Rowing at the 2012 Summer Paralympics explained

Event:	Rowing
Games:	2012 Summer
Venue:	Dorney Lake
Dates:	31 August – 2 September
Competitors:	96
Nations:	23
Prev:	2008
Next:	2016

Rowing competitions at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London were held from 31 August to 2 September 2012, at Dorney Lake which, for the purposes of the Games venue, is officially termed Eton Dorney.

Classification

Rowers are given a classification depending on the type and extent of their disability. The classification system allows rowers to compete against others with a similar level of function.

The three rowing classes are:

LTA (Legs, Trunk and Arms) - Mixed coxed fours
TA (Trunk and Arms) - Mixed double sculls
AS (Arms and shoulders) - Men's and women's singles

Events

Four rowing events are scheduled to be held, each over a course of 1000 metres:

Men's single sculls AS
Women's single sculls AS
Mixed double sculls TA
Mixed four coxed LTA

Participating nations

96 rowers (48 male, 48 female) from 23 nations including 12 coxswains (5 male, 7 female) from 12 nations took part in this sport.

Medalists

Men's single sculls
Women's single sculls
Mixed double sculls	Lou Xiaoxian Fei Tianming	Perle Bouge Stephane Tardieu	Oksana Masters Rob Jones
Mixed coxed four	Pam Relph Naomi Riches David Smith James Roe Lily van den Broecke (Cox)	Anke Molkenthin Astrid Hengsbach Tino Kolitscher Kai Kruse Katrin Splitt (Cox)	Andrii Stelmakh Kateryna Morozova Olena Pukhaieva Denys Sobol Volodymyr Kozlov (Cox)

References

Web site: Rowing - About . The London Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXX Olympiad . 8 August 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120722130103/http://www.london2012.com/paralympics/rowing/about/ . 22 July 2012 . dmy-all.

External links

Official Site of the 2012 Summer Paralympics