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Rowing At The 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's Double Sculls
The men's 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. Schedule All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1) Results Heats First three of each heat qualify to the semifinals, remainder goes to the repeachge. Heat 1 Heat 2 Heat 3 Repechage First three qualify to the semifinals. Semifinals First three qualify to the final. Semifinal 1 Semifinal 2 Finals Final B Final A New Zealand rower Hamish Bond watched fellow team members Nathan Cohen (rower), Nathan Cohen and Joseph Sullivan (rower), Joseph Sullivan in their final, and with 500 m to go, they were 3.5 sec down on the leaders and in fourth place; whilst they were the reigning world champions and had dominated the qualifying races, Bond was convinced that they had no chance of winning their final. But they had the most impressive sprint and won by half a length. References< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eton Dorney
Dorney Lake (also known as Eton College Rowing Centre, and as Eton Dorney as a 2012 Summer Olympics venue) is a purpose-built Rowing (sport), rowing lake and Meetings & Events Venue in England. It is near the village of Dorney, Buckinghamshire, and is around 3 km (2 miles) west of Windsor, Berkshire, Windsor and Eton, Berkshire, Eton, close to the River Thames. The lake is privately owned and financed by Eton College, which spent £17 million developing it. Additional grants, totalling £500,000, were obtained from Sport England, UK Sport, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, DCMS and South East England Development Agency, SEEDA in order to build the lake's finish tower. The project was completed in 2006, after 10 years of construction. The facilities are hired out for rowing, as well as for canoeing, Hospitality, Dragon boat race, dragon boating, and triathlon. 2012 Olympic venue The lake was used as the 2012 Summer Olympic venues, 2012 Summer Olympic venue for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saulius Ritter
Saulius Ritter (born 23 August 1988) is a Lithuanian rower, best known for winning a silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics and a gold medal at the 2011 European Rowing Championships. He competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the men's double sculls with Rolandas Maščinskas. file:Ruder-EM 2016 47.JPG, left, 280px, Saulius Ritter (left) and Rolandas Maščinskas at the 2016 European Championships in Brandenburg an der Havel, Brandenburg Ritter and Maščinskas won gold at the 2011 European Rowing Championships, 2011 and 2014 European Rowing Championships, 2014 European Championships, silver at the 2013 World Rowing Championships, 2013 and 2015 World Championships and the 2013 European Championships and bronze medal at the 2016 European Championships. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, he won the silver medal in the same event with Mindaugas Griskonis. In 2021 Ritter announced about retirement from professional sport. Biography Currently living in Trakai Trakai (; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Townsend
Sam Townsend (born 26 November 1985 in Reading) is a British rower who competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics and 2016 Summer Olympics. Rowing career Townsend competed in the double sculls with Bill Lucas at the 2012 Olympic Games rowing events, finishing in fifth place. He competed at the 2013 World Rowing Championships in Chungju, where he won a bronze medal as part of the quad sculls with Graeme Thomas, Charles Cousins and Peter Lambert. The following year he competed at the 2014 World Rowing Championships in Bosbaan, Amsterdam, where he won a silver medal as part of the quadruple sculls with Thomas, Cousins and Lambert. In 2016 he went to his second Olympic Games competing in the quadruple sculls A quadruple sculling boat, often simply called a quad and abbreviated as a 4x, is a racing shell used in the sport of competitive rowing. It is designed for four people who propel the boat by sculling with two oars, or "sculls", one in each han ... with Jack Beaumont, Angu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Lucas (rower)
William P. Lucas (born 13 September 1987 in Exeter) is a British rower. He competed with Sam Townsend in the double sculls at the 2012 Summer Olympics and finished fifth. He attended Towerhouse School for primary school education and Torquay Boys Grammar school for secondary education. In 2013 rowing with Matt Langridge, he finished runner-up behind Michael Arms and Robbie Manson of New Zealand in the Double Sculls Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta Henley Royal Regatta (or Henley Regatta, its original name pre-dating Royal patronage) is a Rowing (sport), rowing event held annually on the River Thames by the town of Henley-on-Thames, England. It was established on 26 March 1839. It diffe .... References External links * 1987 births Living people English male rowers Sportspeople from Exeter Rowers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic rowers for Great Britain 21st-century English sportsmen People educated at Torquay Boys' Grammar School {{UK-r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olympic Record
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Artem Morozov
Artem Mykolaiovych Morozov (; born 29 February 1980) is a Ukrainian rower. He competed in the double sculls at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He won the gold medal in the quadruple sculls at the 2014 World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , ; ; ) is the capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, largest city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It has a population of 933,680 in June 2024 within the city proper, 1,457,018 in the City Re .... References External links * * 1980 births Living people Ukrainian male rowers Sportspeople from Kherson Rowers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic rowers for Ukraine World Rowing Championships medalists for Ukraine European Rowing Championships medalists {{Ukraine-rowing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dmytro Mikhay
Dmytro Valeriyovych Mikhay (; born 27 February 1990) is a Ukrainian rower. He won the gold medal in the quadruple sculls at the 2014 World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam, with what is still a world's fastest time as of September 2018. He competed in the double sculls at the 2012 Summer Olympics with Artem Morozov. He won the gold medal in the quadruple sculls at the 2014 World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam with Morozov, Oleksandr Nadtoka and Ivan Dovhodko. The team also won the European Championships that year. The team of Mikhay, Morozov, Nadtoka and Dovhodko won the silver medal at the 2015 European Championships. He competed at the 2016 Olympic Games in the men's quadruple sculls with Morozov, Oleksandr Nadtoka and Ivan Dovhodko. In 2018, Mikhay, alongside Sergii Gryn, Nadtoka and Dovhodko won the bronze medal in the men's quadruple sculls at the World Championships. Following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Mikhay and his wife Dasha escaped to England, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cédric Berrest
Cédric Jacques Henri Berrest (born 2 April 1985 in Toulouse) is a French rower. He competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and officially branded as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes fro ..., where he won a bronze medal in quadruple scull. Many times French champion in single scull, Cédric Berrest scored the best time at the 2009 CRASH-B of Boston, a world erg competition. The athlete is still very present in the rowing world, strongly scoring great times on his single scull and erg competition. Cédric now rows at Toulouse and is still in the French team A. References * External links * * * * * 1985 births Living people French male rowers Olympic bronze medalists for France Olympic rowers for France Rowers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 2008 Summer Olym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julien Bahain
Julien Bruno Paul Bahain (born 20 April 1986) is a rower of French/Canadian origin. He competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, where he won a bronze medal in the quadruple sculls with Jonathan Coeffic, Pierre-Jean Peltier and Cédric Berrest. In 2014, he decided to retire from the French rowing team to row for Canada. In 2013, he rowed across the Atlantic Ocean with Patrick Favre. It took them 49 days to row from Tarfaya (Morocco) to Tartane (Martinique Martinique ( ; or ; Kalinago language, Kalinago: or ) is an island in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the eastern Caribbean Sea. It was previously known as Iguanacaera which translates to iguana island in Carib language, Kariʼn ...). In June 2016, he was officially named to Canada's 2016 Olympic team. References External links * Living people 1986 births French male rowers Canadian male rowers Olympic bronze medalists for France Olympic rowers for France Rowers at the 2008 Summer Olympic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kjetil Borch
Kjetil Borch (born 14 February 1990) is a Norwegian rower. He is a two-time Olympic medallist and won the silver medal in the single sculls at the 2020 Summer Olympics and the bronze medal in the double sculls at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Borch is also a two-time world champion (2013, 2018) and a European champion (2018). He is a four-time Olympian and competed at the 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024 Olympic Games. Rowing career Borch began rowing in 2001, before taking a break to play handball and train kickboxing, and then later returned to rowing. He made his international debut for Norway in the quad scull at the World Junior Championships in Beijing in 2007 and later switched to the double scull with Bjørn Jostein Singstad for the 2008 World Junior Championships in Ottensheim. In 2009, Borch won the bronze medal in the double sculls at the World U23 Championships in Račice with Truls Albert in bow seat. In 2010, Borch became part of the Norwegian senior men's squad and p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nils Jakob Hoff
Nils Jakob Hoff (born 5 February 1985) is a Norwegian retired rower. He is a world champion and two-time European Championships bronze medallist in the double sculls. Hoff won the gold medal at the 2013 World Championships and bronze medals at the European Championships in 2012 and 2013 with Kjetil Borch. He is a two-time Olympian and competed in the men's double sculls at the 2012 Summer Olympics and the men's single sculls at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Hoff retired from rowing in 2019. Personal life Hoff is married to cross-country skier and four-time Olympic champion Therese Johaug Therese Johaug (born 25 June 1988) is a Norwegian former cross-country skier from the village of Dalsbygda in Os Municipality. In World Ski Championships she won ten individual gold medals along with four gold medals in relays, and she is a .... References * 1985 births Living people Norwegian male rowers Sportspeople from Bergen Rowers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Kowalyk
Kevin Kowalyk (born 27 September 1980 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian rower. He competed with Michael Braithwaite in the double sculls at the 2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012, were an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ..., where they were eliminated in the semifinals. References External links * 1980 births Canadian male rowers[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
