Rowing at the 2012 Summer Paralympics

Rowing at the XIV Paralympic Games
Venue	Dorney Lake
Dates	31 August – 2 September 2012
Competitors	96

Rowing at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
Men's single sculls
Women's single sculls
Mixed double sculls
Mixed coxed four

Rowing competitions at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London were held from 31 August to 2 September 2012, at Dorney Lake which, for the purposes of the Games venue, is officially termed Eton Dorney.

Classification

Rowers are given a classification depending on the type and extent of their disability. The classification system allows rowers to compete against others with a similar level of function.

The three rowing classes are:

• LTA (Legs, Trunk and Arms) - Mixed coxed fours
• TA (Trunk and Arms) - Mixed double sculls
• AS (Arms and shoulders) - Men's and women's singles

Events

Four rowing events are scheduled to be held, each over a course of 1000 metres:

• Men's single sculls AS
• Women's single sculls AS
• Mixed double sculls TA
• Mixed four coxed LTA

Qualification

Ninety-six athletes (48 male, 48 female) are expected to part in this sport.

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's single sculls	Cheng Huang  China	Erik Horrie  Australia	Aleksey Chuvashev  Russia
Women's single sculls	Alla Lysenko  Ukraine	Nathalie Benoit  France	Liudmila Vauchok  Belarus
Mixed double sculls	China (CHN) Lou Xiaoxian Fei Tianming	France (FRA) Perle Bouge Stephane Tardieu	United States (USA) Oksana Masters Rob Jones
Mixed coxed four	Great Britain (GBR) Pamela Relph Naomi Riches David Smith James Roe Lily van den Broecke (Cox)	Germany (GER) Anke Molkenthin Astrid Hengsbach Tino Kolitscher Kai Kruse Katrin Splitt (Cox)	Ukraine (UKR) Andrii Stelmakh Kateryna Morozova Olena Pukhaieva Denys Sobol Volodymyr Kozlov (Cox)

References

• "Rowing - About". The London Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXX Olympiad. Retrieved 8 August 2012.

External links

• Official Site of the 2012 Summer Paralympics