# 2008 European Rowing Championships

The 2008 European Rowing Championships were held at the Schinias Olympic Rowing and Canoeing Centre, in Marathon, Greece, between 16 and 20 September 2008. They were the 2nd annual event after the decision made in May 2006 by the FISA to re-establish the European Rowing Championships.
Owing to a big storm announced on the Centre, all finales (A and B) took place on Saturday, 20 September and not Sunday, 21 September, as initially scheduled.

## Medal summary
### Men's results

| Event | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| M1x | Ioannis Christou (GRE) | 6:52.96 | Lukáš Babač (SVK) | 6:55.95 | Kostiantyn Zaitsev (UKR) | 6:57.05 |
| M2x | France Julien Bahain Julien Desprès | 6:16.92 | Estonia Vladimir Latin Kaspar Taimsoo | 6:18.40 | Ukraine Artem Morozov Vitaliy Kryvenko | 6:20.09 |
| M2- | Greece Georgios Tsiompanidis Pavlos Gavriilidis | 6:29:42 | Serbia Goran Jagar Nikola Stojić | 6:31.21 | France Jean-David Bernard Laurent Cadot | 6:31.29 |
| LM2x | Greece Dimitrios Mouyios Vasileios Polymeros | 6:16.53 | Italy Lorenzo Bertini Daniele Gilardoni | 6:19.34 | Hungary Zsolt Hirling Tamás Varga | 6:22.41 |
| M4x | Estonia Allar Raja Andrei Jämsä Tõnu Endrekson Jüri Jaanson | 5:45.75 | Germany Markus Kuffner Tim Bartels Daniel Makowski René Burmeister | 5:47.75 | Ukraine Serhiy Hryn Volodymyr Pavlovskiy Oleh Lykov Serhiy Biloushchenko | 5:47.86 |
| M4- | Greece Nikolaos Goudoulas Apostolos Goudoulas Ioannis Tsilis Georgios Tziallas | 5:57.24 | Italy Domenico Montrone Romano Battisti Sergio Canciani Andrea Tranquilli | 6:00.04 | Belarus Andrei Dzemyanenka Vadzim Lialin Yauheni Nosau Aliaksandr Kazubouski | 6:02.36 |
| LM4- | Italy Salvatore Amitrano Fabrizio Gabriele Andrea Caianiello Armando Dell'Aquila | 5:58.92 | Serbia Veljko Urošević Nenad Babović Goran Nedeljković Miloš Tomić | 6:02.31 | Czech Republic Vlastimil Čabla Vojtěch Bejblík Jiří Kopač Miroslav Vraštil Jr. | 6:04.92 |
| M8+ | France Victor Bordereau Adrien Hardy Pierre-Jean Peltier Jean-Baptiste Macquet Frédéric Doucet Benjamin Rondeau Sébastien Lente Dorian Mortelette Benjamin Manceau | 5:32.01 | Russia Anton Zarutskiy Aleksandr Lebedev Roman Vorotnikov Edgar Ivans Aleksandr Kulesh Dmitriy Rozinkevich Vladimir Volodenkov Denis Markelov Pavel Safonkin | 5:32.76 | Poland Sebastian Kosiorek Michał Stawowski Patryk Brzeziński Piotr Buchalski Wojciech Gutorski Marcin Brzeziński Rafał Hejmej Mikołaj Burda Daniel Trojanowski | 5:33.11 |

### Women's results

| Event | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| W1x | Miroslava Knapková (CZE) | 7:27.42 | Annick De Decker (BEL) | 7:34.04 | Regina Naunheim (SUI) | 7:35.04 |
| W2x | Ukraine Kateryna Tarasenko Yana Dementyeva | 6:55.95 | Poland Magdalena Fularczyk Natalia Madaj | 6:57.33 | Italy Gabriella Bascelli Erika Bello | 6:58.10 |
| W2- | Romania Georgeta Damian-Andrunache Viorica Susanu | 7:17.53 | Russia Vera Pochitaeva Alevtina Podvyazkina | 7:19.05 | Belarus Volha Shcharbachenia Tatsiana Kukhta | 7:21.35 |
| LW2x | Greece Chrysi Biskitzi Alexandra Tsiavou | 7:02.71 | Poland Weronika Deresz Ilona Mokronowska | 7:04.98 | Hungary Zsófia Novák Zsuzsanna Hajdú | 7:08.80 |
| W4x | Ukraine Svitlana Spiriukhova Olena Olefirenko Nataliya Lialchuk Tetiana Kolesnikova | 6:26.54 | Russia Olga Samulenkova Larisa Merk Oxana Dorodnova Julia Kalinovskaya | 6:28.20 | Romania Ionelia Neacşu Cristina Ilie Adelina Cojocariu Roxana Cogianu | 6:30.64 |
| W8+ | Romania Constanța Burcică Ana Maria Apachiţei Rodica Şerban-Florea Enikő Barabás Camelia Lupaşcu Ioana Papuc Simona Muşat-Strimbeschi Doina Ignat Teodora Stoica | 6:10.22 | Great Britain Jo Cook Vicky Myers Georgina Menheneott Emily Taylor Rachel Loveridge Kirsty Myles Lindsey Maguire Hannah Elsy Rebecca Dowbiggin | 6:12.46 | Belarus Volha Maroz Aliza Klimovich Hanna Nakhayeva Katsiaryna Yarmolich Natallia Helakh Volha Shcharbachenia Tatsiana Kukhta Yuliya Bichyk Anastasiya Katsiashova | 6:22.79 |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Greece (GRE) | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 2 | Ukraine (UKR) | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 3 | France (FRA) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | Romania (ROU) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Italy (ITA) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 6 | Estonia (EST) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | Czech Republic (CZE) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | Russia (RUS) | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 9 | Poland (POL) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 10 | Serbia (SRB) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | Belgium (BEL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Germany (GER) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Great Britain (GBR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Slovakia (SVK) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 15 | Belarus (BLR) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 16 | Hungary (HUN) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 17 | Switzerland (SUI) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (17 entries) | Totals (17 entries) | 14 | 14 | 14 | 42 |