Rowing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's double sculls

Men's double sculls at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Venue	Eton Dorney
Date	28 July – 2 August
Competitors	26 from 13 nations
Winning time	6:31.67
Medalists
Nathan Cohen Joseph Sullivan  New Zealand Alessio Sartori Romano Battisti  Italy Luka Špik Iztok Čop  Slovenia

Rowing at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Single sculls		men		women
Coxless pair		men		women
Double sculls		men		women
Lwt double sculls		men		women
Coxless four		men
Quadruple sculls		men		women
Eight		men		women
Lwt coxless four		men

The men's double sculls competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London took place are at Dorney Lake which, for the purposes of the Games venue, is officially termed Eton Dorney.

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

Date	Time	Round
Saturday, 28 July 2012	10:30	Heats
Sunday, 29 July 2012	09:30	Repechage
Tuesday, 31 July 2012	12:20	Semifinals
Thursday, 2 August 2012	09:50	Final B
Thursday, 2 August 2012	11:50	Final

Results

Heats

First three of each heat qualify to the semifinals, remainder goes to the repeachge.

Heat 1

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Eric Knittel Stephan Krüger	Germany	6:17.74	Q
=2	Rolandas Maščinskas Saulius Ritter	Lithuania	6:17.78	Q
=2	Luka Špik Iztok Čop	Slovenia	6:17.78	Q
4	David Crawshay Scott Brennan	Australia	6:21.25	R
5	Michael Braithwaite Kevin Kowalyk	Canada	6:34.11	R

Heat 2

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Nils Jakob Hoff Kjetil Borch	Norway	6:16.31	Q
2	Alessio Sartori Romano Battisti	Italy	6:18.50	Q
3	Julien Bahain Cédric Berrest	France	6:19.61	Q
4	Dmytro Mikhai Artem Morozov	Ukraine	6:49.70	R

Heat 3

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Nathan Cohen Joseph Sullivan	New Zealand	6:11.30	Q (OR)
2	Bill Lucas Sam Townsend	Great Britain	6:11.94	Q
3	Ariel Suárez Cristian Rosso	Argentina	6:13.68	Q
4	Juri-Mikk Udam Geir Suursild	Estonia	6:33.88	R

Repechage

First three qualify to the semifinals.

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	David Crawshay Scott Brennan	Australia	6.25.36	Q
2	Dmytro Mikhai Artem Morozov	Ukraine	6:30.19	Q
3	Michael Braithwaite Kevin Kowalyk	Canada	6:30.74	Q
4	Juri-Mikk Udam Geir Suursild	Estonia	6:38.50

Semifinals

First three qualify to the final.

Semifinal 1

Rank	Rower	Country	Time	Notes
1	Ariel Suárez Cristian Rosso	Argentina	6:19.40	Q
2	Nathan Cohen Joseph Sullivan	New Zealand	6:19.79	Q
3	Alessio Sartori Romano Battisti	Italy	6:20.68	Q
4	Eric Knittel Stephan Krüger	Germany	6:22.54
5	David Crawshay Scott Brennan	Australia	6:23.47
6	Dmytro Mikhai Artem Morozov	Ukraine	6:36.52

Semifinal 2

Rank	Rower	Country	Time	Notes
1	Luka Špik Iztok Čop	Slovenia	6:19.97	Q
2	Rolandas Maščinskas Saulius Ritter	Lithuania	6:21.62	Q
3	Bill Lucas Sam Townsend	Great Britain	6:22.47	Q
4	Nils Jakob Hoff Kjetil Borch	Norway	6:22.88
5	Julien Bahain Cédric Berrest	France	6:29.61
6	Michael Braithwaite Kevin Kowalyk	Canada	6:38.94

Finals

Final B

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Nils Jakob Hoff Kjetil Borch	Norway	6:20.82
2	David Crawshay Scott Brennan	Australia	6:22.19
3	Eric Knittel Stephan Krüger	Germany	6:23.36
4	Julien Bahain Cédric Berrest	France	6:26.44
5	Dmytro Mikhai Artem Morozov	Ukraine	6:31.51
6	Michael Braithwaite Kevin Kowalyk	Canada	6:32.61

Final A

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
	Nathan Cohen Joseph Sullivan	New Zealand	6:31.67
	Alessio Sartori Romano Battisti	Italy	6:32.80
	Luka Špik Iztok Čop	Slovenia	6:34.35
4	Ariel Suárez Cristian Rosso	Argentina	6:36.36
5	Bill Lucas Sam Townsend	Great Britain	6:40.54
6	Rolandas Maščinskas Saulius Ritter	Lithuania	6:42.69