Rowing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's lightweight double sculls

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Men's lightweight double sculls
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Venue Eton Dorney
Date29 July – 4 August
Competitors40 from 20 nations
Winning time6:37.17
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Mads Rasmussen
Rasmus Quist Hansen
Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark
Silver medal icon.svg Zac Purchase
Mark Hunter
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
Bronze medal icon.svg Storm Uru
Peter Taylor
Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand
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The Men's lightweight double sculls competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London took place are at Dorney Lake which, for the purposes of the Games venue, is officially termed Eton Dorney. [1] [2] [3]

Contents

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

DateTimeRound
Sunday, 29 July 201211:10Heats
Tuesday, 31 July 201210:30Repechages
Wednesday, 1 August 201209:50Semifinals C/D
Thursday, 2 August 201210:50Semifinals
Saturday, 4 August 201209:40Final D
Saturday, 4 August 201210:10Final C
Saturday, 4 August 201210:50Final B
Saturday, 4 August 201212:10Final

Results

Heats

First two of each heat qualify to the semifinals, remainder goes to the repechage.

Heat 1

RankRowersCountryTimeNotes
1 Pietro Ruta
Elia Luini
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 6:35.72Q
2 Pedro Fraga
Nuno Mendes
Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 6:37.91Q
3 Douglas Vandor
Morgan Jarvis
Flag of Canada.svg  Canada 6:42.59R
4 Sandeep Kumar
Manjeet Singh
Flag of India.svg  India 6:56.60R
5 Mohamed Nofel
Omar Al-Sabahi
Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt 6:59.57R

Heat 2

RankRowersCountryTimeNotes
1 Zac Purchase
Mark Hunter
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 6:36.29Q
2 Storm Uru
Peter Taylor
Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 6:37.02Q
3 Roderick Chisholm
Thomas Gibson
Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 6:47.33R
4 Zhang Fangbing
Sun Jie
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 6:57.67R
5 Mario Cejas
Miguel Mayol
Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 7:01.76R

Heat 3

RankRowersCountryTimeNotes
1 Mads Rasmussen
Rasmus Quist Hansen
Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 6:33.11Q
2 Kristoffer Brun
Are Strandli
Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 6:34.00Q
3 Manuel Suárez
Yunior Perez
Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba 6:36.31R
4 Zsolt Hirling
Tamás Varga
Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 6:36.90R
5 Eleftherios Konsolas
Panagiotis Magdanis
Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 6:42.13R

Heat 4

RankRowersCountryTimeNotes
1 Stany Delayre
Jérémie Azou
Flag of France.svg  France 6:40.89Q
2 Linus Lichtschlag
Lars Hartig
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 6:49.44Q
3 Kazushige Ura
Daisaku Takeda
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 6:54.01R
4 Rodolfo Collazo
Emiliano Dumestre
Flag of Uruguay.svg  Uruguay 6:58.63R
5 Leung Chun Shek
Lok Kwan Hoi
Flag of Hong Kong.svg  Hong Kong 6:59.52R

Repechage

First two qualify to the semifinals.

Repechage 1

RankRowerCountryTimeNotes
1 Eleftherios Konsolas
Panagiotis Magdanis
Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 6:31.13Q
2 Zsolt Hirling
Tamás Varga
Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 6:32.31Q
3 Roderick Chisholm
Thomas Gibson
Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 6:34.29
4 Douglas Vandor
Morgan Jarvis
Flag of Canada.svg  Canada 6:36.03
5 Rodolfo Collazo
Emiliano Dumestre
Flag of Uruguay.svg  Uruguay 6:51.67
6 Mohamed Nofel
Omar Emira
Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt 6:57.06

Repechage 2

RankRowerCountryTimeNotes
1 Manuel Suarez Barrios
Yunior Perez
Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba 6:37.04Q
2 Kazushige Ura
Daisaku Takeda
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 6:39.81Q
3 Zhang Fangbing
Sun Jie
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 6:40.12
4 Leung Chun Shek
Lok Kwan Hoi
Flag of Hong Kong.svg  Hong Kong 6:47.04
5 Mario Cejas
Miguel Mayol
Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 6:48.21
6 Sandeep Kumar
Manjeet Singh
Flag of India.svg  India 6:54.20

Semifinals

Semifinals C/D

First three qualify to Final C, remainder to Final D.

Semifinal 1
RankRowersCountryTimeNotes
1 Roderick Chisholm
Thomas Gibson
Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 7:06.24Q
2 Mario Cejas
Miguel Mayol
Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 7:06.24Q
3 Leung Chun Shek
Lok Kwan Hoi
Flag of Hong Kong.svg  Hong Kong 7:13.67Q
4 Mohamed Nofel
Omar Emira
Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt 7:19.29
Semifinal 2
RankRowersCountryTimeNotes
1 Douglas Vandor
Morgan Jarvis
Flag of Canada.svg  Canada 7:02.85Q
2 Zhang Fangbing
Sun Jie
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 7:09.39Q
3 Rodolfo Collazo
Emiliano Dumestre
Flag of Uruguay.svg  Uruguay 7:11.20Q
4 Sandeep Kumar
Manjeet Singh
Flag of India.svg  India 7:19.31

Semifinals A/B

First three qualify to Final A, remainder to Final B.

Semifinal 1
RankRowersCountryTimeNotes
1 Mads Rasmussen
Rasmus Quist Hansen
Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 6:33.25Q
2 Storm Uru
Peter Taylor
Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 6:36.71Q
3 Linus Lichtschlag
Lars Hartig
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 6:37.44Q
4 Eleftherios Konsolas
Panagiotis Magdanis
Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 6:40.89
5 Pietro Ruta
Elia Luini
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 6:41.17
6 Kazushige Ura
Daisaku Takeda
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 6:48.61
Semifinal 2
RankRowersCountryTimeNotes
1 Zac Purchase
Mark Hunter
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 6:36.62Q
2 Stany Delayre
Jérémie Azou
Flag of France.svg  France 6:37.29Q
3 Pedro Fraga
Nuno Mendes
Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 6:37.99Q
4 Kristoffer Brun
Are Strandli
Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 6:39.59
5 Zsolt Hirling
Tamás Varga
Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 6:42.81
6 Manuel Suarez Barrios
Yunior Perez
Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba 6:52.26

Finals

Final D

RankRowersCountryTimeNotes
1 Sandeep Kumar
Manjeet Singh
Flag of India.svg  India 7:08.39
2 Mohamed Nofel
Omar Emira
Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt 7:12.79

Final C

RankRowersCountryTimeNotes
1 Roderick Chisholm
Thomas Gibson
Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 6:44.40
2 Douglas Vandor
Morgan Jarvis
Flag of Canada.svg  Canada 6:46.62
3 Zhang Fangbing
Sun Jie
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 6:49.39
4 Rodolfo Collazo
Emiliano Dumestre
Flag of Uruguay.svg  Uruguay 6:51.94
5 Mario Cejas
Miguel Mayol
Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 6:53.71
6 Leung Chun Shek
Lok Kwan Hoi
Flag of Hong Kong.svg  Hong Kong 7:00.01

Final B

RankRowersCountryTimeNotes
1 Pietro Ruta
Elia Luini
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 6:29.92
2 Eleftherios Konsolas
Panagiotis Magdanis
Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 6:31.71
3 Kristoffer Brun
Are Strandli
Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 6:32.82
4 Manuel Suarez Barrios
Yunior Perez
Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba 6:34.96
5 Zsolt Hirling
Tamas Varga
Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 6:39.98
6 Kazushige Ura
Daisaku Takeda
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 6:48.27

Final A

Winners Rasmussen and Quist RasmusQuist MadsRasmussen2012Gold.jpg
Winners Rasmussen and Quist
RankRowersCountryTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Mads Rasmussen
Rasmus Quist Hansen
Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 6:37.17
Silver medal icon.svg Zac Purchase
Mark Hunter
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 6:37.78
Bronze medal icon.svg Storm Uru
Peter Taylor
Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 6:40.86
4 Stany Delayre
Jérémie Azou
Flag of France.svg  France 6:42.69
5 Pedro Fraga
Nuno Mendes
Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 6:44.80
6 Linus Lichtschlag
Lars Hartig
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 6:49.07

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