Rowing at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's coxless four

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Men's coxless four
at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Date28 July – 2 August
Competitors56 from 14 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Andrew Cooper
Nick Green
Mike McKay
James Tomkins
 Australia
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Jeffrey McLaughlin
William Burden
Thomas Bohrer
Patrick Manning
 United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Janez Klemenčič
 Slovenia
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The men's coxless four competition at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place at took place at Lake of Banyoles, Spain.[1]

Competition format

The competition consisted of three main rounds (heats, semifinals, and finals) as well as a repechage. The 14 boats were divided into three heats for the first round, with 4 or 5 boats in each heat. The top three boats in each heat (9 boats total) advanced directly to the semifinals. The remaining 5 boats were placed in the repechage. The repechage featured a single heat. The top three boats in the repechage advanced to the semifinals. The remaining two boats (4th and 5th place in the repechage) were placed in the "C" final to compete for 13th and 14th places.

The 12 semifinalist boats were divided into two heats of 6 boats each. The top three boats in each semifinal (6 boats total) advanced to the "A" final to compete for medals and 4th through 6th place; the bottom three boats in each semifinal were sent to the "B" final for 7th through 12th.[2]

All races were over a 2000 metre course.

Results

Heats

Heat 1

Rank Rowers Nation Time Notes
1  United States 6:00.93 Q
2  New Zealand 6:03.10 Q
3
  • Janez Klemenčič
 Slovenia 6:04.91 Q
4  France 6:15.23 R
5
  • Ioan Snep
 Romania 6:24.63 R

Heat 2

Rank Rowers Nation Time Notes
1  Australia 5:59.18 Q
2  Netherlands 6:01.19 Q
3  Germany 6:09.07 Q
4  Great Britain 6:23.73 R
5  Estonia 6:27.97 R

Heat 3

Rank Rowers Nation Time Notes
1
 Spain 6:01.51 Q
2  Italy 6:02.26 Q
3  Unified Team 6:02.84 Q
4  Canada 6:03.91 R

Repechage

Rank Rowers Nation Time Notes
1  Great Britain 6:12.68 Q
2  Canada 6:12.71 Q
3  France 6:13.37 Q
4
  • Ioan Snep
 Romania 6:16.13 QC
5  Estonia 6:30.63 QC

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank Rowers Nation Time Notes
1  United States 5:58.87 QA
2
  • Janez Klemenčič
 Slovenia 5:59.52 QA
3  Netherlands 6:00.55 QA
4
 Spain 6:04.59 QB
5  Unified Team 6:05.29 QB
6  Canada 6:09.20 QB

Semifinal 2

Rank Rowers Nation Time Notes
1  Australia 5:58.26 QA
2  Germany 5:59.38 QA
3  New Zealand 6:01.19 QA
4  Great Britain 6:02.87 QB
5  Italy 6:09.72 QB
6  France 6:12.57 QB

Finals

Final C

Rank Rowers Nation Time
13
  • Ioan Snep
 Romania 6:34.85
14  Estonia 6:38.76

Final B

Rank Rowers Nation Time
7  Great Britain 6:05.00
8  Italy 6:06.21
9
 Spain 6:06.66
10  Unified Team 6:10.62
11  Canada 6:13.01
12  France 6:17.69

Final A

Rank Rowers Nation Time
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Australia 5:55.04
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  United States 5:56.68
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
  • Janez Klemenčič
 Slovenia 5:58.24
4  Germany 5:58.39
5  Netherlands 5:59.14
6  New Zealand 6:02.13

Final classification

The following rowers took part:[1]

Rank Rowers Country
1st place, gold medalist(s) Andrew Cooper
Nick Green
Mike McKay
James Tomkins
 Australia
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Jeffrey McLaughlin
William Burden
Thomas Bohrer
Patrick Manning
 United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Janez Klemenčič
 Slovenia
Armin Weyrauch
Matthias Ungemach
Dirk Balster
Markus Vogt
 Germany
Bart Peters
Niels van der Zwan
Jaap Krijtenburg
Sven Schwarz
 Netherlands
Scott Brownlee
Chris White
Pat Peoples
Campbell Clayton-Greene
 New Zealand
Salih Hassan
John Garrett
Gavin Stewart
Richard Stanhope
 Great Britain
Luca Sartori
Rocco Pecoraro
Roby La Mura
Riccardo Dei Rossi
 Italy
José María de Marco
Juan Aguirre
Fernando Molina
 Spain
Viktor Pitirimov
Roman Monchenko
Vladimir Sokolov
Vadim Yunash
 Unified Team
Don Telfer
Brian Saunderson
Cedric Burgers
Greg Stevenson
 Canada
Jean-Pierre Le Lain
Patrick Vibert-Vichet
Bruno Dumay
Dominique Lecointe
 France
Ioan Snep
 Romania
Vjatšeslav Divonin
Toomas Vilpart
Tarmo Virkus
Marek Avamere
 Estonia

References

  1. ^ a b "Rowing at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games: Men's Coxless Fours". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  2. ^ Official Report, vol. 5, pp. 327–28.