Entries open

Any RowErg is the start line.

24 October to 1 November 2026. One entry unlocks every event: four core races, three challenges, two relays, and unlimited attempts across all nine days.

Every entry gets a number, a place on the national board, and nine days to make both better.

The one thing to understand first

One entry. Everything unlocked. Nine days to use it.

Every event, one entry.

Most competitions charge you per race. AIRO26 doesn't. One entry covers all four core events, all three AIRO Challenges, both relays, and your AIRC eligibility. There's no per-event fee and no extra charge to chase a championship title.

Nine days, not one shot.

You're not racing once and hoping. The event runs for nine days, and you can attempt anything as many times as you like. Only your best valid result counts on the leaderboard. Every legitimate attempt still adds to your Total Metres, even the ones that don't count as your best.

How it works

Four steps, start to finish.

Enter once
Register once and unlock every AIRO26 event.
Row anywhere
Row on any Concept2 RowErg, wherever you are.
Submit your result
Read How to submit for the individual result routes: the Row Nation app connected to your PM5, a PM5 photo, or an ErgRace import handled by Row Nation support. ErgRace imports cover distance events. For The Power Minute and the 4-Minute Endurance, submit in the app or with a PM5 photo. For a photo submission, open the PM5 memory/detail screen for your completed event and photograph the whole screen clearly, with the result and verification code visible. Your official result is the total on the summary row. Enter your seven-character competitor code on the submission form. One crew member submits the single crew result: in the app with the PM5 connected, or with a photo of the PM5 memory screen.
See it on the board
Your result lands on the leaderboard.

Top-3 finishers verify with the PM5 verification code and a clear PM5 memory-screen photo showing the result and code. No video is needed for top-3 verification. Anyone claiming a Concept2 record must follow Concept2's own record-claim requirements.

Four core events

Build your stack.

Attempt each event as often as you like. Your best valid result counts, and every legitimate repeat attempt still adds to Total Metres.

AIRC championship titles are decided on these four events and the sprint relay.

011 minute

The Power Minute

Maximum metres. One minute. Nothing left.

The Stack

Race all four, build your Stack.

Every performance gets an age- and gender-adjusted score. That's what lets athletes of different ages and genders compare their whole body of work, not just one race.

Raw resultAdjusted for ageAdjusted for genderYour score

Improve any event and your Stack grows. Complete all four and your Stack is whole.

Complete all four core events with checked, published results inside the nine days to be a verified Stack completer and enter the Concept2 RowErg draw, shipped by Concept2 Australia. Limited Stack shirts are free. You pay postage. We post to Australian addresses only, after the event closes.

Draw terms

Full rules and information

1 MIN500M1K2K

Optional, and worth it

More ways to compete.

The four core events are the event. Everything here is extra, and everything here still counts towards your Total Metres.

4-Minute Endurance

Four minutes. Maximum metres. Your score is however far you get before the clock stops.

Each challenge can be attempted multiple times. Your best valid performance counts on its leaderboard, and every legitimate metre still counts towards Total Metres. Every relay athlete races on their own entry.

Do the lot

Complete all four core events, all three challenges and both relays to do The Lot: all nine AIRO26 events.

The Lot is a recognition, not a score, ranking, medal, badge or prize.

Every metre counts

Race for more than yourself.

Every legitimate metre you row travels further than your own leaderboard entry.

AthleteTeamAffiliationAIRO26

Choose one affiliation: a rowing club, school, gym, workplace or other participating organisation. You can also register independently. Inside an affiliation you can also join one team, such as a school house, a squad or a department, whatever grouping makes sense for you.

You can edit your entry, including your affiliation, until the end of Friday 23 October AEDT. After that, contact support. School entrants: ask your school's team manager.

Every metre you row rolls up the chain: you, then your team, then your affiliation, then the AIRO26 Total Metres tally. Row independently and your metres still count for you and for AIRO26's Total Metres, just not for a team or affiliation total.

Affiliation competition

Three games. Three ways to win.

Your affiliation competes on three boards at once: volume, performance and completion. A small club with sharp athletes can out-stack a giant.

Total Metres

Every metre from every member rolls into your affiliation's tally. The biggest engine wins.

Affiliation Stack

Your affiliation's best adjusted score in each of the four core events, stacked into one total. A better result takes the slot automatically.

Stack Finishers

How many of your members complete all four core events. Every finisher counts.

A category for every rower. One board for everyone.

Whoever you are, there's a category built for exactly where you are, from your first stroke at fourteen to your fiftieth race at seventy-five. Every result is age and gender adjusted, so your best valid result counts on the same board as everyone else's.

Juniors & Schools

You're fourteen, and there's already a bracket with your name on it, whether you're entering solo or as your whole class.

U14 · U16 · U19

Divisions run U14, U16 and U19, each male and female; junior pricing applies to U19 and under as at 31 December 2026.

U14U16U19

Under 23

If you've aged out of juniors but you're still building toward your peak, this is your bracket.

U23

U23 runs as its own division, male and female, above juniors and below Open.

U23

Open

You don't need a rowing background, just an engine and a result you're proud of: that's Open.

23–29 · 30–39

Open splits into two bands, 23–29 and 30–39, each with male and female divisions.

Open 23-29Open 30-39

Masters

Every five years earns its own grade, all the way to 85 and over, so you're always racing people genuinely your age.

40–44 to 85+, five-year grades

Masters runs in five-year grades from 40–44 through to 85 and over, male and female at every grade.

40-4445-4950-5455-5960-6465-6970-7475-7980-8485+

Lightweight

Lightweight entrants aged 19 or over must submit a weigh-in with a scale photo, weighed within 72 hours before submitting.

Men 75kg and under · Women 61.5kg and under · 19+

Lightweight is 75kg or under for men and 61.5kg or under for women. One approved weigh-in covers all attempts. Until approval, results show in Open. Weigh-in submission opens at 00:00 Sydney time on 24 October.

Open (LW)Masters grades (LW)

Para

PR1, PR2 or PR3: your classification is the category. It's not filed under someone else's division.

PR1 · PR2 · PR3

Para racing runs PR1, PR2 and PR3, crossed with gender and age. PR1 is arms and shoulders. PR2 is trunk and arms on a fixed seat. PR3 is legs, trunk and arms on a sliding seat, covering ID, PD and VI classes. Athletes may compete up a class, never down.

PR1PR2PR3-IDPR3-PDPR3-VI

Relays

Race as four: your club, your class, your squad or your crew. Same divisions, one shared result.

Male · Female · Mixed · age-graded

Each athlete registers individually. One athlete starts the crew using the other three athletes' competitor codes. The four athletes race together on one erg in one continuous piece. One crew member submits the single crew result: in the app with the PM5 connected, or with a photo of the PM5 memory screen. Link your entry in the app first and check all four crew members. Relay results cannot be submitted through ErgRace. Your team's division is worked out automatically. Relays follow the same age and gender divisions as individual racing. Gender is set by the team: four men race Male, four women race Female, and a team with up to two men races Mixed; any other combination defaults to the harder category. Junior relay age is set by the oldest team member; Masters teams need at least three athletes 40 or over and a team average of 40 plus; Open teams grade by average age. Schools and clubs can enter numbered teams, like U16 1 and U16 2. There is no lightweight relay division.

MaleFemaleMixedU14–U23OpenMasters

Fair fields

Where a category draws too few entries, it may be combined with its neighbour so nobody races alone. Adjusted scoring still places every best valid result on the one national board.

AIRO is the game. AIRC is the championship inside it.

Every athlete competes through the same AIRO26 event system. Australian residents who also meet the AIRC verification standard can compete for Australian Indoor Rowing Championship titles inside that same event.

There's no separate championship to enter and no additional AIRC fee. If your result meets the championship standard and you complete the applicable verification process, it can become AIRC Verified.

Verification

Most entrants just log a score.

Official AIRC Hubs are approved public venues; schools, clubs, gyms and workplaces can also run private cohort sessions.

Results are also checked against Concept2 Australian and World records for every event distance. Row inside one and we'll flag it and point you straight at Concept2's record claim process.

If you're chasing a 2K record, follow Concept2's Online 2K Requirements, which include a video. Row with the Concept2 ErgData app or the Row Nation app, linked to your Concept2 Logbook, so Concept2 has your stroke-by-stroke data to check against the video (if your hub races you on ErgRace, you don't need either app, but you still need the video).

One entry unlocks the event

Choose your start line.

All prices include GST. Registration stays open for the whole nine-day window: enter before the event starts and you pay the standard rate; enter after it's begun and a late fee applies. That's a late fee for entering late, not a discount you missed by waiting.

Adult, pre-event$30Rises to $35 once the event starts.

Junior, pre-event$20Rises to $25 once the event starts. Junior means U19 and under at 31 December 2026.

What entry includes

One entry gets you all four core events with unlimited attempts, your Stack, Total Metres, all three AIRO Challenges, both relays, individual leaderboards, team and affiliation competition, live event activity, personalised progress insights, and AIRC eligibility where you qualify. There's no per-event fee and no extra charge for the championship. An individual hub may still charge its own local venue or session fee. That's the hub's, not AIRO26's.

School Activation Licence

A licence is a block of seats a school buys once, on one invoice. Students then enter free with the school's activation code and every metre counts for the school.

School licences are open. Set up your school's licence.Enter AIRO26

Ready when you are.

You don't need to wait for race day. The start line is whichever RowErg you're already standing next to.

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Concept2 RowErg draw: terms

Promoter: Row Nation Pty Ltd (ABN 80 651 087 035). Prize: one Concept2 RowErg.
Who's in: verified Stack completers. That means all four core events (1 minute, 500m, 1K, 2K) with checked, published results between 24 October and 1 November 2026.
One entry per verified Stack completer. The draw happens once results are finalised, by Friday 13 November 2026.
We contact the winner by the email on their entry. They have 14 days to reply, or we redraw.
Concept2 Australia ships the RowErg direct to the winner, who supplies delivery details with consent. Australian addresses only.
No cash alternative. The prize can't be transferred.
We announce the winner by first name and last initial, with their consent.
Row Nation staff and their immediate families can't enter. Under-18 winners receive the prize through a parent or guardian.
Questions: info@rownation.co