# 2004 World Rowing Championships

The 2004 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held from 27 July to 1 August 2004 in conjunction with the World Junior Rowing Championships on lake Banyoles in Catalonia, Spain. Since 2004 was an Olympic year for rowing, the World Championships did not include Olympic events scheduled for the 2004 Summer Olympics.

## Medal summary
### Men's events

Non-Olympic classes
| Event | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| M4+ | Italy Lorenzo Carboncini (b) Stefano Introzzi (2) Edoardo Verzotti (3) Valerio Massimo (s) Alessandro Speranza (c) | 6:11.53 | Canada Robert Weitemeyer (b) Malcolm Howard (2) Peter Dembicki (3) Andrew Ireland (s) Stephen Cheng (c) | 06:11.55 | United States Andrew Brennan (b) Paul Daniels (2) Steve Coppola (3) Josh Inman (s) Marcus McElhenney (c) | 6:11.97 |
| M2+ | Italy Mattia Trombetta (b) Mario Palmisano (s) Luigi Longobardi (c) | 6:54.46 | Poland Marcin Wika (b) Piotr Basta (s) Rafał Cholewiński (c) | 6:55.63 | Denmark Gunnar Levring (b) Morten Nielsen (s) Jacob Neergaard (c) | 6:56.12 |
| Men's lightweight events |||||||
| LM1x | Germany Peter Ording | 7:03.04 | Switzerland Stephan Steiner | 7:18.53 | Ukraine Oleksandr Serdiuk | 7:05.93 |
| LM4x | Italy Franco Sancassani (b) Alessandro Lodigiani (2) Daniele Gilardoni (3) Marcello Miani (s) | 5:58.38 | Canada Jeff Bujas (b) Scott Moore (2) Matt Jensen (3) Liam Parsons (s) | 5:58.57 | Germany Nils Budde (b) Matthias Schömann-Finck (2) Nils Ipsen (3) Jens Wittwer (s) | 6:01.43 |
| LM2- | Denmark Bo Helleberg (b) Mads Andersen | 6:40.29 | Italy Nicola Moriconi (b) Salvatore Di Somma | 6:40.59 | Canada Douglas Vandor (b) Mike Lewis (s) | 6:44.03 |
| LM8+ | France Franck Solforosi (b) Damien Margat (2) Alexis Saïtta (3) Jérémy Pouge (4) Franck Bussière (5) Vincent Faucheux (6) Nicolas Planque (7) Fabien Tilliet (s) Nicolas Majerus (c) | 5:42.49 | Italy Santino Faggioli (b) Luigi Scala (2) Bruno Pasqualini (3) Giuseppe Del Gaudio (4) Fabrizio Gabriele (5) Stefano De Piccoli (6) Livio La Padula (7) Emanuele Federici (s) Gianluca Barattolo (c) | 5:43.88 | Australia George Roberts (b) Samuel Waley (2) Ross Brown (3) Kaspar Hebblewhite (4) Thomas Gibson (5) Tom Nicholls (6) Tim Smith (7) Samuel Beltz (s) Marc Douez (c) | 5:46.64 |

### Women's events

Non-Olympic classes
| Event | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| W4- | France Marjolaine Rossit (b) Celia Foulon (2) Audrey Galy (3) Marie Le Nepvou (s) | 6:36.28 | Russia Valeriya Starodubrovskaya (b) Yulia Inozemtseva (2) Natalia Melnikova (3) Vera Pochitaeva (s) | 6:38.00 | Belarus Iryna Bazyleuskaya (b) Natallia Lialina (2) Tamara Samakhvalava (3) Hanna Nakhayeva (s) | 6:38.07 |
| Women's lightweight events |||||||
| LW1x | Germany Nina Gäßler | 7:38.51 | Great Britain Jo Hammond | 7:40.22 | Finland Minna Nieminen | 7:40.27 |
| LW4x | China Wang Yanni (b) Deng Yanping (2) Tan Meiyun (3) Zhou Weijuan (s) | 6:36.78 | Canada Gen Meredith (b) Sheryl Preston (2) Shona Mclaren (3) Elizabeth Urbach (s) | 6:40.86 | United States Maria Picone (b) Mary Obidinski (2) Julie Nichols (3) Renee Hykel (s) | 6:42.56 |

### Adaptive rowing

Three boat classes competed at the adaptive rowing event held from 29 July to 1 August: AS men's single sculls (ASM1x), LTA mixed coxed four (LTAMix4+), and TA mixed double sculls (TAMix2x).
| Event | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| ASM1x AS men's single sculls | Australia Peter Taylor | 2:58.20 | Great Britain Rob Holliday | 3:11.33 | United States Ronald Harvey | 3:11.68 |
| LTAMix4+ LTA mixed coxed four | Great Britain Katie-George Dunlevy (b) Naomi Riches (2) Paul Askam-Spencer (3) Alan Crowther (s) Loretta Williams (cox) | 3:39.21 | Netherlands Catharina Bijl (b) Joleen Hakker (2) Paul De Jong (3) Martin Lauriks (s) Helen Op Den Velde-Berger (cox) | 3:47.03 | Portugal Monica Campizes Ferreira (b) José Pereira (2) Bruno Indio (3) Sonia Costa (s) Isabel Jesus (cox) | 3:52.76 |
| TAMix2x TA mixed double sculls | United States Scott Brown (b) Angela Madsen (s) | 4:33.90 | France Michele Amiel (b) Christophe Somme (s) | 6:27.25 | Italy Enio Billiato (b) Agnese Moro (s) | 6:50.14 |

## Medal table

| Place | Nation | | | | Total |
| 1 | Italy | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 2 | Germany | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | France | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | Denmark | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | China | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Canada | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 7 | Great Britain | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Russia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Switzerland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Poland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | United States | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 12 | Finland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Belarus | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Ukraine | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Australia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | Total | 9 | 9 | 9 | 27 |