The Match des Quatre Nations 1953 was a

    rowing contest between BEL, FRA, ITA,

                        and SUI

It was the Belgian Federation of Rowing Clubs 

that took the initiative to found FISA. On the

21st July 1891 it proposed the setting up of

an international union of rowing clubs at a

congress at Brussels. The congress members

agreed to define the amateur oarsman and

decided to meet again at Turin in the following 

year to draw up an international racing code.

FISA's birthday is the 25th June 1892.