# Rowing at the 2012 Summer Olympics

The rowing competitions at the 2012 Olympic Games in London were held from 28 July to 4 August 2012, at Dorney Lake which, for the purposes of the Games venue, was officially termed Eton Dorney. Fourteen medal events were contested by 550 athletes, 353 men and 197 women.
Great Britain was the most successful nation, topping the medal table with four golds and nine in total. New Zealand finished second with three golds and five medals overall.

## Venue

All of the rowing events were staged at the Eton Dorney Rowing Centre at Dorney Lake near Windsor Castle, 25 miles (40 km) west of London. The venue has eight lanes and is 2,200 m in length with a capacity of 30,000 spectators.

## Qualification

Each competing nation may qualify one boat for each of the fourteen events. The majority of qualification places were awarded based on results at the 2011 World Championships, held at Lake Bled, Slovenia, in August and September. Places are awarded to National Olympic Committees, not the specific athletes, finishing in the top 11 of men's events and top seven to nine of women's events, except in the eights where the first seven in the men's event and first five in the women's qualified. Further berths were allocated at three continental qualifying regattas in Africa, Asia and Latin America and a final Olympic qualification regatta in Lucerne, Switzerland.

## Events

There were eight events for men and six for women. Events included categories for open weight and restricted weight (lightweight) athletes, and two styles of rowing: sweep, where competitors each use a single oar, and sculling, where they use two.
Sculling events include men's and women's singles, doubles, lightweight doubles, and quads. Sweep events are men's and women's pairs and eights, and men's fours and lightweight fours.

## Schedule

| H | Heats | R | Repechage | ¼ | Quarterfinals | ½ | Semifinals | F | Final |
| Event↓/Date → | Sat 28 | Sun 29 | Mon 30 | Tue 31 | Wed 1 | Thu 2 | Fri 3 | Sat 4 |
| Men's Single Sculls | H | R | | ¼ | ½ | | F | |
| Men's Pair | H | | R | | ½ | | F | |
| Men's Double Sculls | H | R | | ½ | | F | | |
| Men's Lightweight Double Sculls | | H | | R | | ½ | | F |
| Men's Four | | | H | R | | ½ | | F |
| Men's Quadruple Sculls | H | | R | | ½ | | F | |
| Men's Lightweight Four | H | R | | ½ | | F | | |
| Men's Eight | H | | R | | F | | | |
| Women's Single Sculls | H | R | | ¼ | | ½ | | F |
| Women's Pair | H | | R | | F | | | |
| Women's Double Sculls | | | H | R | | | F | |
| Women's Lightweight Double Sculls | | H | | R | | ½ | | F |
| Women's Quadruple Sculls | H | | R | | F | | | |
| Women's Eight | | H | | R | | F | | |

## Medal summary
### Medal table

* Host nation (Great Britain)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Great Britain* | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 |
| 2 | New Zealand | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 3 | Germany | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 4 | Denmark | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Czech Republic | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | United States | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 7 | South Africa | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Ukraine | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Australia | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 10 | Canada | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | China | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Croatia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | France | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Italy | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 15 | Greece | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 15 | Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 15 | Poland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 15 | Slovenia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (18 entries) | Totals (18 entries) | 14 | 14 | 14 | 42 |

### Men's events

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Single sculls details | Mahé Drysdale New Zealand | Ondřej Synek Czech Republic | Alan Campbell Great Britain |
| Double sculls details | Nathan Cohen and Joseph Sullivan (NZL) | Alessio Sartori and Romano Battisti (ITA) | Luka Špik and Iztok Čop (SLO) |
| Quadruple sculls details | Germany (GER) Karl Schulze Philipp Wende Lauritz Schoof Tim Grohmann | Croatia (CRO) David Šain Martin Sinković Damir Martin Valent Sinković | Australia (AUS) Chris Morgan Karsten Forsterling James McRae Daniel Noonan |
| Coxless pair details | Eric Murray and Hamish Bond (NZL) | Germain Chardin and Dorian Mortelette (FRA) | George Nash and Will Satch (GBR) |
| Coxless four details | Great Britain (GBR) Alex Gregory Tom James Pete Reed Andrew Triggs Hodge | Australia (AUS) James Chapman Josh Dunkley-Smith Drew Ginn Will Lockwood | United States (USA) Charlie Cole Scott Gault Glenn Ochal Henrik Rummel |
| Coxed eight details | Germany (GER) Filip Adamski Andreas Kuffner Eric Johannesen Maximilian Reinelt Richard Schmidt Lukas Müller Florian Mennigen Kristof Wilke Martin Sauer | Canada (CAN) Gabriel Bergen Douglas Csima Robert Gibson Conlin McCabe Malcolm Howard Andrew Byrnes Jeremiah Brown Will Crothers Brian Price | Great Britain (GBR) Alex Partridge James Emmott Tom Ransley Richard Egington Moe Sbihi Greg Searle Matt Langridge Constantine Louloudis Phelan Hill |
| Lightweight double sculls details | Mads Rasmussen and Rasmus Quist Hansen (DEN) | Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter (GBR) | Storm Uru and Peter Taylor (NZL) |
| Lightweight coxless four details | South Africa (RSA) James Thompson Matthew Brittain John Smith Sizwe Ndlovu | Great Britain (GBR) Peter Chambers Rob Williams Richard Chambers Chris Bartley | Denmark (DEN) Kasper Winther Jørgensen Morten Jørgensen Jacob Barsøe Eskild Ebbesen |

### Women's events

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Single sculls details | Miroslava Knapkova Czech Republic | Fie Udby Erichsen Denmark | Kim Crow Australia |
| Double sculls details | Anna Watkins and Katherine Grainger (GBR) | Kim Crow and Brooke Pratley (AUS) | Magdalena Fularczyk and Julia Michalska (POL) |
| Quadruple sculls details | Ukraine (UKR) Kateryna Tarasenko Nataliya Dovhodko Anastasiya Kozhenkova Yana Dementyeva | Germany (GER) Annekatrin Thiele Carina Bär Julia Richter Britta Oppelt | United States (USA) Natalie Dell Kara Kohler Megan Kalmoe Adrienne Martelli |
| Coxless pair details | Helen Glover and Heather Stanning (GBR) | Kate Hornsey and Sarah Tait (AUS) | Juliette Haigh and Rebecca Scown (NZL) |
| Coxed eight details | United States (USA) Erin Cafaro Susan Francia Esther Lofgren Taylor Ritzel Meghan Musnicki Elle Logan Caroline Lind Caryn Davies Mary Whipple | Canada (CAN) Janine Hanson Rachelle Viinberg Krista Guloien Lauren Wilkinson Natalie Mastracci Ashley Brzozowicz Darcy Marquardt Andréanne Morin Lesley Thompson-Willie | Netherlands (NED) Jacobine Veenhoven Nienke Kingma Chantal Achterberg Sytske de Groot Roline Repelaer van Driel Claudia Belderbos Carline Bouw Annemiek de Haan Anne Schellekens |
| Lightweight double sculls details | Katherine Copeland and Sophie Hosking (GBR) | Xu Dongxiang and Huang Wenyi (CHN) | Christina Giazitzidou and Alexandra Tsiavou (GRE) |