The men's coxless four competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia took place at Lake Lanier.
Competition format This rowing event is a sweep rowing event, meaning that each rower has one oar and rows on only one side. Four rowers crew each boat, and no coxswain is used. The competition consists of multiple rounds. Finals were held to determine the placing of each boat; these finals were given letters with those nearer to the beginning of the alphabet meaning a better ranking. Semifinals were named based on which finals they fed, with each semifinal having two possible finals.
With 14 boats in with heats, the best boats qualify directly for the semi-finals. All other boats progress to the repechage round, which offers a second chance to qualify for the semi-finals. The boats finishing in the 2 last positions from the repechage are eliminated from the competition. The best three boats in each of the two semi-finals qualify for final A, which determines places 1–6 (including the medals). Unsuccessful boats from semi-finals A/B go forward to final B, which determines places 7–12.
Results Heats The first three boats of each heat advanced to the semifinals, the remainder goes to the repechage.
Heat 1 RankRowerCountryTimeNotes1 Valter MoleaRiccardo Dei RossiRaffaello LeonardoCarlo Mornati6:14.25Q2 Gabriel MarinDorin AlupeiDimitrie PopescuVasile Măstăcan6:18.03Q3 Halvor Sannes LandeOdd-Even BustnesOlaf TufteMorten Bergesen6:19.79 Q4 Stefan ForsterIke LandvoigtClaas-Peter FischerStefan Scholz6:21.98R5 Daniel ScuriHoracio SiciliaMariano SosaMariano Kowalczyk6:33.29R Heat 2 RankRowerCountryTimeNotes1 Gregory SearleJonathan William SearleRupert John ObholzerTim Foster6:14.47Q2 Siniša SkelinSead MarušićIgor BoraskaTihomir Franković6:17.42Q3 Jacek StreichWojciech JankowskiPiotr OlszewskiPiotr Basta6:19.15 Q4 Sean HallJason ScottTom MurrayJeff Klepacki6:20.72R5 Huang XiaopingSun JunLiang HongmingLiu Xianbin6:30.16R Heat 3 RankRowerCountryTimeNotes1 Nicholas GreenDrew GinnJames TomkinsMike McKay6:15.05Q2 Denis ŽvegeljJani KlemenčičMilan JanšaSadik Mujkič6:15.86Q3 Bertrand VectenOlivier MonceletDaniel FauchéGilles Bosquet6:18.70 Q4 Alastair MackintoshIan WrightChris WhiteScott Brownlee6:30.03R Repechage The first three boats of the Repechage advanced to the semifinals, the remainder are eliminated.
Repechage 1 RankRowerCountryTimeNotes1 Stefan ForsterIke LandvoigtClaas-Peter FischerStefan Scholz6:29.10Q2 Huang XiaopingSun JunLiang HongmingLiu Xianbin6:29.95Q3 Sean HallJason ScottTom MurrayJeff Klepacki6:30.95 Q4 Alastair MackintoshIan WrightChris WhiteScott Brownlee6:35.58R5 Daniel ScuriHoracio SiciliaMariano SosaMariano Kowalczyk6:37.85R Semifinals The first three boats of the each semifinal advanced to the Final A, the remainder to Final B.
Semifinal 1 RankRowerCountryTimeNotes1 Bertrand VectenOlivier MonceletDaniel FauchéGilles Bosquet6:09.58A2 Valter MoleaRiccardo Dei RossiRaffaello LeonardoCarlo Mornati6:09.62A3 Nicholas GreenDrew GinnJames TomkinsMike McKay6:09.95 A4 Siniša SkelinSead MarušićIgor BoraskaTihomir Franković6:12.40B5 Halvor Sannes LandeOdd-Even BustnesOlaf TufteMorten Bergesen6:15.17B6 Huang XiaopingSun JunLiang HongmingLiu Xianbin6:25.79B Semifinal 2 RankRowerCountryTimeNotes1 Gregory SearleJonathan William SearleRupert John ObholzerTim Foster6:10.78A2 Gabriel MarinDorin AlupeiDimitrie PopescuVasile Măstăcan6:11.84A3 Denis ŽvegeljJani KlemenčičMilan JanšaSadik Mujkič6:13.14 A4 Jacek StreichWojciech JankowskiPiotr OlszewskiPiotr Basta6:16.65B5 Sean HallJason ScottTom MurrayJeff Klepacki6:18.68B6 Stefan ForsterIke LandvoigtClaas-Peter FischerStefan Scholz6:19.06B Finals
Final B RankRowerCountryTime1 Siniša SkelinSead MarušićIgor BoraskaTihomir Franković5:54.582 Halvor Sannes LandeOdd-Even BustnesOlaf TufteMorten Bergesen5:55.193 Stefan ForsterIke LandvoigtClaas-Peter FischerStefan Scholz5:57.774 Huang XiaopingSun JunLiang HongmingLiu Xianbin5:58.225 Sean HallJason ScottTom MurrayJeff Klepacki5:59.196 Jacek StreichWojciech JankowskiPiotr OlszewskiPiotr Basta6:00.57 Final A RankRowerCountryTime Nicholas GreenDrew GinnJames TomkinsMike McKay6:06.37 Bertrand VectenOlivier MonceletDaniel FauchéGilles Bosquet6:07.03 Gregory SearleJonathan William SearleRupert John ObholzerTim Foster6:07.284 Denis ŽvegeljJani KlemenčičMilan JanšaSadik Mujkič6:07.875 Gabriel MarinDorin AlupeiDimitrie PopescuVasile Măstăcan6:08.976 Valter MoleaRiccardo Dei RossiRaffaello LeonardoCarlo Mornati6:10.60
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