| Women's double sculls at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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| Rowing at the 2004 Summer Olympics | ||
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| 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 | |
These are the results of the Women's double sculls competition, one of six events for female competitors in Rowing at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. [1]
| Gold: | Silver: | Bronze: |
 New Zealand Georgina Evers-Swindell Caroline Evers-Swindell |  Germany Peggy Waleska Britta Oppelt |  Great Britain Sarah Winckless Elise Laverick |
| Rank | Rowers | Country | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Georgina Evers-Swindell & Caroline Evers-Swindell |  New Zealand | 7:25.57 |
| 2 | Sarah Winckless & Elise Laverick |  Great Britain | 7:29.75 |
| 3 | Nataliya Huba & Svitlana Maziy |  Ukraine | 7:39.02 |
| 4 | Caroline Delas & Gaelle Buniet |  France | 7:41.23 |
| 5 | Olga Samulenkova & Yuliya Kalinovskaya |  Russia | 7:54.75 |
| Rank | Rowers | Country | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Peggy Waleska & Britta Oppelt |  Germany | 7:28.89 |
| 2 | Anet-Jacqueline Buschmann & Miglena Markova |  Bulgaria | 7:35.46 |
| 3 | Camelia Mihalcea & Simona Strimbeschi |  Romania | 7:39.32 |
| 4 | Donna Martin & Jane Robinson |  Australia | 7:41.20 |
| 5 | Elisabetta Sancassani & Gabriella Bascelli |  Italy | 7:46.66 |
| Rank | Rowers | Country | Time |
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 | Georgina Evers-Swindell & Caroline Evers-Swindell | New Zealand | 7:01.79 |
 | Peggy Waleska & Britta Oppelt | Germany | 7:02.78 |
 | Sarah Winckless & Elise Laverick | Great Britain | 7:07.58 |
| 4 | Anet-Jacqueline Buschmann & Miglena Markova | Bulgaria | 7:13.97 |
| 5 | Camelia Mihalcea & Simona Strimbeschi | Romania | 7:17.58 |
| 6 | Nataliya Guba & Svitlana Maziy | Ukraine | 7:21.78 |
Rowing at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place at the Schinias Olympic Rowing and Canoeing Centre and featured 550 competitors taking part in 14 events.
Slovenia competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, from 13 to 29 August 2004. This was the nation's fourth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics since the post-Yugoslav era. The Slovenian Olympic Committee sent the nation's largest ever delegation to the Games in Olympic history. A total of 79 athletes, 56 men and 23 women, competed in 10 sports. For the second consecutive time, men's handball was the only team-based sport in which Slovenia had its representation at these Games.
These are the results of the men's double sculls competition in rowing at the 2004 Summer Olympics. In a sculling boat, each rower has two oars, one on each side of the boat. The Rowing events were held at the Schinias Olympic Rowing and Canoeing Centre.
These are the results of the Women's lightweight double sculls competition, one of six events for female competitors in Rowing at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. The Rowing events were held at the Schinias Olympic Rowing and Canoeing Centre.
Elisabeta Lipă is a retired rower and government official from Romania. She is the most decorated rower in the history of the Olympics, winning five gold, two silver and one bronze medals. She holds the record amongst rowers for the most years between gold medals, at 20 years.
Jüri Jaanson is the most successful Estonian rower of all time and the winner of five medals at World Rowing Championships. He became World Champion in Tasmania 1990 in the single sculls event. 14 years later, at age 38 he won an Olympic silver medal in the single sculls event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. In Beijing 2008 he won his second Olympic silver medal, this time in the double sculls event with Tõnu Endrekson. He is a member of the SK Pärnu rowing club located in Pärnu. In 2007, Jaanson became the oldest rower ever to win a World Cup event at the age of 41 in Amsterdam.
The Adelaide University Boat Club is a rowing club affiliated with the University of Adelaide. The club was founded in 1881, and in 1896 helped to form the Adelaide University Sports Association. The main clubrooms, donated by Robert Barr Smith in 1909, are located on the north bank of the River Torrens on War Memorial Drive, adjacent to the Adelaide University Sports Grounds. The shed has two boat bays, a gym and weights room and a small bar. The club also leases a secondary boatshed at the South Australian Rowing Association complex on Military Road at West Lakes, and also trains regularly at Port Adelaide's North Arm Creek and Murray Bridge. Members have included rowers of all levels, from total beginners to Olympic Gold Medallists. The club shares the nickname "The Blacks" with the Adelaide University Football Club.
Frances Houghton MBE is a 5 time Olympic rower (2000–2016), 4 times World Champion and 3 times Olympic Silver medallist.
Constanța Burcică is a Romanian Olympic rower. She won the first three instances of the women's lightweight double scull at the Olympic regatta, in 1996, 2000 and 2004.
Britta Oppelt is a German Olympic-medal winning sculler.
Matthew Langridge is a British rower. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London he was part of the British crew that won the bronze medal in the men's eight. He was the 2015 European Champion in the men's pair, along with James Foad. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro he was part of the British crew that won the gold medal in the men's eight.
Alessio Sartori is an Italian competition rower and Olympic champion.
Rossano Galtarossa is an Italian competition rower and Olympic champion.
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Kirsten Irene Merian van der Kolk is a rower from the Netherlands.
Rumyana Neykova is a Bulgarian rower. Neykova competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics, the 1996 Summer Olympics, the 2000 Summer Olympics, where she won silver in Single Sculls, the 2004 Summer Olympics, where she won bronze and the 2008 Summer Olympics, where she won gold in the same discipline. Her current coach is her husband Svilen Neykov. In 2002, she set the world best time of 7:07:41 on 21 September in Seville ESP and she was named Bulgarian Sportswoman of the Year, as well as FISA Female Rower of the Year.
Georgina Emma Buchanan Earl, better known under her maiden name Georgina Evers-Swindell, is a former New Zealand rower. She competed in the double sculls with her identical twin sister Caroline Evers-Swindell, and is a double Olympic gold medallist, having won at Athens in 2004 and Beijing in 2008. In November 2005 she and her sister were named Rowing Female Crew of the Year by the International Rowing Federation (FISA), and in 2016 they became the first New Zealanders to be awarded the federation's highest award, the Thomas Keller Medal. She is 180 cm tall, weighs 80 kg and currently resides in Napier, New Zealand.
Kerry Hore is an Australian former rower, a national champion, world-champion and four-time Olympian who competed in the women's quadruple sculls at the 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics. She was in Australian quad sculls which won a 2003 World Championship and a bronze medal at the Athens Olympics.
Jane Robinson is an Australian former rower - a national champion, three-time World Champion and triple Olympian. She competed at the Summer Olympics in 1996, 2000 and 2004; and at World Rowing Championships in 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002, and 2003. She won World Championships as both a sculler and a sweep-oared rower.
Catriona Sens is an Australian former representative rower. She was a national champion, an underage 2002 world champion, a dual Olympian and won a silver medal at the 2006 World Rowing Championships. She rowed in the Australian women's eight at the 2004 Athens Olympics and in the double scull at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
