Rowing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's quadruple sculls

Women's quadruple sculls at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Medalists
Tang Bin Jin Ziwei Xi Aihua Zhang Yangyang  China Annabel Vernon Debbie Flood Frances Houghton Katherine Grainger  Great Britain Britta Oppelt Manuela Lutze Kathrin Boron Stephanie Schiller  Germany
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Rowing at the 2008 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
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Women's quadruple sculls competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing was held between August 10 and 17, at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park.^[1]

This rowing event is a quadruple scull event, meaning that each boat is propelled by four rowers. The "scull" portion means that each rower uses two oars, one on each side of the boat; this contrasts with sweep rowing in which each rower has one oar and rows on only one side. The competition consists of multiple rounds. Finals were held to determine the placing of each boat; these finals were given letters with those nearer to the beginning of the alphabet meaning a better ranking.

During the first round two heats were held. The top boat in each heat advanced to the A final, while all others went to the repechage. A single repechage heat was held, with the top four boats moving on to the A final and the remaining two being sent to the B final.

The second and final round was the Finals. Each final determined a set of rankings. The A final determined the medals, along with the rest of the places through 6th. The B final gave rankings to the two remaining crews, giving them places of 7th and 8th.

Schedule

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8)

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
China (CHN) Tang Bin Xi Aihua Jin Ziwei Zhang Yangyang	Great Britain (GBR) Annabel Vernon Debbie Flood Frances Houghton Katherine Grainger	Germany (GER) Britta Oppelt Manuela Lutze Kathrin Boron Stephanie Schiller

Results

Heats

Qualification Rules: 1->FA, 2..->R

Heat 1

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Tang, Xi, Jin, Zhang	China	6:11.83	FA
2	Spiryukhova, Olefirenko, Lyal’chuk, Kolesnikova	Ukraine	6:17.84	R
3	de Jong, de Zwager, Hanson, Guloien	Canada	6:23.27	R
4	Kalinovskaya, Dorodnova, Merk, Levina	Russia	6:26.21	R

Heat 2

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Vernon, Flood, Houghton, Grainger	Great Britain	6:13.70	FA
2	Oppelt, Lutze, Boron, Schiller	Germany	6:15.26	R
3	Pernell, Meyer, Kaido, Shumway	United States	6:19.89	R
4	Ives, Hore, Uphill, Bradley	Australia	6:20.95	R

Repechage

Qualification Rules: 1-4->FA, 5..->FB

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Oppelt, Lutze, Boron, Schiller	Germany	6:36.17	FA
2	Pernell, Meyer, Kaido, Shumway	United States	6:39.53	FA
3	Ives, Hore, Uphill, Bradley	Australia	6:41.39	FA
4	Spiryukhova, Olefirenko, Lyal’chuk, Kolesnikova	Ukraine	6:41.45	FA
5	de Jong, de Zwager, Hanson, Guloien	Canada	6:46.60	FB
6	Kalinovskaya, Dorodnova, Merk, Levina	Russia	6:51.14	FB

Final B

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Kalinovskaya, Dorodnova, Merk, Levina	Russia	6:28.10
2	de Jong, de Zwager, Hanson, Guloien	Canada	6:28.78

Final A

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
	Tang, Xi, Jin, Zhang	China	6:16.06
	Vernon, Flood, Houghton, Grainger	Great Britain	6:17.37
	Oppelt, Lutze, Boron, Schiller	Germany	6:19.56
4	Spiryukhova, Olefirenko, Lialchuk, Kolesnikova	Ukraine	6:20.02
5	Pernell, Meyer, Kaido, Shumway	United States	6:25.86
6	Ives, Hore, Uphill, Bradley	Australia	6:30.05

References

External links

• NYT Olympic Report

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