The men's double sculls competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London took place are at Dorney Lake which, for the purposes of the Games venue, is officially termed Eton Dorney.
Schedule
All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1) Date Time RoundSaturday, 28 July 2012 10:30HeatsSunday, 29 July 2012 09:30RepechageTuesday, 31 July 2012 12:20SemifinalsThursday, 2 August 2012 09:50Final BThursday, 2 August 2012 11:50Final
Results
Heats First three of each heat qualify to the semifinals, remainder goes to the repeachge.
Heat 1 RankRowersCountryTimeNotes1Eric KnittelStephan Krüger6:17.74Q=2Rolandas MaščinskasSaulius Ritter6:17.78Q=2Luka ŠpikIztok Čop6:17.78Q4David CrawshayScott Brennan6:21.25R5Michael BraithwaiteKevin Kowalyk6:34.11R
Heat 2 RankRowersCountryTimeNotes1Nils Jakob HoffKjetil Borch6:16.31Q2Alessio SartoriRomano Battisti6:18.50Q3Julien BahainCédric Berrest6:19.61Q4Dmytro MikhayArtem Morozov6:49.70R
Heat 3 RankRowersCountryTimeNotes1Nathan CohenJoseph Sullivan6:11.30Q (OR)2Bill LucasSam Townsend6:11.94Q3Ariel SuárezCristian Rosso6:13.68Q4Jüri-Mikk UdamGeir Suursild6:33.88R
Repechage First three qualify to the semifinals.
RankRowersCountryTimeNotes1David CrawshayScott Brennan6.25.36Q2Dmytro MikhayArtem Morozov6:30.19Q3Michael BraithwaiteKevin Kowalyk6:30.74Q4Jüri-Mikk UdamGeir Suursild6:38.50
Semifinals First three qualify to the final.
Semifinal 1 RankRowerCountryTimeNotes1Ariel SuárezCristian Rosso6:19.40Q2Nathan CohenJoseph Sullivan6:19.79Q3Alessio SartoriRomano Battisti6:20.68Q4Eric KnittelStephan Krüger6:22.545David CrawshayScott Brennan6:23.476Dmytro MikhayArtem Morozov6:36.52
Semifinal 2 RankRowerCountryTimeNotes1Luka ŠpikIztok Čop6:19.97Q2Rolandas MaščinskasSaulius Ritter6:21.62Q3Bill LucasSam Townsend6:22.47Q4Nils Jakob HoffKjetil Borch6:22.885Julien BahainCédric Berrest6:29.616Michael BraithwaiteKevin Kowalyk6:38.94
Finals
Final B RankRowersCountryTime1Nils Jakob HoffKjetil Borch6:20.822David CrawshayScott Brennan6:22.19 3Eric KnittelStephan Krüger6:23.364Julien BahainCédric Berrest6:26.445Dmytro MikhayArtem Morozov6:31.516Michael BraithwaiteKevin Kowalyk6:32.61
Final A New Zealand rower Hamish Bond watched fellow team members Nathan Cohen and Joseph Sullivan in their final, and with 500 m to go, they were 3.5 sec down on the leaders and in fourth place; whilst they were the reigning world champions and had dominated the qualifying races, Bond was convinced that they had no chance of winning their final. But they had the most impressive sprint and won by half a length.
RankRowersCountryTimeNathan CohenJoseph Sullivan6:31.67Alessio SartoriRomano Battisti6:32.80Luka ŠpikIztok Čop6:34.354Ariel SuárezCristian Rosso6:36.365Bill LucasSam Townsend6:40.546Rolandas MaščinskasSaulius Ritter6:42.69
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