2008 World Rowing Championships

The 2008 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held from 22 to 27 July 2008 in conjunction with the World Junior Rowing Championships in Ottensheim near Linz, Austria.^[1] Since 2008 was an Olympic year for rowing, the World Championships did not include Olympic events scheduled for the 2008 Summer Olympics, or the adaptive rowing events at the 2008 Summer Paralympics.

Medal summary[]

Men's events[]

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
M2+	Canada Gabriel Bergen (b) (s) (c)	7:06.69	France (b) Benjamin Lang (s) (c)	7:08.64	Australia Nick Baxter (b) Fergus Pragnell (s) Hugh Rawlinson (c)	7:09.30
Men's lightweight events
LM1x	New Zealand Duncan Grant	6:52.38	Netherlands Jaap Schouten	6:52.73	Greece	6:55.00
LM2-	Greece Nikolaos Goudoulas (b) Apostolos Goudoulas (s)	6:40.92	Italy Andrea Caianiello (b) Armando Dell'Aquila(s)	6:42.88	Serbia Goran Nedeljković (b) Miloš Tomić (s)	6:45.25
LM4x	Italy Franco Sancassani (b) Daniele Gilardoni (2) Stefano Basalini (3) Daniele Danesin (s)	5:57.30	France Rémi Di Girolamo (b) Jérémie Azou (2) Fabrice Moreau (3) Pierre-Étienne Pollez (s)	5:57.56	Germany (b) Knud Lange (2) Felix Övermann (3) Michael Wieler (s)	5:59.50
LM8+	United States Simon Carcagno (b) Andrew Bolton (2) Colin Farrell (3) Mike Altman (4) Pat Todd (5) Will Daly (6) Tom Paradiso (7) Matt Muffelman (s) Edmund del Guercio (c)	5:50.29	Germany (b) (2) (3) Jonas Schützeberg (4) Matthias Schömann-Finck (5) (6) (7) Axel Schuster (s) Martin Sauer (c)	5:51.69	Netherlands (b) (2) (3) Dennis Beemsterboer (4) (5) (6) Maarten Tromp (7) (s) (c)	5:52.37

Women's events[]

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
W4-	Belarus (b) (2) Natallia Helakh (3) Yuliya Bichyk (s)	6:39.89	United States (b) Stesha Carle (2) Sarah Trowbridge (3) Esther Lofgren (s)	6:43.56	Denmark (b) Lisbet Jakobsen (2) (3) (s)	6:44.69
Women's lightweight events
LW1x	Switzerland Pamela Weisshaupt	7:43.26	Ireland Sinéad Jennings	7:43.81	Croatia	7:47.15
LW4x	Australia Ingrid Fenger (b) Bronwen Watson (2) Miranda Bennett (3) Alice McNamara (s)	6:36.41	Poland Monika Myszk (s) Magdalena Kemnitz (2) Weronika Deresz (3) Ilona Mokronowska (s)	6:39.38	United States (b) Wendy Tripician (2) (3) Hannah Moore (s)	6:40.77

Medal table[]

Place	Nation				Total
1	United States	1	1	1	3
2	Italy	1	1	0	2
3	Australia	1	0	1	2
	Greece	1	0	1	2
5	Belarus	1	0	0	1
	Canada	1	0	0	1
	New Zealand	1	0	0	1
	Switzerland	1	0	0	1
9	France	0	2	0	2
10	Germany	0	1	1	2
	Netherlands	0	1	1	2
12	Ireland	0	1	0	1
	Poland	0	1	0	1
14	Croatia	0	0	1	1
	Denmark	0	0	1	1
	Serbia	0	0	1	1
Total		8	8	8	24

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