Rowing at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Rowing at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Venue	Eton Dorney
Dates	28 July–4 August
Competitors	550 from 58 nations

Rowing at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Single sculls		men		women
Coxless pair		men		women
Double sculls		men		women
Lwt double sculls		men		women
Coxless four		men
Quadruple sculls		men		women
Eight		men		women
Lwt coxless four		men

Aerial view of the venue at Dorney Lake, also known as Eton Dorney.

The starting line at Eton Dorney.

The rowing competitions at the 2012 Olympic Games in London were held from 28 July to 4 August 2012, at Dorney Lake which, for the purposes of the Games venue, was officially termed Eton Dorney. Fourteen medal events were contested by 550 athletes, 353 men and 197 women.^[1]

Great Britain was the most successful nation, topping the medal table with four golds and nine in total. New Zealand finished second with three golds and five medals overall.

Venue

All of the rowing events were staged at the Eton Dorney Rowing Centre at Dorney Lake near Windsor Castle, 25 miles (40 km) west of London.^[2] The venue has eight lanes and is 2,200 m in length with a capacity of 30,000 spectators.^[2][3]

Qualification

Each competing nation may qualify one boat for each of the fourteen events. The majority of qualification places were awarded based on results at the 2011 World Championships, held at Lake Bled, Slovenia, in August and September. Places are awarded to National Olympic Committees, not the specific athletes, finishing in the top 11 of men's events and top seven to nine of women's events, except in the eights where the first seven in the men's event and first five in the women's qualified.^[4] Further berths were allocated at three continental qualifying regattas in Africa, Asia and Latin America and a final Olympic qualification regatta in Lucerne, Switzerland.

Events

There were eight events for men and six for women. Events included categories for open weight and restricted weight (lightweight) athletes, and two styles of rowing: sweep, where competitors each use a single oar, and sculling, where they use two.

Sculling events include men's and women's singles, doubles, lightweight doubles, and quads. Sweep events are men's and women's pairs and eights, and men's fours and lightweight fours.^[5]

Schedule

H

Heats

R

Repechage

¼

Quarterfinals

½

Semifinals

F

Final

Event↓/Date →	Sat 28	Sun 29	Mon 30	Tue 31	Wed 1	Thu 2	Fri 3	Sat 4
Men's Single Sculls	H	R		¼	½		F
Men's Pair	H		R		½		F
Men's Double Sculls	H	R		½		F
Men's Lightweight Double Sculls		H		R		½		F
Men's Four			H	R		½		F
Men's Quadruple Sculls	H		R		½		F
Men's Lightweight Four	H	R		½		F
Men's Eight	H		R		F
Women's Single Sculls	H	R		¼		½		F
Women's Pair	H		R		F
Women's Double Sculls			H	R			F
Women's Lightweight Double Sculls		H		R		½		F
Women's Quadruple Sculls	H		R		F
Women's Eight		H		R		F

Lightweight double sculls gold medalists Mads Rasmussen and Rasmus Quist.

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Great Britain	4	2	3	9
2	New Zealand	3	0	2	5
3	Germany	2	1	0	3
4	Denmark	1	1	1	3
5	Czech Republic	1	1	0	2
6	United States	1	0	2	3
7	South Africa	1	0	0	1
	Ukraine	1	0	0	1
9	Australia	0	3	2	5
10	Canada	0	2	0	2
11	China	0	1	0	1
	Croatia	0	1	0	1
	France	0	1	0	1
	Italy	0	1	0	1
15	Greece	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
	Poland	0	0	1	1
	Slovenia	0	0	1	1
Total		14	14	14	42

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Single sculls	Mahé Drysdale  New Zealand	Ondřej Synek  Czech Republic	Alan Campbell  Great Britain
Double sculls	Nathan Cohen and Joseph Sullivan  New Zealand	Alessio Sartori and Romano Battisti  Italy	Luka Špik and Iztok Čop  Slovenia
Quadruple sculls	Germany (GER) Karl Schulze Philipp Wende Lauritz Schoof Tim Grohmann	Croatia (CRO) David Šain Martin Sinković Damir Martin Valent Sinković	Australia (AUS) Chris Morgan Karsten Forsterling James McRae Daniel Noonan
Coxless pair	Eric Murray and Hamish Bond  New Zealand	Germain Chardin and Dorian Mortelette  France	George Nash and William Satch  Great Britain
Coxless four	Great Britain (GBR) Alex Gregory Tom James Pete Reed Andrew Triggs-Hodge	Australia (AUS) James Chapman Joshua Dunkley-Smith Drew Ginn William Lockwood	United States (USA) Charlie Cole Scott Gault Glenn Ochal Henrik Rummel
Coxed eight	Germany (GER) Filip Adamski Andreas Kuffner Eric Johannesen Maximilian Reinelt Richard Schmidt Lukas Müller Florian Mennigen Kristof Wilke Martin Sauer	Canada (CAN) Gabriel Bergen Douglas Csima Robert Gibson Conlin McCabe Malcolm Howard Andrew Byrnes Jeremiah Brown Will Crothers Brian Price	Great Britain (GBR) Alex Partridge James Foad Tom Ransley Richard Egington Mohamed Sbihi Greg Searle Matthew Langridge Constantine Louloudis Phelan Hill
Lightweight double sculls	Mads Rasmussen and Rasmus Quist Hansen  Denmark	Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter  Great Britain	Storm Uru and Peter Taylor  New Zealand
Lightweight coxless four	South Africa (RSA) James Thompson Matthew Brittain John Smith Sizwe Ndlovu	Great Britain (GBR) Peter Chambers Rob Williams Richard Chambers Chris Bartley	Denmark (DEN) Kasper Winther Morten Jørgensen Jacob Barsoe Eskild Ebbesen

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Single sculls	Miroslava Knapkova  Czech Republic	Fie Udby Erichsen  Denmark	Kim Crow  Australia
Double sculls	Anna Watkins and Katherine Grainger  Great Britain	Kim Crow and Brooke Pratley  Australia	Magdalena Fularczyk and Julia Michalska  Poland
Quadruple sculls	Ukraine (UKR) Kateryna Tarasenko Nataliya Dovhodko Anastasiya Kozhenkova Yana Dementieva	Germany (GER) Annekatrin Thiele Carina Bär Julia Richter Britta Oppelt	United States (USA) Natalie Dell Kara Kohler Megan Kalmoe Adrienne Martelli
Coxless pair	Helen Glover and Heather Stanning  Great Britain	Kate Hornsey and Sarah Tait  Australia	Juliette Haigh and Rebecca Scown  New Zealand
Coxed eight	United States (USA) Erin Cafaro Susan Francia Esther Lofgren Taylor Ritzel Meghan Musnicki Eleanor Logan Caroline Lind Caryn Davies Mary Whipple	Canada (CAN) Janine Hanson Rachelle Viinberg Krista Guloien Lauren Wilkinson Natalie Mastracci Ashley Brzozowicz Darcy Marquardt Andreanne Morin Lesley Thompson-Willie	Netherlands (NED) Jacobine Veenhoven Nienke Kingma Chantal Achterberg Sytske de Groot Roline Repelaer van Driel Claudia Belderbos Carline Bouw Annemiek de Haan Anne Schellekens
Lightweight double sculls	Katherine Copeland and Sophie Hosking  Great Britain	Xu Dongxiang and Huang Wenyi  China	Christina Giazitzidou and Alexandra Tsiavou  Greece

References

1. "Rowing". London 2012. Retrieved 21 July 2012.
2. "Eton Dorney". London 2012 website. Retrieved 10 May 2011.
3. "London 2012 Olympics venues: Eton Dorney". The Telegraph. 11 February 2011. Retrieved 10 May 2011.
4. "Qualification System Games of the XXX Olympiad Rowing" (PDF). International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 20 Aug 2011.
5. "London 2012 Olympics: rowing guide". The Telegraph. 14 February 2011. Retrieved 10 May 2011.

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