Women's eight at the Games of the XXX Olympiad | |
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Venue | Eton Dorney |
Date | 29 July – 2 August 2012 |
Competitors | 56 from 7 nations |
Winning time | 6:10.59 |
Medalists | |
Rowing at the 2012 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 | |
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]
All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)
Date | Time | Round |
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Sunday, 29 July 2012 | 11:50 | Heats |
Tuesday, 31 July 2012 | 10:50 | Repechage |
Thursday, 2 August 2012 | 12:30 | Final |
First team of each heat qualify to the final, remainder goes to the repechage.
Rank | Rowers | Country | Time | Notes |
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1 | Cafaro, Francia, Lofgren, Ritzel, Musnicki, Logan, Lind, Davies, Whipple | United States | 6:14.68 | Q |
2 | Vermeersch, Chatterton, Selby Smith, Cook, Gerrand, Hagan, Kehoe, Stanley, Patrick | Australia | 6:20.89 | R |
3 | Whitlam, Reeve, Eddie, Maguire, Page, Vernon, Greves, Thornley, O'Connor | Great Britain | 6:23.51 | R |
4 | Schütte, Lepke, Schulze, Thiem, Sennewald, Drygalla, Marchand, Siering, Schwensen | Germany | 6:34.32 | R |
Rank | Rowers | Country | Time | Notes |
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1 | Hanson, Viinberg, Guloien, Wilkinson, Mastracci, Brzozowicz, Marquardt, Morin, Thompson-Willie | Canada | 6:13.91 | Q |
2 | Cogianu, Albu, Grigoraș, Dorneanu, Lupașcu, Mironcic, Cojocariu, Rotaru, Gîdoiu | Romania | 6:16.61 | R |
3 | Veenhoven, Kingma, Achterberg, de Groot, Repelaer van Driel, Belderbos, Bouw, de Haan, Schellekens | Netherlands | 6:18.98 | R |
First four qualify to the final.
Rank | Rower | Country | Time | Notes |
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1 | Veenhoven, Kingma, Achterberg, de Groot, Repelaer van Driel, Belderbos, Bouw, de Haan, Schellekens | Netherlands | 6:15.36 | Q |
2 | Cogianu, Albu, Grigoraș, Dorneanu, Lupașcu, Mironcic, Cojocariu, Rotaru, Gîdoiu | Romania | 6:16.16 | Q |
3 | Vermeersch, Chatterton, Selby Smith, Cook, Gerrand, Hagan, Kehoe, Stanley, Patrick | Australia | 6:18.63 | Q |
4 | Whitlam, Reeve, Eddie, Maguire, Page, Vernon, Greves, Thornley, O'Connor | Great Britain | 6:21.58 | Q |
5 | Schütte, Lepke, Schulze, Thiem, Sennewald, Drygalla, Marchand, Siering, Schwensen | Germany | 6:27.69 |
Rank | Rowers | Country | Time | Notes |
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Cafaro, Francia, Lofgren, Ritzel, Musnicki, Logan, Lind, Davies, Whipple | United States | 6:10.59 | ||
Hanson, Viinberg, Guloien, Wilkinson, Mastracci, Brzozowicz, Marquardt, Morin, Thompson-Willie | Canada | 6:12.06 | ||
Veenhoven, Kingma, Achterberg, de Groot, Repelaer van Driel, Belderbos, Bouw, de Haan, Schellekens | Netherlands | 6:13.12 | ||
4 | Cogianu, Albu, Grigoraș, Dorneanu, Lupașcu, Mironcic, Cojocariu, Rotaru, Gîdoiu | Romania | 6:17.64 | |
5 | Whitlam, Reeve, Eddie, Maguire, Page, Vernon, Greves, Thornley, O'Connor | Great Britain | 6:18.77 | |
6 | Vermeersch, Chatterton, Selby Smith, Cook, Gerrand, Hagan, Kehoe, Stanley, Patrick | Australia | 6:18.86 |
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