Rowing at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Main article: Rowing at the Summer Olympics

Rowing at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
2010 photo of the finish tower at Lake Lanier where the canoe sprint and rowing competitions for the 1996 Summer Olympics took place
Venue	Lake Lanier, Georgia
Date	July 21–28, 1996
No. of events	14
Competitors	608 (403 men, 205 women) from 45 nations
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Taking place at Lake Lanier, Georgia, United States, the 1996 Summer Olympics saw the debut of lightweight rowing events. ^[1]

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia	2	1	3	6
2	Germany	2	1	1	4
3	Romania	2	0	0	2
	Switzerland	2	0	0	2
5	Canada	1	4	1	6
6	Netherlands	1	1	1	3
7	Belarus	1	0	1	2
	Denmark	1	0	1	2
	Great Britain	1	0	1	2
10	Italy	1	0	0	1
11	United States	0	3	1	4
12	France	0	1	3	4
13	China	0	1	0	1
	Norway	0	1	0	1
	Ukraine	0	1	0	1
16	Russia	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		14	14	14	42

Men's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Single sculls details	Xeno Müller   Switzerland	Derek Porter   Canada	Thomas Lange   Germany
Double sculls details	Agostino Abbagnale and Davide Tizzano   Italy	Steffen Størseth and Kjetil Undset   Norway	Frédéric Kowal and Samuel Barathay   France
Quadruple sculls details	Germany Andreas Hajek Stephan Volkert André Steiner André Willms	United States Tim Young Eric Mueller Brian Jamieson Jason Gailes	Australia Janusz Hooker Bo Hanson Duncan Free Ronald Snook
Coxless pair details	Matthew Pinsent and Steve Redgrave   Great Britain	David Weightman and Rob Scott   Australia	Michel Andrieux and J.-C. Rolland   France
Coxless four details	Australia Nicholas Green Drew Ginn James Tomkins Mike McKay	France Bertrand Vecten Olivier Moncelet Daniel Fauché Gilles Bosquet	Great Britain Gregory Searle Jonathan William Searle Rupert John Obholzer Tim Foster
Eights details	Netherlands Koos Maasdijk Ronald Florijn Jeroen Duyster (cox) Michiel Bartman Henk-Jan Zwolle Niels van der Zwan Niels van Steenis Diederik Simon Nico Rienks	Germany Mark Kleinschmidt Detlef Kirchhoff Wolfram Huhn Roland Baar Marc Weber Ulrich Viefers Peter Thiede (cox) Thorsten Streppelhoff Frank Jörg Richter	Russia Pavel Melnikov Andrey Glukhov Anton Chermashentsev Aleksandr Lukyanov (cox) Nikolay Aksyonov Dmitry Rozinkevich Sergey Matveyev Roman Monchenko Vladimir Volodenkov Vladimir Sokolov
Lightweight double sculls details	Michael Gier and Markus Gier   Switzerland	Maarten van der Linden and Pepijn Aardewijn   Netherlands	Bruce Hick and Anthony Edwards   Australia
Lightweight coxless four details	Denmark Victor Feddersen Niels Henriksen Thomas Poulsen Eskild Ebbesen	Canada Brian Peaker Jeffrey Lay Dave Boyes Gavin Hassett	United States Marc Schneider Jeff Pfaendtner David Collins William Carlucci

Women's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Single sculls details	Ekaterina Karsten   Belarus	Silken Laumann   Canada	Trine Hansen   Denmark
Double sculls details	Kathleen Heddle and Marnie McBean   Canada	Zhang Xiuyun and Cao Mianying   China	Irene Eijs and Eeke van Nes   Netherlands
Quadruple sculls details	Germany Katrin Rutschow-Stomporowski Jana Sorgers Kerstin Köppen Kathrin Boron	Ukraine Svitlana Maziy Dina Miftakhutdynova Inna Frolova Olena Ronzhyna	Canada Laryssa Biesenthal Diane O'Grady Kathleen Heddle Marnie McBean
Coxless pair details	Megan Still and Kate Slatter   Australia	Karen Kraft and Melissa Schwen   United States	Christine Gossé and Hélène Cortin   France
Eight details	Romania Liliana Gafencu Veronica Cochela Elena Georgescu Anca Tănase Doina Spîrcu Marioara Popescu Ioana Olteanu Elisabeta Lipă Doina Ignat	Canada Anna van der Kamp Tosha Tsang Lesley Thompson Emma Robinson Jessica Monroe Heather McDermid Maria Maunder Theresa Luke Alison Korn	Belarus Yelena Mikulich Marina Znak Nataliya Volchek Nataliya Stasyuk Tamara Davydenko Valentina Skrabatun Nataliya Lavrinenko Yaroslava Pavlovich Aleksandra Pankina
Lightweight double sculls details	Constanța Burcică and Camelia Macoviciuc   Romania	Teresa Bell and Lindsay Burns   United States	Virginia Lee and Rebecca Joyce   Australia

See also

• Rowing at the Summer Olympics
• List of Olympic medalists in rowing (men)
• List of Olympic medalists in rowing (women)
• Rowers at the 1996 Summer Olympics

References

1. "Rowing at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 16 September 2018.

External links

• Official Olympic Report