Rowing at the Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024

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47 minutes ago, OlympicIRL said:

Congrats to our Greek friends too on a surprise bronze 

Thank you! Congrats to you on an expected gold 

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36 minutes ago, Gianlu33 said:

I just notice that Greece won a medal in LW 

We've won 6 Olympic rowing medals in our history now, 3 in LM2X (2004, 2008, 2024), 2 in LW2X (2012, 2024), and 1 in M1X (2020). We will be sad to see the LW events go 

 

And we're the only country to win medals in both LW events here in Paris 

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I'm glad that after a disappointing first few days in Paris we are able now to win some more medals, 4 in the last 3 days and hopefully more to come 

 

Also I want to say Dimitra Kontou who won bronze in LW2X is only 18 years old! When was the last time someone that young won an Olympic medal in rowing? I think we will see her in 2028 in an open category, she is not so small, about 170 cm I think.

 

I'm not sure what Zoi Fitsiou does from here but she's already 28 yo, retired from rowing once to study, then came back into coastal rowing and then in regular rowing. Perhaps she will try coastal rowing again for 2028?

 

As for the men, I can see Papakonstantinou continuing in the open weights but Gkaidatzis seems too small. Of course you never know, we just had 165cm Evangelia Anastasiadou get 6th in the W2- today which shows some of the lightweight rowers can hold their own in the open category.

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Men's Pair
Final Results

 

Croatia

Martin Sinkovic

Valent Sinkovic

6:23.66

 

Great Britain

Oliver Wynne-Griffith

Tom George

6:24.11

 

Switzerland

Roman Roeoesli

Andrin Gulich

6:24.76

 

Full Final Results HERE

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Women's Pair
Final Results

 

Netherlands

Ymkje Clevering

Veronique Meester

6:58.67

 

Romania

Ioana Vrinceanu

Roxana Anghel

7:02.97

 

Australia

Jess Morrison

Annabelle McIntyre

7:03.54

 

Full Final Results HERE

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Men's Lightweight Double Sculls
Final Results

 

Ireland

Fintan Mc Carthy

Paul O Donovan

6:10.99

 

Italy

Stefano Oppo

Gabriel Soares

6:13.33

 

Greece

Antonios Papakonstantinou

Petros Gkaidatzis

6:13.44

 

Full Final Results HERE

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Women's Lightweight Double Sculls
Final Results

 

Great Britain

Emily Craig

Imogen Grant

6:47.06

 

Romania

Gianina Elena Van Groningen

Ionela Livia Cozmiuc

6:48.78

 

Greece

Dimitra Kontou

Zoi Fitsiou

6:49.28

 

Full Final Results HERE

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Twigg coming for the upset.

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Men's single final postponed by an hour, an athlete was late and had some problems with transports.