2012 Summer Olympics / Rowing - Eight (Men)

sport	rowing
discipline	Eighth
gender	Men
Attendees	72 athletes from 8 countries
Competition location	Dorney Lake
Competition phase	July 28–1. August 2012
Medalist  Germany  Canada  Great Britain
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The rowing competition in the men's eighth at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held from July 28 to August 1, 2012 on Dorney Lake . 64 athletes in eight boats competed.

The rowing regatta, which was held over 2000 meters, began with two heats. The boats in first place qualified directly for the finals, the others had to go to the repechage . Here the first four boats qualified for the final, the others competed in final B to determine places 7 and 8.

The qualified boats are highlighted in light green.

Title holder

Olympic champion	Canada rowers: Kevin Light , Ben Rutledge , Andrew Byrnes , Jake Wetzel Malcolm Howard , Dominic Seiterle , Adam Kreek , Kyle Hamilton Helmsman: Brian Price	Beijing 2008
World Champion	Germany rowers: Gregor Hauffe , Andreas Kuffner , Eric Johannesen , Maximilian Reinelt Richard Schmidt , Lukas Müller , Florian Mennigen , Kristof Wilke Steering man: Martin Sauer	Bled 2011

Boat crew

boat	Rowers	Helmsman
Australia	Samuel Loch , Francis Hegerty , Cameron McKenzie-McHarg , Bryn Coudraye Thomas Swann , Joshua Booth , Matt Ryan , Nicholas Purnell	Tobias Lister
Germany	Filip Adamski , Andreas Kuffner , Eric Johannesen , Maximilian Reinelt Richard Schmidt , Lukas Müller , Florian Mennigen , Kristof Wilke	Martin Sauer
Canada	Gabriel Bergen , Douglas Csima , Robert Gibson , Conlin McCabe Malcolm Howard , Andrew Byrnes , Jeremiah Brown , Will Crothers	Brian Price
Netherlands	Sjoerd Hamburger , Diederik Simon , Rogier Blink , Matthijs Vellenga Roel Braas , Jozef Klaassen , Olivier Siegelaar , Mitchel Steenman	Peter Wiersum
Poland	Marcin Brzeziński , Piotr Juszczak , Mikołaj Burda , Piotr Hojka Zbigniew Schodowski , Michał Szpakowski , Krystian Aranowski , Rafał Hejmej	Daniel Trojanowski
Ukraine	Anton Choljasnykow , Viktor Hrebennykow , Iwan Tymko , Artem Moros Andrij Pryweda , Valentin Klezkoi , Oleh Lykow , Serhij Tschykanow	Olexander Konovaluk
United States	David Banks , Grant James , Ross James , William Miller Giuseppe Lanzone , Stephen Kasprzyk , Jacob Cornelius , Brett Newlin	Zachary Vlahos
United Kingdom	Alex Partridge , James Foad , Tom Ransley , Richard Egington Mohamed Sbihi , Gregory Searle , Matt Langridge , Constantine Louloudis	Phelan Hill

Prelims

July 28, 2012

Forward 1

space	boat	Time (min)
1	United States	5: 30.72
2	Australia	5: 32.43
3	Poland	5: 35.64
4th	Ukraine	5: 38.02

Forward 2

space	boat	Time (min)
1	Germany	5: 25.52
2	United Kingdom	5: 27.61
3	Netherlands	5: 28.99
4th	Canada	5: 37.91

Reunion

July 30, 2012

space	boat	Time (min)
1	United Kingdom	5: 26.85
2	Canada	5: 27.41
3	Netherlands	5: 27.98
4th	Australia	5: 28.67
5	Poland	5: 30.34
6th	Ukraine	5: 42.19

final

Finale B

August 1, 2012, 11:30 a.m. CEST
Note: to determine places 7 and 8

space	boat	Time (min)
7th	Poland	5: 57.67
8th	Ukraine	6: 07.33

Finale A

August 1, 2012, 1:30 p.m. CEST
Note: to determine places 1 to 6

space	boat	Time (min)
1	Germany	5: 48.75
2	Canada	5: 49.98
3	United Kingdom	5: 51.18
4th	United States	5: 51.48
5	Netherlands	5: 51.72
6th	Australia	5: 51.87

Web links

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