The men's lightweight double sculls competition at the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv took place at the Plovdiv Regatta Venue.
Schedule The schedule was as follows: Date Time Round Sunday 9 September 2018 15:32 Heats Monday 10 September 2018 12:33 Repechage Wednesday 12 September 2018 15:02 QuarterfinalsThursday 13 September 2018 11:54 Semifinals A/B 15:17 Semifinals C/DSaturday 15 September 2018 10:02 Final B 12:16 Final A 15:09 Final C 15:57 Final D 16:37 Final E All times are Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+3)
Results Heats The four fastest boats in each heat advanced directly to the quarterfinals. The remaining boats were sent to the repechage.
Heat 1 RankRowerCountryTimeNotes 1Stefano OppoPietro Ruta 6:14.95 Q 2Zhang ZhiyuanChen Sensen 6:16.78 Q 3Jiří ŠimánekMiroslav Vraštil Jr. 6:17.03 Q 4Benjamin van DalenMatthew Dunham 6:18.01 Q 5César AbaroaEber Sanbueza 6:20.02 R 6Thomas BaroukhPierre Houin 6:21.52 R
Heat 2 RankRowerCountryTimeNotes 1Patrick KeaneMaxwell Lattimer 6:21.33 Q 2Zak Lee-GreenJamie Copus 6:23.27 Q 3Emil EspensenAlexander Modest 6:24.23 Q 4Kakeru SatoMitsuo Nishimura 6:31.01 Q 5Aleksandr BogdashinNikita Bolozin 6:40.84 R
Heat 3 RankRowerCountryTimeNotes 1Kristoffer BrunAre Strandli 6:24.68 Q 2Marek ReznakPeter Zelinka 6:26.49 Q 3Vaughn BotesNicholas Oberholzer 6:26.96 Q 4Ihor KhmaraStanislav Kovalov 6:28.18 Q 5Hugh McAdamPeter Schmidt 6:37.28 R
Heat 4 RankRowerCountryTimeNotes 1Jerzy KowalskiMiłosz Jankowski 6:19.48 Q 2Tim BrysNiels Van Zandweghe 6:20.13 Q 3Julian MüllerAndri Struzina 6:21.23 Q 4Julian SchöberlPaul Sieber 6:23.14 Q 5Patricio RojasRodrigo Comero 6:26.03 R
Heat 5 RankRowerCountryTimeNotes 1Gary O'DonovanPaul O'Donovan 6:15.79 Q 2Jonathan RommelmannKonstantin Steinhübel 6:19.23 Q 3Pedro FragaAfonso Costa 6:21.55 Q 4Alejandro ColominoCarlo Lauro 6:30.24 Q 5Petros GkaidatzisNinos Nikolaidis 6:39.53 R
Repechage The four fastest boats advanced to the quarterfinals. The remaining boats were sent to the E final.
RankRowerCountryTimeNotes 1Patricio RojasRodrigo Comero 6:20.61 Q 2Thomas BaroukhPierre Houin 6:21.32 Q 3Petros GkaidatzisNinos Nikolaidis 6:22.57 Q 4César AbaroaEber Sanbueza 6:23.04 Q 5Aleksandr BogdashinNikita Bolozin 6:30.68 FE 6Hugh McAdamPeter Schmidt 6:31.40 FE
Quarterfinals The three fastest boats in each quarter advanced to the A/B semifinals. The remaining boats were sent to the C/D semifinals.
Quarterfinal 1 RankRowerCountryTimeNotes 1Julian SchöberlPaul Sieber 6:49.04 SA/B 2Stefano OppoPietro Ruta 6:49.96 SA/B 3Zak Lee-GreenJamie Copus 6:52.27 SA/B 4Jonathan RommelmannKonstantin Steinhübel 6:56.96 SC/D 5Vaughn BotesNicholas Oberholzer 7:25.99 SC/D 6Petros GkaidatzisNinos Nikolaidis 7:31.47 SC/D
Quarterfinal 2 RankRowerCountryTimeNotes 1Patricio RojasRodrigo Comero 6:54.76 SA/B 2Ihor KhmaraStanislav Kovalov 6:56.58 SA/B 3Tim BrysNiels Van Zandweghe 7:02.88 SA/B 4Zhang ZhiyuanChen Sensen 7:06.36 SC/D 5Patrick KeaneMaxwell Lattimer 7:08.56 SC/D 6Alejandro ColominoCarlo Lauro 7:31.35 SC/D
Quarterfinal 3 RankRowerCountryTimeNotes 1Gary O'DonovanPaul O'Donovan 6:44.44 SA/B 2Benjamin van DalenMatthew Dunham 6:45.04 SA/B 3Kristoffer BrunAre Strandli 6:48.70 SA/B 4Julian MüllerAndri Struzina 6:54.88 SC/D 5Emil EspensenAlexander Modest 6:59.36 SC/D 6César AbaroaEber Sanbueza 7:11.47 SC/D
Quarterfinal 4 RankRowerCountryTimeNotes 1Jiří ŠimánekMiroslav Vraštil Jr. 6:49.45 SA/B 2Kakeru SatoMitsuo Nishimura 6:50.54 SA/B 3Jerzy KowalskiMiłosz Jankowski 6:51.68 SA/B 4Marek ReznakPeter Zelinka 6:53.16 SC/D 5Thomas BaroukhPierre Houin 7:06.12 SC/D 6Pedro FragaAfonso Costa 7:16.31 SC/D
Semifinals C/D The three fastest boats in each semi were sent to the C final. The remaining boats were sent to the D final.
Semifinal 1 RankRowersCountryTimeNotes 1Jonathan RommelmannKonstantin Steinhübel 6:24.82 FC 2Emil EspensenAlexander Modest 6:27.07 FC 3Thomas BaroukhPierre Houin 6:27.19 FC 4Zhang ZhiyuanChen Sensen 6:28.89 FD 5Petros GkaidatzisNinos Nikolaidis 6:33.19 FD 6César AbaroaEber Sanbueza 6:35.74 FD
Semifinal 2 RankRowersCountryTimeNotes 1Patrick KeaneMaxwell Lattimer 6:28.55 FC 2Julian MüllerAndri Struzina 6:29.68 FC 3Pedro FragaAfonso Costa 6:29.97 FC 4Marek ReznakPeter Zelinka 6:30.89 FD 5Vaughn BotesNicholas Oberholzer 6:37.40 FD 6Pedro FragaAfonso Costa 6:50.14 FD
Semifinals A/B The three fastest boats in each semi advanced to the A final. The remaining boats were sent to the B final.
Semifinal 1 RankRowersCountryTimeNotes 1Kristoffer BrunAre Strandli 6:23.70 FA 2Benjamin van DalenMatthew Dunham 6:26.53 FA 3Patricio RojasRodrigo Comero 6:27.12 FA 4Zak Lee-GreenJamie Copus 6:28.98 FB 5Julian SchöberlPaul Sieber 6:34.99 FB 6Kakeru SatoMitsuo Nishimura 6:41.93 FB
Semifinal 2 RankRowersCountryTimeNotes 1Stefano OppoPietro Ruta 6:21.94 FA 2Tim BrysNiels Van Zandweghe 6:22.83 FA 3Gary O'DonovanPaul O'Donovan 6:23.78 FA 4Jerzy KowalskiMiłosz Jankowski 6:25.30 FB 5Ihor KhmaraStanislav Kovalov 6:31.37 FB 6Jiří ŠimánekMiroslav Vraštil Jr. 6:31.53 FB
Finals The A final determined the rankings for places 1 to 6. Additional rankings were determined in the other finals.
Final E RankRowersCountryTime 1Hugh McAdamPeter Schmidt 6:28.65 2Nikita BolozinAleksandr Bogdashin 6:30.06
Final D RankRowersCountryTime 1Marek ReznakPeter Zelinka 6:17.88 2César AbaroaEber Sanbueza 6:17.92 3Alejandro ColominoCarlo Lauro 6:18.74 4Zhang ZhiyuanChen Sensen 6:19.28 5Vaughn BotesNicholas Oberholzer 6:21.57 6Petros GkaidatzisNinos Nikolaidis 6:32.25
Final C RankRowersCountryTime 1Thomas BaroukhPierre Houin 6:08.84 2Jonathan RommelmannKonstantin Steinhübel 6:10.10 3Patrick KeaneMaxwell Lattimer 6:10.70 4Emil EspensenAlexander Modest 6:12.34 5Julian MüllerAndri Struzina 6:14.25 6Pedro FragaAfonso Costa 6:14.56
Final B RankRowersCountryTime 1Jiří ŠimánekMiroslav Vraštil Jr. 6:20.93 2Jerzy KowalskiMiłosz Jankowski 6:23.10 3Zak Lee-GreenJamie Copus 6:24.96 4Ihor KhmaraStanislav Kovalov 6:25.72 5Julian SchöberlPaul Sieber 6:26.85 6Kakeru SatoMitsuo Nishimura 6:31.77
Final A RankRowersCountryTime Gary O'DonovanPaul O'Donovan 6:06.81 Stefano OppoPietro Ruta 6:08.31 Tim BrysNiels Van Zandweghe 6:11.25 4Benjamin van DalenMatthew Dunham 6:15.36 5Are StrandliJens Holm 6:17.18 6Patricio RojasRodrigo Comero 6:19.26
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