On Saturday, a gusty head wind made average rowing speed in the eight races only 92.5% of World Best Time (WBT), with the slowest speed being 89.6% in M2- and the fastest M4x at 94.2%. On Sunday, much calmer weather allowed faster speeds in the six races with an average of 97.9% of WBT, with the fastest being W1x at 98.5% and the slowest M2x at 97.4%. The weather made this Worlds the sixth slowest out of the last 30 World Championship regattas. The average speed in 13 persistent events was 4.2% slower than at the fastest Worlds in 2014, and 1.6% slower than average over the last 30 years. The linear trend line grows by 0.042%/year (after the previous Worlds in 2022, it was 0.059%, RBN 2022/09), but the non-linear trend remains negative during the last two decades. Similar to last year, the highest growth 0.12-0.16%/year was found in both eights. Then, seven events had quite similar growth about 0.04%/year. The lowest growth was in W1x, M4-, W4x with less than 0.02%/year, and M2- was the only boat currently with a negative trend of -0.027%/year. This corresponds with the slowest results of M2- winners and could be an evidence of lack of leaders in men`s pairs.
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