Rowing at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's eights

Men's Eights was an event in Rowing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Netherlands (NED) Koos Maasdijk Ronald Florijn Jeroen Duyster Michiel Bartman Henk-Jan Zwolle Niels van der Zwan Niels van Steenis Diederik Simon Nico Rienks	Germany (GER) Mark Kleinschmidt Detlef Kirchhoff Wolfram Huhn Roland Baar Marc Weber Ulrich Viefers Peter Thiede Thorsten Streppelhoff Frank Joerg Richter	Russia (RUS) Pavel Melnikov Andrei Glukhov Anton Chermashentsev Aleksandr Lukyanov Nikolai Aksyonov Dmitri Rozinkevich Sergei Matveyev Roman Monchenko Vladimir Volodenkov Vladimir Sokolov

Heats

• FA denotes qualification to Final A.
• R denotes qualification to Repechage.

Heat 1

1. Netherlands - 5:41.41 FA
2. Canada - 5:44.00 R
3. Australia - 5:46.83 R
4. Great Britain - 5:49.37 R
5. Ukraine - 5:55.32 R

Heat 2

1. United States - 5:44.87 FA
2. Germany - 5:46.04 R
3. Russia - 5:48.63 R
4. Romania - 5:54.34 R
5. Italy - 5:54.59 R

Repechages

• FA denotes qualification to Final A.
• FB denotes qualification to Final B.

Repechage 1

1. Canada - 5:30.76 FA
2. Russia - 5:32.98 FA
3. Great Britain - 5:33.22 FB
4. Italy - 5:34.40 FB

Repechage 2

1. Germany - 5:30.61 FA
2. Australia - 5:31.33 FA
3. Romania - 5:31.88 FB
4. Ukraine - 5:42.43 FB

Finals

Final A

1. Netherlands - 5:42.74
2. Germany - 5:44.58
3. Russia - 5:45.77
4. Canada - 5:46.54
5. United States - 5:48.45
6. Australia - 5:58.82

Final B

1. Romania - 5:37.65
2. Great Britain - 5:40.23
3. Italy - 5:41.95
4. Ukraine - 5:44.89