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Coxless Fours, Men

Date30 July – 4 August 2012
StatusOlympic
LocationEton Dorney, Windsor
Participants52 from 13 countries

As the defending Olympic and reigning World Champions, Great Britain had made the men’s four their focus for the 2012 Summer Olympics. They boasted an impressive lineup: three of the men, Tom James, Pete Reed, and Andrew Triggs Hodge, returned from the 2008 squad to claim another title. Reed and Triggs Hodge were the runners up in the coxless pairs at the last three World Championships, but were pulled from that event to row in the fours because it was believed (correctly, as it turned out) that the British would be unable to defeat the unstoppable New Zealand duo of Eric Murray and Hamish Bond in the pairs. James, meanwhile, was one of the four members of the World Championship-winning boat and was joined by teammate Alex Gregory, also a 2009 World Champion in the event, to round out the quartet.

Britain’s greatest rivals in the fours were the Australians, who were runners-up in Beijing and bronze medalists at the most recent World Championships. Their most notable rower, Drew Ginn, had an impressive list of achievements going back to his gold medal in the event from the 1996 Summer Olympics, although he had earned many more Olympic and World Championship medals in the coxless pairs. His compatriots, James Chapman, Joshua Dunkley-Smith, and William Lockwood, were less experienced, but had banded together to defeat the British in the Samsung World Rowing Cup shortly before the Games.

The two nations easily overcame their rivals in the heats and semi-finals and placed themselves in a class of their own to compete for gold. In the final, Britain took a short lead early on but was never able to entirely shake the Australians, who at no point trailed by more than half a length. Not even a desperate push from the Australians at the end, however, could stop the Britons, who took the gold after a well-raced match, leaving their rivals to accept silver. The United States had an impressive run as well in the event, earning bronze by finishing the course over four seconds faster than their nearest competitor.

PosCompetitorsNOC
1Great BritainGBRGold
Alex GregoryPete ReedTom JamesAndy Triggs Hodge
2AustraliaAUSSilver
Will LockwoodJames ChapmanDrew GinnJosh Dunkley-Smith
3United StatesUSABronze
Glenn OchalHenrik RummelCharlie ColeScott Gault
4GreeceGRE
Stergios PapachristosGiannis TsilisGiorgos TziallasIoannis Christou
5NetherlandsNED
Kaj HendriksBoaz MeylinkRuben KnabMechiel Versluis
6GermanyGER
Gregor HauffeToni SeifertUrs KäuferSebastian Schmidt
7BelarusBLR
Vadzim LialinDzianis MihalStanislau ShcharbacheniaAliaksandr Kazubouski
8ItalyITA
Simone VenierMario PaonessaLuca AgamennoniVincenzo Capelli
9CanadaCAN
Michael WilkinsonAnthony JacobWill DeanDerek O'Farrell
10SerbiaSRB
Miloš VasićRadoje ĐerićMiljan VukovićGoran Jagar
11New ZealandNZL
Tyson WilliamsJade UruSean O'NeillChris Harris
12RomaniaROU
Marius CozmiucGeorge PalamariuCristi PîrghieFlorin Curuea
13Czech RepublicCZE
Michal HorváthJakub PodrazilMilan BruncvíkMatyáš Klang

Round One

Date30 July 2012 — 10:40
FormatTop three in each heat advanced to semi-finals A/B; all others to repêchage.

Heat #1

Time10:40
PosLaneCompetitorsNOCTime500 m1,000 m1,500 m500-1,000 m1,000-1,500 m1,500-2,000 m
12AustraliaAUS5:47.061:24.30 (1)2:51.37 (1)4:18.68 (1)1:27.07 (1)1:27.31 (1)1:28.38 (4)Q
Will LockwoodJames ChapmanDrew GinnJosh Dunkley-Smith
25GermanyGER5:49.841:26.70 (4)2:56.11 (5)4:25.85 (5)1:29.41 (5)1:29.74 (4)1:23.99 (1)Q
Gregor HauffeToni SeifertUrs KäuferSebastian Schmidt
34CanadaCAN5:50.781:24.81 (2)2:54.17 (2)4:23.25 (2)1:29.36 (4)1:29.08 (2)1:27.53 (2)Q
Michael WilkinsonAnthony JacobWill DeanDerek O'Farrell
41New ZealandNZL5:51.841:27.26 (5)2:55.09 (4)4:24.24 (3)1:27.83 (2)1:29.15 (3)1:27.60 (3)
Tyson WilliamsJade UruSean O'NeillChris Harris
53SerbiaSRB5:53.351:25.70 (3)2:54.52 (3)4:24.46 (4)1:28.82 (3)1:29.94 (5)1:28.89 (5)
Miloš VasićRadoje ĐerićMiljan VukovićGoran Jagar

Heat #2

Time10:50
PosLaneCompetitorsNOCTime500 m1,000 m1,500 m500-1,000 m1,000-1,500 m1,500-2,000 m
13Great BritainGBR5:50.271:24.10 (1)2:50.90 (1)4:20.35 (1)1:26.80 (1)1:29.45 (2)1:29.92 (4)Q
Alex GregoryPete ReedTom JamesAndy Triggs Hodge
21RomaniaROU5:52.871:25.50 (2)2:53.86 (2)4:24.03 (2)1:28.36 (2)1:30.17 (4)1:28.84 (3)Q
Marius CozmiucGeorge PalamariuCristi PîrghieFlorin Curuea
32BelarusBLR5:53.261:27.16 (3)2:55.58 (3)4:25.64 (3)1:28.42 (3)1:30.06 (3)1:27.62 (1)Q
Vadzim LialinDzianis MihalStanislau ShcharbacheniaAliaksandr Kazubouski
44Czech RepublicCZE5:54.371:27.38 (4)2:57.15 (4)4:26.19 (4)1:29.77 (4)1:29.04 (1)1:28.18 (2)
Michal HorváthJakub PodrazilMilan BruncvíkMatyáš Klang

Heat #3

Time11:00
PosLaneCompetitorsNOCTime500 m1,000 m1,500 m500-1,000 m1,000-1,500 m1,500-2,000 m
12United StatesUSA5:54.881:25.97 (1)2:54.40 (1)4:24.22 (1)1:28.43 (1)1:29.82 (1)1:30.66 (3)Q
Glenn OchalHenrik RummelCharlie ColeScott Gault
21NetherlandsNED5:55.991:27.35 (4)2:57.06 (3)4:27.34 (3)1:29.71 (2)1:30.28 (2)1:28.65 (1)Q
Boaz MeylinkKaj HendriksRuben KnabMechiel Versluis
34GreeceGRE5:57.711:26.31 (2)2:56.74 (2)4:27.09 (2)1:30.43 (3)1:30.35 (3)1:30.62 (2)Q
Stergios PapachristosGiannis TsilisGiorgos TziallasIoannis Christou
43ItalyITA6:02.011:26.73 (3)2:57.35 (4)4:30.37 (4)1:30.62 (4)1:33.02 (4)1:31.64 (4)
Simone VenierMario PaonessaLuca AgamennoniVincenzo Capelli

Round One Repêchage

Date31 July 2012 — 10:00
FormatTop three to semi-finals A/B.

Heat #1

Time10:00
PosLaneCompetitorsNOCTime500 m1,000 m1,500 m500-1,000 m1,000-1,500 m1,500-2,000 m
14SerbiaSRB6:01.971:28.27 (2)2:58.67 (1)4:30.00 (1)1:30.40 (1)1:31.33 (1)1:31.97 (4)Q
Miloš VasićRadoje ĐerićMiljan VukovićGoran Jagar
23New ZealandNZL6:03.661:30.00 (3)3:01.36 (3)4:33.01 (2)1:31.36 (2)1:31.65 (2)1:30.65 (2)Q
Tyson WilliamsJade UruSean O'NeillChris Harris
31ItalyITA6:04.271:30.69 (4)3:03.96 (4)4:36.38 (4)1:33.27 (4)1:32.42 (3)1:27.89 (1)Q
Simone VenierMario PaonessaLuca AgamennoniVincenzo Capelli
42Czech RepublicCZE6:04.561:27.90 (1)3:01.03 (2)4:33.80 (3)1:33.13 (3)1:32.77 (4)1:30.76 (3)
Michal HorváthJakub PodrazilMilan BruncvíkMatyáš Klang

Semi-Finals A/B

Date2 August 2012 — 10:10
FormatTop three in each heat to A Final.

Heat #1

Time10:10
PosLaneCompetitorsNOCTime500 m1,000 m1,500 m500-1,000 m1,000-1,500 m1,500-2,000 m
14Great BritainGBR5:58.261:28.02 (2)2:58.55 (2)4:30.40 (2)1:30.53 (2)1:31.85 (2)1:27.86 (2)Q
Alex GregoryPete ReedTom JamesAndy Triggs Hodge
23AustraliaAUS5:59.231:27.48 (1)2:57.28 (1)4:29.12 (1)1:29.80 (1)1:31.84 (1)1:30.11 (5)Q
Will LockwoodJames ChapmanDrew GinnJosh Dunkley-Smith
32NetherlandsNED6:03.711:29.58 (3)3:00.59 (3)4:33.81 (3)1:31.01 (3)1:33.22 (5)1:29.90 (4)Q
Kaj HendriksBoaz MeylinkRuben KnabMechiel Versluis
46ItalyITA6:05.001:31.14 (6)3:04.95 (6)4:38.62 (6)1:33.81 (6)1:33.67 (6)1:26.38 (1)
Simone VenierMario PaonessaLuca AgamennoniVincenzo Capelli
55BelarusBLR6:05.261:29.86 (4)3:02.65 (4)4:35.78 (4)1:32.79 (5)1:33.13 (4)1:29.48 (3)
Vadzim LialinDzianis MihalStanislau ShcharbacheniaAliaksandr Kazubouski
61SerbiaSRB6:07.411:30.77 (5)3:03.18 (5)4:36.06 (5)1:32.41 (4)1:32.88 (3)1:31.35 (6)
Miloš VasićRadoje ĐerićMiljan VukovićGoran Jagar

Heat #2

Time10:20
PosLaneCompetitorsNOCTime500 m1,000 m1,500 m500-1,000 m1,000-1,500 m1,500-2,000 m
13United StatesUSA6:01.721:27.53 (2)2:58.64 (1)4:31.58 (1)1:31.11 (1)1:32.94 (1)1:30.14 (2)Q
Glenn OchalHenrik RummelCharlie ColeScott Gault
25GreeceGRE6:02.611:27.91 (4)2:59.64 (3)4:32.79 (2)1:31.73 (2)1:33.15 (2)1:29.82 (1)Q
Stergios PapachristosGiannis TsilisGiorgos TziallasIoannis Christou
34GermanyGER6:04.611:25.99 (1)2:58.95 (2)4:34.18 (3)1:32.96 (5)1:35.23 (6)1:30.43 (3)Q
Gregor HauffeToni SeifertUrs KäuferSebastian Schmidt
46New ZealandNZL6:06.361:28.87 (6)3:01.36 (6)4:35.18 (4)1:32.49 (3)1:33.82 (3)1:31.18 (4)
Tyson WilliamsJade UruSean O'NeillChris Harris
51CanadaCAN6:08.901:28.24 (5)3:00.85 (4)4:35.60 (5)1:32.61 (4)1:34.75 (4)1:33.30 (5)
Michael WilkinsonAnthony JacobWill DeanDerek O'Farrell
62RomaniaROU6:12.741:27.73 (3)3:01.11 (5)4:36.18 (6)1:33.38 (6)1:35.07 (5)1:36.56 (6)
Marius CozmiucGeorge PalamariuCristi PîrghieFlorin Curuea

Final Round

Date4 August 2012 — 10:30

Final A

Time11:30
PosLaneCompetitorsNOCTime500 m1,000 m1,500 m500-1,000 m1,000-1,500 m1,500-2,000 m
16Great BritainGBR6:03.971:27.86 (1)2:59.55 (1)4:32.56 (1)1:31.69 (1)1:33.01 (2)1:31.41 (1)
Alex GregoryPete ReedTom JamesAndy Triggs Hodge
24AustraliaAUS6:05.191:28.20 (2)3:00.16 (2)4:33.25 (2)1:31.96 (2)1:33.09 (3)1:31.94 (3)
Will LockwoodJames ChapmanDrew GinnJosh Dunkley-Smith
35United StatesUSA6:07.201:29.97 (3)3:02.14 (3)4:34.80 (3)1:32.17 (3)1:32.66 (1)1:32.40 (4)
Glenn OchalHenrik RummelCharlie ColeScott Gault
43GreeceGRE6:11.431:30.50 (5)3:03.55 (4)4:37.80 (4)1:33.05 (4)1:34.25 (4)1:33.63 (5)
Stergios PapachristosGiannis TsilisGiorgos TziallasIoannis Christou
52NetherlandsNED6:14.781:30.27 (4)3:05.03 (5)4:41.09 (5)1:34.76 (5)1:36.06 (5)1:33.69 (6)
Kaj HendriksBoaz MeylinkRuben KnabMechiel Versluis
61GermanyGER6:16.371:31.06 (6)3:07.23 (6)4:44.66 (6)1:36.17 (6)1:37.43 (6)1:31.71 (2)
Gregor HauffeToni SeifertUrs KäuferSebastian Schmidt

Final B

Time10:30
PosLaneCompetitorsNOCTime500 m1,000 m1,500 m500-1,000 m1,000-1,500 m1,500-2,000 m
14BelarusBLR6:09.311:29.67 (3)3:04.91 (5)4:39.44 (2)1:35.24 (6)1:34.53 (2)1:29.87 (2)
Vadzim LialinDzianis MihalStanislau ShcharbacheniaAliaksandr Kazubouski
25ItalyITA6:09.421:31.76 (6)3:06.72 (6)4:40.94 (6)1:34.96 (5)1:34.22 (1)1:28.48 (1)
Simone VenierMario PaonessaLuca AgamennoniVincenzo Capelli
33CanadaCAN6:11.151:29.09 (2)3:02.98 (2)4:37.80 (1)1:33.89 (1)1:34.82 (3)1:33.35 (5)
Michael WilkinsonAnthony JacobWill DeanDerek O'Farrell
41SerbiaSRB6:11.941:30.16 (4)3:04.37 (3)4:39.96 (4)1:34.21 (3)1:35.59 (5)1:31.98 (3)
Miloš VasićRadoje ĐerićMiljan VukovićGoran Jagar
56New ZealandNZL6:11.971:30.59 (5)3:04.64 (4)4:39.68 (3)1:34.05 (2)1:35.04 (4)1:32.29 (4)
Tyson WilliamsJade UruSean O'NeillChris Harris
62RomaniaROU6:16.201:28.00 (1)3:02.45 (1)4:40.23 (5)1:34.45 (4)1:37.78 (6)1:35.97 (6)
Marius CozmiucGeorge PalamariuCristi PîrghieFlorin Curuea