Rowing at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Rowing at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue	Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park
Dates	9–17 August
Competitors	555 from 60 nations

Rowing at the 2008 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

Rowing competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing were held from August 9 to August 17, at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park.

Events

14 sets of medals were awarded in the following events:

• Single sculls men
• Pairs men
• Double sculls men
• Fours men
• Quadruple sculls men
• Eights men
• Double sculls lightweight men
• Fours lightweight men
• Single sculls women
• Pairs women
• Double sculls women
• Quadruple sculls women
• Eights women
• Double sculls lightweight women

Qualification

Medal summary

Men's events

Polish men's quadruple sculls: gold medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Single sculls	Olaf Tufte (NOR)	Ondřej Synek (CZE)	Mahé Drysdale (NZL)
Double sculls	David Crawshay and Scott Brennan (AUS)	Tõnu Endrekson and Jüri Jaanson (EST)	Matthew Wells and Stephen Rowbotham (GBR)
Quadruple sculls	Poland (POL) Konrad Wasielewski Marek Kolbowicz Michał Jeliński Adam Korol	Italy (ITA) Luca Agamennoni Simone Venier Rossano Galtarossa Simone Raineri	France (FRA) Jonathan Coeffic Pierre-Jean Peltier Julien Bahain Cédric Berrest
Coxless pair	Drew Ginn and Duncan Free (AUS)	David Calder and Scott Frandsen (CAN)	Nathan Twaddle and George Bridgewater (NZL)
Coxless four	Great Britain (GBR) Tom James Steve Williams Pete Reed Andrew Triggs Hodge	Australia (AUS) Matt Ryan James Marburg Cameron McKenzie-McHarg Francis Hegerty	France (FRA) Julien Desprès Benjamin Rondeau Germain Chardin Dorian Mortelette
Coxed eight	Canada (CAN) Kevin Light Ben Rutledge Andrew Byrnes Jake Wetzel Malcolm Howard Dominic Seiterle Adam Kreek Kyle Hamilton Cox: Brian Price	Great Britain (GBR) Alex Partridge Tom Stallard Tom Lucy Richard Egington Josh West Alastair Heathcote Matthew Langridge Colin Smith Cox: Acer Nethercott	United States (USA) Beau Hoopman Matt Schnobrich Micah Boyd Wyatt Allen Daniel Walsh Steven Coppola Josh Inman Bryan Volpenhein Cox: Marcus McElhenney
Lightweight double sculls	Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter (GBR)	Dimitrios Mougios and Vasileios Polymeros (GRE)	Mads Rasmussen and Rasmus Quist (DEN)
Lightweight coxless four	Denmark (DEN) Thomas Ebert Morten Jørgensen Mads Christian Kruse Andersen Eskild Ebbesen	Poland (POL) Łukasz Pawłowski Bartłomiej Pawełczak Miłosz Bernatajtys Paweł Rańda	Canada (CAN) Iain Brambell Jon Beare Mike Lewis Liam Parsons

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Single sculls	Rumyana Neykova (BUL)	Michelle Guerette (USA)	Ekaterina Karsten (BLR)
Double sculls	Georgina Evers-Swindell and Caroline Evers-Swindell (NZL)	Annekatrin Thiele and Christiane Huth (GER)	Elise Laverick and Anna Bebington (GBR)
Quadruple sculls	China (CHN) Tang Bin Jin Ziwei Xi Aihua Zhang Yangyang	Great Britain (GBR) Annabel Vernon Debbie Flood Frances Houghton Katherine Grainger	Germany (GER) Britta Oppelt Manuela Lutze Kathrin Boron Stephanie Schiller
Coxless pair	Georgeta Damian and Viorica Susanu (ROU)	Wu You and Gao Yulan (CHN)	Yuliya Bichyk and Natallia Helakh (BLR)
Coxed eight	United States (USA) Erin Cafaro Lindsay Shoop Anna Goodale Elle Logan Anna Cummins Susan Francia Caroline Lind Caryn Davies cox: Mary Whipple	Netherlands (NED) Femke Dekker Marlies Smulders Nienke Kingma Roline Repelaer van Driel Annemarieke van Rumpt Helen Tanger Sarah Siegelaar Annemiek de Haan cox: Ester Workel	Romania (ROU) Constanța Burcică Viorica Susanu Rodica Şerban Enikő Barabás Simona Muşat Ioana Papuc Georgeta Andrunache Doina Ignat cox: Elena Georgescu
Lightweight double sculls	Kirsten van der Kolk and Marit van Eupen (NED)	Minna Nieminen and Sanna Stén (FIN)	Tracy Cameron and Melanie Kok (CAN)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Great Britain (GBR)	2	2	2	6
2	Australia (AUS)	2	1	0	3
3	Canada (CAN)	1	1	2	4
4	United States (USA)	1	1	1	3
5	China (CHN)	1	1	0	2
	Netherlands (NED)	1	1	0	2
	Poland (POL)	1	1	0	2
8	New Zealand (NZL)	1	0	2	3
9	Denmark (DEN)	1	0	1	2
	Romania (ROU)	1	0	1	2
11	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	0	0	1
	Norway (NOR)	1	0	0	1
13	Germany (GER)	0	1	1	2
14	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	1	0	1
	Estonia (EST)	0	1	0	1
	Finland (FIN)	0	1	0	1
	Greece (GRE)	0	1	0	1
	Italy (ITA)	0	1	0	1
19	Belarus (BLR)	0	0	2	2
	France (FRA)	0	0	2	2

External links

• FISA - International Rowing Federation
• Rowing medal Standings from the official Beijing Olympics website.