Rowing at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Rowing at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad | |
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Venue | Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park |
Dates | 9–17 August 2008 |
Competitors | 555 from 60 nations |
Rowing at the 2008 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 | |
Rowing competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing were held from August 9 to August 17, at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park.[1][2]
Qualification
Medal table
* Host nation (China)
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Great Britain (GBR) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
2 | Australia (AUS) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
3 | Canada (CAN) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
4 | United States (USA) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
5 | China (CHN)* | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Netherlands (NED) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
Poland (POL) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
8 | New Zealand (NZL) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
9 | Denmark (DEN) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Romania (ROU) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
11 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Norway (NOR) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
13 | Germany (GER) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
14 | Czech Republic (CZE) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Estonia (EST) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Finland (FIN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Greece (GRE) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Italy (ITA) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
19 | Belarus (BLR) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
France (FRA) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
Totals (20 entries) | 14 | 14 | 14 | 42 |
Medal summary
Men's events
Women's events
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Single sculls |
Rumyana Neykova Bulgaria |
Michelle Guerette United States |
Ekaterina Karsten Belarus |
Double sculls |
Georgina Evers-Swindell and Caroline Evers-Swindell (NZL) |
Annekatrin Thiele and Christiane Huth (GER) |
Anna Bebington (GBR )
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Quadruple sculls |
China (CHN) Tang Bin Jin Ziwei Xi Aihua Zhang Yangyang |
Great Britain (GBR) Annabel Vernon Debbie Flood Frances Houghton Katherine Grainger |
Germany (GER) Britta Oppelt Manuela Lutze Kathrin Boron Stephanie Schiller |
Coxless pair |
Georgeta Damian and Viorica Susanu (ROU) |
Wu You and Gao Yulan (CHN) |
Yuliya Bichyk and Natallia Helakh (BLR) |
Coxed eight |
Netherlands (NED) Femke Dekker Marlies Smulders Nienke Kingma Roline Repelaer van Driel Annemarieke van Rumpt Helen Tanger Sarah Siegelaar Annemiek de Haan cox: Ester Workel |
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Lightweight double sculls |
Kirsten van der Kolk and Marit van Eupen (NED) |
Minna Nieminen and Sanna Stén (FIN) |
Tracy Cameron and Melanie Kok (CAN) |
See also
References
- ^ "Rowing at the 2008 Beijing Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
- ^ "2008 Olympic Games". worldrowing.com. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rowing at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
- FISA - International Rowing Federation
- Rowing medal Standings from the official Beijing Olympics website.
- Rowing – Official Results Book