It is really hard to say when rowing started in Iceland because,
however incredible it is to believe, there is little if any documented
history. Between the 1930's and 1950's, a small team was doing some
training and competing at regattas in Denmark. It is safe to say
that the sport of rowing arrived in Iceland from Denmark.
Rowing in Iceland was reborn in the mid 1980's with the arrival of an ex-Italian Junior National Team rower who, working in conjunction with the Sport and Youth Council of Reykjavik and FISA, founded the Icelandic Rowing Association. With some gifts of boats from the Italian Federation, the Norwegian Federation, and the German Federation, the 20-athlete rowing club in Iceland, Brokey Rowing Club had its first boats out of which to row.
In 1995, an Icelandic junior girl won an international regatta in Denmark, the first significant international win for the Icelandic Rowing Association. Today, the Brokey club is still the only club in Iceland. Its motto is to "row, row, row and have a lot of fun!"
PERSONALITIES
Leone Tinganelli : Founder of the modern Icelandic Rowing Association, and Brokey Rowing Club.
Anna Lára Steingrimsdottir : Placed twelfth at the 1995 Junior World Championships in Poland in the single scull and thirteenth in lightweight single scull in the 1996 World Championships in Scotland.
Ármann K. Jonsson : He was nineteenth in the lightweight single at the 1996 World Championships in Scotland and eighteenth in the lightweight single at the 1997 World Championships in France.
REGIONS
DID YOU KNOW?
Southwest region of Iceland : Where Reykjavik is situated, is mostly windy all the year and the average temperature is -5C to 5C in the winter time. In summer the temperature is around 10C to 15C; there can be a lot of rain.
Northwest region : Generally the same as the southwest part, but there is more snow in the winter time.
North region : Colder then southwest in the winter time, but the
summer generally is much better; if there is sun and the wind blows from the
south the temperature can go up to 30C.
East Region : Similar to the North.
South Region : Very windy with a lot of rain and the average temperature is similar to the southwest part.
The best time of the year to visit Iceland is from the second half of May until the first half of July. Iceland, however, can have rapidly changing weather. Bad weather can happen in June, while August and September can have great weather.
