Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Rowing - four men without a helmsman

sport	rowing
discipline	Foursome without a helmsman
gender	Men
Attendees	52 athletes from 13 countries
Competition location	Dorney Lake
Competition phase	July 30th – 4th August 2012
Medalist  United Kingdom  Australia  United States

The men's four-man rowing competition at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held from July 30th to August 4th 2012 on Dorney Lake . 52 athletes in 13 boats competed.

The rowing regatta, which was held over 2000 meters, began with three heats. The first three boats made it to the semi-finals, the rest started in the repechage . Here the first three boats were able to qualify for the semi-finals. The remaining boats were eliminated.

In the two semifinals, the first three boats made it to final A, the rest to final B to determine places 7 to 12.

The qualified boats are highlighted in light green.

Title holder

Olympic champion	United Kingdom Crew: Tom James , Steve Williams , Peter Reed , Andrew Triggs Hodge	Beijing 2008
World Champion	United Kingdom Crew: Matt Langridge , Richard Egington , Tom James , Alex Gregory	Bled 2011

Boat crew

boat	crew
Australia	James Chapman , Joshua Dunkley-Smith , Drew Ginn , William Lockwood
Germany	Gregor Hauffe , Urs Buyer , Sebastian Schmidt , Toni Seifert
Greece	Ioannis Christou , Stergios Papachristos , Giannis Tsilis , Georgios Tziallas
Italy	Luca Agamennoni , Vincenzo Capelli , Mario Paonessa , Simone Venier
Canada	William Dean , Anthony Jacob , Derek O'Farrell , Michael Wilkinson
New Zealand	Chris Harris , Sean O'Neill , Jade Uru , Tyson Williams
Netherlands	Kaj Hendriks , Ruben Knab , Boaz Meylink , Mechiel Versluis
Romania	Marius Cozmiuc , Florin Curuea , Alexandru Palamariu , Cristi Ilie Pîrghie
Serbia	Radoje Đerić , Goran Jagar , Miloš Vasić , Miljan Vuković
Czech Republic	Milan Bruncvík , Michal Horváth , Matyáš Klang , Jakub Podrazil
United States	Charles "Charlie" Cole , Scott Gault , Glenn Ochal , Henrik Rummel
United Kingdom	Alex Gregory , Tom James , Peter Reed , Andrew Triggs Hodge
Belarus	Alyaksandr Kasubouski , Wadsim Lyalin , Dsjanis Mihal , Stanislau Schtscharbatschenja

Prelims

July 30, 2012

Forward 1

space	boat	Time (min)
1	Australia	5: 47.06
2	Germany	5: 49.84
3	Canada	5: 50.78
4th	New Zealand	5: 51.84
5	Serbia	5: 53.35

Forward 2

space	boat	Time (min)
1	United Kingdom	5: 50.27
2	Romania	5: 52.87
3	Belarus	5: 53.26
4th	Czech Republic	5: 54.37

Forward 3

space	boat	Time (min)
1	United States	5: 54.88
2	Netherlands	5: 55.99
3	Greece	5: 57.71
4th	Italy	6: 02.01

Reunion

July 31, 2012

space	boat	Time (min)
1	Serbia	6: 01.97
2	New Zealand	6: 03.66
3	Italy	6: 04.27
4th	Czech Republic	6: 04.27

Semifinals

2nd August 2012

Run 1

space	boat	Time (min)
1	United Kingdom	5: 58.26
2	Australia	5: 59.23
3	Netherlands	6: 03.71
4th	Italy	6:05.00
5	Belarus	6: 05.26
6th	Serbia	6: 07.41

Run 2

space	boat	Time (min)
1	United States	6: 01.72
2	Greece	6: 02.61
3	Germany	6: 04.61
4th	New Zealand	6: 06.36
5	Canada	6: 08.90
6th	Romania	6: 12.74

final

Finale B

August 4, 2012, 11:30 a.m. CEST
Note: to determine places 7 to 12

space	boat	Time (min)	annotation
07th	Belarus	6: 09.31
08th	Italy	6: 09.42
09	Canada	6: 11.15
10	Serbia	6: 11.94
11	New Zealand	6: 11.97
12	Romania	6: 16.20
13	Czech Republic	-	retired in the repechage

Finale A

August 4, 2012, 12:30 p.m. CEST
Note: to determine places 1 to 6

space	boat	Time (min)
1	United Kingdom	6: 03.97
2	Australia	6: 05.19
3	United States	6: 07.20
4th	Greece	6: 11.43
5	Netherlands	6: 14.78
6th	Germany	6: 16.37

For the fourth time in a row a British boat wins the four-man class without a helmsman. Overall, it was the eighth Olympic victory for a British boat.

Web links

• Foursome without helmsman (men)