The men's lightweight coxless four competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia took place at Lake Lanier.
At international level for crew boats the limits are: Men: Crew average – no rower over
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 Victor FeddersenNiels HenriksenThomas PoulsenEskild Ebbesen6:20.13Q2 Derek HollandSam LynchNeville MaxwellTony O'Connor6:23.82R3 Haimish KarraschGary LynaghDavid BelcherSimon Burgess6:25.87 R4 Andrea ReLeonardo PettinariIvano ZasioCarlo Gaddi6:26.80R5 David LemonJames McNivenTom KayBenjamin Helm6:35.95R6 Hernán LegizamónJorge EnríquezFederico QuerínGabriel Scortiquini6:43.58R
Heat 2 RankRowerCountryTimeNotes1 Derek HollandSam LynchNeville MaxwellTony O'Connor6:00.99Q2 Marc SchneiderJeff PfaendtnerDavid CollinsWilliam Carlucci6:21.85R3 Vladimir MityushovAleksandr UstinovAndrey ShevelDmitry Kartashov6:26.39 R4 Fernando ClimentDavid MoralesJuan Manuel FloridoAlfredo Girón6:28.05R5 Katsuhiko NakamizoYasunori TanabeMichinori IwaguroKazuaki Mimoto6:30.16R6 Samuel AguiarJoão FernandesHenrique BaixinhoManuel Fernandes7:37.13R
Heat 3 RankRowerCountryTimeNotes1 Roger ToblerMark RowandGareth CostaMike Hasselbach6:19.98Q2 Tobias RoseMartin WeisMichael BuchheitBernhard Stomporowski6:22.97R3 Martin KobauHarald HofmannChristoph SchmölzerGernot Faderbauer6:24.59 R4 Michael BänningerMathias BinderMarkus FeusiNicolai Kern6:26.5R5 Stéphane BarréXavier DorfmanStéphane GuerinotHenri-Pierre Dall'acqua6:26.84R
Repechages The first three boats of each repechage advanced to the semifinals, the remainder goes to Final C.
Repechage 1 RankRowerCountryTimeNotes1 Marc SchneiderJeff PfaendtnerDavid CollinsWilliam Carlucci5:58.58 S2 Haimish KarraschGary LynaghDavid BelcherSimon Burgess6:02.04 S3 Michael BänningerMathias BinderMarkus FeusiNicolai Kern6:04.38 S4 Katsuhiko NakamizoYasunori TanabeMichinori IwaguroKazuaki Mimoto6:06.77 C5 Hernán LegizamónJorge EnríquezFederico QuerínGabriel Scortiquini6:09.86 C
Repechage 2 RankRowerCountryTimeNotes1 Marc SchneiderJeff PfaendtnerDavid CollinsWilliam Carlucci5:58.58 S2 David LemonJames McNivenTom KayBenjamin Helm6:02.65 S3 Martin KobauHarald HofmannChristoph SchmölzerGernot Faderbauer6:02.76 S4 Fernando ClimentDavid MoralesJuan Manuel FloridoAlfredo Girón6:03.33 C
Repechage 3 RankRowerCountryTimeNotes1 Tobias RoseMartin WeisMichael BuchheitBernhard Stomporowski5:58.90 S2 Andrea ReLeonardo PettinariIvano ZasioCarlo Gaddi5:59.67 S3 Stéphane BarréXavier DorfmanStéphane GuerinotHenri-Pierre Dall'acqua5:59.95 S4 Vladimir MityushovAleksandr UstinovAndrey ShevelDmitry Kartashov6:00.03 C5 Samuel AguiarJoão FernandesHenrique BaixinhoManuel Fernandes6:15.82 C
Semifinals The first three boats of each semifinal advanced to the Final A, the remainder go to Final B.
Semifinal 1 RankRowerCountryTimeNotes1 Victor FeddersenNiels HenriksenThomas PoulsenEskild Ebbesen6:13.21 A2 Haimish KarraschGary LynaghDavid BelcherSimon Burgess6:15.47 A3 Derek HollandSam LynchNeville MaxwellTony O'Connor6:15.66 A4 Roger ToblerMark RowandGareth CostaMike Hasselbach6:16.65 B5 Andrea ReLeonardo PettinariIvano ZasioCarlo Gaddi6:17.84 B6 Martin KobauHarald HofmannChristoph SchmölzerGernot Faderbauer6:22.60 B
Semifinal 2 RankRowerCountryTimeNotes1 Marc SchneiderJeff PfaendtnerDavid CollinsWilliam Carlucci6:09.89 A2 Brian PeakerJeffrey LayDave BoyesGavin Hassett6:10.38 A3 Tobias RoseMartin WeisMichael BuchheitBernhard Stomporowski6:12.73 A4 Stéphane BarréXavier DorfmanStéphane GuerinotHenri-Pierre Dall'acqua6:15.75 B5 David LemonJames McNivenTom KayBenjamin Helm6:19.07 B6 Michael BänningerMathias BinderMarkus FeusiNicolai Kern6:20.98 B
Finals Final C RankRowerCountryTimeNotes13 Vladimir MityushovAleksandr UstinovAndrey ShevelDmitry Kartashov6:23.59 14 Fernando ClimentDavid MoralesJuan Manuel FloridoAlfredo Girón6:25.81 15 Samuel AguiarJoão FernandesHenrique BaixinhoManuel Fernandes6:27.07 16 Katsuhiko NakamizoYasunori TanabeMichinori IwaguroKazuaki Mimoto6:28.6017 Hernán LegizamónJorge EnríquezFederico QuerínGabriel Scortiquini6:30.64
Final B RankRowerCountryTimeNotes7 Stéphane BarréXavier DorfmanStéphane GuerinotHenri-Pierre Dall'acqua6:02.39 8 Andrea ReLeonardo PettinariIvano ZasioCarlo Gaddi6:03.25 9 Roger ToblerMark RowandGareth CostaMike Hasselbach6:04.13 10 David LemonJames McNivenTom KayBenjamin Helm6:05.1311 Michael BänningerMathias BinderMarkus FeusiNicolai Kern6:05.9212 Martin KobauHarald HofmannChristoph SchmölzerGernot Faderbauer6:06.09
Final A RankRowerCountryTimeNotes Victor FeddersenNiels HenriksenThomas PoulsenEskild Ebbesen6:09.58 Brian PeakerJeffrey LayDave BoyesGavin Hassett6:10.13 Marc SchneiderJeff PfaendtnerDavid CollinsWilliam Carlucci6:12.29 4 Derek HollandSam LynchNeville MaxwellTony O'Connor6:13.515 Tobias RoseMartin WeisMichael BuchheitBernhard Stomporowski6:14.796 Haimish KarraschGary LynaghDavid BelcherSimon Burgess6:18.16
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