The men's
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event at the
2024 Summer Olympics
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took place from 29 July to 3 August 2024 at the
Stade nautique de Vaires-sur-Marne.
Background
This was the 29th appearance of the event, which was not held at the first Games in 1896 (when bad weather forced the cancellation of all rowing events) but has been held at every Summer Olympics since 1900.
New Zealand won the event at the
2020 Olympics
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. Great Britain won the
2023
Events
Predicted and scheduled events
* January 1
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and
2022 World Championships, having earned a bronze medal at the 2020 Olympics. At the 2024
World Rowing Cup II in May, Great Britain won by less than a second to the United States. These two nations did not compete in the World Rowing Cup III in June, the last major international regatta before the Olympics.
Qualification
Each
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(NOC) has been limited to a single boat in the event since 1920. There are 7 qualifying places in the men's eight:
* 5 from the
World Championships (Great Britain, Netherlands, Australia, Romania, and Germany)
* 2 from the final qualification regatta (United States and Italy)
Competition format
This
rowing event features nine-person boats, with eight rowers and a coxswain. It is a
sweep rowing event, with the rowers each having one oar (and thus each rowing on one side). The competition consists of multiple rounds. The course uses the 2000 metres distance that became the Olympic standard in
1912
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.
Beginning at the 2020 Olympics, the coxswain position has been open to any gender.
There are two heats, with the winner of each advancing directly to the final and the remaining five boats competing in the
repechage
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. The top four in the repechage advance to the final; only the last-place boat will be eliminated (with an overall rank of 7th place). The final determines the medals as well as 4th to 6th places.
Schedule
The competition is scheduled over six days. Times given are session start times; multiple rowing events might have races during a session.
All times are Central European Time
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(UTC+9
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)
Results
Heats
The winners of each heat qualified for the final, while the remainder went to the repechage.
Heat 1
Heat 2
Repechage
Final
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rowing at the 2024 Summer Olympics - Men's eight
Men's eight
Men's events at the 2024 Summer Olympics