# 2008 World Rowing Championships

The 2008 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held from 22 to 27 July 2008 in conjunction with the World Junior Rowing Championships in Ottensheim near Linz, Austria. Since 2008 was an Olympic year for rowing, the World Championships did not include Olympic events scheduled for the 2008 Summer Olympics, or the adaptive rowing events at the 2008 Summer Paralympics.

## Medal summary
### Men's events

| Event: | Gold: | Time | Silver: | Time | Bronze: | Time |
| M2+ | Canada Gabriel Bergen (b) James Dunaway (s) Mark Laidlaw (c) | 7:06.69 | France Sébastien Lente (b) Benjamin Lang (s) Benjamin Manceau (c) | 7:08.64 | Australia Nick Baxter (b) Fergus Pragnell (s) Hugh Rawlinson (c) | 7:09.30 |
| Men's lightweight events |||||||
| LM1x | New Zealand Duncan Grant | 6:52.38 | Netherlands Jaap Schouten | 6:52.73 | Greece Ilias Pappas | 6:55.00 |
| LM2- | Greece Nikolaos Goudoulas (b) Apostolos Goudoulas (s) | 6:40.92 | Italy Andrea Caianiello (b) Armando Dell'Aquila(s) | 6:42.88 | Serbia Goran Nedeljković (b) Miloš Tomić (s) | 6:45.25 |
| LM4x | Italy Franco Sancassani (b) Daniele Gilardoni (2) Stefano Basalini (3) Daniele Danesin (s) | 5:57.30 | France Rémi Di Girolamo (b) Jérémie Azou (2) Fabrice Moreau (3) Pierre-Étienne Pollez (s) | 5:57.56 | Germany Stephan Schad (b) Knud Lange (2) Felix Övermann (3) Michael Wieler (s) | 5:59.50 |
| LM8+ | United States Simon Carcagno (b) Andrew Bolton (2) Colin Farrell (3) Mike Altman (4) Pat Todd (5) Will Daly (6) Tom Paradiso (7) Matt Muffelman (s) Edmund del Guercio (c) | 5:50.29 | Germany Matthias Veit (b) Marc Rippel (2) Johann-Sebastian Diemann (3) Jonas Schützeberg (4) Matthias Schömann-Finck (5) Adrian Bretting (6) Olaf Beckmann (7) Axel Schuster (s) Martin Sauer (c) | 5:51.69 | Netherlands Pieter Rom Colthoff (b) Diederick van den Bouwhuijsen (2) Reinoud de Groot (3) Dennis Beemsterboer (4) Rutger Bruil (5) Jolmer van der Sluis (6) Maarten Tromp (7) Maarten de Boer (s) Ryan den Drijver (c) | 5:52.37 |

### Women's events

| Event: | Gold: | Time | Silver: | Time | Bronze: | Time |
| W4- | Belarus Hanna Nakhayeva (b) Volha Shcharbachenia (2) Natallia Helakh (3) Yuliya Bichyk (s) | 6:39.89 | United States Karen Colwell (b) Stesha Carle (2) Sarah Trowbridge (3) Esther Lofgren (s) | 6:43.56 | Denmark Maria Pertl (b) Lisbet Jakobsen (2) Fie Graugaard (3) Lea Jakobsen (s) | 6:44.69 |
| Women's lightweight events |||||||
| LW1x | Switzerland Pamela Weisshaupt | 7:43.26 | Ireland Sinéad Jennings | 7:43.81 | Croatia Mirna Rajle Brodanac | 7:47.15 |
| LW4x | Australia Ingrid Fenger (b) Bronwen Watson (2) Miranda Bennett (3) Alice McNamara (s) | 6:36.41 | Poland Monika Myszk (s) Magdalena Kemnitz (2) Weronika Deresz (3) Ilona Mokronowska (s) | 6:39.38 | United States Elizabeth Peters (b) Wendy Tripician (2) Rebecca Smith (3) Hannah Moore (s) | 6:40.77 |

## Medal table

* Host nation (Austria)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | United States (USA) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | Italy (ITA) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | Australia (AUS) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | Greece (GRE) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | Belarus (BLR) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Canada (CAN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | New Zealand (NZL) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Switzerland (SUI) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | France (FRA) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 | Germany (GER) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | Netherlands (NED) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 12 | Ireland (IRL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Poland (POL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | Croatia (CRO) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 14 | Denmark (DEN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 14 | Serbia (SER) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (16 entries) | Totals (16 entries) | 8 | 8 | 8 | 24 |