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Rowing At The 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's Quadruple Sculls
The women's quadruple sculls competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro was held on 6–11 August at the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon, Lagoon Rodrigo de Freitas. The medals for the competition were presented by Irena Szewińska, Poland, member of the International Olympic Committee, and the gifts were presented by Lenka Wech, Germany, Member of the Executive Committee of the International Rowing Federation. Results Heats Winners of each heat qualify to final, remainder goes to the repechage. Heat 1 Heat 2 Repechage First four of heat qualify to Final. Final References {{DEFAULTSORT:Rowing at the 2016 Summer Olympics - Women's quadruple sculls Women's rowing at the 2016 Summer Olympics, Women's quadruple sculls Women's events at the 2016 Summer Olympics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodrigo De Freitas Lagoon
Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon (Portuguese: ''Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas'') is a lagoon in the district of Lagoa, Rio de Janeiro, Lagoa in the Zona Sul (South Zone) area of Rio de Janeiro. The lagoon is connected to the Atlantic Ocean, allowing sea water to enter by a canal along the edge of a park locally known as Jardim de Alah. Islands *Piraquê Island on the western edge houses thDepartamento Esportivo do Clube Naval(Sport Department of the Naval Club). *Caiçaras Island on the southern edge houses the Caiçaras Club (:pt:Clube dos Caiçaras, pt), where water skiers tested for the 2007 Pan American Games. History Although it receives its waters from diverse river Tributary, tributaries from the surrounding hillsides, among those that stand out is the river Rio dos Macacos (today channelized), which introduces contaminated water. The water of the lagoon comes from the damming of an opening to the sea caused by successive build-ups of earth. This separates it from the Atlantic Oc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irena Szewińska
Irena Szewińska (née Kirszenstein; Polish pronunciation: ; 24 May 1946 – 29 June 2018) was a Polish Sprint (running), sprinter who was one of the world's foremost athletes for nearly two decades, in multiple events. She is the only athlete in history, male or female, to have held the world record in the 100 m, the 200 m and the 400 m. Personal life Irena Kirszenstein was born in Leningrad to a Jewish-Poles, Polish family. Her father came from Warsaw and mother from Kiev. They met in Samarkand where they studied at the time, and in 1947 moved to Warsaw. In 1967, she married her coach, Janusz Szewiński, who also competed in hurdles at the national level and later worked as a sports photographer. They have two sons, Andrzej Szewiński (born 1970), who played volleyball for the Poland men's national volleyball team and later became a senator, and Jarosław (born 1981). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madeleine Edmunds
Madeleine Edmunds (born 3 January 1992) is an Australian rower. She is a five-time national champion and a 2016 Olympian. Club and state rowing Raised in Brisbane, Edmunds' is the daughter of 1984 Olympic bronze medal winning rower Ian Edmunds. Madeleine was educated at St Margaret's Anglican Girls School at Ascot and her senior rowing has been from the Commercial Rowing Club in Brisbane. Edmunds' first state representative selection came at aged sixteen in 2008 in the Queensland youth eight who contested and won the Bicentennial Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. In 2009, 2010 and 2011 Edmunds made three further appearances in the Queensland youth eight for three further wins. On six occasions from 2012 to 2018 Edmunds was selected in Queensland senior women's eights competing for the Queen's Cup at the Interstate Regatta. In 2018 she was Queensland's representative contesting and winning the interstate single-sculls championship for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Cleary
Jennifer Cleary (born 22 June 1993) is an Australian rower. She competed in the women's quadruple sculls event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Club and state rowing Raised in Victoria, Cleary took up school rowing at Geelong College. Her senior club rowing has been from the Mercantile Rowing Club in Melbourne. Cleary's first state representative selection came in 2012 in the Victorian youth eight who contested the Bicentennial Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. On four occasions from 2013 to 2017 Cleary was selected in Victoria's senior women's eights competing for the Queen's Cup at the Interstate Regatta. Those Victorian eights were victorious in 2013, 2015 and 2017. In 2014 she was Victoria's representative contesting and winning the interstate single-sculls championship for the Nell Slatter Trophy. International representative rowing Cleary made her Australian representative debut at the World Rowing Cup I in Sydney in 2013 rowing in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerry Hore
Kerry Hore (born 3 July 1981) is an Australian former rower, a national champion, world-champion and four-time Olympian who competed in the women's quadruple sculls at the 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics. She was in Australian quad sculls which won a 2003 World Championship and a bronze medal at the Athens Olympics. Personal Born in Hobart, Tasmania, Hore attended Mt Stuart Primary and The Friends' School in Hobart. She obtained a BPharmacy from the University of Tasmania and works as a pharmacist in Bellerive. Club and national career Hore's senior rowing was from the New Norfolk Rowing Club and the Huon Rowing Club in southern Tasmania. Later in Hobart she rowed from the Lindisfarne Rowing Club. Hore consistently represented for her state at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. In the thirteen-year period 2003 to 2015 she raced for Tasmania on four occasions in the senior women's eight contesting the Queen Elizabeth Cup and on eigh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessica Hall (rower)
Jessica Hall (born 13 July 1992) is an Australian rower. She competed in the women's quadruple sculls event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. She is a former World Champion and World Record Holder in the Quad Sculls in 2012. Club and state rowing Raised in Corinda, Queensland, Hall's senior rowing career has stemmed from the Brisbane and GPS Rowing Club. Hall's first state representative selection came at aged sixteen in 2009 in the Queensland youth eight who contested and won the Bicentennial Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. In 2010 and 2011 Edmunds made further appearances in the Queensland youth eight for two further wins. On six occasions from 2012 to 2017 Hall was selected in Queensland senior women's eights competing for the Queen's Cup at the Interstate Regatta. She stroked those eights in 2013, 2014 & 2015 International representative rowing Hall made her Australian representative debut at the Junior World Rowing Championships in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ievgeniia Nimchenko
Yevheniya Dovhodko (née Nimchenko) ( uk, Євгенія Німченко; born 29 September 1992, in Kherson Kherson (, ) is a port city of Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers appr ...) is a Ukrainian rower. References * 1992 births Living people Ukrainian female rowers Sportspeople from Kherson Rowers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic rowers for Ukraine FISU World University Games gold medalists for Ukraine Summer World University Games medalists in rowing Medalists at the 2013 Summer Universiade 21st-century Ukrainian women {{Ukraine-rowing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anastasiya Kozhenkova
Anastasiya Kozhenkova ( uk, Анастасія Коженкова; born 19 January 1986 in Kovel, Volyn Oblast, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian rower. She won a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Rowing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's quadruple sculls, quadruple sculls event with Kateryna Tarasenko, Nataliya Dovhodko, and Yana Dementyeva. References External links * 1986 births Living people Olympic rowers for Ukraine Olympic gold medalists for Ukraine Olympic medalists in rowing People from Kovel Rowers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Ukrainian female rowers Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics World Rowing Championships medalists for Ukraine Sportspeople from Volyn Oblast {{Ukraine-rowing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olena Buryak
Olena Buryak ( uk, Олена Буряк; born 8 February 1988 in Mykolaiv) is a Ukrainian rower. She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's double sculls with Hanna Kravchenko. She was part of the Ukrainian women's quadruple sculls team, with Daryna Verkhohliad, Anastasiia Kozhenkova and Yevheniya Nimchenko, at the 2016 Summer Olympics. The team finished 4th. She was also part of the Ukrainian quadruple sculls team that finished second at the 2010 World Rowing Championships. The team consisted of Buryak, Kozhenkova, Kateryna Tarasenko and Yana Dementieva. She rows for Spartak Kiev. Indoor rowing career Buryak is a multiple world record holder in women's indoor rowing Indoor(s) may refer to: *the interior of a building *Indoor environment, in building science, traditionally includes the study of indoor thermal environment, indoor acoustic environment, indoor light environment, and indoor air quality *Built envi ..., and was the fastest woman ever ov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daryna Verkhohliad
Daryna Verkhohliad ( uk, Дарина Верхогляд; born 22 February 1992 in Velyka Oleksandrivka, Kherson Oblast Kherson Oblast ( uk, Херсо́нська о́бласть, translit=Khersónsʹka óblastʹ, ), also known as Khersonshchyna ( uk, Херсо́нщина, ), is an oblast (province) in southern Ukraine, currently claimed and partly occupied ...) is a Ukrainian rower. References * 1992 births Living people Ukrainian female rowers Sportspeople from Kherson Oblast Olympic rowers for Ukraine Rowers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Universiade bronze medalists for Ukraine Universiade medalists in rowing Medalists at the 2013 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 2015 Summer Universiade 21st-century Ukrainian women {{Ukraine-rowing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Rowing Federation
World Rowing, also known as the World Rowing Federation (former abbreviation FISA; french: Fédération internationale des sociétés d'aviron), is the international governing body for rowing. Its current president is Jean-Christophe Rolland who succeeded Denis Oswald at a ceremony held in Lucerne in July 2014. The World Rowing Cup, World Rowing Championships, and other such competitions are overseen by this organization. History General It was founded by rowing representatives from France, Switzerland, Belgium, Adriatica, and Italy on 25 June 1892 in Turin in response to the growing popularity of the sport of rowing, and the consequent need for uniformity of regulations over such matters as race lengths, boat composition, and weight classes. Also, at the time, betting on rowing was very popular, and the rowers or coaches were themselves often taking bets. Amateur status, whilst widespread in England and elsewhere, was unknown in the sport in many nations, a state of affairs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated between the Baltic and North seas to the north, and the Alps to the south; it covers an area of , with a population of almost 84 million within its 16 constituent states. Germany borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, and France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands to the west. The nation's capital and most populous city is Berlin and its financial centre is Frankfurt; the largest urban area is the Ruhr. Various Germanic tribes have inhabited the northern parts of modern Germany since classical antiquity. A region named Germania was documented before AD 100. In 962, the Kingdom of Germany formed the bulk of the Holy Roman Empire. During the 16th ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
