The men's eight competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London took place at Dorney Lake which, for the purposes of the Games venue, was officially termed Eton Dorney.[1][2] It was held from 28 July to 1 August.[3] There were 8 boats (72 competitors) from 8 nations.[3] The event was won by Germany, the nation's first victory as "Germany" (the United Team of Germany, East Germany, and West Germany had combined for 5 gold medals). The German team beat the defending champions Canada, who took silver. Great Britain also slipped one place from their 2008 silver, taking bronze this time.
Men's eight
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
German and British boats competing in the men's eight
This was the 26th appearance of the event. Rowing had been on the programme in 1896 but was cancelled due to bad weather. The men's eight has been held every time that rowing has been contested, beginning in 1900.[3]
Germany was favoured; after a disappointing performance at Beijing (finishing outside the main final), the Germans had taken three straight World Championships. Other contenders included the defending champions (Canada) and the hosts, Great Britain.[3]
For the third consecutive Games, no nations made their debut in the event. Seven of the eight teams had competed in all three of those Games, at least; by contrast, Ukraine made its first appearance since 1996. The United States made its 23nd appearance, most among nations to that point.
Nations had been limited to one boat each since 1920. The 8 qualifiers were:
7 boats from the 2011 World Championships
1 boat from the Final Qualification Regatta
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The "eight" event featured nine-person boats, with eight rowers and a coxswain. It was a sweep rowing event, with the rowers each having one oar (and thus each rowing on one side). The course used the 2000 metres distance that became the Olympic standard in 1912 (with the exception of 1948).[4] Races were held in up to six lanes.
The competition consisted of two main rounds (semifinals and finals) as well as a repechage.
Semifinals: Two heats of four boats each. The top boat in each heat (2 boats total) advanced directly to the "A" final, while all other boats (6 total) went to the repechage.
Repechage: A single heat of six boats. The top four boats rejoined the semifinal winners in the "A" final, with the 5th and 6th place boats eliminated from medal contention and competing in the "B" final.
Finals: The "A" final consisted of the top six boats, awarding medals and 4th through 6th place. The "B" final featured the next two boats, ranking them 7th and 8th.
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The men s eight competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London took place at Dorney Lake which for the purposes of the Games venue was officially termed Eton Dorney 1 2 It was held from 28 July to 1 August 3 There were 8 boats 72 competitors from 8 nations 3 The event was won by Germany the nation s first victory as Germany the United Team of Germany East Germany and West Germany had combined for 5 gold medals The German team beat the defending champions Canada who took silver Great Britain also slipped one place from their 2008 silver taking bronze this time Men s eightat the Games of the XXX OlympiadGerman and British boats competing in the men s eightVenueDorney LakeDates28 July 1 AugustCompetitors72 from 8 nationsWinning time5 48 75Medalists Germany Filip AdamskiAndreas KuffnerEric JohannesenMaximilian ReineltRichard SchmidtLukas MullerFlorian MennigenKristof WilkeMartin Sauer Canada Gabriel BergenDouglas CsimaRobert GibsonConlin McCabeMalcolm HowardAndrew ByrnesJeremiah BrownWill CrothersBrian Price Great Britain Alex PartridgeJames FoadTom RansleyRichard EgingtonMoe SbihiGreg SearleMatt LangridgeConstantine LouloudisPhelan Hill 20082016 Contents 1 Background 2 Qualification 3 Competition format 4 Schedule 5 Results 5 1 Semifinals 5 1 1 Semifinal 1 5 1 2 Semifinal 2 5 2 Repechage 5 3 Finals 5 3 1 Final B 5 3 2 Final A 6 ReferencesBackground editThis was the 26th appearance of the event Rowing had been on the programme in 1896 but was cancelled due to bad weather The men s eight has been held every time that rowing has been contested beginning in 1900 3 Germany was favoured after a disappointing performance at Beijing finishing outside the main final the Germans had taken three straight World Championships Other contenders included the defending champions Canada and the hosts Great Britain 3 For the third consecutive Games no nations made their debut in the event Seven of the eight teams had competed in all three of those Games at least by contrast Ukraine made its first appearance since 1996 The United States made its 23nd appearance most among nations to that point Qualification editMain article Rowing at the 2012 Summer Olympics Qualification Nations had been limited to one boat each since 1920 The 8 qualifiers were 7 boats from the 2011 World Championships 1 boat from the Final Qualification RegattaCompetition format editThe eight event featured nine person boats with eight rowers and a coxswain It was a sweep rowing event with the rowers each having one oar and thus each rowing on one side The course used the 2000 metres distance that became the Olympic standard in 1912 with the exception of 1948 4 Races were held in up to six lanes The competition consisted of two main rounds semifinals and finals as well as a repechage Semifinals Two heats of four boats each The top boat in each heat 2 boats total advanced directly to the A final while all other boats 6 total went to the repechage Repechage A single heat of six boats The top four boats rejoined the semifinal winners in the A final with the 5th and 6th place boats eliminated from medal contention and competing in the B final Finals The A final consisted of the top six boats awarding medals and 4th through 6th place The B final featured the next two boats ranking them 7th and 8th Schedule editAll times are British Summer Time UTC 1 Date Time Round Saturday 28 July 2012 10 10 Semifinals Monday 30 July 2012 9 50 Repechage Wednesday 1 August 2012 10 3012 30 Final BFinal AResults editSemifinals edit The winners of each heat qualified to the A final while the remainder went to the repechage Semifinal 1 edit Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time Notes 1 David BanksGrant JamesRoss JamesWill MillerGiuseppe LanzoneStephen KasprzykJacob CorneliusBrett Newlin Zachary Vlahos nbsp United States 5 30 72 QA 2 Samuel LochFrancis HegertyCameron McKenzie McHargBryn CoudrayeThomas SwannJoshua BoothMatt RyanNicholas Purnell Tobias Lister nbsp Australia 5 32 43 R 3 Marcin BrzezinskiPiotr JuszczakMikolaj BurdaPiotr HojkaZbigniew SchodowskiMichal SzpakowskiKrystian AranowskiRafal Hejmej Daniel Trojanowski nbsp Poland 5 35 64 R 4 Anton KholyaznykovViktor GrebennykovIvan TymkoArtem MorozAndriy PryvedaValentyn KletskoyOleh LykovSergii Chykanov Oleksandr Konovaliuk nbsp Ukraine 5 38 02 R Semifinal 2 edit Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time Notes 1 Filip AdamskiAndreas KuffnerEric JohannesenMaximilian ReineltRichard SchmidtLukas MullerFlorian MennigenKristof Wilke Martin Sauer nbsp Germany 5 25 52 QA 2 Alex PartridgeJames FoadTom RansleyRichard EgingtonMoe SbihiGreg SearleMatt LangridgeConstantine Louloudis Phelan Hill nbsp Great Britain 5 27 61 R 3 Sjoerd HamburgerDiederik SimonRogier BlinkMatthijs VellengaRoel BraasJozef KlaassenOlivier SiegelaarMitchel Steenman Peter Wiersum nbsp Netherlands 5 28 99 R 4 Gabriel BergenDouglas CsimaRobert GibsonConlin McCabeMalcolm HowardAndrew ByrnesJeremiah BrownWill Crothers Brian Price nbsp Canada 5 37 91 R Repechage edit The first four qualified for the A final Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time Notes 1 Alex PartridgeJames FoadTom RansleyRichard EgingtonMoe SbihiGreg SearleMatt LangridgeConstantine Louloudis Phelan Hill nbsp Great Britain 5 26 85 QA 2 Gabriel BergenDouglas CsimaRobert GibsonConlin McCabeMalcolm HowardAndrew ByrnesJeremiah BrownWill Crothers Brian Price nbsp Canada 5 27 41 QA 3 Sjoerd HamburgerDiederik SimonRogier BlinkMatthijs VellengaRoel BraasJozef KlaassenOlivier SiegelaarMitchel Steenman Peter Wiersum nbsp Netherlands 5 27 98 QA 4 Samuel LochFrancis HegertyCameron McKenzie McHargBryn CoudrayeThomas SwannJoshua BoothMatt RyanNicholas Purnell Tobias Lister nbsp Australia 5 28 67 QA 5 Marcin BrzezinskiPiotr JuszczakMikolaj BurdaPiotr HojkaZbigniew SchodowskiMichal SzpakowskiKrystian AranowskiRafal Hejmej Daniel Trojanowski nbsp Poland 5 30 34 QB 6 Anton KholyaznykovViktor GrebennykovIvan TymkoArtem MorozAndriy PryvedaValentyn KletskoyOleh LykovSergii Chykanov Oleksandr Konovaliuk nbsp Ukraine 5 42 19 QB Finals edit Final B edit Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time 7 Marcin BrzezinskiPiotr JuszczakMikolaj BurdaPiotr HojkaZbigniew SchodowskiMichal SzpakowskiKrystian AranowskiRafal Hejmej Daniel Trojanowski nbsp Poland 5 57 67 8 Anton KholyaznykovViktor HrebennykovIvan TymkoArtem MorozAndriy PryvedaValentyn KletskoyOleh LykovSergii Chykanov Oleksandr Konovaliuk nbsp Ukraine 6 07 33 Final A edit Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time nbsp Filip AdamskiAndreas KuffnerEric JohannesenMaximilian ReineltRichard SchmidtLukas MullerFlorian MennigenKristof Wilke Martin Sauer nbsp Germany 5 48 75 nbsp Gabriel BergenDouglas CsimaRobert GibsonConlin McCabeMalcolm HowardAndrew ByrnesJeremiah BrownWill Crothers Brian Price nbsp Canada 5 49 98 nbsp Alex PartridgeJames FoadTom RansleyRichard EgingtonMoe SbihiGreg SearleMatt LangridgeConstantine Louloudis Phelan Hill nbsp Great Britain 5 51 18 4 David BanksGrant JamesRoss JamesWill MillerGiuseppe LanzoneStephen KasprzykJacob CorneliusBrett Newlin Zachary Vlahos nbsp United States 5 51 48 5 Sjoerd HamburgerDiederik SimonRogier BlinkMatthijs VellengaRoel BraasJozef KlaassenOlivier SiegelaarMitchel Steenman Peter Wiersum nbsp Netherlands 5 51 72 6 Samuel LochFrancis HegertyCameron McKenzie McHargBryn CoudrayeThomas SwannJoshua BoothMatt RyanNicholas Purnell Tobias Lister nbsp Australia 5 51 87References edit Rowing London 2012 website Archived from the original on 6 September 2012 Retrieved 10 May 2011 Rowing at the 2012 London Summer Games Men s Coxed Eights Sports Reference Archived from the original on 18 April 2020 Retrieved 29 September 2018 a b c d Eight Men Olympedia Retrieved 9 June 2021 Why Do We Race 2000m The History Behind the Distance World Rowing 1 May 2017 Retrieved 19 April 2021 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Rowing at the 2012 Summer Olympics Men 27s eight amp oldid 1145772254, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
