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Eights, Women

Date18 – 24 September 2000
StatusOlympic
LocationSydney International Regatta Centre, Penrith, New South Wales
Participants63 from 7 countries

The Romanians were the reigning Olympic champions in the women’s coxed eights, as well as the winners of the event at the last three editions of the World Championships, and were therefore heavily favored to defend their crown at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Nearly their entire lineup had medals from previous editions of the Games, many of them gold and some from the eights. All but one of the remaining World medals from the past year belonged either to the United States, runners-up in 1998 and 1998, or Canada, runners-up in 1997 and bronze medalists in 1998 and 1999, with bronze in 1997 having gone to Great Britain. The Canadians were also the reigning Olympic runners-up. In the opening round, however, the Netherlands bested both Canada and the United States in the heats, although Romania rowed to an easy victory in its own heat. Romania was again dominant in the final, winning gold by a margin of almost three seconds, while the Netherlands demonstrated that their earlier success was not a fluke by stealing silver at a comfortable distance ahead of the Canadians. The Americans, meanwhile, continued to struggle and finished sixth and last.

PosCompetitorsNOC
1RomaniaROUGold
Georgeta DamianViorica SusanuIoana OlteanuVeronica CochelaMagdalena DumitracheElisabeta LipăLiliana GafencuDoina IgnatElena Georgescu
2NetherlandsNEDSilver
Anneke VenemaCarin ter BeekNelleke PenninxPieta van DishoeckEeke van NesTessa AppeldoornMarieke WesterhofElien MeijerMartijntje Quik
3CanadaCANBronze
Heather McDermidHeather DavisDorota UrbaniakTheresa LukeEmma RobinsonAlison KornLaryssa BiesenthalBuffy AlexanderLesley Thompson-Willie
4BelarusBLR
Iryna BazyleuskayaMaryna KuzhmarVolha BerazniovaMaryna ZnakYuliya BichykInesa ZakharevskayaNatallia HelakhVolha TratseuskayaValiantsina Khokhlava
5AustraliaAUS
Vicky RobertsAlison DaviesJodi WinterBronwyn ThompsonRachael KininmonthKristina LarsenEmily MartinJane RobinsonKatie Foulkes
6United StatesUSA
Katie MaloneyLinda MillerAmy MartinBetsy McCaggTorrey FolkAmy FullerSarah JonesLianne NelsonRaj Shah
7Great BritainGBR
Ali SandersRowan CarrollElise LaverickFrancesca ZinoAlison TrickeyAlex BeeverKate MacKenzieLisa EyreCharlotte Miller

Round One

Date18 September 2000
FormatWinner of each heat advanced to final

Heat #1

Time11:00
PosLaneCompetitorsNOCTime500 m1,000 m1,500 m500-1,000 m1,000-1,500 m1,500-2,000 m
12RomaniaROU6:06.661:28.47 (1)3:00.09 (1)4:33.14 (1)1:31.62 (1)1:33.05 (1)1:33.52 (1)Q
Georgeta DamianViorica SusanuIoana OlteanuVeronica CochelaMagdalena DumitracheElisabeta LipăLiliana GafencuDoina IgnatElena Georgescu
23AustraliaAUS6:17.441:30.43 (2)3:04.89 (2)4:41.08 (2)1:34.46 (2)1:36.19 (2)1:36.36 (3)
Vicky RobertsAlison DaviesJodi WinterBronwyn ThompsonRachael KininmonthKristina LarsenEmily MartinJane RobinsonKatie Foulkes
34BelarusBLR6:19.021:31.84 (4)3:07.43 (4)4:43.92 (4)1:35.59 (4)1:36.49 (4)1:35.10 (2)
Iryna BazyleuskayaMaryna KuzhmarVolha BerazniovaInesa ZakharevskayaNatallia HelakhVolha TratseuskayaYuliya BichykMaryna ZnakValiantsina Khokhlava
41Great BritainGBR6:19.491:31.27 (3)3:05.82 (3)4:42.04 (3)1:34.55 (3)1:36.22 (3)1:37.45 (4)
Ali SandersRowan CarrollElise LaverickFrancesca ZinoAlison TrickeyAlex BeeverKate MacKenzieLisa EyreCharlotte Miller

Heat #2

Time11:10
PosLaneCompetitorsNOCTime500 m1,000 m1,500 m500-1,000 m1,000-1,500 m1,500-2,000 m
11NetherlandsNED6:11.291:29.93 (3)3:04.04 (3)4:37.82 (1)1:34.11 (2)1:33.78 (1)1:33.47 (1)Q
Anneke VenemaCarin ter BeekNelleke PenninxPieta van DishoeckEeke van NesTessa AppeldoornMarieke WesterhofElien MeijerMartijntje Quik
23CanadaCAN6:13.601:29.81 (2)3:03.81 (2)4:39.12 (2)1:34.00 (1)1:35.31 (2)1:34.48 (2)
Heather McDermidHeather DavisDorota UrbaniakTheresa LukeEmma RobinsonAlison KornLaryssa BiesenthalBuffy AlexanderLesley Thompson-Willie
32United StatesUSA6:17.371:29.04 (1)3:03.27 (1)4:39.52 (3)1:34.23 (3)1:36.25 (3)1:37.85 (3)
Katie MaloneyLinda MillerAmy MartinBetsy McCaggTorrey FolkAmy FullerSarah JonesLianne NelsonRaj Shah

Round One Repêchage

Date20 September 2000 — 10:20
FormatTop four finishers advanced to final
PosLaneCompetitorsNOCTime500 m1,000 m1,500 m500-1,000 m1,000-1,500 m1,500-2,000 m
12United StatesUSA6:17.361:31.88 (1)3:06.28 (1)4:42.39 (1)1:34.40 (1)1:36.11 (3)1:34.97 (4)Q
Katie MaloneyLinda MillerAmy MartinBetsy McCaggTorrey FolkAmy FullerSarah JonesLianne NelsonRaj Shah
24CanadaCAN6:17.621:32.50 (3)3:07.62 (2)4:43.35 (2)1:35.12 (2)1:35.73 (2)1:34.27 (3)Q
Heather McDermidHeather DavisDorota UrbaniakTheresa LukeEmma RobinsonAlison KornLaryssa BiesenthalBuffy AlexanderLesley Thompson-Willie
33AustraliaAUS6:17.721:32.82 (4)3:08.06 (3)4:43.63 (3)1:35.24 (3)1:35.57 (1)1:34.09 (2)Q
Vicky RobertsAlison DaviesJodi WinterBronwyn ThompsonRachael KininmonthKristina LarsenEmily MartinJane RobinsonKatie Foulkes
45BelarusBLR6:19.421:32.20 (2)3:08.92 (4)4:45.37 (4)1:36.72 (5)1:36.45 (4)1:34.05 (1)Q
Iryna BazyleuskayaMaryna KuzhmarVolha BerazniovaMaryna ZnakNatallia HelakhInesa ZakharevskayaYuliya BichykVolha TratseuskayaValiantsina Khokhlava
51Great BritainGBR6:23.461:34.18 (5)3:09.95 (5)4:47.44 (5)1:35.77 (4)1:37.49 (5)1:36.02 (5)
Ali SandersRowan CarrollElise LaverickFrancesca ZinoAlison TrickeyAlex BeeverKate MacKenzieLisa EyreCharlotte Miller

Final Round

Date24 September 2000 — 10:10
PosLaneCompetitorsNOCTime500 m1,000 m1,500 m500-1,000 m1,000-1,500 m1,500-2,000 m
14RomaniaROU6:06.441:30.38 (2)3:02.20 (1)4:34.89 (1)1:31.82 (1)1:32.69 (1)1:31.55 (1)
Georgeta DamianViorica SusanuIoana OlteanuVeronica CochelaMagdalena DumitracheElisabeta LipăLiliana GafencuDoina IgnatElena Georgescu
23NetherlandsNED6:09.391:30.59 (3)3:04.58 (2)4:37.42 (2)1:33.99 (3)1:32.84 (2)1:31.97 (2)
Anneke VenemaCarin ter BeekNelleke PenninxPieta van DishoeckEeke van NesTessa AppeldoornMarieke WesterhofElien MeijerMartijntje Quik
35CanadaCAN6:11.581:31.06 (4)3:04.85 (3)4:38.99 (3)1:33.79 (2)1:34.14 (3)1:32.59 (3)
Heather McDermidHeather DavisDorota UrbaniakTheresa LukeEmma RobinsonAlison KornLaryssa BiesenthalBuffy AlexanderLesley Thompson-Willie
46BelarusBLR6:13.571:30.05 (1)3:05.20 (4)4:40.00 (4)1:35.15 (6)1:34.80 (5)1:33.57 (5)
Iryna BazyleuskayaMaryna KuzhmarVolha BerazniovaMaryna ZnakYuliya BichykInesa ZakharevskayaNatallia HelakhVolha TratseuskayaValiantsina Khokhlava
51AustraliaAUS6:15.161:31.70 (6)3:06.60 (6)4:41.70 (6)1:34.90 (5)1:35.10 (6)1:33.46 (4)
Vicky RobertsAlison DaviesJodi WinterBronwyn ThompsonRachael KininmonthKristina LarsenEmily MartinJane RobinsonKatie Foulkes
62United StatesUSA6:16.871:31.41 (5)3:06.07 (5)4:40.86 (5)1:34.66 (4)1:34.79 (4)1:36.01 (6)
Katie MaloneyLinda MillerAmy MartinBetsy McCaggTorrey FolkAmy FullerSarah JonesLianne NelsonRaj Shah