[Dad Vail Regatta]], [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]], championships for college clubs
*The [[Harvard–Yale Regatta]] – also known as 'The Race'
* [[Head of the Charles Regatta]], on the [[Charles River]] between [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] and [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]]
* [[Head of the Hooch]], on the [[Tennessee River]] in [[Chattanooga, Tennessee]]
* [[Intercollegiate Rowing Association]] National Championships, college championships for men and lightweight women
* [[Marathon Rowing Championship]] a continuous {{convert|42.195|km|mi|adj=on}} rowing regatta on [[Cane River Lake]] in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana]]
* [[New England Interscholastic Rowing Association]] Championships
* [[Poughkeepsie Regatta]] was an historical regatta that hosted the [[Intercollegiate Rowing Association|IRA]] National Championship from 1895 until 1949.
* [[Scholastic Rowing Association of America]] Championships
* [[USRowing National Championships]]
*The [[Windermere Cup]] - between the [[University of Washington]] and one or several challengers of their choice
*[[San Diego Crew Classic]] - [[Mission Bay (San Diego)|Mission Bay]], [[San Diego]], [[California]]. Founded in 1973, it is the inaugural race of the rowing season among rowers of all genders, levels, and abilities.

==== Canada ====

* [[The Brentwood Regatta]] is held in the spring and is one of the largest high school rowing regattas on the west coast of [[North America]].
* [[Royal Canadian Henley Regatta]], in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, in the first week of August is one of the largest annual regattas in North America, attracting hundreds of clubs in 128 junior, senior, and master's events.
* [[Royal St. John's Regatta]], held every year on [[Quidi Vidi Lake]] in [[St. John's, Newfoundland]], North America's oldest annual sporting event.
* [[Dominion Day Regatta]], held every year since 1884 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The oldest and largest combined paddling and rowing regatta for participants across North America.

=== Europe ===

==== United Kingdom ====

* [[Rowing on the River Thames|Regattas on the River Thames]] lists all Thames rowing regattas and other rowing events
* [[The Boat Race]] is a [[Rowing (sport)|rowing]] race between the [[Oxford University Boat Club]] and the [[Cambridge University Boat Club]]. It is rowed annually each Spring on the Thames in [[London]].
* [[Henley Royal Regatta]], held every year on the [[River Thames]] is one of several prestigious British events
* [[Lent Bumps|Lent]] and [[May Bumps]], the two main intercollegiate bumps races of the [[University of Cambridge]], held on the Cam.
* [[The National Schools Regatta]] is the largest regatta for junior rowers in Great Britain
* [[The Boat Race of the North]] – between the University of Durham and the University of Newcastle
* [[Port of Dartmouth Royal Regatta]], held annually at the end of August on the [[River Dart]].
* [[Summer Eights]], along with [[Torpids]], the two intercollegiate bumps races of [[Oxford University]], held on the Isis in Oxford.
* [[The Welsh Boat Race]] is a [[Rowing (sport)|rowing]] race between the [[Swansea University Rowing Club]] and the Cardiff University Boat Club. It is rowed annually each Spring on the [[Taff River]] or the [[River Tawe]] in [[South Wales]].
* The [[Exeter#Sport|City of Exeter Rowing Regatta]], the oldest rowing regatta in the South West, is held annually in [[Exeter]] in July.

==== Continental Europe ====

* [[Regatta of the Historical Marine Republics|Regata delle Antiche Repubbliche Marinare]], [[Italy]]
* [[The Croco's Cup]], international rowing regatta at University level held every year in Paris since 1985, organised by students of [[ENSTA]] (Paristech).
* [[Tour du Lac]], around the lake Geneva is the 160 km (99 mi) the longest non-stop rowing regatta in the world.
* [[Kontxako Bandera]], rowing regatta in [[San Sebastian|Donostia-San Sebastian]], [[Basque Country (autonomous community)|Basque Country]].
* [[Vienna Nightrow]] is an international sprint rowing regatta for eights in Austria at night.
* The [[:hu:Dunai Regatta?wprov=sfti1|Danube Regatta / Dunai Regatta]] Hungary's largest university rowing race, held annually on the [[Danube]] in [[Budapest]].
* [[Balaton Regatta]], held every year on the Lake Balaton between the teams of Veszprém Campus and Keszthely Campus of University of Pannonia
* [[Maltese National Regatta]], held bi-annually on 31 March and 8 September in the [[Grand Harbour]], [[Valletta]]
* [[Varsity (rowing regatta)|Varsity]], student race held annually on the Amsterdam-Rhine canal over 3 km (1.85 mi).
* Koninklijke {{ill|Holland Beker|nl}}, held annually on the [[Bosbaan]] in the single sculls.
*[[Dragon boat|Dragon boat racing]] – a type of human-powered watercraft racing, originating from oriental Asia
*[[Canoe racing]] – competitive forms of [[canoe]]ing and [[kayak]]ing
**[[Kayak racing]]
**[[Outrigger canoe racing]]

== Sailing ==
Sailing race events are typically held for a single [[one design]] class and usually last more than one day. Regattas may be hosted by a [[yacht club]], sailing association, town or school as in the case of the UK's National School Sailing Association and [[Interscholastic Sailing Association]] (high school) regattas or [[Intercollegiate Sailing Association]] (college) regattas.

The [[Barcolana regatta]] of the yacht club Società Velica di Barcola e Grignano is currently the Guinness world record holder as the "largest sailing race" with 2,689 boats and over 16,000 sailors at the starting line.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sail-world.com/news/218597/Barcolana-the-largest-regatta-in-the-world |title=Barcolana, the largest regatta in the world is presented in London |date=14 Jun 2019 |website=Sail-World}}</ref> Currently, The Three Bridge Fiasco, conducted by the Singlehanded Sailing Society of San Francisco Bay with more than 350 competitors is the largest sailboat race in the United States.

=== Types ===
*[[Yacht racing]] – the sport of competitive [[yachting]]
**[[Team racing]] – also known as teams racing, is a popular form of [[yacht]] racing
* 2025 ISAF Team Racing World Championship: Hosted 28 May–1 June 2025 by the New York Yacht Club in Newport, using a new 2-v-2 keelboat format.<ref name="TeamRace2025">“2025 Team Racing World Championship,” New York Yacht Club, https://nyyc.org/2025-team-race-world-championship (accessed 1 August 2025).</ref>
* 2025 29er World Championship: Held 1–8 August 2025 in Porto, Portugal, with over 250 two-person dinghy teams.<ref name="29er2025">“2025 29er World Championship,” 29er Class Association, [insert official 29er Worlds link here] (accessed 1 August 2025).</ref>

=== Oldest sailing regattas ===
[[File:Britannia_Yacht_Club_regatta_1895.jpg|right|thumb|[[Britannia Yacht Club|Britannia Boating Club]] Regatta 1895]]

* 1775 – Cumberland Cup, organised by the [[Royal Thames Yacht Club]], UK
* 1777 – Lough Ree Regatta, organised by Athlone Yacht Club, Ireland.
* 1792 – Whitstable Regatta UK
* 1822 – [[Port of Dartmouth Royal Regatta]], [[Dartmouth, Devon|Dartmouth]], UK
* 1823 – Port of Plymouth Regatta, [[Plymouth]], UK
* 1826 – [[Cowes Week]], [[Isle of Wight]], UK
* 1828 – Kingstown Regatta, (now renamed Dún Laoghaire), Ireland<ref>Hunts Yachting Magazine 1865</ref>
* 1828 – Royal Harwich Regatta, [[Harwich]], UK
* 1834 – Lough Derg Regatta, at Killaloe, Williamstown and Drumineer, Ireland.<ref>Leinster Express, 30 August 1834</ref>
* 1837 – [[Sydney]] Australia Day Regatta, held every year since 1837, the longest running without a break
* 1838 – [[Royal Hobart Regatta]], Australia
* 1840 – [[Auckland Anniversary Regatta]], New Zealand
* 1844 – Royal Geelong Regatta / Audi Victoria Week, [[Royal Geelong Yacht Club]], Australia
* 1845 – [[New York Yacht Club]] Regatta, United States
* 1849 – [[Pass Christian]] Regatta Club on July 21, 1849; twelve boats participated. First regatta on the U.S. Gulf Coast
* 1849 – Sandy Bay Australia Day Regatta Australia
* 1850 – [[Race to the Coast]], [[Southern Yacht Club]] Regatta. Oldest continuously running regatta in the Western Hemisphere United States
* 1851 – [[America's Cup]], usually competed for in the country of the current defender/holder
* 1851 – Port Esperance Regatta, Australia
* 1856 – Chester Race Week,<ref>{{Cite book|last=Sapp|first=Claudette Gaudet|title=Sailor & Rattling Teacups: A History of the Chester Yacht Club}}</ref> Nova Scotia, Canada
* 1857 – Gorey Regatta, Jersey, Channel Islands
* 1879 – [[Kontxako Bandera]], [[Donostia|Donostia-San Sebastian]], Basque Country
* 1882 – [[Kiel Week]], [[Kiel]], Germany
* 1885 – Appledore & Instow Regatta, North Devon, UK
* 1886 – Torbay Royal Regatta, [[Torbay]], UK
* 1894 – [[Britannia Yacht Club|Britannia Boating Club]], [[Ottawa, Ontario]], Canada
*1934 – The [[Blue Ribbon Round the Lake Balaton Race|Kékszalag/Blue Ribbon]], Europe's oldest Round-the-Lake Regatta held annually on [[Lake Balaton]], Hungary.

=== Current sailing regattas ===

* [[Aegean Rally]], [[Aegean Sea]], [[Greece]]
* [[America's Cup]], hosted by prior winner
* The Athlone Yacht Club Regatta on Lough Ree, Ireland<ref>Athlone Sentinel, 31 Aug. 1835</ref>
* [[Appledore & Instow Regatta]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Appledore & Instow Regatta|url=http://www.appledoreinstowregatta.org.uk|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160913171140/http://www.appledoreinstowregatta.org.uk/|archive-date=13 September 2016|access-date=22 August 2016}}</ref> – founded in 1885, tracing its origins back to 1831, is held annually on the River Torridge between the Villages of Appledore & Instow North Devon, UK.
* [[Auckland Anniversary Regatta]] held annually on the [[Waitematā Harbour|Waitemata Harbour]] to celebrate [[Auckland Anniversary Day]]
* [[Balmain Sailing Club|Balmain Regatta]] held annually on [[Port Jackson|Sydney Harbour]], Australia
* [[Barcolana regatta|Barcolana Autumn Cup Regatta]], one of the largest single start sailing regattas in the world,<ref>{{cite web|title=Barcolana record falls, Esimit Europa 2 leads fleet of 1852 in the world's largest single start regatta|url=http://www.thedailysail.com/inshore/10/56825/0/barcolana-report|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160807041851/http://www.thedailysail.com/inshore/10/56825/0/barcolana-report|archive-date=2016-08-07|access-date=2016-06-04|publisher=TheDailySail}}</ref> held annually on the second Sunday of October in [[Trieste]], Italy
* Bass Week, [[Bassenthwaite Lake]], [[Cumbria]]
* [[Bay Week]], [[Put-in-Bay, Ohio]]
* [[Block Island#/Annual events|Block Island Race Week]], [[Rhode Island]]
* The [[Blue Ribbon Round the Lake Balaton Race|Kékszalag/Blue Ribbon]], Europe's oldest Round-the-Lake Regatta held annually on [[Lake Balaton]], Hungary.
* [[Canada's Cup]], held periodically on the Great Lakes.
* [[Canadian Olympic-training Regatta, Kingston]] (CORK) held annually in August in [[Kingston, Ontario]] Canada.
* Carriacou Regatta Festival, Hillsborough, Carriacou, Grenada. W.I. - First weekend in August each year.
* [[CASON Grand Prize Solo Regatta]], [[Lake Balaton]], Hungary, held annually in September.
* [[Charleston Race Week]], [[Charleston, South Carolina|Charleston]], South Carolina, held each April for three days, with races staged both in Charleston Harbor and offshore.
* Chester Race Week, Chester, Nova Scotia, Canada, 15 keelboat fleets race for 4 full days on 5 courses in mid-August on Mahone Bay
* [[Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac]], held annually in July, starting in Chicago on Lake Michigan and ending at Mackinac Island on Lake Huron.
* Columbus Day Regatta, Miami, Florida, annually in October.
* [[Chichester-Cowes Challenge]], held annually at the end of June on the [[Solent]], and welcomes only classic wooden boats, mainly built in the 1920s–1930s.<ref>http://www.yachtregatta.co.uk {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130504224303/http://yachtregatta.co.uk/|date=2013-05-04}}</ref>
*The [[Clipper Round the World Yacht Race]]
* [[Cork Week]], Cork, Ireland. Hosted by the Royal Cork Yacht Club bi-annually.
* [[Cowes Week]], Royal Yacht Squadron, England
* [[Dún Laoghaire Regatta]], Ireland, combined Dún Laoghaire Yacht Clubs, held Biannually.
* [[Færderseilasen]], Royal Norwegian Yacht Club (KNS), from [[Oslo]] to [[Horten]] via Færder lighthouse.
*The [[Fastnet Race]]
* [[Figawi|Figawi Race]], [[Hyannis, Massachusetts]]
* [[Fowey Royal Regatta]], [[Fowey]] [[Cornwall]] annually in August<ref>{{cite web|title=FOWEY ROYAL REGATTA 2015 | RED ARROWS, CARNIVAL, FIREWORKS, GIANT PASTY & SO MUCH MORE!|url=http://www.foweyroyalregatta.co.uk|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160125022737/http://www.foweyroyalregatta.co.uk/|archive-date=2016-01-25|access-date=2016-01-18|publisher=Foweyroyalregatta.co.uk}}</ref>
* Hangon Regatta, an annual event in the city of [[Hanko, Finland|Hanko]], [[Finland]], infamous for attracting large groups of partying youths with a tangential interest in the sailing itself
* [[Harvest Moon Regatta]], [[Lakewood Yacht Club]] in Seabrook Texas hosts cruisers regatta during full moon in October each year from Galveston to Port Aransas<ref>HarvestMoonRegatta.com</ref>
* [[Kamer 2 Sailing Marathon]], [[Kaag]], [[Netherlands]], annually in September
* [[Key West Race Week]], [[Key West, Florida]]
* Kékszalag, Balatonfüred, Hungary annually in July
* [[Kiel Week]], [[Kiel]]/Germany - the largest sailing event in the world
* [[Lake Ontario 300]], [[Port Credit, Ontario]] - the longest fresh-water sailboat race in the world, held annually in July
* [[Larchmont Race Week]], [[Larchmont Yacht Club]], New York
* [[Lighthouse Regatta]], Lake Hefner hosted by the Oklahoma City Boat Club
* [[Long Beach Race Week]], [[Long Beach, California]]
* [[Louis Vuitton Trophy]], a world series of regattas, multiple locations
* [[Lysekil Women's Match]], Lysekil, Sweden, annually in August
* Mardi Gras Race Week, [[New Orleans Yacht Club]], large One Design regatta held on [[Lake Pontchartrain]]
* [[MidsummerSail]], annual sailing regatta from the southernmost to the northernmost point of the Baltic Sea
* [[Monsoon regatta]] Monsoon Regatta India
* [[Mrduja Regatta]], an annual regatta held in the city of [[Split, Croatia]]
* [[National Offshore One Design]] (NOOD)
* New World Regatta, held every year between the ports of Koper, Slovenia and Baltimore, Maryland.
* [[Port Huron to Mackinac Boat Race]], Mighigan
* [[Port of Dartmouth Royal Regatta]], held annually at the end of August over three days on the [[River Dart]].
* [[Race to the Coast]], [[Southern Yacht Club]], [[New Orleans, Louisiana]] to [[Gulfport, Mississippi]]
* [[Regatta Vava'u]] held annually in Vava'u, Kingdom of Tonga in September
* Rotary Club of Sydney Cove Charity Regatta held annually since 1995 on the second Friday of November at the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia
* [[Round Texel]], [[Texel]], Netherlands, annually in June
* [[Sail Melbourne]], Held annually on Melbourne's Port Phillip Bay
* [[Sawadee.com Regatta Samui, Thailand]], Annually on the island of Koh Samui, Thailand in June
* [[Sint Maarten Classic Yacht Regatta]], [[Sint Maarten]], held last weekend of March
* [[Sint Maarten Heineken Regatta]], [[Sint Maarten]], annually in March
* [[Sugar Bowl Regatta]], [[New Orleans Yacht Club]], [[New Orleans, Louisiana]]
* [[Tall Ships Race]]
* [[Tjörn Runt]], [[Tjörn]], Sweden, annually in August
* [[Travemünde Week]], [[Travemünde]], Germany, annually in July
* United Sailing Week, Croatia. The biggest sailing regatta and yachting event in Croatia. 50 boats in 4 classes and 500 participants.
*The [[Velux 5 Oceans Race]] – a round-the-world, staged, [[Single-handed sailing|single-handed]] yacht race; originally known as the 'BOC Challenge', and then the 'Around Alone'
*The [[Vendee Globe]] – a round-the-world, non-stop, [[Single-handed sailing|single-handed]] yacht race
* [[Vintage Yachting Games]], each time in another country first in [[2008 Vintage Yachting Games|2008, Medemblik, The Netherlands]] since then every four years. [[2012 Vintage Yachting Games|2012 Lake Como Italy]]
* [[Voiles de Saint-Tropez]], [[Saint-Tropez]], France, annually in October
*The [[Volvo Ocean Race]]
* Washington's Birthday Regatta, at the [[Barnacle Historic State Park]], [[Coconut Grove]], [[Florida]], annually in February
* [[West Highland Yachting Week]], [[Oban, W Coast Scotland]]
* Whale of a Sail, Carlyle Sailing Association, Carlyle, IL
* [[Whiskeytown Regatta]], Whiskeytown Lake—Redding, CA
* [[Youngstown Levels]], [[Youngstown, New York]]
* [[Chichester Biarritz Challenge]], [[Chichester]], England, to [[Biarritz]], France, annually in April.<ref>{{cite web|title=IYRL International Yacht Regatta Limited|url=http://www.yachtregatta.co.uk/regattas.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103072845/http://www.yachtregatta.co.uk/regattas.html|archive-date=2013-11-03|access-date=2013-11-01}}</ref>

=== School sailing regattas ===

* [[Mallory Cup]], United States high school sailing national championships.
* Nixor College, the first college in Pakistan to launch a 'RAFT' regatta for team building.
* [[Royal College Colombo]] and [[S. Thomas' College, Mt. Lavinia]], Oldest Regatta in Sri Lanka. ([[Royal Thomian Regatta]])
* [[Sywoc]], the Student Yachting World Cup organized by the students of the [[École Polytechnique]].
* The NSSA National Youth Regatta is the largest dinghy sailing regatta and the largest youth sailing regatta in the UK. Due to its size the NYR visits a new location each year alternating between coastal and inland venues. Previous years venues include Bridlington (North Yorkshire), Datchet Sailing Club (West London) Plymouth (Devon), Redcar (North East England), Deal (Kent), Grafham Water (Cambridgeshire), Weymouth (Dorset) to name just a few.

=== University / college sailing regattas ===

* [[Charleston Open]], [[College of Charleston]]
* Fisher Hall Regatta, [[University of Notre Dame]]
* [[Intercollegiate Sailing Association National Championships]], various locations
* [[Kennedy Cup]], [[US Naval Academy]]
* [[The Roth Regatta]], Roth Pond, [[State University of New York at Stony Brook]]
* The Regent Regatta, Regent Pond, [[Regent University]]
* The CoEP Regatta, Mula River, [[College of Engineering, Pune]] - Held annually in March (since 1928), one of the oldest and most celebrated regattas in India
* Mustang Open Regatta, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

==Motorboat racing==
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[[File:ISS013-E-48021.jpg|thumb|A boat race seen from the International Space Station, 2006]]
*[[24 Heures Motonautiques de Rouen]] – a [[Endurance racing (motorsport)#Motorboat endurance racing|24-hour]] circuit boat race in Rouen, France
*[[Archer eade memorial]] – an unlimited outboard race consisting of six laps
*[[APBA Gold Cup]] – an unlimited hydroplane race in the [[H1 Unlimited]] series. It is the oldest trophy in motorsports.
*[[Inshore powerboat racing]] – and within this category, the [[F1 Powerboat World Championship]]
*[[Offshore powerboat racing]] – racing by large, specially designed [[ocean-going]] [[powerboat]]s promoted by Offshore Racing Organization
*[[XCAT Racing]] – a sport involving [[Catamaran|Extreme Catamarans]] or XCATs; XCAT Racing is promoted by the [[World Professional Powerboating Association]] (WPPA) and governed by the [[Union Internationale Motonautique]] (UIM)<ref>[http://www.uimpowerboating.com/contracted-promoters/world-professional-powerboating-association/ World Professional Powerboating Association] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160508121609/http://www.uimpowerboating.com/contracted-promoters/world-professional-powerboating-association/ |date=May 8, 2016 }}, UIM</ref>
*[[Drag boat racing]] – a form of drag racing which takes place on water rather than land
*[[Hydroplane racing]] – a sport involving racing hydroplanes on lakes and rivers
*[[Jet sprint boat racing]]
*[[Swamp buggy#Swamp buggy racing|Swamp buggy racing]] – although not technically classed as boats, these specialist craft race tri-annually on swampy area circuits in the Florida region
*[[Bathtub racing]]

== Other notable regattas and boat races ==

* [[Stuart Sailfish Regatta]], Stuart, FL. Boat classes; Jersey Skiffs, Inboard and outboard Hydroplanes, Grand Prix Series
* [[Darwin Beer Can Regatta|Beer Can Regatta]], boats made from aluminium cans in Darwin, NT, Australia.
* [[Madison Regatta]], Madison, Indiana. ([[Hydroplane (boat)|hydroplanes]])
* Kingston Multi-Hull Regatta, Kingston, Ontario ([[multihull]] [[sailboats]] and [[sailing hydrofoil]]s)
* [[Henley-on-Todd Regatta]] - an Australian dry-land event.
* Hidden Lake Regatta, Columbus, Ohio. Sponsored in July each year by the Hidden Lake Yacht Club, featuring 8 non-motorized divisions.
*[[Musi Triboatton]] – an annually occurring international boat race across more than 500 km of [[Musi River (Indonesia)|Musi River]] in [[South Sumatra]], [[Indonesia]]
* [[Royal Hobart Regatta]] - a multiple event 3 day regatta in Tasmania, Australia.
*The [[Nehru Trophy Boat Race]] – One of the traditional [[Chundan vallam|Snake Boat]] Races ([[Vallam kali]]) that takes place in [[Alappuzha|Alleppey]], Kerala, India
* [[Sy Barash Regatta]] - discontinued event at [[Penn State]]
* [[Worrell 1000]], between [[South Beach, Florida|South Beach]] and [[Virginia Beach, Virginia]]
* [[Toronto International Dragon Boat Race Festival]], Toronto, Ontario
* [[Drina Regatta]] is the most visited tourist and recreation manifestation and the central event in the Western [[Serbia]]
* The [[826LA]] Paddle Boat Regatta, Los Angeles, CA (paddle boats)

==Race format types==
*[[Kyōtei]] – [[parimutuel]] boat racing in [[Japan]], referred to as "BOAT RACE"
*[[Match race]] – a race between two competitors, going head-to-head

==See also==
*[[Boat race (disambiguation)]]
*[[Rowing at the Summer Olympics]] and [[Sailing at the Summer Olympics]], often collectively referred to as the Olympic Regatta.
*[[Cowes Week]]
*[[:Category:Sailing competitions]]

==References==
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==External links==
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