World Rowing Championships 2008
The 2008 World Rowing Championships took place from July 20 to 27, 2008 in Ottensheim near Linz in Austria . The competitions were held on a branch of the Danube with standing water. Due to the Olympic Games taking place in Beijing in the same year , only the competitions of the non-Olympic boat classes and at the same time also those of the juniors (U19) were held.
World championships of the non-Olympic boat classes
Men
Women
Boat class | gold | silver | bronze | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lightweight One (LW1x) |
Switzerland Pamela Weisshaupt |
7: 43.26 |
Ireland Sinéad Jennings |
7: 43.81 |
Croatia Mirna Rajle Brođanac |
7: 47.15 |
Lightweight sculls (LW4x) |
Australia Ingrid Fenger Bronwen Watson Miranda Bennett Alice McNamara |
6: 36.41 |
Poland Monika Myszk Magdalena Kemnitz Weronika Deresz Ilona Mokronowska |
6: 39.38 |
United States Elizabeth Peters Wendy Tripician Rebecca Smith Hannah Moore |
6: 40.77 |
Foursome without a helmsman (W4-) |
Belarus Hanna Nakhayeva Volha Shcharbatschenja Natallja Helach Julija Bitschyk |
6: 39.89 |
United States Karen Colwell Stesha Carle Sarah Trowbridge Esther Lofgren |
6: 43.56 |
Denmark Maria Pertl Lisbet Jakobsen Fie Graugaard Lea Jakobsen |
6: 44.69 |
Medal table
space | country | gold | silver | bronze | total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | United States | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
2 | Italy | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
3 | Australia | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Greece | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
5 | Belarus | 1 | 1 | ||
Canada | 1 | 1 | |||
New Zealand | 1 | 1 | |||
Switzerland | 1 | 1 | |||
9 | France | 2 | 2 | ||
10 | Germany | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Netherlands | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
12 | Ireland | 1 | 1 | ||
Poland | 1 | 1 | |||
14th | Croatia | 1 | 1 | ||
Denmark | 1 | 1 | |||
Serbia | 1 | 1 | |||
total | 8th | 8th | 8th | 24 |
Junior World Championships
The 2008 Junior World Rowing Championships were held in 13 boat classes. 655 juniors from 48 countries on all continents took part. The most successful nation was Germany, which won a medal in 12 of 13 competitions.
Web links
- Rowing World Championships and Junior World Championships 2008 at worldrowing.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Men's Lgw. One on worldrowing.com. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English).
- ↑ Men's Lgw. Quadruple on worldrowing.com. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English).
- ↑ Men's Lgw. Two without on worldrowing.com. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English).
- ↑ Men's Lgw. Eighth on worldrowing.com. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English).
- ↑ Two men on worldrowing.com. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English).
- ↑ Frauen-Lgw. One on worldrowing.com. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English).
- ↑ Frauen-Lgw. Quadruple on worldrowing.com. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English).
- ^ Women's foursome without on worldrowing.com. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English).