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

Men's double sculls
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Venue Eton Dorney
Date 28 July – 2 August
Competitors 26 from 13 nations
Winning time 6:31.67
Medalists
1st, gold medalist(s) Nathan Cohen
Joseph Sullivan
 New Zealand
2nd, silver medalist(s) Alessio Sartori
Romano Battisti
 Italy
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Luka Špik
Iztok Čop
 Slovenia

The men's 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]

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

Date Time Round
Saturday, 28 July 201210:30Heats
Sunday, 29 July 201209:30Repechage
Tuesday, 31 July 201212:20Semifinals
Thursday, 2 August 201209:50Final B
Thursday, 2 August 201211:50Final

Results

Heats

First three of each heat qualify to the semifinals, remainder goes to the repeachge.

Heat 1

Rank Rowers Country Time Notes
1 Eric Knittel
Stephan Krüger
 Germany 6:17.74 Q
=2 Rolandas Maščinskas
Saulius Ritter
 Lithuania 6:17.78 Q
=2 Luka Špik
Iztok Čop
 Slovenia 6:17.78 Q
4 David Crawshay
Scott Brennan
 Australia 6:21.25 R
5 Michael Braithwaite
Kevin Kowalyk
 Canada 6:34.11 R

Heat 2

Rank Rowers Country Time Notes
1 Nils Jakob Hoff
Kjetil Borch
 Norway 6:16.31 Q
2 Alessio Sartori
Romano Battisti
 Italy 6:18.50 Q
3 Julien Bahain
Cédric Berrest
 France 6:19.61 Q
4 Dmytro Mikhay
Artem Morozov
 Ukraine 6:49.70 R

Heat 3

Rank Rowers Country Time Notes
1 Nathan Cohen
Joseph Sullivan
 New Zealand 6:11.30 Q (OR)
2 Bill Lucas
Sam Townsend
 Great Britain 6:11.94 Q
3 Ariel Suárez
Cristian Rosso
 Argentina 6:13.68 Q
4 Jüri-Mikk Udam
Geir Suursild
 Estonia 6:33.88 R

Repechage

First three qualify to the semifinals.

Rank Rowers Country Time Notes
1 David Crawshay
Scott Brennan
 Australia 6.25.36 Q
2 Dmytro Mikhay
Artem Morozov
 Ukraine 6:30.19 Q
3 Michael Braithwaite
Kevin Kowalyk
 Canada 6:30.74 Q
4 Jüri-Mikk Udam
Geir Suursild
 Estonia 6:38.50

Semifinals

First three qualify to the final.

Semifinal 1

Rank Rower Country Time Notes
1 Ariel Suárez
Cristian Rosso
 Argentina 6:19.40 Q
2 Nathan Cohen
Joseph Sullivan
 New Zealand 6:19.79 Q
3 Alessio Sartori
Romano Battisti
 Italy 6:20.68 Q
4 Eric Knittel
Stephan Krüger
 Germany 6:22.54
5 David Crawshay
Scott Brennan
 Australia 6:23.47
6 Dmytro Mikhay
Artem Morozov
 Ukraine 6:36.52

Semifinal 2

Rank Rower Country Time Notes
1 Luka Špik
Iztok Čop
 Slovenia 6:19.97 Q
2 Rolandas Maščinskas
Saulius Ritter
 Lithuania 6:21.62 Q
3 Bill Lucas
Sam Townsend
 Great Britain 6:22.47 Q
4 Nils Jakob Hoff
Kjetil Borch
 Norway 6:22.88
5 Julien Bahain
Cédric Berrest
 France 6:29.61
6 Michael Braithwaite
Kevin Kowalyk
 Canada 6:38.94

Finals

Final B

Rank Rowers Country Time
1 Nils Jakob Hoff
Kjetil Borch
 Norway 6:20.82
2 David Crawshay
Scott Brennan
 Australia 6:22.19
3 Eric Knittel
Stephan Krüger
 Germany 6:23.36
4 Julien Bahain
Cédric Berrest
 France 6:26.44
5 Dmytro Mikhay
Artem Morozov
 Ukraine 6:31.51
6 Michael Braithwaite
Kevin Kowalyk
 Canada 6:32.61

Final A

New Zealand rower Hamish Bond watched fellow team members Nathan Cohen and Joseph Sullivan in their final, and with 500 m to go, they were 3.5 sec down on the leaders and in fourth place; whilst they were the reigning world champions and had dominated the qualifying races, Bond was convinced that they had no chance of winning their final. But they had the most impressive sprint and won by half a length.[3]

Rank Rowers Country Time
1st, gold medalist(s) Nathan Cohen
Joseph Sullivan
 New Zealand 6:31.67
2nd, silver medalist(s) Alessio Sartori
Romano Battisti
 Italy 6:32.80
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Luka Špik
Iztok Čop
 Slovenia 6:34.35
4 Ariel Suárez
Cristian Rosso
 Argentina 6:36.36
5 Bill Lucas
Sam Townsend
 Great Britain 6:40.54
6 Rolandas Maščinskas
Saulius Ritter
 Lithuania 6:42.69

References

  1. "Rowing". London 2012 website. Archived from the original on 5 December 2012. Retrieved 10 May 2011.
  2. "Rowing at the 2012 London Summer Games: Men's Double Sculls". Sports Reference. Retrieved 29 September 2018.
  3. Stevenson, Scotty (2016). The Kiwi Pair. Penguin Books. pp. 16f. ISBN 978-1-74-348731-0.
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