# Rowing at the 2006 Asian Games

Rowing competed at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar. Men's and women's singles, doubles, and fours competition took place at the West Bay Lagoon from December 3 to December 7. Since Doha was scarce of water the distance had to be shortened from standard 2000 meters to 1000 metres.

## Schedule

| H | Heats | R | Repechages | S | Semifinals | F | Finals |
| Event↓/Date → | 3rd Sun | 4th Mon | 5th Tue | 6th Wed | 7th Thu |
| Men's single sculls | H | R | S | | F |
| Men's double sculls | H | R | S | F | |
| Men's coxless four | H | R | S | | F |
| Men's lightweight single sculls | H | R | S | | F |
| Men's lightweight double sculls | H | R | S | F | |
| Women's single sculls | H | R | S | | F |
| Women's double sculls | H | R | | F | |
| Women's coxless four | H | R | S | F | |
| Women's lightweight single sculls | H | R | S | | F |
| Women's lightweight double sculls | H | R | | F | |

## Medalists
### Men

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Single sculls details | Shin Eun-chul South Korea | Bajrang Lal Takhar India | Mikhail Garnik Kazakhstan |
| Double sculls details | Uzbekistan Vladimir Chernenko Ruslan Naurzaliev | South Korea Kim Dal-ho Ham Jung-wook | China Su Hui Cui Yonghui |
| Coxless four details | Japan Yu Kataoka Yuya Higashiyama Rokuroh Okumura Yoshinori Sato | India Dharmesh Sangwan Jenil Krishnan Sukhjeet Singh Satish Joshi | Indonesia Thomas Hallatu Sumardi Jamaluddin Iswandi |
| Lightweight single sculls details | Wu Chongkui China | Daisaku Takeda Japan | Ruthtanaphol Theppibal Thailand |
| Lightweight double sculls details | Japan Takahiro Suda Hideki Omoto | Thailand Ruthtanaphol Theppibal Anupong Thainjam | India Kiran Yalamanchi Bijender Singh |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Single sculls details | Jin Ziwei China | Ai Fukuchi Japan | Pere Karoba Indonesia |
| Double sculls details | China Tian Liang Li Qin | South Korea Kim Ok-kyung Shin Yeong-eun | Kazakhstan Mariya Filimonova Inga Dudchenko |
| Coxless four details | China Cheng Ran Yu Chengxi Gao Yanhua Mu Suli | North Korea Kang Kum-sun Kim Ok-bun Kim Ryon-ok Yu Sun-ok | South Korea Kim Soon-rye Im Eun-seon Eom Mi-seon Min Su-hyoun |
| Lightweight single sculls details | Xu Dongxiang China | Lee Ka Man Hong Kong | Phuttharaksa Neegree Thailand |
| Lightweight double sculls details | Uzbekistan Sevara Ganieva Zarrina Ganieva | Japan Akiko Iwamoto Eri Wakai | Thailand Phuttharaksa Neegree Bussayamas Phaengkathok |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | China (CHN) | 5 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 2 | Japan (JPN) | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 3 | Uzbekistan (UZB) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | South Korea (KOR) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | India (IND) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | Thailand (THA) | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 7 | Hong Kong (HKG) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | North Korea (PRK) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Indonesia (INA) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 9 | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Totals (10 entries) | Totals (10 entries) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |

## Participating nations

A total of 172 athletes from 20 nations competed in rowing at the 2006 Asian Games:
* China (16)
* Chinese Taipei (11)
* Hong Kong (8)
* India (12)
* Indonesia (6)
* Iran (8)
* Iraq (2)
* Japan (13)
* Kazakhstan (15)
* Kuwait (5)
* North Korea (19)
* Pakistan (7)
* Philippines (4)
* Qatar (2)
* Singapore (1)
* South Korea (14)
* Sri Lanka (3)
* Thailand (4)
* Uzbekistan (12)
* Vietnam (10)