Rowing at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's coxless pair

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[edit] Women's Pair

Gold: Silver: Bronze:
Romania
Georgeta Damian
Viorica Susanu
Great Britain
Katherine Grainger
Cath Bishop
Belarus
Yuliya Bichyk
Natallia Helakh

[edit] Heats

August 14
Heat 1 10:10

  1. Yuliya Bichyk and Natallia Helakh, Flag of Belarus Belarus 7:27.73
  2. Katherine Grainger and Cath Bishop, Great Britain, 7:34.66
  3. Maren Derlien and Sandra Goldbach, Flag of Germany Germany 7:44.00
  4. Sophie Balmary and Virginie Chauvel, Flag of France France 7:49.70
  5. Sarah Jones and Kate Mackenzie, Flag of United States United States 7:53.78

Heat 2 10:20

  1. Georgeta Damian and Viorica Susanu, Flag of Romania Romania 7:29.74
  2. Darcy Marquardt and Buffy-Lynne Williams, Flag of Canada Canada 7:42.36
  3. Milka Tancheva and Anna Chuk, Flag of Bulgaria Bulgaria 7:53.45
  4. Cong Huanling and Feng Xueling, Flag of People's Republic of China China 7:53.30
  5. Juliette Haigh and Nicky Coles, Flag of New Zealand New Zealand 9:37.53

[edit] Final
  1. Georgeta Damian and Viorica Susanu, Flag of Romania Romania, 7:06.56
  2. Katherine Grainger and Cath Bishop, Great Britain, 7:08.66
  3. Yuliya Bichyk and Natallia Helakh, Flag of Belarus Belarus, 7:09.36
  4. Darcy Marquardt and Buffy-Lynne Williams, Flag of Canada Canada, 7:13.33
  5. Maren Derlien and Sandra Goldbach, Flag of Germany Germany, 7:20.20
  6. Juliette Haigh and Nicky Coles, Flag of New Zealand New Zealand, 7:23.52

The Romanians never looked likely to lose as they led throughout. At 1,000 metres they were nearly two seconds clear of the Canadians who were half a second ahead of Belarus with world champions Great Britain a further second back. By 1,500 m. they had extended their lead with no change in positions in the trailing pack. Just after this mark Belarus and Great Britain both made a move to push past Canada who could not respond. The British kept their push going and passed the Belarusians and by the finishing line had just about overlapped the dominant Romanians. Belarus were two thirds of length back with a very tired looking Canada a further one and a half lengths away.