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

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Rowing at the 2004 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

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

Heat 2 10:20

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

[edit] Final

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