The 2026 Chengdu Open Rowing Regatta is set to kick off on Oct 1 in Xinjin district of Chengdu, Sichuan province, drawing 35 teams from home and abroad.
The two-day event, to be held in the Xinjin urban section of the Nanhe River, is divided into university and open categories.
The university group will include six international teams—Oxford and Cambridge in the United Kingdom, Princeton and Stanford in the United States, the University of Otago in New Zealand, and McGill University in Canada—and six Chinese university teams, including Peking University and Tsinghua University.
