Rowing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's lightweight double sculls

Women's lightweight double sculls at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Venue	Eton Dorney
Date	29 July – 4 August
Competitors	34 from 17 nations
Winning time	7:09.30
Medalists
Katherine Copeland Sophie Hosking  Great Britain Xu Dongxiang Wenyi Huang  China Christina Giazitzidou Alexandra Tsiavou  Greece
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Rowing at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Single sculls	men	women
Coxless pair	men	women
Double sculls	men	women
Lwt double sculls	men	women
Coxless four	men
Quadruple sculls	men	women
Eight	men	women
Lwt coxless four	men
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The Women's lightweight 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.^[1][2]

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

Results

Heats

First two of each heat qualify to the semifinals, remainder goes to the repechage.

Heat 1

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Sophie Hosking Katherine Copeland	Great Britain	6:56.96	Q
2	Anne Lolk Thomsen Juliane Rasmussen	Denmark	6:59.94	Q
3	Louise Ayling Julia Edward	New Zealand	7:02.78	R
4	Yaima Velázquez Yoslaine Domínguez	Cuba	7:12.99	R
5	María Clara Rohner Milka Kraljev	Argentina	7:33.37	R
6	Sara Mohamed Baraka Fatma Rashed	Egypt	7:45.23	R

Heat 2

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Christina Giazitzidou Alexandra Tsiavou	Greece	7:03.66	Q
2	Bronwen Watson Hannah Every-Hall	Australia	7:05.30	Q
3	Kristin Hedstrom Julie Nichols	United States	7:08.46	R
4	Rianne Sigmond Maaike Head	Netherlands	7:10.49	R
5	Lindsay Jennerich Patricia Obee	Canada	7:10.89	R
6	Luana de Assis Fabiana Beltrame	Brazil	7:34.37	R

Heat 3

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Xu Dongxiang Huang Wenyi	China	7:15.57	Q
2	Lena Müller Anja Noske	Germany	7:19.24	Q
3	Atsumi Fukumoto Akiko Iwamoto	Japan	7:30.29	R
4	Kim Myeong-sin Kim Sol-ji	South Korea	7:31.98	R
5	Pham Thi Hai Pham Thi Thao	Vietnam	7:40.06	R

Repechage

First three qualify to the semifinal.

Repechage 1

Rank	Rower	Country	Time	Notes
1	Rianne Sigmond Maaike Head	Netherlands	7:19.26	Q
2	Louise Ayling Julia Edward	New Zealand	7:19.26	Q
3	Atsumi Fukumoto Akiko Iwamoto	Japan	7:23.79	Q
4	Luana de Assis Fabiana Beltrame	Brazil	7:27.46
5	Pham Thi Hai Pham Thi Thao	Vietnam	7:37.64
6	Sara Mohamed Baraka Fatma Rashed	Egypt	7:54.01

Repechage 2

Rank	Rower	Country	Time	Notes
1	Kristin Hedstrom Julie Nichols	United States	7:13.82	Q
2	Lindsay Jennerich Patricia Obee	Canada	7:15.37	Q
3	Yaima Velázquez Yoslaine Dominguez	Cuba	7:19.33	Q
4	Kim Myung-shin Kim Sol-ji	South Korea	7:27.95
5	Maria Rohner Milka Kraljev	Argentina	7:40.72

Semifinals A/B

Semifinal 1

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Katherine Copeland Sophie Hosking	Great Britain	7:05.90	Q
2	Christina Giazitzidou Alexandra Tsiavou	Greece	7:09.01	Q
3	Lena Müller Anja Noske	Germany	7:10.16	Q
4	Kristin Hedstrom Julie Nichols	United States	7:12.61
5	Louise Ayling Julia Edward	New Zealand	7:15.06
6	Yaima Velasquez Yoslaine Dominguez	Cuba	7:21.86

Semifinal 2

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Xu Dongxiang Wenyi Huang	China	7:10.39	Q
2	Anne Lolk Thomsen Juliane Rasmussen	Denmark	7:10.93	Q
3	Bronwen Watson Hannah Every-Hall	Australia	7:12.35	Q
4	Lindsay Jennerich Patricia Obee	Canada	7:14.83
5	Rianne Sigmond Maaike Head	Netherlands	7:19.31
6	Atsumi Fukumoto Akiko Iwamoto	Japan	7:34.23

Finals

Final C

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Luana de Assis Fabiana Beltrame	Brazil	7:41.43
2	Kim Myung-shin Kim Sol-ji	South Korea	7:44.03
3	Maria Rohner Milka Kraljev	Argentina	7:44.62
4	Pham Thi Hai Pham Thi Thao	Vietnam	7:51.82
5	Sara Mohamed Baraka Fatma Rashed	Egypt	8:14.17

Final B

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Lindsay Jennerich Patricia Obee	Canada	7:17.24
2	Rianne Sigmond Maaike Head	Netherlands	7:20.36
3	Louise Ayling Julia Edward	New Zealand	7:22.78
4	Yaima Velasquez Yoslaine Dominguez	Cuba	7:23.25
5	Kristin Hedstrom Julie Nichols	United States	7:23.31
6	Atsumi Fukumoto Akiko Iwamoto	Japan	7:32.12

Final A

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
	Katherine Copeland Sophie Hosking	Great Britain	7:09.30
	Xu Dongxiang Huang Wenyi	China	7:11.93
	Christina Giazitzidou Alexandra Tsiavou	Greece	7:12.09
4	Anne Lolk Thomsen Juliane Rasmussen	Denmark	7:15.53
5	Bronwen Watson Hannah Every-Hall	Australia	7:20.68
6	Lena Müller Anja Noske	Germany	7:22.18

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