The format of the Beach Sprint is to race two boats at a time over a short sprint course which starts from a fixed position, navigates around several buoys and has a short, hard sprint finish to the Beach, followed by a run up the beach to the finish line. The winner is the first rower to reach the finish line on the beach. Each race is expected to last less than 4 minutes (distance around 450 metres) and will be high-energy, high excitement.