2005 World Rowing Championships

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The 28th World Rowing Championships were held at the Nagaragawa International Regatta Course, Kaizu, Gifu, Japan, between August 28 and September 4, 2005. The international rowing season usually ends with the World Championship regatta. Apart from the Olympics this is the most prestigious international rowing event attracting over 1000 rowers. The 2005 Championships were the first Championships to be held in Asia.

Men's results

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Single Sculls - M1x	New Zealand Mahé Drysdale	7:16.42	Norway Olaf Tufte	7:18.34	Czech Republic Ondřej Synek	7:21.12
Lightweight Single Sculls - LM1x	Greece Vasileios Polymeros	7:17.79	Great Britain Zac Purchase	7:23.10	France Fabrice Moreau	7:23.97
Double Sculls - M2x	Slovenia Luka Špik & Iztok Čop	6:37.61	Italy Federico Gattinoni & Luca Ghezzi	6:37.96	Germany Christian Schreiber & Rene Burmeister	6:46.71
Lightweight Double Sculls - LM2x	Hungary Zsolt Hirling & Tamás Varga	6:05.10	Denmark Mads Rasmussen & Rasmus Quist	6:05.62	Poland Paweł Randa & Robert Sycz	6:07.93
Quadruple Sculls - M4x	Poland Konrad Wasielewski, Marek Kolbowicz, Michał Jeliński & Adam Korol	5:34.96	Slovenia Matej Prelog, Davor Mizerit, Luka Špik & Iztok Čop	5:35.45	Estonia Jüri Jaanson, Leonid Gulov, Tõnu Endrekson & Andrei Jämsä	5:36.61
Lightweight Quadruple Sculls - LM4x	Italy Gardino Pellolio, Daniele Gilardoni, Luca Moncada & Filippo Mannucci	5:44.76	Belgium Justin Gevaert, Francois Libois, Wouter van der Fraenen & Kristof Dekeyser	5:46.00	Canada Jeff Bujas, Douglas Vandor, Matthew Jensen & Morgan Jarvis	5:47.86
Coxless Pairs - M2-	New Zealand Nathan Twaddle & George Bridgewater	6:52.51	South Africa Ramon di Clemente & Donovan Cech	6:55.52	Italy Luca Agamennoni & Dario Lari	6:57.29
Lightweight Coxless Pairs - LM2-	Denmark Bo Helleberg, Thomas Ebert	6:22.59	Chile Miguel Cerda, Felipe Leal	6:23.31	Italy Salvatore Amitrano, Catello Amarante	6:25.63
Coxed Pairs - M2+	Australia Hardy Cubasch, Sam Conrad & Marc Douez	7:16.61	Italy Dario Cerasola, Edoardo Verzotti & Manuel Belingerio	7:23.22	United States Jordan Smith, Micah Boyd & Chase Phillips	7:26.22
Coxless Fours - M4-	Great Britain Steve Williams, Peter Reed, Alex Partridge & Andrew Triggs Hodge	6:11.59	Netherlands Geert Cirkel, Jan-Willem Gabriëls, Matthijs Vellenga & Gijs Vermeulen	6:13.23	Canada Rob Weitemeyer, Peter Dembicki, Andrew Ireland & Kristopher McDaniel	6:16.02
Coxed Fours - M4+	France Nicolas Podpovitny, Vincent Durupt, Alex Johnatan Mathis, Lionel Jacquiot & Nicolas Majerus	6:02.42	United States Troy Keeper, Matt Hughes, Patrick Sullivan, Brett Newlin & Marcus McElhenney	6:03.44	Germany Toni Seifert, Matthias Flach, Johannes Doberschütz, Falk Müller & Martin Sauer	6:06.01
Lightweight Fours - LM4-	France Franck Solforosi, Jeremy Pouge, Jean-Christophe Bette & Fabien Tilliet	5:47.91	Ireland Timmy Harnedy, Eugene Coakley, Richard Archibald & rower	5:49.26	Italy Lorenzo Bertini, Salvatore Di Somma, Elia Luini & Bruno Mascarenhas	5:49.30
Eights - M8+	United States Paul Daniels, Matt Deakin, Steve Coppola Jr, Dan Beery, Joshua Inman, Bryan Volpenhein, Beau Hoopman, Marcus McElhenney & Mike Blomquist	5:22.75	Italy Lorenzo Carboncini, Niccolo Mornati, Pierpaolo Frattini, Valerio Pinton, Mario Palmisano, Dario Dentale, Raffaello Leonardo, Carlo Mornati & Gaetano Iannuzzi	5:24.01	Germany Jochen Urban, Sebastian Schulte, Stephan Koltzk, Jan-Martin Broeer, Jan Tebrügge, Ulf Siemes, Thorsten Engelmann, Andreas Penkner & Peter Thiede	5:25.66
Lightweight Eights - LM8+	Italy Jiri Vlcek Daniele Danesin Michele Savrie Martino Goretti Luigi Scala Nicola Moriconi Giuseppe Del-gaudio Fabrizio Gabriele Gianluca Barattolo (c)	5:59.42	Japan Yusuke Imai Shuya Matsuda Kazuyoshi Okamoto Masayuki Yoshizaki Shimpei Murai Yu Kataoka Takehiro Kubo Tatsuya Mizobe Makoto Nakasaka (c)	6:09.87

Women's results

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Single Sculls - W1x	Belarus Ekaterina Karsten-Khodotovitch	7:48.35	Czech Republic Miroslava Knapková	7:51.69	United States Michelle Guerette	7:51.62
Lightweight Single Sculls - LW1x	Netherlands Marit van Eupen	8:07.39	France Benedicte Dorfman	8:10.53	Spain Teresa Mas De Xaxars Rivero	8:12.71
Double Sculls - W2x	New Zealand Georgina Evers-Swindell & Caroline Evers-Swindell	7:08.03	Bulgaria Rumyana Neykova & Miglena Markova	7:10.92	Australia Amber Bradley & Sally Kehoe	7:22.86
Lightweight Double Sculls - LW2x	Germany Daniela Reimer & Marie-Louise Dräger	6:48.47	United States Renee Hykel & Julia Nichols	6:48.77	Finland Sanna Stén & Minna Nieminen	6:49.02
Quadruple Sculls - W4x	Great Britain Rebecca Romero, Sarah Winckless, Frances Houghton & Katherine Grainger	6:09.59	Germany Britta Oppelt, Susanne Schmidt, Kathrin Boron & Stephanie Schiller	6:09.93	Russia Olga Samulenkova, Oksana Dorodnova, Larisa Merk & Irina Fedotova	6:12.19
Lightweight Quadruple Sculls - LW4x	Canada Tracy Cameron, Mara Jones, Elizabeth Urbach & Melanie Kok	6:19.87	Denmark Kirsten Jepsen, Maria Pertl, Katrin Olsen & Juliane Rasmussen	6:20.69	Great Britain Tanya Brady, Lorna Norris, Hester Goodsell & Naomi Hoogesteger	6:22.49
Coxless Pairs - W2-	New Zealand Juliette Haigh & Nicky Coles	7:43.83	Australia Sarah Outhwaite & Natalie Bale	7:47.57	Russia Vera Potchitaeva & Valerya Starodubrovskaya	7:50.07
Coxless Fours - W4-	Australia Robyn Selby Smith, Emily Martin, Pauline Frasca & Kate Hornsey	6:55.56	Germany Mandy Emmrich, Wilma Dressel, Kerstin Naumann & Christiane Hölzel	7:03.24	Belarus Natallia Haurylenka, Volha Plashkova, Tatsina Narelik & Maryia Brel	7:07.96
Eights - W8+	Australia Sarah Outhwaite, Robyn Selby Smith, Sonia Mills, Kate Hornsey, Emily Martin, Fleur Chew, Pauline Frasca, Sarah Heard & Elizabeth Patrick	5:58.10	Romania Enikő Barabás, Georgeta Craciun, Camelia Lupascu, Ana Maria Apachitei, Elena Serban-Parvan, Ioana Papuc, Rodica Florea, Simona Strimbeschi & Rodica Anghel	5:59.50	Netherlands Femke Dekker, Nienke Dekkers, Nienke Hommes, Hurnet Dekkers, Annamarieke van Rumpt, Laura Posthuma, Annemiek de Haan, Helen Tanger & Ester Workel	5:59.61

Medal count

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	New Zealand	4	0	0	4
2	Australia	3	1	1	5
3	Italy	2	3	3	8
4	France	2	1	1	4
4	Great Britain	2	1	1	4
6	Germany	1	2	3	6
7	United States	1	2	2	5
8	Netherlands	1	1	1	3
9	Slovenia	1	1	0	2
10	Canada	1	0	2	3
11	Belarus	1	0	1	2
11	Poland	1	0	1	2
13	Greece	1	0	0	1
13	Hungary	1	0	0	1
15	Denmark	1	2	0	3
16	Czech Republic	0	1	1	2
17	Belgium	0	1	0	1
17	Bulgaria	0	1	0	1
17	Ireland	0	1	0	1
17	Norway	0	1	0	1
17	Romania	0	1	0	1
17	South Africa	0	1	0	1
17	Chile	0	1	0	1
17	Japan	0	1	0	1
25	Russia	0	0	2	2
26	Estonia	0	0	1	1
26	Finland	0	0	1	1
26	Spain	0	0	1	1
	Total	23	23	22	68

External links

• 2005 World Rowing Championships official website
• World Championship Medal Winners