Rowing World Championships 2003

The 2003 World Rowing Championships were held from August 24th to 31st, 2003 on Lake Idroscalo in Milan , Italy . According to the World Rowing Association , 405 boats with 1078 athletes from 65 countries in 28 boat classes were registered. In addition to the determination of the rowing world champions , around 65% of the starting places for the 2004 Olympic rowing regatta in Athens were allocated at the regatta (130 of 202 boat places ).

Results

Men

Boat class	gold		silver		bronze
One (M1x)	Norway Olaf Tufte	6: 46.15	Germany Marcel Hacker	6: 47.47	Slovenia Iztok Čop	6: 48.31
Lightweight Single (LM1x)	Italy Stefano Basalini	6: 59.65	United Kingdom Tom Kay	7: 02.12	Germany Peter Ording	7: 05.36
Double scull (M2x)	France Sébastien Vieilledent Adrien Hardy	6: 13.93	Italy Rossano Galtarossa Alessio Sartori	6: 15.65	Czech Republic Milan Doleček Ondřej Synek	6: 16.59
Lightweight double scull (LM2x)	Italy Elia Luini Leonardo Pettinari	6: 30.60	Poland Tomasz Kucharski Robert Sycz	6: 33.12	Ireland Sam Lynch Gearoid Towey	6: 35.90
Sculls (M4x)	Germany André Willms Stephan Volkert Marco Geisler Robert Sens	6: 12.26	Czech Republic David Kopřiva Petr Vitasek Jakub Hanák David Jirka	6: 15.59	Poland Adam Bronikowski Marek Kolbowicz Sławomir Kruszkowski Adam Korol	6: 18.80
Lightweight Quads (LM4x)	Italy Emanuele Federici Daniele Gilardoni Luca Moncada Filippo Mannucci	6: 07.10	Australia Deon Birtwistle Michael McBryde Shane Broad Samuel Beltz	6: 09.36	Germany Jörg Lehnigk Matthias Schömann-Finck Nils Ipsen Jens Wittwer	6: 10.84
Two without a helmsman (M2-)	Australia Drew Ginn James Tomkins	6: 19.31	Croatia Siniša Skelin Nikša Skelin	6: 20.79	South Africa Ramon di Clemente Donovan Cech	6: 21.69
Lightweight twos without a helmsman (LM2-)	Denmark Bo Helleberg Mads Kruse Andersen	6: 35.73	Germany Frank Mager Christian Gerlach	6: 37.36	United States Simon Carcagno Michael Altman	6: 41.05
Two with helmsman (M2 +)	United States Matt Rich Daniel Beery Andrew Kelly (Stm.)	7: 10.11	Australia Luke Pougnault Jonathan Fievez Marc Douez (Stm.)	7: 13.13	Canada Kevin Burt Geoff Hodgson Brian Price (Stm.)	7: 20.23
Foursome without a helmsman (M4-)	Canada Cameron Baerg Thomas Herschmiller Jake Wetzel Barney Williams	5: 52.91	United Kingdom Steve Williams Josh West Toby Garbett Rick Dunn	5: 53.54	Germany Sebastian Thormann Paul Dienstbach Philipp Stüer Bernd Heidicker	5: 55.13
Lightweight four without a helmsman (LM4-)	Denmark Thor Kristensen Thomas Ebert Stephan Mølvig Eskild Ebbesen	6: 10.46	Netherlands Gerard van der Linden Ivo Snijders Karel Dormans Joeri de Groot	6: 12.24	Italy Lorenzo Bertini Catello Amarante Salvatore Amitrano Bruno Mascarenhas	6: 13.04
Foursome with helmsman (M4 +)	United States Brian McDonough Matt Deakin Jason Flickinger Lucas McGee Marcus McElhenney (Stm.)	6: 04.68	United Kingdom James Livingston Richard Egington Kieran West Tom Stallard Peter Rudge (Stm.)	6: 05.82	Germany Arne Landgraf Matthias Flach Jan-Martin Bröer Klaus Rogge Stefan Lier (Stm.)	6: 08.90
Figure eight (M8 +)	Canada Joseph Stankevicius Kevin Light Ben Rutledge Kyle Hamilton David Calder Andrew Hoskins Adam Kreek Jeff Powell Brian Price (stm.)	6: 00.44	United States Ryan Torgerson Jonathan Watling Michael Wherley Wolfgang Moser Bryan Volpenhein Jeffrey Klepacki Joseph Hansen Jason Read Pete Cipollone (Stm.)	6: 01.46	United Kingdom Alex Partridge Dan Ouseley Jonathan Devlin Andrew Triggs Hodge Ed Coode Phil Simmons Robin Bourne-Taylor Tom James Christian Cormack (stm.)	6: 03.45
Lightweight figure eight (LM8 +)	Germany Bastian Seibt Martin Raeder Joachim Drews Martin Hasse Carsten Borchardt Birger Schmidt Matthias Hobein Christian Dahlke Olaf Kaska (stm.)	5: 41.43	United States Thomas Paradiso Eric Feins Patrick Todd Andrew Bolton William Fedyna John Wall Angus MacLaurin John Wachter Joseph Finelli (stm.)	5: 43.95	France Vincent Faucheux Fabien Dagada Remi Le Flohic Damien Margat Alexis Saitta Franck Bussiere Nicolas Planque Jerome Bandiera Nicolas Majerus (stm.)	5: 45.43

Women

Boat class	gold		silver		bronze
One (W1x)	Bulgaria Rumiana Nejkowa	7: 18.12	Germany Katrin Rutschow	7: 21.44	Belarus Ekaterina Karsten	7: 23.30
Lightweight single (LW1x)	Canada Fiona Milne	7: 52.87	Croatia Mirna Rajle Brođanac	7: 54.49	Germany Janet Radünzel	7: 56.53
Double scull (W2x)	New Zealand Georgina Evers-Swindell Caroline Evers-Swindell	6: 45.79	Germany Britta Oppelt Kathrin Boron	6: 47.57	Russia Larissa Merk Irina Fedotowa	6: 49.50
Lightweight double scull (LW2x)	Germany Marie-Louise Dräger Claudia Blasberg	7: 14.55	Australia Sally Causby Amber Halliday	7: 17.28	Romania Constanța Burcică Camelia Mihalcea	7: 18.24
Double quad (W4x)	Australia Jane Robinson Dana Faletic Kerry Hore Amber Bradley	6: 46.52	Belarus Ekaterina Karsten Julija Bitschyk Olha Bereznewa Marija Worona	6: 48.87	Germany Peggy Waleska Marita Scholz Manuela Lutze Kerstin El Qalqili-Kowalski	6: 49.34
Lightweight Quads (LW4x)	People's Republic of China Quan Li Yanping Deng Meiyun Tan Weijuan Zhou	6: 36.43	Netherlands Mariel Pikkemaat Danielle Broekhuizen Anne van Drumpt Judith van Os	6: 40.95	Australia Bronwen Watson Sally Newmarch Marguerite Houston Miranda Bennett	6: 42.02
Two without a helmsman (W2-)	United Kingdom Katherine Grainger Catherine Bishop	7: 04.88	Belarus Julija Bitschyk Natallja Helach	7: 05.89	Romania Georgeta Andrunache Viorica Susanu	7: 06.16
Lightweight twos without helmsman (LW2-)	Romania Alina Scurtu Mihaela Niga	7: 30.26	United Kingdom Julia Warren Michelle Dollimore	7: 32.53	Greece Elpida Grigoriadou Angeliki Gkremou	7: 34.50
Foursome without a helmsman (W4-)	United States Liane Malcos Whitney Webber Caryn Davies Wendy Wilbur	6: 53.08	Netherlands Sarah Siegelaar Laura Posthuma Annemarieke van Rumpt Helen Tanger	6: 54.42	Germany Ulrike Stadlmayr Dana Pyritz Sandra Goldbach Manuela Zander	6: 56.36
Eighth (W8 +)	Germany Elke Hipler Anja Pyritz Maja Tucholke Britta Holthaus Susanne Schmidt Nicole Zimmermann Silke Günther Lenka Wech Annina Ruppel (Stf.)	6: 41.23	Romania Georgeta Craciun Aurica Bărăscu Liliana Gafencu Viorica Susanu Magdalena Irincu Elisabeta Lipă-Oleniuc Georgeta Andrunache Doina Ignat Elena Georgescu-Nedelcu (Stf.)	6: 44.63	Canada Jacqui Cook Karen Clark Rachel Dunnet Andréanne Morin Darcy Marquardt Pauline van Roessel Roslyn McLeod Buffy-Lynne Williams Sarah Pape (Stf.)	6: 45.53

Para rowing competitions

Boat class	gold		silver		bronze
TA mixed double scull (TAMix2x)	United States Scott Brown Angela Madsen	4: 21.72	Italy Agnese Moro Enio Billiato	6: 43.29	only two boats at the start
LTA men's double quad with helmsman (LTAM4x +)	United Kingdom Paul Askam-Spencer Alan Crowther Mathew Harrison Hugh Huddy Loretta Williams (Stf.)	3: 16.38	Germany Silke Tampe Philipp Torwesten Bernd Fromm Marcus Klemp Arne Maury (Stm.)	3: 40.95	Greece Antonis Axagororaris Lampros Giouroukis Konstantinos Monachos Athanasios Kitromilidis George-Christos Polakis (Stm.)	3: 46.30
LTA mixed double quad with helmsman (LTAMix4x +)	Australia Jennifer Emerson Julia Veness-Collins Gene Barrett Ben Felten Susie Edwards (Stf.)	3: 46.81	Netherlands Catharina Bijl Marianna Huijben Paul de Jong Martin Lauriks Helen op den Velde-Berger (Stf.)	3: 53.84	Portugal Bruno Indio José Pereira Sonia Costa Monica Campizes Ferreira Isabel Jesus (Stf.)	3: 57.23
AS-Men-One (ASM1x)	Australia Peter Taylor	(no time)	United Kingdom Rob Holliday	(no time)	United States Dale Doornek	(no time)

Medal table

men and women

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Germany	4th	4th	7th	15th
2	United States	3	2	1	6th
3	Italy	3	1	1	5
4th	Canada	3		2	5
5	Australia	2	3	1	6th
6th	Denmark	2			2
7th	United Kingdom	1	4th	1	6th
8th	Romania	1	1	2	4th
9	France	1		1	2
10	Bulgaria	1			1
	People's Republic of China	1			1
	Norway	1			1
	New Zealand	1			1
14th	Netherlands		3		3
15th	Belarus		2	1	3
16	Croatia		2		2
17th	Czech Republic		1	1	2
	Poland		1	1	2
19th	Greece			1	1
	Ireland			1	1
	South Africa			1	1
	Russia			1	1
	Slovenia			1	1
total		24	24	24	72

Paraclasses

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Australia	2			2
2	United Kingdom	1	1		2
3	United States	1		1	2
4th	Germany		1		1
	Italy		1		1
	Netherlands		1		1
7th	Greece			1	1
	Portugal			1	1
total		4th	4th	3	11

Individual evidence

1. ↑ row2k.com: FISA Announces Entries for 2003 World Championships. Retrieved December 24, 2012 . 
2. ↑ rowingservice.com: Qualification in Rowing for the Athens 2004 Olympics. Retrieved December 24, 2012 . 
3. ↑ worldrowing.com: Result of the final in the M1x at the 2003 World Rowing Championships. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
4. ↑ worldrowing.com: Result of the final in the LM1x at the 2003 World Rowing Championships. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
5. ↑ worldrowing.com: Result of the final in M2x at the 2003 World Rowing Championships. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
6. ↑ worldrowing.com: Result of the final in the LM2x at the 2003 World Rowing Championships. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
7. ↑ worldrowing.com: Result of the final in the M4x at the 2003 World Rowing Championships. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
8. ↑ worldrowing.com: Result of the final in the LM4x at the 2003 World Rowing Championships. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
9. ↑ worldrowing.com: Result of the final in M2 at the 2003 World Rowing Championships. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
10. ↑ worldrowing.com: Result of the final in LM2 at the 2003 World Rowing Championships. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
11. ↑ worldrowing.com: Result of the final in M2 + at the 2003 World Rowing Championships. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
12. ↑ worldrowing.com: Result of the final in the M4 at the 2003 World Rowing Championships. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
13. ↑ worldrowing.com: Result of the final in LM4 at the 2003 World Rowing Championships. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
14. ↑ worldrowing.com: Result of the final in the M4 + at the 2003 World Rowing Championships. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
15. ↑ worldrowing.com: Result of the final in the M8 + at the 2003 World Rowing Championships. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
16. ↑ worldrowing.com: Result of the final in the LM8 + at the 2003 World Rowing Championships. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
17. ↑ worldrowing.com: Result of the final in the W1x at the 2003 World Rowing Championships. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
18. ↑ worldrowing.com: Result of the final in LW1x at the 2003 World Rowing Championships. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
19. ↑ worldrowing.com: Result of the final in the W2x at the 2003 World Rowing Championships. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
20. ↑ worldrowing.com: Result of the final in the LW2x at the 2003 World Rowing Championships. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
21. ↑ worldrowing.com: Result of the final in the W4x at the 2003 World Rowing Championships. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
22. ↑ worldrowing.com: Result of the final in the LW4x at the 2003 World Rowing Championships. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
23. ↑ worldrowing.com: Result of the final in W2 at the 2003 World Rowing Championships. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
24. ↑ worldrowing.com: Result of the final in LW2 at the 2003 World Rowing Championships. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
25. ↑ worldrowing.com: Result of the W4 finals at the 2003 World Rowing Championships. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
26. ↑ worldrowing.com: Result of the final in the W8 + at the 2003 World Rowing Championships. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
27. ↑ worldrowing.com: Result of the finals in the TAMix2x at the 2003 World Rowing Championships. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
28. ↑ worldrowing.com: Result of the final in the LTAM4x + at the 2003 World Rowing Championships. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
29. ↑ worldrowing.com: Result of the final in the LTAMix4x + at the 2003 World Rowing Championships. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
30. ↑ worldrowing.com: Result of the finals in the ASM1x at the 2003 World Rowing Championships. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English).