Rowing at the 2008 Summer Olympics

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

Pictogram used to identify rowing events at the 2008 Games

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

Polish men's quadruple sculls: gold medalists

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

Main article: Rowing at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Qualification

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Single sculls details	Olaf Tufte Norway (NOR)	Ondřej Synek Czech Republic (CZE)	Mahe Drysdale New Zealand (NZL)
Double sculls details	Australia (AUS) David Crawshay Scott Brennan	Estonia (EST) Tõnu Endrekson Jüri Jaanson	Great Britain (GBR) Matthew Wells Stephen Rowbotham
Lightweight double sculls details	Great Britain (GBR) Zac Purchase Mark Hunter	Greece (GRE) Dimitrios Mougios Vasileios Polymeros	Denmark (DEN) Mads Reinholdt Rasmussen Rasmus Nicholai Quist Hansen
Quadruple sculls details	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 details	Australia (AUS) Drew Ginn Duncan Free	Canada (CAN) David Calder Scott Frandsen	New Zealand (NZL) Nathan Twaddle George Bridgewater
Coxless four details	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
Lightweight coxless four details	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
Coxed eight details	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

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Single sculls details	Rumyana Neykova Bulgaria (BUL)	Michelle Guerette United States (USA)	Ekaterina Karsten Belarus (BLR)
Double sculls details	New Zealand (NZL) Georgina Evers-Swindell Caroline Evers-Swindell	Germany (GER) Annekatrin Thiele Christiane Huth	Great Britain (GBR) Elise Laverick Anna Bebington
Lightweight double sculls details	Netherlands (NED) Kirsten van der Kolk Marit van Eupen	Finland (FIN) Sanna Sten Minna Nieminen	Canada (CAN) Melanie Kok Tracy Cameron
Quadruple sculls details	China (CHN) Tang Bin Jin Ziwei Xi Aihua Zhang Yangyang	Great Britain (GBR) Annie Vernon Debbie Flood Frances Houghton Katherine Grainger	Germany (GER) Britta Oppelt Manuela Lutze Kathrin Boron Stephanie Schiller
Coxless pair details	Romania (ROU) Georgeta Andrunache Viorica Susanu	China (CHN) Wu You Gao Yulan	Belarus (BLR) Yuliya Bichyk Natallia Helakh
Coxed eight details	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) Constanţa Burcică Viorica Susanu Rodica Şerban Enikő Barabás Simona Muşat Ioana Papuc Georgeta Andrunache Doina Ignat cox: Elena Georgescu

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.

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