# Rowing at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's double sculls

The women's double sculls competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro was held on 6–11 August at the Lagoon Rodrigo de Freitas.
The medals for the competition were presented by Nenad Lalović, Serbia, member of the International Olympic Committee, and the gifts were presented by Lenka Dientsbach-Wech, Germany, Member of the Executive Committee of the International Rowing Federation.

## Results
### Heats

First three of each heat qualify to the semifinals, remainder goes to the repechage.

#### Heat 1

| Rank | Rower | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Donata Vištartaitė Milda Valčiukaitė | Lithuania | 7:04.82 | SF |
| 2 | Victoria Thornley Katherine Grainger | Great Britain | 7:05.32 | SF |
| 3 | Hélène Lefebvre Elodie Ravera-Scaramozzino | France | 7:05.65 | SF |
| 4 | Marie-Cathérine Arnold Mareike Adams | Germany | 7:13.49 | R |
| 5 | Lisbet Jakobsen Nina Hollensen | Denmark | 7:18.92 | R |

#### Heat 2

| Rank | Rower | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Magdalena Fularczyk-Kozłowska Natalia Madaj | Poland | 7:16.16 | SF |
| 2 | Lü Yang Zhu Weiwei | China | 7:25.19 | SF |
| 3 | Yuliya Bichyk Tatsiana Kukhta | Belarus | 7:27.22 | SF |
| 4 | Meghan O'Leary Ellen Tomek | United States | 7:46.92 | R |

#### Heat 3

| Rank | Rower | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Eve MacFarlane Zoe Stevenson | New Zealand | 7:14.31 | SF |
| 2 | Sally Kehoe Genevieve Horton | Australia | 7:17.34 | SF |
| 3 | Aikaterini Nikolaidou Sofia Asoumanaki | Greece | 7:20.64 | SF |
| 4 | Kristýna Fleissnerová Lenka Antošová | Czech Republic | 7:35.85 | R |

### Repechage

First three of heat qualify to the semifinals.

#### Heat 1

| Rank | Rower | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Marie-Cathérine Arnold Mareike Adams | Germany | 7:00.54 | SF |
| 2 | Meghan O'Leary Ellen Tomek | United States | 7:00.60 | SF |
| 3 | Kristýna Fleissnerová Lenka Antošová | Czech Republic | 7:03.68 | SF |
| 4 | Lisbet Jakobsen Nina Hollensen | Denmark | 7:04.35 | |

### Semifinals

First three of each heat qualify to the Final A, remainder goes to the Final B.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Rower | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Aikaterini Nikolaidou Sofia Asoumanaki | Greece | 6:51.99 | FA |
| 2 | Donata Vištartaitė Milda Valčiukaitė | Lithuania | 6:52.46 | FA |
| 3 | Meghan O'Leary Ellen Tomek | United States | 6:52.92 | FA |
| 4 | Eve MacFarlane Zoe Stevenson | New Zealand | 6:52.97 | FB |
| 5 | Marie-Cathérine Arnold Mareike Adams | Germany | 6:58.70 | FB |
| 6 | Lü Yang Zhu Weiwei | China | 7:05.31 | FB |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Rower | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Magdalena Fularczyk-Kozłowska Natalia Madaj | Poland | 6:50.63 | FA |
| 2 | Victoria Thornley Katherine Grainger | Great Britain | 6:52.47 | FA |
| 3 | Hélène Lefebvre Elodie Ravera-Scaramozzino | France | 6:54.34 | FA |
| 4 | Sally Kehoe Genevieve Horton | Australia | 6:55.37 | FB |
| 5 | Yuliya Bichyk Tatsiana Kukhta | Belarus | 6:57.64 | FB |
| 6 | Kristýna Fleissnerová Lenka Antošová | Czech Republic | 7:03.79 | FB |

### Final
#### Final B

| Rank | Rower | Country | Time |
| 1 | Marie-Cathérine Arnold Mareike Adams | Germany | 7:39.82 |
| 2 | Yuliya Bichyk Tatsiana Kukhta | Belarus | 7:40.48 |
| 3 | Sally Kehoe Genevieve Horton | Australia | 7:42.30 |
| 4 | Kristýna Fleissnerová Lenka Antošová | Czech Republic | 7:43.77 |
| 5 | Lü Yang Zhu Weiwei | China | 7:45.68 |
| 6 | Eve MacFarlane Zoe Stevenson | New Zealand | 7:50.74 |

#### Final A

| Rank | Rower | Country | Time |
| | Magdalena Fularczyk-Kozłowska Natalia Madaj | Poland | 7:40.10 |
| | Victoria Thornley Katherine Grainger | Great Britain | 7:41.05 |
| | Donata Vištartaitė Milda Valčiukaitė | Lithuania | 7:43.76 |
| 4 | Aikaterini Nikolaidou Sofia Asoumanaki | Greece | 7:48.62 |
| 5 | Hélène Lefebvre Elodie Ravera-Scaramozzino | France | 7:52.03 |
| 6 | Meghan O'Leary Ellen Tomek | United States | 8:06.18 |