2012 Summer Olympics / Rowing - Quadruple Sculls (Women)

sport	rowing
discipline	Double fours
gender	Women
Attendees	32 athletes from 8 countries
Competition location	Dorney Lake
Competition phase	July 28–3. August 2012
Medalists  Ukraine  Germany  United States

The rowing competition in the quadruple sculls women at the 2012 Olympics in London was from July 28 to August 3, 2012 at the Dorney Lake held. 32 athletes in 8 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 rest made it to the B final, in which the 7th and 8th places were determined.

The qualified boats are highlighted in light green.

Title holder

Olympic champion	People's Republic of China Occupation: Tang Bin , Xi Aihua , Jin Ziwei , Zhang Yangyang	Beijing 2008
World Champion	Germany crew: Julia Richter , Tina Manker , Stephanie Schiller , Britta Oppelt	Bled 2011

Boat crew

boat	crew
Australia	Dana Faletic , Kerry Hore , Pauline Frasca , Amy Clay
People's Republic of China	Tang Bin , Tian Liang , Jin Ziwei , Zhang Yangyang
Germany	Annekatrin Thiele , Carina Bär , Julia Richter , Britta Oppelt
New Zealand	Sarah Gray , Louise Trappitt , Fiona Bourke , Eve Macfarlane
Poland	Kamila Soćko , Joanna Leszczyńska , Sylwia Lewandowska , Natalia Madaj
Ukraine	Kateryna Tarassenko , Natalija Dowhodko , Anastassija Koschenkowa , Jana Dementjewa
United States	Natalie Dell , Kara Kohler , Megan Kalmoe , Adrienne Martelli
United Kingdom	Melanie Wilson , Debbie Flood , Frances Houghton , Beth Rodford

Prelims

July 28, 2012

Forward 1

space	boat	Time (minutes)
1	Germany	6: 13.62
2	United States	6: 15.76
3	Poland	6: 21.44
4th	People's Republic of China	6: 24.32

Forward 2

British and New Zealanders

space	boat	Time (minutes)
1	Ukraine	6: 14.82
2	Australia	6: 17.52
3	New Zealand	6: 20.22
4th	United Kingdom	6: 20.71

Reunion

July 30, 2012

space	boat	Time (minutes)
1	Australia	6: 18.80
2	United States	6: 19.49
3	United Kingdom	6: 21.65
4th	People's Republic of China	6: 21.98
5	Poland	6: 23.19
6th	New Zealand	6: 48.71

The rudder blade of the New Zealander Louise Trappitt broke about 500 meters from the target. At the time the boat was in third position.

final

Finale B

August 1, 2012, 11:20 a.m. CEST
Note: to determine places 7 and 8

space	boat	Time (minutes)
7th	New Zealand	6: 56.46
8th	Poland	6: 57.20

Finale A

August 1, 2012, 1:10 p.m. CEST
Note: to determine places 1 to 6

space	boat	Time (minutes)
1	Ukraine	6: 35.93
2	Germany	6: 38.09
3	United States	6: 40.63
4th	Australia	6: 41.67
5	People's Republic of China	6: 44.19
6th	United Kingdom	6: 51.54

The final resulted in the first Olympic victory of a Ukrainian boat in the women's quadruple. For the first time there was a medal for an American boat in this boat class.

Web links

• Quadruple (women)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Andrew Alderson: Olympics: Malfunction costs NZ rowers. New Zealand Herald, July 30, 2012, accessed December 24, 2015 .