Hosting the Australian Masters event in just 10 weeks time during May, the event will return again in 2028 but the cherry on top will be the national open championships held in March next year.

With the major event returning for the first time since 2009, Rowing Australia chief executive Ian Robson, who was born in Tasmania, described the state as "the core of rowing in the country."

"You only need to go to the history books and look at the story of athletes who have come through this sport," he said.

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"If you look at the more contemporary nature of where we sit today with three Tasmanian athletes in our women's national training centre, an iconic venue like Lake Barrington, surging programs within the schools and healthy clubs ... it became clear and important to get the national championships back out on the road."

With the three events expected to attract 10,000 visitors and inject $14 million into the Tasmanian economy, the long-term, $1.3 million commitment will see Lake Barrington receive upgrades to further add to its reputation.

Hosting the 1990 world championships, the final event where both West and East Germany competed in any sport, the course has its fair share of admirers.

"Having travelled a little bit with the [Australian] team overseas, when you talk to people from other parts of the world and talk about rowing in Australia, they talk about Sydney Olympics and they talk about 1990 at Barrington, so it genuinely is an iconic venue.

"It's up there with Lucerne [in Switzerland] in terms of natural venues. Penrith and Champion Lakes are both man-made venues and have great qualities and attributes of themselves but this is going to be a special experience for many athletes."

Bursting back into the national spotlight as the state hosted the national rowing team last month during the mainland bushfire crisis, Rowing Tasmania president Jim Gibson also stressed the importance of the upcoming events.

"This agreement between the Tasmanian government, Rowing Australia and ourselves being a part of it, is very important because now we get back the major event of Australian rowing," he said.

"A whole new generation of rowers seeing Tasmania and what we have to offer, not just as a tourist state but our magnificent Lake Barrington rowing course.

"Another great advantage is for our kids who row, it's a lot of expenses to go to the nationals every year so it now means they can prepare to row at the Australian championships in Tasmania without the expense of this."

This weekend, the course will play host to the Tasmanian state club championships with 450 athletes racing from 13 clubs and 8 schools across 114 events.

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