Rowing at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's double sculls

The women's double sculls competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro was held on 6–11 August at the Lagoon Rodrigo de Freitas.[1]

Women's double sculls
at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
VenueRodrigo de Freitas Lagoon
Date6–11 August 2016
Competitors26 from 13 nations
Winning time7:40.10
Medalists
Magdalena Fularczyk-Kozłowska
Natalia Madaj
 Poland
Victoria Thornley
Katherine Grainger
 Great Britain
Donata Vištartaitė
Milda Valčiukaitė
 Lithuania

The medals for the competition were presented by Nenad Lalović, Serbia, member of the International Olympic Committee, and the gifts were presented by Lenka Dientsbach-Wech, Germany, Member of the Executive Committee of the International Rowing Federation.

Results

Heats

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

Heat 1

Rank Rower Country Time Notes
1 Donata Vištartaitė
Milda Valčiukaitė
 Lithuania 7:04.82 SF
2 Victoria Thornley
Katherine Grainger
 Great Britain 7:05.32 SF
3 Hélène Lefebvre
Elodie Ravera-Scaramozzino
 France 7:05.65 SF
4 Marie-Cathérine Arnold
Mareike Adams
 Germany 7:13.49 R
5 Lisbet Jakobsen
Nina Hollensen
 Denmark 7:18.92 R

Heat 2

Rank Rower Country Time Notes
1 Magdalena Fularczyk-Kozłowska
Natalia Madaj
 Poland 7:16.16 SF
2 Lü Yang
Zhu Weiwei
 China 7:25.19 SF
3 Yuliya Bichyk
Tatsiana Kukhta
 Belarus 7:27.22 SF
4 Meghan O'Leary
Ellen Tomek
 United States 7:46.92 R

Heat 3

Rank Rower Country Time Notes
1 Eve MacFarlane
Zoe Stevenson
 New Zealand 7:14.31 SF
2 Sally Kehoe
Genevieve Horton
 Australia 7:17.34 SF
3 Aikaterini Nikolaidou
Sofia Asoumanaki
 Greece 7:20.64 SF
4 Kristýna Fleissnerová
Lenka Antošová
 Czech Republic 7:35.85 R

Repechage

First three of heat qualify to the semifinals.

Heat 1

Rank Rower Country Time Notes
1 Marie-Cathérine Arnold
Mareike Adams
 Germany 7:00.54 SF
2 Meghan O'Leary
Ellen Tomek
 United States 7:00.60 SF
3 Kristýna Fleissnerová
Lenka Antošová
 Czech Republic 7:03.68 SF
4 Lisbet Jakobsen
Nina Hollensen
 Denmark 7:04.35

Semifinals

First three of each heat qualify to the Final A, remainder goes to the Final B.

Semifinal 1

Rank Rower Country Time Notes
1 Aikaterini Nikolaidou
Sofia Asoumanaki
 Greece 6:51.99 FA
2 Donata Vištartaitė
Milda Valčiukaitė
 Lithuania 6:52.46 FA
3 Meghan O'Leary
Ellen Tomek
 United States 6:52.92 FA
4 Eve MacFarlane
Zoe Stevenson
 New Zealand 6:52.97 FB
5 Marie-Cathérine Arnold
Mareike Adams
 Germany 6:58.70 FB
6 Lü Yang
Zhu Weiwei
 China 7:05.31 FB

Semifinal 2

Rank Rower Country Time Notes
1 Magdalena Fularczyk-Kozłowska
Natalia Madaj
 Poland 6:50.63 FA
2 Victoria Thornley
Katherine Grainger
 Great Britain 6:52.47 FA
3 Hélène Lefebvre
Elodie Ravera-Scaramozzino
 France 6:54.34 FA
4 Sally Kehoe
Genevieve Horton
 Australia 6:55.37 FB
5 Yuliya Bichyk
Tatsiana Kukhta
 Belarus 6:57.64 FB
6 Kristýna Fleissnerová
Lenka Antošová
 Czech Republic 7:03.79 FB

Final B

Rank Rower Country Time Notes
1 Marie-Cathérine Arnold
Mareike Adams
 Germany 7:39.82
2 Yuliya Bichyk
Tatsiana Kukhta
 Belarus 7:40.48
3 Sally Kehoe
Genevieve Horton
 Australia 7:42.30
4 Kristýna Fleissnerová
Lenka Antošová
 Czech Republic 7:43.77
5 Lü Yang
Zhu Weiwei
 China 7:45.68
6 Eve MacFarlane
Zoe Stevenson
 New Zealand 7:50.74

Final A

Rank Rower Country Time Notes
Magdalena Fularczyk-Kozłowska
Natalia Madaj
 Poland 7:40.10
Victoria Thornley
Katherine Grainger
 Great Britain 7:41.05
Donata Vištartaitė
Milda Valčiukaitė
 Lithuania 7:43.76
4 Aikaterini Nikolaidou
Sofia Asoumanaki
 Greece 7:48.62
5 Hélène Lefebvre
Elodie Ravera-Scaramozzino
 France 7:52.03
6 Meghan O'Leary
Ellen Tomek
 United States 8:06.18

References

  1. "Rowing at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's double sculls". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
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