Rowing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's eight

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Women's eight
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Venue Eton Dorney
Date29 July – 2 August 2012
Competitors56 from 7 nations
Winning time6:10.59
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Erin Cafaro
Susan Francia
Esther Lofgren
Taylor Ritzel
Meghan Musnicki
Elle Logan
Caroline Lind
Caryn Davies
Mary Whipple
Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Silver medal icon.svg Janine Hanson
Rachelle Viinberg
Krista Guloien
Lauren Wilkinson
Natalie Mastracci
Ashley Brzozowicz
Darcy Marquardt
Andréanne Morin
Lesley Thompson-Willie
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Bronze medal icon.svg Jacobine Veenhoven
Ninke Kingma
Chantal Achterberg
Sytske de Groot
Roline Repelaer van Driel
Claudia Belderbos
Carline Bouw
Annemiek de Haan
Anne Schellekens
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
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The Women's eight 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]

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

DateTimeRound
Sunday, 29 July 201211:50Heats
Tuesday, 31 July 201210:50Repechage
Thursday, 2 August 201212:30Final

Results

Heats

First team of each heat qualify to the final, remainder goes to the repechage.

Heat 1

RankRowersCountryTimeNotes
1 Cafaro, Francia, Lofgren, Ritzel, Musnicki, Logan, Lind, Davies, Whipple Flag of the United States.svg  United States 6:14.68Q
2 Vermeersch, Chatterton, Selby Smith, Cook, Gerrand, Hagan, Kehoe, Stanley, Patrick Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 6:20.89R
3 Whitlam, Reeve, Eddie, Maguire, Page, Vernon, Greves, Thornley, O'Connor Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain 6:23.51R
4 Schütte, Lepke, Schulze, Thiem, Sennewald, Drygalla, Marchand, Siering, Schwensen Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 6:34.32R

Heat 2

RankRowersCountryTimeNotes
1 Hanson, Viinberg, Guloien, Wilkinson, Mastracci, Brzozowicz, Marquardt, Morin, Thompson-Willie Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 6:13.91Q
2 Cogianu, Albu, Grigoraș, Dorneanu, Lupașcu, Mironcic, Cojocariu, Rotaru, Gîdoiu Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 6:16.61R
3 Veenhoven, Kingma, Achterberg, de Groot, Repelaer van Driel, Belderbos, Bouw, de Haan, Schellekens Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 6:18.98R

Repechage

First four qualify to the final.

RankRowerCountryTimeNotes
1 Veenhoven, Kingma, Achterberg, de Groot, Repelaer van Driel, Belderbos, Bouw, de Haan, Schellekens Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 6:15.36Q
2 Cogianu, Albu, Grigoraș, Dorneanu, Lupașcu, Mironcic, Cojocariu, Rotaru, Gîdoiu Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 6:16.16Q
3 Vermeersch, Chatterton, Selby Smith, Cook, Gerrand, Hagan, Kehoe, Stanley, Patrick Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 6:18.63Q
4 Whitlam, Reeve, Eddie, Maguire, Page, Vernon, Greves, Thornley, O'Connor Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain 6:21.58Q
5 Schütte, Lepke, Schulze, Thiem, Sennewald, Drygalla, Marchand, Siering, Schwensen Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 6:27.69

Final

RankRowersCountryTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Cafaro, Francia, Lofgren, Ritzel, Musnicki, Logan, Lind, Davies, Whipple Flag of the United States.svg  United States 6:10.59
Silver medal icon.svg Hanson, Viinberg, Guloien, Wilkinson, Mastracci, Brzozowicz, Marquardt, Morin, Thompson-Willie Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 6:12.06
Bronze medal icon.svg Veenhoven, Kingma, Achterberg, de Groot, Repelaer van Driel, Belderbos, Bouw, de Haan, Schellekens Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 6:13.12
4 Cogianu, Albu, Grigoraș, Dorneanu, Lupașcu, Mironcic, Cojocariu, Rotaru, Gîdoiu Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 6:17.64
5 Whitlam, Reeve, Eddie, Maguire, Page, Vernon, Greves, Thornley, O'Connor Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain 6:18.77
6 Vermeersch, Chatterton, Selby Smith, Cook, Gerrand, Hagan, Kehoe, Stanley, Patrick Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 6:18.86

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