Eight at the Olympics

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Eight (rowing) at the Olympic Games
Women's eight race at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Overview
Sport	Rowing
Gender	Men and women
Years held	Men: 1900–2016 Women: 1976–2016
Reigning champion
Men	Great Britain Scott Durant Tom Ransley Andrew Triggs Hodge Matt Gotrel Pete Reed Paul Bennett Matt Langridge Will Satch Phelan Hill
Women	United States Emily Regan Kerry Simmonds Amanda Polk Lauren Schmetterling Tessa Gobbo Meghan Musnicki Elle Logan Amanda Elmore Katelin Snyder

The eight is a rowing event held at the Summer Olympics. The event was first held for men at the second modern Olympics in 1900, and has been held at every Games since. The women's event was added when women's rowing was added to the Olympic programme in 1976, and has been held at every Games since. Since 1996, it is the only Olympic rowing event that uses a coxswain.

Medalists[]

Men[]

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1900 Paris details	United States	Belgium	Netherlands
1904 St. Louis details	United States	Canada	None awarded
1908 London details	Great Britain	Belgium	Canada  Great Britain
1912 Stockholm details	Great Britain	Great Britain	Germany
1920 Antwerp details	United States	Great Britain	Norway
1924 Paris details	United States	Canada	Italy
1928 Amsterdam details	United States	Great Britain	Canada
1932 Los Angeles details	United States	Italy	Canada
1936 Berlin details	United States	Italy	Germany
1948 London details	United States	Great Britain	Norway
1952 Helsinki details	United States	Soviet Union	Australia
1956 Melbourne details	United States	Canada	Australia
1960 Rome details	United Team of Germany	Canada	Czechoslovakia
1964 Tokyo details	United States	United Team of Germany	Czechoslovakia
1968 Mexico City details	West Germany	Australia	Soviet Union
1972 Munich details	New Zealand	United States	East Germany
1976 Montreal details	East Germany	Great Britain	New Zealand
1980 Moscow details	East Germany	Great Britain	Soviet Union
1984 Los Angeles details	Canada	United States	Australia
1988 Seoul details	West Germany	Soviet Union	United States
1992 Barcelona details	Canada	Romania	Germany
1996 Atlanta details	Netherlands	Germany	Russia
2000 Sydney details	Great Britain	Australia	Croatia
2004 Athens details	United States	Netherlands	Australia
2008 Beijing details	Canada	Great Britain	United States
2012 London details	Germany	Canada	Great Britain
2016 Rio de Janeiro details	Great Britain	Germany	Netherlands

Medalists by country[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	12	2	2	16
2	Great Britain (GBR)	4	7	2	13
3	Canada (CAN)	3	5	3	11
4	East Germany (GDR)	2	0	1	3
5	West Germany (FRG)	2	0	0	2
6	Germany (GER)	1	2	3	6
7	Netherlands (NED)	1	1	2	4
8	United Team of Germany (EUA)	1	1	0	2
9	New Zealand (NZL)	1	0	1	2
10	Australia (AUS)	0	2	4	6
11	Soviet Union (URS)	0	2	2	4
12	Italy (ITA)	0	2	1	3
13	Belgium (BEL)	0	2	0	2
14	Romania (ROU)	0	1	0	1
15	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	0	2	2
	Norway (NOR)	0	0	2	2
17	Croatia (CRO)	0	0	1	1
	Russia (RUS)	0	0	1	1

Women[]

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1976 Montreal details	East Germany	Soviet Union	United States
1980 Moscow details	East Germany	Soviet Union	Romania
1984 Los Angeles details	United States	Romania	Netherlands
1988 Seoul details	East Germany	Romania	China
1992 Barcelona details	Canada	Romania	Germany
1996 Atlanta details	Romania	Canada	Belarus
2000 Sydney details	Romania	Netherlands	Canada
2004 Athens details	Romania	United States	Netherlands
2008 Beijing details	United States	Netherlands	Romania
2012 London details	United States	Canada	Netherlands
2016 Rio de Janeiro details	United States	Great Britain	Romania

Medalists by country[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	4	1	1	6
2	Romania (ROU)	3	3	3	9
3	East Germany (GDR)	3	0	0	3
4	Canada (CAN)	1	2	1	4
5	Netherlands (NED)	0	2	3	5
6	Soviet Union (URS)	0	2	0	2
7	Great Britain (GBR)	0	1	0	1
8	Belarus (BLR)	0	0	1	1
	China (CHN)	0	0	1	1
	Germany (GER)	0	0	1	1

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