World Rowing Championships 2006
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The 29th World Rowing Championships
World Rowing Championships
The World Rowing Championships is an international rowing regatta organized by FISA . It is a week long event held at the end of the northern hemisphere summer and in non-Olympic years is the highlight of the international rowing calendar.The first event was held in Lucerne, Switzerland in 1962...

were held at the Dorney Lake
Dorney Lake
Dorney Lake is a purpose-built rowing lake in the United Kingdom. It is located at grid reference near the village of Dorney, Buckinghamshire, and near the towns of Windsor and Eton, close to the River Thames. The lake is privately owned and financed by Eton College, who have spent £17 million...

, Eton
Eton, Berkshire
Eton is a town and civil parish in Berkshire, England, lying on the opposite bank of the River Thames to Windsor and connected to it by Windsor Bridge. The parish also includes the large village of Eton Wick, 2 miles west of the town, and has a population of 4,980. Eton was in Buckinghamshire until...

, Great Britain
Great Britain
Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...

, between August 20 and August 27, 2006.

Men's Results

Single Sculls - M1x  New Zealand
Mahé Drysdale
Mahe Drysdale
Alexander Mahé Owens Drysdale, MNZM ) is a New Zealand rower and five-time World Champion single sculler. The name Mahé came from the largest island in the Seychelles....

 
6:35.40  Germany
Marcel Hacker
Marcel Hacker
Marcel Hacker is a German rower. He has won an Olympic bronze medal in 2000 in Sydney and became a world champion in 2002 in Seville.-External links:*...

 
6:35.49  Czech Republic
Ondřej Synek
Ondrej Synek
Ondřej Synek is a Czech rower and World Champion from Single Sculls at Lake Karapiro on the 2010 World Rowing Championships. He won a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics.- References :...

 
6:37.51
Lightweight Single Sculls - LM1x '
Zac Purchase
Zac Purchase
Zachary Jake Nicholas 'Zac' Purchase MBE is an English rower.Born in Cheltenham, Purchase started rowing in 1999 at the King's School, Worcester. He competed at the Junior World Rowing Championships in 2003 and 2004...

 
6:47.82  Spain
Juan Zunzunegui Guimerans 
6:50.14  New Zealand
Duncan Grant
Duncan Grant (rower)
Duncan Grant is a New Zealand rower.-References:...

 
6:52.73
Double Sculls - M2x  Early Modern France
Jean-Baptiste Macquet
Jean-Baptiste Macquet
Jean-Baptiste Macquet is a French rower.-External links:*...

 & Adrien Hardy
Adrien Hardy
Adrien Hardy is a French rower and Olympic gold medallist.- References :...

 
6:07.60  Slovenia
Luka Špik
Luka Spik
Luka Špik , is a Slovenian rower and Olympic gold medalist.Špik and Iztok Čop won the 1999 World Championship, and gold at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, which was the first Olympic gold medal for independent Slovenia....

 & Iztok Čop
Iztok Cop
Iztok Čop is a Slovenian rower and Olympic gold medallist.Iztok started rowing at the age of 13 in Bled, where Slovenia's best rowing club is located....

 
6:09.79 '
Matthew Wells
Matthew Wells (rower)
Matthew Wells is a British Olympic rower.Wells was born in Bradford and grew up in Hexham, where he learnt to row at Queen Elizabeth High School...

 & Stephen Rowbotham
Stephen Rowbotham
Stephen Christopher Rowbotham is a British rower. He competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, where he won a bronze medal in double sculls. Rowbotham was educated at Clifton College and Durham University where he switched from tennis to rowing, having previously represented the UK in tennis....

 
6:10.95
Lightweight Double Sculls - LM2x  Denmark
Mads Rasmussen
Mads Rasmussen
Mads Reinholdt Rasmussen is a Danish rower and double World Champion in the Lightweight Double Sculls, with his partner Rasmus Quist. Rasmussen and Quist placed fourth in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.-External links:*...

 & Rasmus Quist
Rasmus Quist
Rasmus Quist Hansen is a Danish rower and double World Champion in the Lightweight Double Sculls, with his partner Mads Rasmussen....

 
6:11.42  Italy
Marcello Miani
Marcello Miani
Marcello Miani is an Italian rower.- References :* at sports-reference.com...

 & Elia Luini
Elia Luini
Elia Luini is an Italian rower.-References:*...

 
6:14.90  Early Modern France
Fabrice Moreau & Frederic Dufour
Frédéric Dufour
Frederic Dufour is a French rower.- References :* at sports-reference.com...

 
6:15.94
Quadruple Sculls - M4x  Poland
Konrad Wasielewski
Konrad Wasielewski
Konrad Wasielewski is a Polish rower. He won a gold medal in quadruple sculls at the 2008 Summer Olympics.For his sport achievements, he received: Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta in 2008....

, Marek Kolbowicz
Marek Kolbowicz
Marek Kolbowicz is a Polish rower. He won a gold medal in quadruple sculls at the 2008 Summer Olympics and was world champion in 2005, 2006 and 2007.For his sport achievements, he received:...

, Michał Jeliński & Adam Korol
Adam Korol
Adam Korol is a Polish rower. He won a gold medal in quadruple sculls at the 2008 Summer Olympics.For his sport achievements, he received: Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta in 2008.- References :...

 
5:38.99  Ukraine
Volodymyr Pavlovskyi, Dmytro Prokopenko, Sergiy Biloushchenko & Sergiy Gryn 
5:40.47  Estonia
Allar Raja
Allar Raja
Allar Raja is an Estonian rower. He is a member of rowing club "SK Kalev" located in Pärnu.-Junior years:...

, Igor Kuzmin
Igor Kuzmin
Igor Kuzmin is an Estonian rower. He is a member of rowing club "SK Narva Energia" located in Narva.-Junior years:...

, Tõnu Endrekson
Tõnu Endrekson
Tõnu Endrekson is an Estonian rower. He was fourth in the double sculls event with Leonid Gulov at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Endrekson won a silver medal in 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing in the double sculls event with Jüri Jaanson...

 & Andrei Jämsä
Andrei Jämsa
Andrei Jämsä is an Estonian rower. Due to a back injury he could not compete in 2007. He is a member of rowing club "SK Pärnu" located in Pärnu.-Junior years:...

 
5:41.23
Lightweight Quadruple Sculls - LM4x  Italy
Gardino Pellolio
Gardino Pellolio
Gardino Pellolio is an Italian rower.- References :...

, Daniele Gilardoni
Daniele Gilardoni
Daniele Gilardoni is an Italian lightweight rower.He is reted among the Top 10 male rowers active in 2008...

, Luca Moncada
Luca Moncada
Luca Moncada is an Italian rower.- References :...

 & Daniele Danesin
Daniele Danesin
Daniele Danesin is an Italian rower.-References:...

 
5:53.83  Germany
Kai Anspach, Martin Rückbrodt, Knud Lange
Knud Lange
Knud Lange is a German rower.- External links :...

 & Christoph Schregel 
5:55.87  Early Modern France
Bastien Tabourier, Quentin Colard, Maxime Goisset
Maxime Goisset
Maxime Goisset is a French rower.- External links :* at sports-reference.com...

 & Remi Di Girolamo
Remi Di Girolamo
Remi Di Girolamo is a French rower.- External links :...

 
5:57.42
Coxless Pairs - M2-  Australia
Drew Ginn
Drew Ginn
Drew Cameron Ginn, OAM, is an Australian rower and triple Olympic gold medallist....

 & Duncan Free
Duncan Free
Duncan Free, is an Australian rower and Olympic medallist. Free was born in Hobart, Tasmania but currently lives on Queensland's Gold Coast....

 
6:18.00  New Zealand
Nathan Twaddle
Nathan Twaddle
Nathan Twaddle, MNZM is a rower from New Zealand and Olympic medallist. He competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, in the coxless pair rowing with his partner George Bridgewater and came out with a bronze medal....

 & George Bridgewater
George Bridgewater
George Bridgewater, MNZM, is a New Zealand rower who currently competes in the pair at international level with Nathan Twaddle. The pair won bronze medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing...

 
6:19.13  Canada
Kevin Light
Kevin Light
Kevin Richard Light is a Canadian rower. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia but has lived in Victoria, British Columbia since 1985. He began rowing at Stelly's High School in grade 12 and graduating in 1997...

 & Malcolm Howard
Malcolm Howard (rower)
Malcolm Howard is a Canadian rower. He was born in Victoria, British Columbia and graduated from Brentwood College School in 2001....

 
6:21.83
Coxed Pairs - M2+  Serbia and Montenegro
Nikola Stojić
Nikola Stojic
1998-20032003-20062007-presentNikola Stojić is a rower from Serbia, who competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000. He won the silver medal in the Men's Single Sculls event at the 2005 Mediterranean Games in Almería, Spain.In 2006 Olympic Committee of Serbia has declared for...

, Jovan Popović
Jovan Popović (rower)
Jovan Popović is a Serbian rower.- External links :...

 & Ivan Ninkovic 
6:51.27  Italy
Francesco Gabriele, Dario Cerasola & Andrea Riva 
6:54.39  Canada
James Byrnes, Derek O'Farrell & Brian Price 
6:55.41
Coxless Fours - M4- '
Steve Williams
Steve Williams (rower)
Stephen David Williams OBE is an English rower and double Olympic champion.In April and May 2011, Steve will be taking part in Richard Parks'...

, Peter Reed
Peter Reed (rower)
Peter Reed MBE is a British Olympic rower. Reed has achieved two gold medals and two silver medals in the World Championships, and in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, he earned a gold medal in the Men's coxless four.- Biography :Reed was born in Seattle, but his family moved to England several months...

, Alex Partridge
Alex Partridge
Alex Partridge is a British rower, and an Olympic silver medallist- Education :Partridge started rowing at Monkton Combe School, Bath, and attended Oxford Brookes University to study Technology Management...

 & Andrew Triggs-Hodge
Andrew Triggs-Hodge
Andrew Triggs Hodge MBE is a British rower and an Olympic and double World Champion.- Education :...

 
5:43.75  Germany
Gregor Hauffe
Gregor Hauffe
Gregor Hauffe is a German rower.-References:...

, Toni Seifert
Toni Seifert
Toni Seifert is a German rower.-References:*...

, Urs Käufer
Urs Käufer
Urs Käufer is a German rower.- References :* at sports-reference.com...

 & Philip Adamski 
5:44.64  Netherlands
Geert Cirkel
Geert Cirkel
Geert Cirkel is a rower from the Netherlands.Cirkel started rowing in 1994. He mainly rows in the fours and occasionally participates in the quadruple sculls. In the quadruple sculls he won a silver medal at the 2001 World Championships in Luzern...

, Jan-Willem Gabriëls
Jan-Willem Gabriëls
Jan-Willem Gabriëls is a rower from the Netherlands.Gabriëls started rowing in 1997. He started rowing in the eights, but after the 2004 Summer Olympics he switched to the fours...

, Matthijs Vellenga
Matthijs Vellenga
Matthijs Vellenga is a rower from the Netherlands.His career highlight so far was in Athens at the 2004 Summer Olympics where he won the silver medal in the eights together with Michiel Bartman, Geert-Jan Derksen, Gerritjan Eggenkamp, Daniël Mensch, Diederik Simon, Jan-Willem Gabriëls, Gijs...

 & Gijs Vermeulen
Gijs Vermeulen
Gijs Vermeulen is a rower from the Netherlands.His career highlight so far was in Athens at the 2004 Summer Olympics where he won the silver medal in the eights together with Michiel Bartman, Geert-Jan Derksen, Gerritjan Eggenkamp, Daniël Mensch, Diederik Simon, Matthijs Vellenga, Jan-Willem...

 
5:45.54
Coxed Fours - M4+  Germany
Jan Martin Bröer, Matthias Flach
Matthias Flach (rower)
Matthias Flach is a German rower.- External links :* at sports-reference.com...

, Philipp Naruhn
Philipp Naruhn
Philipp Naruhn is a German rower.- External links :* at sports-reference.com...

, Florian Eichner
Florian Eichner
Florian Eichner is a German rower.- References :* at sports-reference.com...

 & Martin Sauer
Martin Sauer (rower)
Martin Sauer is a German rowing cox.-References:...

 
6:05.77  Canada
Max Lang, Chris Aylard, Robert Gibson
Robert Gibson (rower)
Robert Gibson is a Canadian rower.- References :...

, Will Crothers & Stephen Cheng 
6:06.47  New Zealand
James Dallinger
James Dallinger
James William Dallinger, is a New Zealand rower.He was a member of the World Champion under-23 coxed four in 2006, and the world champion senior coxless four in 2007...

, Steven Cottle, Paul Gerritsen
Paul Gerritsen
Paul Gerritsen, is a New Zealand rower.He was a member of the world champion under-23 coxed four in 2006 also winning a bronze medal at the senior world championships the same year.-Early life:...

, Dane Boswell & Daniel Quigley
Daniel Quigley
Daniel "The Hurricane" Quigley is an Irish kickboxer from Derry City, Ireland. He is coached by former 3 time world kickboxing champion Paddy Toland at PT's Kickboxing gym in Carrigans, Co. Donegal and in Derry City....

 
6:07.37
Lightweight Fours - LM4-  Mainland China
Zhongming Huang, Chongkui Wu, Lin Zhang
Zhang Lin (rower)
Zhang Lin is a male Chinese rower, who competed for Team China at the 2008 Summer Olympics.-Major performances:*2005 National Games - 1st lightweight fours;*2006/2007 World Championships - 1st/5th lightweight fours;...

 & Jun Tian 
5:49.43  Early Modern France
Franck Solforosi
Franck Solforosi
Franck Solforosi is a French rower.- External links :* at sports-reference.com...

, Jeremy Pouge
Jeremy Pouge
Jeremy Pouge is a French rower.- External links :...

, Jean-Christophe Bette
Jean-Christophe Bette
Jean-Christophe Bette is a French competition rower and Olympic champion.Bette won a gold medal in Lightweight coxless fours, at the 2000 Summer Olympics .-References:...

 & Fabien Tilliet
Fabien Tilliet
Fabien Tilliet is a French rower.- References :* at sports-reference.com...

 
5:51.26  Republic of Ireland
Gearoid Towey
Gearoid Towey
Gearoid Towey is an Irish Olympic Athlete and former World Rowing Champion, Trans-Atlantic adventurer and actor....

, Eugene Coakley
Eugene Coakley
Eugene Coakley is an Irish rower. He finished 6th in the men's lightweight coxless four at the 2004 Summer Olympics.- External links :* at sports-reference.com...

, Richard Archibald
Richard Archibald
Richard Archibald is an Irish rower. He finished 6th in the men's lightweight coxless four at the 2004 Summer Olympics.- External links :* at sports-reference.com...

 & Paul Griffin
Paul Griffin (rower)
Paul Griffin is an Irish rower. He finished 6th in the men's lightweight coxless four at the 2004 Summer Olympics.- External links :* at sports-reference.com...

 
5:51.35
Eights - M8+  Germany
Jörg Dießner
Jörg Dießner
Jörg Dießner is a German rower.- References :* at sports-reference.com...

, Sebastian Schulte
Sebastian Schulte
Sebastian Schulte is a German rower.- References :* at sports-reference.com...

, Stephan Koltzk, Philipp Stüer
Philipp Stüer
Philipp Stüer is a German rower.- References :* at sports-reference.com...

, Jan Tebrügge
Jan Tebrügge
Jan Tebrügge is a German rower.- References :...

, Ulf Siemes
Ulf Siemes
Ulf Siemes is a German rower.- References :* at sports-reference.com...

, Thorsten Engelmann
Thorsten Engelmann
Thorsten Engelmann is a German rower. Engelmann started rowing at age 9 because his father was the President of a rowing club in Berlin...

, Bernd Heidicker
Bernd Heidicker
Bernd Heidicker is a German rower.- References :* at sports-reference.com...

 & Peter Thiede
Peter Thiede
Peter Thiede is a German rowing cox.- References :* at sports-reference.com...

 
5:21.85  Italy
Lorenzo Carboncini
Lorenzo Carboncini
Lorenzo Carboncini is an Italian rower.- References :* at sports-reference.com...

, Niccolo Mornati
Niccolo Mornati
Niccolo Mornati is an Italian rower.- External links :* at sports-reference.com...

, Luca Agamennoni
Luca Agamennoni
Luca Agamennoni is an Italian silver medal and bronze medal winner for rowing in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.-References:*...

, Alessio Sartori
Alessio Sartori
Alessio Sartori is an Italian competition rower and Olympic champion.He received a gold medal in quadruple sculls at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, together with Agostino Abbagnale, Simone Raineri, and Rossano Galtarossa....

, Mario Palmisano, Dario Dentale
Dario Dentale
Dario Dentale is an Italian rower.-References:*...

, Pierpaolo Frattini, Carlo Mornati
Carlo Mornati
Carlo Mornati is an Italian rower.- References :* at sports-reference.com...

 & Gaetano Iannuzzi 
5:23.29  United States
Paul Daniels
Paul Daniels (rower)
Paul Daniels is an American rower.- External links :*...

, Matt Deakin
Matt Deakin
Matt Deakin is an American competition rower, Olympic champion and world champion.Deakin won a gold medal in coxed eights at the 2004 Summer Olympics, as a member of the American team. The time 5:19.85 was a new world record. He is a member of the New York Athletic Club Hall of Fame.-References:...

, Steve Coppola Jr, Kenneth Jurkowski
Kenneth Jurkowski
Kenneth Jurkowski is an American rower. He finished 11th in the men's single sculls at the 2008 Summer Olympics.- External links :* at sports-reference.com...

, Giuseppe Lanzone
Giuseppe Lanzone
Giuseppe Lanzone is an American rower. Along with his teammates he finished 9th in the men's coxless four at the 2008 Summer Olympics.- External links :* at sports-reference.com...

, Daniel Walsh, Beau Hoopman
Beau Hoopman
-Olympic career:Beau was part of the Olympic gold medal winning Men's 8+ team in 2004, which also set the M8+ 2000m World Record during a qualifying heat...

, Marcus McElhenney
Marcus McElhenney
Marcus McElhenney is an American coxswain. He won a bronze medal in the men's eight at the 2008 Summer Olympics....

 & Christopher Liwski
Christopher Liwski
Christopher Liwski is an American rower, a double world championship medal winner, and a two-time member of the United States Olympic Rowing Team.- Education :...

 
5:24.14

Women's Results

Single Sculls - W1x  Belarus
Ekaterina Karsten-Khodotovitch
Ekaterina Karsten
Ekaterina Karsten is a famous rower from Minsk, Belarus, an Olympic champion and world champion in single sculls....

 
7:11.02  Czech Republic
Mirka Knapkova 
7:15.02  Sweden
Frida Svensson
Frida Svensson (rower)
Frida Svensson is a professional sculler. She won a gold medal in the women's single sculls at the 2010 World Rowing Championships in Lake Karapiro, the victory was notable for narrowly defeating Ekaterina Karsten who has dominated women's sculling since 1996...

 
7:18.35
Lightweight Single Sculls - LW1x  Netherlands
Marit van Eupen
Marit van Eupen
Marit van Eupen is a rower from the Netherlands.Together with Kirsten van der Kolk she participated at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney where they finished in sixth position in the lightweight double sculls. Four years later they took part in Athens at the 2004 Summer Olympics where they won the...

 
7:32.26  Germany
Berit Carow
Berit Carow
Berit Carow is a German rower. In 2006 she won second place the World Rowing Championships at the Dorney Lake, Eton, Great Britain, and in 2007 the World Rowing Championships in Munich, Germany. She represented her native country at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.-References:...

 
7:33.61  Spain
Teresa Mas De Xaxars 
7:34.98
Double Sculls - W2x  Australia
Liz Kell & Brooke Pratley
Brooke Pratley
Brooke Pratley is an Australian rower.- References :* at sports-reference.com...

 
6:47.67  Germany
Britta Oppelt
Britta Oppelt
Britta Oppelt is an Olympic-medaling sculler who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, and represented Germany where she competed in the double sculls, and took home the silver medal along with teammate Peggy Waleska.-External links:*...

 & Susanne Schmidt
Susanne Schmidt
Susanne Schmidt is a German rower.- References :* at sports-reference.com...

 
6:47.95  New Zealand
Georgina Evers-Swindell
Georgina Evers-Swindell
Georgina Earl, formerly known as Georgina Evers-Swindell is a former New Zealand rower. She competed in the double sculls with her identical twin sister Caroline Meyer, and is a double Olympic gold medalist, having won at Athens in 2004 and Beijing in 2008...

 & Caroline Evers-Swindell
Caroline Evers-Swindell
Caroline Meyer formerly known as Caroline Evers-Swindell is a former New Zealand rower. She is 179 cm tall and 80kg. She competed in the double sculls with her identical twin sister Georgina Earl...

 
6:48.82
Lightweight Double Sculls - LW2x  Mainland China
Dongxiang Xu & Shimin Yan 
6:55.12  Australia
Marguerite Houston
Marguerite Houston
Marguerite Houston is a lightweight rower from Adelaide, South Australia. -References:...

 & Amber Halliday
Amber Halliday
Amber Halliday is a World Champion and Olympic lightweight rower from Adelaide, South Australia. Specialising in sculling, Halliday made her international debut in 1999, winning the Under-23 World Championship in Hamburg in the lightweight double scull with Hannah Every.She has since won three...

 
6:56.57  Greece
Chrysi Biskitzi & Alexandra Tsiavou
Alexandra Tsiavou
Alexandra Tsiavou is a Greek rower.- External links :* at sports-reference.com...

 
6:57.14
Quadruple Sculls - W4x '
Debbie Flood
Debbie Flood
Deborah Kirsty "Debbie" Flood is an English female rower, noteworthy for winning Silver Medals in the Quadruple Sculls at both the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games....

, Sarah Winckless
Sarah Winckless
Sarah Winckless is a former British rower. She won a bronze medal in Double sculls with her partner Elise Laverick at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, and was twice world champion, in 2005 and 2006....

, Frances Houghton
Frances Houghton
Frances Julia P. Houghton is an English female rower, noteworthy for winning Silver Medals in the Quadruple Sculls at both the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games....

 & Katherine Grainger
Katherine Grainger
Katherine Grainger MBE is a Scottish rower.Her family moved to Netherley, Aberdeenshire and Katherine represents Edinburgh's St Andrew Boat Club in rowing events. She trained on the River Dee, which has the distinction of being the only river she has fallen into whilst rowing.She is a three time...

 
6:12.50  Australia
Catriona Sens
Catriona Sens
Catriona Sens is an Australian rower.- External links :* at sports-reference.com* at rowingaustralia...

, Sonia Mills, Dana Faletic
Dana Faletic
Dana Faletic is an Australian rower.- References :* at sports-reference.com...

 & Sally Kehoe 
6:13.99  Germany
Christiane Huth
Christiane Huth
Christiane Huth is a German rower. She competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, where she won a silver medal in double sculls.- References :...

, Magdalena Schmude, Jeannine Hennicke & Stephanie Schiller
Stephanie Schiller
Stephanie Schiller is an Olympic-medalist sculler, winning a bronze medal.-External links:*...

 
6:14.67
Lightweight Quadruple Sculls - LW4x  Mainland China
Hua Yu
Yu Hua (rower)
Yu Hua is a female Chinese rower, who competed for Team China at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the Women's Lightweight Double Sculls.-Major performances:*1999/2005 Asian Championships - 1st LW2X;*2005 National Games - 3rd LW2X;...

, Haixia Chen, Xuefei Fan & Jing Liu 
6:23.96  Denmark
Kirsten Jepsen, Sine Christiansen, Katrin Olsen
Katrin Olsen
Katrin Olsen is a Danish–Faroese rower, and representens Denmark. She weights 61 kilos, and is therefore in the lightweight class...

 & Juliane Rasmussen
Juliane Rasmussen
Juliane Elander Rasmussen is a Danish rower. She weights 61 kilos, and is therefore in the lightweight class. She lives in Copenhagen.- 2008 Summer Olympics :...

 
6:28.16 '
Laura Ralston, Lindsay Dick, Hester Goodsell & Sophie Hosking
Sophie Hosking
Sophie Hosking is a British rower.- External links :* at britishrowing.org...

 
6:30.02
Coxless Pairs - W2-  Canada
Darcy Marquardt
Darcy Marquardt
Darcy Marquardt is a Canadian rower. She is a student at the University of Victoria. She won a silver medal in the fours event at the 2002 World Championships in Seville, Spain and a bronze in the eights at the 2003 World Championships in Milan, Italy. She placed fourth in the 2004 summer...

 & Jane Rumball
Jane Rumball
Jane Rumball is a Canadian rower. She was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick.She won a gold medal at the 2006 World Rowing Championships in the women's coxless pairs with Darcy Marquardt....

 
6:54.68  New Zealand
Juliette Haigh
Juliette Haigh
Juliette Haigh is a professional rower. Haigh was in the New Zealand Women's Pair from 2004 to 2008 returned to the event and partnered Rebecca Scown in the boat....

 & Nicky Coles 
6:56.72  Germany
Nicole Zimmerman & Elke Hipler
Elke Hipler
Elke Hipler is a German rower. -References:...

 
6:57.11
Coxless Fours - W4-  Australia
Robyn Selby Smith
Robyn Selby Smith
Robyn Selby Smith is an Australian rower.- References :...

, Jo Lutz
Jo Lutz
Jo Lutz is an Australian rower.- References :...

, Amber Bradley
Amber Bradley
Amber Bradley is an Australian rower.- References :* at sports-reference.com...

 & Kate Hornsey
Kate Hornsey
Kate Hornsey is an Australian rower.- References :* at sports-reference.com...

 
6:25.35  Mainland China
Fei Yu, Meng Li, Tong Li & Xiuhua Luo 
6:26.75  United States
Portia Johnson, Erin Cafaro
Erin Cafaro
Erin Cafaro is an American rower. She competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, where she won a gold medal in women's eight.-See also:* Rowing * Anna Cummins* Caryn Davies* Susan Francia...

, Esther Lofgren
Esther Lofgren
Esther Lofgren is an American rower. She rowed at Harvard University.- External links :...

 & Rachel Jeffers 
6:28.66
Eights - W8+  United States
Brett Sickler
Brett Sickler
Brett Sickler is an American rower.- References :...

, Megan Cooke
Megan Cooke
Megan Cooke is an American rower. She competed at the 2007 Lucerne World Cup and 2007 Lintz World Cup. She won silver medals in coxless pairs at Lucerne and Lintz. She competed at the 2006 Lucerne World Cup in the coxless pairs...

, Anna Goodale
Anna Goodale
Anna Goodale is an American rower. She competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, where she won a gold medal in women's eight....

, Lindsay Shoop
Lindsay Shoop
Lindsay Shoop is an American rower. She competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, where she won a gold medal in women's eight. She rowed at University of Virginia.-See also:* Rowing * Erin Cafaro...

, Anna Mickelson
Anna Mickelson
Anna Cummins is an American rower who won a silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the women's eight...

, Susan Francia
Susan Francia
Susan Francia is an American rower. Growing up in Abington, Pennsylvania, she attended Abington Senior High School, followed by the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 2004 with a degree in Criminology and Sociology. She currently resides in Princeton, New Jersey and is affiliated with the...

, Caroline Lind
Caroline Lind
Caroline Lind is an American rower and debutante. She competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, where she won a gold medal in women's eight as the seven-seat. She graduated from Phillips Academy in 2002 and Princeton University in 2006...

, Caryn Davies
Caryn Davies
Caryn Davies is an American rower. She competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, where she won a gold medal in women's eight as the stroke seat. At the 2004 Olympic Games she won a silver medal...

 & Mary Whipple
Mary Whipple
Mary Whipple is an American coxswain. She competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, where she won a gold medal in women's eight, and at the 2004 Summer Olympics where she won a silver medal. As a coxswain, Whipple stands 5'3" and weighs in at 108 lbs.Mary has a twin sister Sarah...

 
5:55.50  Germany
Nina Wengert
Nina Wengert
Nina Wengert is a German rower.- References :* at sports-reference.com...

, Johanna Rönfeldt, Christina Gerking, Nadine Schmultzer, Lenka Wech
Lenka Wech
Lenka Wech is a German rower.- External links :* at sports-reference.com...

, Maren Derlien
Maren Derlien
Maren Derlien is a German rower. In 1999 she won the World Rowing Championships in St. Catharines, Canada in the quad sculls boat. In 2005, 2006 and 2007 she also rowed at the World Rowing Championships...

, Nicole Zimmerman, Elke Hipler
Elke Hipler
Elke Hipler is a German rower. -References:...

 & Annina Ruppel 
5:57.29  Australia
Jo Lutz
Jo Lutz
Jo Lutz is an Australian rower.- References :...

, Robyn Selby Smith
Robyn Selby Smith
Robyn Selby Smith is an Australian rower.- References :...

, Amber Bradley
Amber Bradley
Amber Bradley is an Australian rower.- References :* at sports-reference.com...

, Kate Hornsey
Kate Hornsey
Kate Hornsey is an Australian rower.- References :* at sports-reference.com...

, Emily Martin
Emily Martin (rower)
Emily Martin is an Australian rower.- References :* at sports-reference.com...

, Sarah Cook
Sarah Cook (rower)
Sarah Ann Patricia Cook is an Australian rower.- Biography :In 2004, after several years of training, she represented Australia at the World Under 23 Rowing Championships in the Women's Four event. The event was held in Poznan, Poland...

, Kim Crow
Kim Crow
Kim Crow is an Australian rower.- References :* at sports-reference.com...

, Sarah Heard & Lizzy Patrick
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Medal count

1  Australia 3 2 1 6
2  Mainland China 3 1 0 4
3 3 0 2 5
4  Germany 2 6 2 10
5  Italy 1 3 0 4
6  New Zealand 1 2 3 6
7  Early Modern France 1 2 2 5
8  Canada 1 1 2 4
9  Denmark 1 1 0 2
10  United States 1 0 2 3
11  Netherlands 1 0 1 2
12  Belarus 1 0 0 1
12  Poland 1 0 0 1
12  Serbia and Montenegro 1 0 0 1
15  Czech Republic 0 1 1 2
15  Spain 0 1 1 2
17  Ukraine 0 1 0 1
17  Slovenia 0 1 0 1
19  Estonia 0 0 1 1
19  Greece 0 0 1 1
19  Republic of Ireland 0 0 1 1
19  Sweden 0 0 1 1
Total 21 21 21 63

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