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

Women's double sculls at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Venue	Eton Dorney
Date	30 July – 3 August
Competitors	20 from 10 nations
Winning time	6:55.82
Medalists
Anna Watkins Katherine Grainger  Great Britain Kim Crow Brooke Pratley  Australia Magdalena Fularczyk Julia Michalska  Poland

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 Women'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
Monday, 30 July 2012	10:20	Heats
Tuesday, 31 July 2012	09:50	Repechage
Friday 3 August 2012	10:30	Final B
Friday, 3 August 2012	12:10	Final

Results

Heats

First two of each heat qualify to the final, remainder goes to the repeachge.

Heat 1

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Anna Watkins Katherine Grainger	Great Britain	6:44.33	Q
2	Fiona Paterson Anna Reymer	New Zealand	6:49.44	Q
3	Wang Min Zhu Weiwei	China	6:50.64	R
4	Inge Janssen Elisabeth Hogerwerf	Netherlands	7:00.10	R
5	Lenka Antošová Jitka Antošová	Czech Republic	7:05.05	R

Heat 2

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Kim Crow Brooke Pratley	Australia	6:48.80	Q
2	Magdalena Fularczyk Julia Michalska	Poland	6:50.85	Q
3	Margot Shumway Sarah Trowbridge	United States	6:55.25	R
4	Tina Manker Stephanie Schiller	Germany	7:08.36	R
5	Anna Kravchenko Olena Buryak	Ukraine	7:09.40	R

Repechage

First two qualify to the final.

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Wang Min Zhu Weiwei	China	7:09.65	Q
2	Margot Shumway Sarah Trowbridge	United States	7:10.37	Q
3	Lenka Antošová Jitka Antošová	Czech Republic	7:11.68
4	Tina Manker Stephanie Schiller	Germany	7:18.37
5	Inge Janssen Elisabeth Hogerwerf	Netherlands	7:19.80
6	Anna Kravchenko Olena Buryak	Ukraine	7:23.02

Finals

Final B

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Lenka Antošová Jitka Antošová	Czech Republic	7:24.93
2	Inge Janssen Elisabeth Hogerwerf	Netherlands	7:29.57
3	Tina Manker Stephanie Schiller	Germany	7:33.32
4	Anna Kravchenko Olena Buryak	Ukraine	7:36.65

Final A

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
	Anna Watkins Katherine Grainger	Great Britain	6:55.82
	Kim Crow Brooke Pratley	Australia	6:58.55
	Magdalena Fularczyk Julia Michalska	Poland	7:07.92
4	Wang Min Zhu Weiwei	China	7:08.92
5	Fiona Paterson Anna Reymer	New Zealand	7:09.82
6	Margot Shumway Sarah Trowbridge	United States	7:10.54