| Date | 8 – 13 August 2016 |
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| Status | Olympic |
| Location | Estádio da Lagoa, Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas, Rio de Janeiro |
| Participants | 63 from 7 countries |
| Olympic Record | 5:19.85 / Jason Read • Wyatt Allen • Chris Ahrens • Joey Hansen • Matt Deakin • Dan Beery • Beau Hoopman • Bryan Volpenhein • Pete Cipollone  USA / 15 August 2004 / Details |
Germany was the defending Olympic champion in the Men’s Eight and had won every European Championship since the London Games; six of the 2012 Olympic champions returned to compete in Rio. Great Britain, on the other hand, had won the last three World Championships and relegated Germany to silver each time. The nation also had six Olympic medalists on its squad, three of whom had been bronze medalists in the eight at the 2012 Olympics and one of whom, Matt Langridge, had a silver medal in the event from 2008.
These two nations were considered the main contenders for gold at the 2016 Games and won their opening heats relatively easily. In the final, the Britons were fairly dominant and never in any serious trouble, winning the gold medal ahead of the Germans by over a second. The Netherlands, which had been the 2013 European and 2015 World bronze medalists, secured the final podium spot, comfortably ahead of the 2013 World bronze medalist Americans.
| Date | 8 August 2016 — 9:10 |
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| Format | Winner of each heat advanced to the final round; all others to the repêchage. |
| Time | 9:10 |
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| Pos | Lane | Competitors | NOC | Time | 500 m | 1,000 m | 1,500 m | 500-1,000 m | 1,000-1,500 m | 1,500-2,000 m | |||||
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| 1 | 3 | Great Britain |  GBR | 5:34.23 | 1:20.68 (1) | 2:44.20 (1) | 4:09.55 (1) | 1:23.52 (1) | 1:25.35 (1) | 1:24.68 (3) | |||||
| Scott Durant • Tom Ransley • Andy Triggs Hodge • Matt Gotrel • Pete Reed • Paul Bennett • Matt Langridge • Will Satch • Phelan Hill | |||||||||||||||
| 2 | 1 | Netherlands |  NED | 5:36.16 | 1:21.88 (2) | 2:47.40 (3) | 4:12.87 (3) | 1:25.52 (3) | 1:25.47 (3) | 1:23.29 (1) | |||||
| Dirk Uittenbogaard • Boaz Meylink • Kaj Hendriks • Boudewijn Röell • Olivier Siegelaar • Tone Wieten • Mechiel Versluis • Robert Lücken • Peter Wiersum | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | 4 | New Zealand |  NZL | 5:36.28 | 1:22.17 (3) | 2:47.20 (2) | 4:12.61 (2) | 1:25.03 (2) | 1:25.41 (2) | 1:23.67 (2) | |||||
| Tom Murray • Michael Brake • Shaun Kirkham • Alex Kennedy • Joe Wright • Isaac Grainger • Brook Robertson • Stephen Jones • Caleb Shepherd | |||||||||||||||
| 4 | 2 | Italy |  ITA | 5:52.83 | 1:24.50 (4) | 2:50.99 (4) | 4:21.38 (4) | 1:26.49 (4) | 1:30.39 (4) | 1:31.45 (4) | |||||
| Emanuele Liuzzi • Fabio Infimo • Mario Paonessa • Pierpaolo Frattini • Matteo Stefanini • Simone Venier • Luca Agamennoni • Vincenzo Capelli • Enrico D'Aniello | |||||||||||||||
| Time | 9:20 |
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| Pos | Lane | Competitors | NOC | Time | 500 m | 1,000 m | 1,500 m | 500-1,000 m | 1,000-1,500 m | 1,500-2,000 m | |||||
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| 1 | 1 | Germany |  GER | 5:38.22 | 1:20.93 (1) | 2:46.32 (1) | 4:12.38 (1) | 1:25.39 (1) | 1:26.06 (1) | 1:25.84 (1) | |||||
| Maximilian Munski • Malte Jakschik • Andreas Kuffner • Eric Johannesen • Maximilian Reinelt • Felix Drahotta • Richard Schmidt • Hannes Ocik • Martin Sauer | |||||||||||||||
| 2 | 2 | United States | USA | 5:40.16 | 1:21.75 (2) | 2:47.87 (2) | 4:14.12 (2) | 1:26.12 (3) | 1:26.25 (2) | 1:26.04 (2) | |||||
| Sam Dommer • Hans Struzyna • Alex Karwoski • Glenn Ochal • Steve Kasprzyk • Michael DiSanto • Rob Munn • Austin Hack • Sam Ojserkis | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | 3 | Poland |  POL | 5:42.32 | 1:24.15 (3) | 2:49.58 (3) | 4:16.19 (3) | 1:25.43 (2) | 1:26.61 (3) | 1:26.13 (3) | |||||
| Zbigniew Schodowski • Robert Fuchs • Krystian Aranowski • Mateusz Wilangowski • Mikołaj Burda • Michał Szpakowski • Marcin Brzeziński • Piotr Juszczak • Daniel Trojanowski | |||||||||||||||
| Date | 11 August 2016 — 10:00 |
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| Format | Top 4 to Final A. |
| Time | 10:00 |
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| Date | 13 August 2016 — 11:27 |
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| Time | 11:27 |
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