2012 Summer Olympics / Rowing - Lightweight Double Sculls (Men)

sport	rowing
discipline	Lightweight double scull
gender	Men
Attendees	40 athletes from 20 countries
Competition location	Dorney Lake
Competition phase	July 29th – 4th August 2012
Medalist Rasmussen , Quist Purchase , Hunter Uru , Taylor

The rowing competition in the men's lightweight double sculls at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held from July 29 to August 4, 2012 on Dorney Lake . 40 athletes in 20 boats competed.

The rowing regatta, which was held over 2000 meters, began with four heats. The first two made it to the semi-finals A / B, the rest of them started in the hope runs . In the two races, the first two boats were able to qualify for the semi-finals A / B. The remaining boats made it to the semi-finals C / D.

The semifinals A / B and C / D were held in two runs each. The first three came into Finals A and C, the others into Finals B and D. Finals B, C and D were used to determine places 7 to 20, while Final A was used to award medals.

The qualified boats are highlighted in light green.

Title holder

Olympic champion	United Kingdom Occupation: Zac Purchase , Mark Hunter	Beijing 2008
World Champion		Bled 2011

Prelims

July 29, 2012

Forward 1

space	boat	crew	Time (min)
1	Italy	Pietro Ruta Elia Luini	6: 35.72
2	Portugal	Pedro Fraga Nuno Mendes	6: 37.91
3	Canada	Douglas Vandor Morgan Jarvis	6: 42.59
4th	India	Sandeep Kumar Manjeet Singh	6: 56.60
5	Egypt	Mohamed Nofel Omar Emira	6: 59.57

Forward 2

space	boat	crew	Time (min)
1	United Kingdom	Zac Purchase Mark Hunter	6: 36.29
2	New Zealand	Storm Uru Peter Taylor	6: 37.02
3	Australia	Roderick Chisholm Thomas Gibson	6: 47.33
4th	People's Republic of China	Zhang Fangbing Sun Jie	6: 57.67
5	Argentina	Mario Cejas Miguel Mayol	7: 01.76

Forward 3

space	boat	crew	Time (min)
1	Denmark	Mads Rasmussen Rasmus Quist	6: 33.11
2	Norway	Kristoffer Brun Are Strandli	6: 34.00
3	Cuba	Manuel Suarez Barrios Yunior Pérez	6: 36.31
4th	Hungary	Zsolt Hirling Tamás Varga	6: 36.90
5	Greece	Eleftherios Konsolas Panagiotis Magdanis	6: 42.13

Forward 4

space	boat	crew	Time (min)
1	France	Stany Delayre Jérémie Azou	6: 40.89
2	Germany	Linus Lichtschlag Lars Hartig	6: 49.44
3	Japan	Kazushige Ura Daisaku Takeda	6: 54.01
4th	Uruguay	Rodolfo Collazo Emiliano Dumestre	6: 58.63
5	Hong Kong	Leung Chun Shek Lok Kwan Hoi	6: 59.52

Reunion

July 31, 2012

Run 1

space	boat	crew	Time (min)
1	Greece	Eleftherios Konsolas Panagiotis Magdanis	6: 31.13
2	Hungary	Zsolt Hirling Tamás Varga	6: 32.31
3	Australia	Roderick Chisholm Thomas Gibson	6: 34.29
4th	Canada	Douglas Vandor Morgan Jarvis	6: 36.03
5	Uruguay	Rodolfo Collazo Emiliano Dumestre	6: 51.67
6th	Egypt	Mohamed Nofe Omar Emira	6: 57.06

Run 2

space	boat	crew	Time (min)
1	Cuba	Manuel Suarez Barrios Yunior Pérez	6: 37.04
2	Japan	Kazushige Ura Daisaku Takeda	6: 39.81
3	People's Republic of China	Zhang Fangbing Sun Jie	6:40.12
4th	Hong Kong	Leung Chun Shek Lok Kwan Hoi	6: 47.04
5	Argentina	Mario Cejas Miguel Mayol	6: 48.21
6th	India	Sandeep Kumar Manjeet Singh	6: 54.20

Semifinals

Semi-finals C / D

August 1, 2012

Run 1

space	boat	crew	Time (min)
1	Australia	Roderick Chisholm Thomas Gibson	7: 06.24
	Argentina	Mario Cejas Miguel Mayol	7: 06.24
3	Hong Kong	Leung Chun Shek Lok Kwan Hoi	7: 13.67
4th	Egypt	Mohamed Nofel Omar Emira	7: 19.29

Run 2

space	boat	crew	Time (min)
1	Canada	Douglas Vandor Morgan Jarvis	7: 02.85
2	People's Republic of China	Zhang Fangbing Sun Jie	7: 09.39
3	Uruguay	Rodolfo Collazo Emiliano Dumestre	7: 11.20
4th	India	Sandeep Kumar Manjeet Singh	7: 19.31

Semi-finals A / B

2nd August 2012

Run 1

space	boat	crew	Time (min)
1	Denmark	Mads Rasmussen Rasmus Quist	6: 33.25
2	New Zealand	Storm Uru Peter Taylor	6: 36.71
3	Germany	Linus Lichtschlag Lars Hartig	6: 37.44
4th	Greece	Eleftherios Konsolas Panagiotis Magdanis	6: 40.89
5	Italy	Pietro Ruta Elia Luini	6: 41.17
6th	Japan	Kazushige Ura Daisaku Takeda	6: 48.61

Run 2

space	boat	crew	Time (min)
1	United Kingdom	Zac Purchase Mark Hunter	6: 36.62
2	France	Stany Delayre Jérémie Azou	6: 37.29
3	Portugal	Pedro Fraga Nuno Mendes	6: 37.99
4th	Norway	Kristoffer Brun Are Strandli	6: 39.59
5	Hungary	Zsolt Hirling Tamás Varga	6: 42.81
6th	Cuba	Manuel Suarez Barrios Yunior Pérez	6: 52.26

final

Finale D

August 4, 2012, 10:40 a.m. CEST
Note: to determine places 19 and 20

space	boat	crew	Time (min)
19th	India	Sandeep Kumar Manjeet Singh	7: 08.39
20th	Egypt	Mohamed Nofel Omar Emira	7: 12.79

Finale C

August 4, 2012, 11:10 a.m. CEST
Note: to determine places 13 to 18

space	boat	crew	Time (min)
13	Australia	Roderick Chisholm Thomas Gibson	6: 44.40
14th	Canada	Douglas Vandor Morgan Jarvis	6: 46.62
15th	People's Republic of China	Zhang Fangbing Sun Jie	6: 49.39
16	Uruguay	Rodolfo Collazo Emiliano Dumestre	6: 51.94
17th	Argentina	Mario Cejas Miguel Mayol	6: 53.71
18th	Hong Kong	Leung Chun Shek Lok Kwan Hoi	7: 00.01

Finale B

August 4, 2012, 11:50 a.m. CEST
Note: to determine places 7 to 12

space	boat	crew	Time (min)
07th	Italy	Pietro Ruta Elia Luini	6: 29.92
08th	Greece	Eleftherios Konsolas Panagiotis Magdanis	6: 31.71
09	Norway	Kristoffer Brun Are Strandli	6: 32.82
10	Cuba	Manuel Suarez Barrios Yunior Perez	6: 34.96
11	Hungary	Zsolt Hirling Tamás Varga	6: 39.98
12	Japan	Kazushige Ura Daisaku Takeda	6: 48.27

Finale A

The Olympic champions Mads Rasmussen (left) and Rasmus Quist (DEN)

August 4, 2012, 1:10 p.m. CEST
Note: to determine places 1 to 6

space	boat	crew	Time (min)
1	Denmark	Mads Rasmussen Rasmus Quist	6: 37.17
2	United Kingdom	Zac Purchase Mark Hunter	6: 37.78
3	New Zealand	Storm Uru Peter Taylor	6: 40.86
4th	France	Stany Delayre Jérémie Azou	6: 42.69
5	Portugal	Pedro Fraga Nuno Mendes	6: 44.80
6th	Germany	Linus Lichtschlag Lars Hartig	6: 49.07

Mads Rasmussen and Rasmus Quist achieved the first Olympic victory for a Danish boat in this boat class. Storm Uru and Peter Taylor won the first medal for a New Zealand boat in this boat class.

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