Rowing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's quadruple sculls explained

Event:	Women's quadruple sculls
Games:	2012 Summer
Venue:	Eton Dorney
Date:	28 July – 3 August
Competitors:	32
Nations:	8
Gold:	Kateryna Tarasenko Nataliya Dovhodko Anastasiya Kozhenkova Yana Dementyeva
Goldnoc:	UKR
Silver:	Annekatrin Thiele Carina Bär Julia Richter Britta Oppelt
Silvernoc:	GER
Bronze:	Natalie Dell Kara Kohler Megan Kalmoe Adrienne Martelli
Bronzenoc:	USA
Win Value:	6:35.93
Prev:	2008
Next:	2016

The Women's quadruple 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)

Date	Time	Round
Saturday, 28 July 2012	09:50	Heats
Monday, 30 July 2012	09:40	Repechage
Wednesday, 1 August 2012	10:20	Final B
style=background:lemonchiffon	Wednesday, 1 August 2012	style=background:lemonchiffon	12:10	style=background:lemonchiffon	Final

Results

Heats

First team of each heat qualify to the final, remainder goes to the repechage.

Heat 1

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Thiele, Bär, Richter, Oppelt		6:13.62	Q
2	Dell, Kohler, Kalmoe, Martelli		6:15.76	R
3	Soćko, Leszczyńska, Lewandowska, Madaj		6:21.44	R
4	Tang, Tian, Jin, Zhang		6:24.32	R

Heat 2

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Kateryna Tarasenko, Nataliya Dovhodko, Anastasiya Kozhenkova, Yana Dementyeva		6:14.82	Q
2	Faletic, Hore, Frasca, Clay		6:17.52	R
3	Gray, Trappitt, Bourke, MacFarlane		6:20.22	R
4	Wilson, Flood, Houghton, Rodford		6:20.71	R

Repechage

First four qualify to the final.

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Faletic, Hore, Frasca, Clay		6:18.80	Q
2	Dell, Kohler, Kalmoe, Martelli		6:19.49	Q
3	Wilson, Flood, Houghton, Rodford		6:21.65	Q
4	Tang, Tian, Jin, Zhang		6:21.98	Q
5	Soćko, Leszczyńska, Lewandowska, Madaj		6:23.19
6	Gray, Trappitt, Bourke, MacFarlane		6:48.71	"caught a crab"^[3]

Finals

Note: Strong headwinds

Final B

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Gray, Trappitt, Bourke, MacFarlane		6:56.46
2	Soćko, Leszczyńska, Lewandowska, Madaj		6:57.20

Final A

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
	Kateryna Tarasenko, Nataliya Dovhodko, Anastasiya Kozhenkova, Yana Dementyeva		6:35.93
	Annekatrin Thiele, Carina Bär, Julia Richter, Britta Oppelt		6:38.09
	Natalie Dell, Kara Kohler, Megan Kalmoe, Adrienne Martelli		6:40.63
4	Faletic, Hore, Frasca, Clay		6:41.67
5	Tang, Tian, Jin, Zhang		6:44.19
6	Wilson, Flood, Houghton, Rodford		6:51.54

Notes and References

1. Web site: Rowing. London 2012 website. 10 May 2011. dead. https://archive.today/20120906054415/http://www.london2012.com/spectators/. 6 September 2012.
2. Web site: Rowing at the 2012 London Summer Games: Women's Quadruple Sculls . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418132613/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/2012/ROW/womens-quadruple-sculls.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 29 September 2018.
3. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10823379 Olympics: Malfunction costs NZ rowers