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

Event:	Women's single sculls
Games:	2012 Summer
Venue:	Eton Dorney
Date:	28 July – 4 August
Competitors:	28
Nations:	28
Gold:	Miroslava Knapková
Goldnoc:	CZE
Silver:	Fie Udby Erichsen
Silvernoc:	DEN
Bronze:	Kim Crow
Bronzenoc:	AUS
Win Value:	7:54.37
Prev:	2008
Next:	2016

The women's single 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	13:30	Heats
Sunday, 29 July 2012	10:20	Repechages
Tuesday, 31 July 2012	11:40	Quarterfinals
Thursday, 2 August 2012	09:30	Semifinals C/D
Thursday, 2 August 2012	11:10	Semifinals
Saturday, 4 August 2012	09:30	Final E
Saturday, 4 August 2012	09:50	Final D
Saturday, 4 August 2012	10:20	Final C
Saturday, 4 August 2012	11:00	Final B
style=background:lemonchiffon	Saturday, 4 August 2012	style=background:lemonchiffon	12:30	style=background:lemonchiffon	Final

Results

Heats

First four of each heat qualify to the quarterfinals, remainder goes to the repechage.

Heat 1

Rank	Rower	Time	Notes
1	Emma Twigg	7:40.24	Q
2	Donata Vištartaitė	7:43.07	Q
3	Sanita Pušpure	7:49.35	Q
4	Kissya da Costa	8:07.75	Q
5	Lucia Palermo	8:07.89	R
6	Soulmaz Abbasi	8:17.46	R

Heat 2

Rank	Rower	Time	Notes
1	Kim Crow	7:41.18	Q
2	Nataliya Mustafayeva	7:46.01	Q
3	Micheen Thornycroft	7:47.10	Q
4	Yariulvis Cobas	7:48.58	Q
5	Camila Vargas Palomo	8:01.60	R
6	Kim Ye-ji	8:04.68	R

Heat 3

Rank	Rower	Time	Notes
1	Miroslava Knapková	7:24.17	Q
2	Fie Udby Erichsen	7:29.37	Q
3	Marie-Louise Dräger	7:44.23	Q
4	Phuttharaksa Neegree Rodenburg	7:52.62	Q
5	Svetlana Germanovich	8:01.94	R
6	Racha Soula	8:19.31	R

Heat 4

Rank	Rower	Time	Notes
1	Zhang Xiuyun	7:21.49	Q
2	Frida Svensson	7:32.61	Q
3	Gabriela Mosqueira Benitez	7:52.07	Q
4	Haruna Sakakibara	7:52.98	Q
5	Shwe Zin Latt	8:10.15	R

Heat 5

Rank	Rower	Time	Notes
1	Ekaterina Karsten	7:30.31	Q
2	Yuliya Levina	7:32.06	Q
3	Genevra Stone	7:33.68	Q
4	Debora Oakley Gonzalez	8:00.17	Q
5	Amina Rouba	8:15.94	R

Repechage

First two qualify to the quarterfinals.

Repechage 1

Rank	Rower	Time	Notes
1	Kim Ye-ji	7:50.64	Q
2	Lucia Palermo	7:52.49	Q
3	Svetlana Germanovich	7:53.63
4	Amina Rouba	8:12.83

Repechage 2

Rank	Rower	Time	Notes
1	Camila Vargas Palomo	7:53.38	Q
2	Soulmaz Abbasi	8:05.99	Q
3	Shwe Zin Latt	8:09.59
4	Racha Soula	8:10.76

Quarterfinals

First three qualify to the semifinals.

Quarterfinal 1

Rank	Rower	Time	Notes
1	Kim Crow	7:34.29	Q
2	Emma Twigg	7:39.07	Q
3	Marie-Louise Dräger	7:52.17	Q
4	Debora Oakley Gonzalez	8:10.97
5	Gabriela Mosqueira Benitez	8:14.36
6	Soulmaz Abbasi	8:27.28

Quarterfinal 2

Rank	Rower	Time	Notes
1	Miroslava Knapková	7:35.35	Q
2	Genevra Stone	7:39.67	Q
3	Frida Svensson	7:40.64	Q
4	Sanita Pušpure	7:44.19
5	Yariulvis Cobas	7:56.89
6	Camila Vargas Palomo	8:07.67

Quarterfinal 3

Rank	Rower	Time	Notes
1	Zhang Xiuyun	7:39.58	Q
2	Yuliya Levina	7:41.28	Q
3	Donata Vištartaitė	7:45.68	Q
4	Micheen Thornycroft	7:56.66
5	Lucia Palermo	8:06.47
6	Phuttharaksa Neegree Rodenburg	8:16.50

Quarterfinal 4

Rank	Rower	Time	Notes
1	Fie Udby Erichsen	7:38.93	Q
2	Ekaterina Karsten	7:42.00	Q
3	Nataliya Mustafayeva	8:00.26	Q
4	Kim Ye-ji	8:00.26
5	Haruna Sakakibara	8:12.26
6	Kissya da Costa	8:12.85

Semifinals

Semifinals C/D

First three qualify to Final C, remainder to Final D.

Semifinal 1

Rank	Rower	Time	Notes
1	Sanita Pušpure	7:51.69	Q
2	Kissya da Costa	8:01.64	Q
3	Phuttharaksa Neegree Rodenburg	8:03.91	Q
4	Lucia Palermo	8:09.85
5	Debora Oakley Gonzalez	8:14.03
6	Soulmaz Abbasi	8:30.74

Semifinal 2

Rank	Rower	Time	Notes
1	Micheen Thornycroft	7:51.02	Q
2	Yariulvis Cobas	7:54.22	Q
3	Camila Vargas Palomo	7:57.22	Q
4	Kim Ye-ji	7:59.78
5	Haruna Sakakibara	8:05.65
6	Gabriela Mosqueira Benitez	8:10.15

Semifinals A/B

First three qualify to Final A, remainder to Final B.

Semifinal 1

Rank	Rower	Time	Notes
1	Miroslava Knapková	7:42.57	Q
2	Kim Crow	7:44.69	Q
3	Ekaterina Karsten	7:44.94	Q
4	Yuliya Levina	7:48.95
5	Donata Vištartaitė	7:56.05
6	Marie-Louise Dräger	8:01.05

Semifinal 2

Rank	Rower	Time	Notes
1	Fie Udby Erichsen	7:44.33	Q
2	Zhang Xiuyun	7:45.58	Q
3	Emma Twigg	7:46.71	Q
4	Genevra Stone	7:52.98
5	Frida Svensson	7:54.52
6	Nataliya Mustafayeva	8:06.83

Finals

Final E

Rank	Rower	Time
1	Svetlana Germanovich	8:37.08
2	Amina Rouba	8:42.23
3	Racha Soula	8:49.47
4	Shwe Zin Latt	8:56.06

Final D

Rank	Rower	Time
1	Kim Ye-ji	8:32.57
2	Gabriela Mosqueira Benitez	8:34.51
3	Lucia Palermo	8:40.38
4	Debora Oakley Gonzalez	8:40.70
5	Haruna Sakakibara	8:42.90
6	Soulmaz Abbasi	8:57.98

Final C

Rank	Rower	Time	Notes
1	Sanita Pušpure	7:59.77
2	Micheen Thornycroft	8:07.52
3	Yariulvis Cobas	8:14.59
4	Camila Vargas Palomo	8:19.75
5	Phuttharaksa Neegree Rodenburg	8:34.11
–	Kissya da Costa		DNS

Final B

Rank	Rower	Time
1	Genevra Stone	7:45.24
2	Donata Vištartaitė	7:47.94
3	Yuliya Levina	7:49.22
4	Frida Svensson	7:56.42
5	Marie-Louise Dräger	8:11.71
6	Nataliya Mustafayeva	8:23.64

Final A

Rank	Rower	Time
	Miroslava Knapková	7:54.37
	Fie Udby Erichsen	7:57.72
	Kim Crow	7:58.04
4	Emma Twigg	8:01.76
5	Ekaterina Karsten	8:02.86
6	Zhang Xiuyun	8:03.10

Notes and References

Web site: Rowing. London 2012 website. 10 May 2011. dead. https://archive.today/20120906054415/http://www.london2012.com/spectators/. 6 September 2012.
Web site: Rowing at the 2012 London Summer Games: Women's Single Sculls . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418132614/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/2012/ROW/womens-single-sculls.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 29 September 2018.