Jump to content

Rowing at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's double sculls

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Women's double sculls
at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Date19–24 September
Competitors21 from 10 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Birgit Peter
Martina Schröter
 East Germany
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Elisabeta Lipă
Veronica Cogeanu
 Romania
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Violeta Ninova
Stefka Madina
 Bulgaria
← 1984
1992 →

The women's double sculls competition at the 1988 Summer Olympics took place at took place at Han River Regatta Course, South Korea.[1]

Competition format

[edit]

The competition consisted of two main rounds (heats and finals) as well as a repechage. The 10 boats were divided into two heats for the first round, with 5 boats in each heat. The winner of each heat (2 boats total) advanced directly to the "A" final (for 1st through 6th place). The remaining 8 boats were placed in the repechage. The repechage featured two heats, with 4 boats in each heat. The top two boats in each repechage heat (4 boats total) advanced to the "A" final. The remaining 4 boats (3rd and 4th placers in the repechage heats) were eliminated from medal contention and competed in the "B" final for 7th through 10th place.[2]

All races were over a 2000 metre course, unlike previous Games in which women used a 1000 metre course.

Results

[edit]

Heats

[edit]

Heat 1

[edit]
Rank Rowers Nation Time Notes
1  Romania 7:30.09 QA
2  Soviet Union 7:35.82 R
3  Sweden 7:38.14 R
4  United States 7:38.62 R
5  Canada 7:46.89 R

Heat 2

[edit]
Rank Rowers Nation Time Notes
1  East Germany 7:25.95 QA
2  Bulgaria 7:32.82 R
3  China 7:39.20 R
4  Great Britain 8:01.34 R
5  South Korea 8:16.55 R

Repechage

[edit]

Repechage heat 1

[edit]
Rank Rowers Nation Time Notes
1  Soviet Union 7:30.00 QA
2  China 7:32.39 QA
3  Canada 7:36.80 QB
4  Great Britain 7:59.75 QB

Repechage heat 2

[edit]
Rank Rowers Nation Time Notes
1  Bulgaria 7:24.96 QA
2  United States 7:29.52 QA
3  Sweden 7:30.23 QB
4  South Korea 8:13.57 QB

Finals

[edit]

Final B

[edit]
Rank Rowers Nation Time
7  Canada 8:03.56
8  Sweden 8:09.35
9  Great Britain 8:15.70
10  South Korea 8:58.45

Final A

[edit]
Rank Rowers Nation Time
1st place, gold medalist(s)  East Germany 7:00.48
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Romania 7:04.36
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Bulgaria 7:06.03
4  Soviet Union 7:12.67
5  China 7:18.69
6  United States 7:21.28

Final classification

[edit]
Rank Rowers Nation
1st place, gold medalist(s) Birgit Peter
Martina Schröter
 East Germany
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Elisabeta Lipă
Veronica Cogeanu
Liliana Geneș
 Romania
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Violeta Ninova
Stefka Madina
 Bulgaria
4 Marina Zhukova
Mariya Omelianovych
 Soviet Union
5 Guo Mei
Cao Mianying
 China
6 Monica Havelka
Cathy Thaxton-Tippett
 United States
7 Silken Laumann
Kay Worthington
 Canada
8 Maria Brandin
Carina Gustavsson
 Sweden
9 Sally Andreae
Alison Gill
 Great Britain
10 Jang Myeong-hui
Han Hye-sun
 South Korea

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Rowing at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games: Women's Double Sculls". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
  2. ^ Official Report, vol. 2, p. 530.