2008 European Rowing Championships
The 2008 European Rowing Championships were held at the Schinias Olympic Rowing and Canoeing Centre, Marathon, Greece, between September 16 and September 21, 2008. They were the 2nd annual event after the decision made in May 2006 by the FISA to re-establish the European Rowing Championships.
Owing to a big storm announced on the Centre, all finales (A and B) took place on Saturday, September 20 and not Sunday, September 21, as initially scheduled.
Medal summary
Men's results
| Event | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M1x |  Ioannis Christou (GRE) | 6:52.96 |  Lukáš Babač (SVK) | 6:55.95 |  Kostiantyn Zaitsev (UKR) | 6:57.05 |
| M2x |  FranceJulien Bahain Julien Desprès | 6:16.92 |  EstoniaVladimir Latin Kaspar Taimsoo | 6:18.40 | Ukraine Artem Morozov Vitaliy Kryvenko | 6:20.09 |
| M2- | Greece Georgios Tsiompanidis Pavlos Gavriilidis | 6:29:42 |  SerbiaGoran Jagar Nikola Stojić | 6:31.21 | France Jean-David Bernard Laurent Cadot | 6:31.29 |
| LM2x | Greece Dimitrios Mougios Vasileios Polymeros | 6:16.53 |  ItalyLorenzo Bertini Daniele Gilardoni | 6:19.34 |  HungaryZsolt Hirling Tamás Varga | 6:22.41 |
| M4x | Estonia Allar Raja Andrei Jämsä Tõnu Endrekson Jüri Jaanson | 5:45.75 |  GermanyMarkus Kuffner Tim Bartels Daniel Makowski René Burmeister | 5:47.75 | Ukraine Sergiy Gryn Volodymyr Pavlovskyi Oleg Lykov Sergiy Biloushchenko | 5:47.86 |
| M4- | Greece Nikolaos Gkountoulas Apostolos Gkountoulas Ioannis Tsilis Georgios Tziallas | 5:57.24 | Italy Domenico Montrone Romano Battisti Sergio Canciani Andrea Tranquilli | 6:00.04 |  BelarusAndrei Dzemyanenka Vadzim Lialin Yauheni Nosau Aliaksandr Kazubouski | 6:02.36 |
| LM4- | Italy Salvatore Amitrano Fabrizio Gabriele Andrea Caianiello Armando Dell'aquila | 5:58.92 | Serbia Veljko Urošević Nenad Babović Goran Nedeljković Miloš Tomić | 6:02.31 |  Czech RepublicVlastimil Čabla Vojtěch Bejblík Jiří Kopač Miroslav Vraštil, Jr. | 6:04.92 |
| M8+ | France Victor Bordereau Adrien Hardy Pierre-Jean Peltier Jean-Baptiste Macquet Frédéric Doucet Benjamin Rondeau Sébastien Lente Dorian Mortelette Benjamin Manceau | 5:32.01 |  RussiaAnton Zarutskiy Alexander N. Lebedev Roman Vorotnikov Edgar Ivans Alexander Kulesh Dmitri Rozinkevich Vladimir Volodenkov Denis Markelov Pavel Safonkin | 5:32.76 |  PolandSebastian Kosiorek Michał Stawowski Patryk Brzeziński Piotr Buchalski Wojciech Gutorski Marcin Brzeziński Rafał Hejmej Mikołaj Burda Daniel Trojanowski | 5:33.11 |
Women's results
| Event | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W1x | Mirka Knapková (CZE) | 7:27.42 | .svg.png){kind=small} Annick De Decker (BEL) | 7:34.04 |  Regina Naunheim (SUI) | 7:35.04 |
| W2x | Ukraine Kateryna Tarasenko Yana Dementieva | 6:55.95 | Poland Magdalena Fularczyk Natalia Madaj | 6:57.33 | Italy Gabriella Bascelli Erika Bello | 6:58.10 |
| W2- |  RomaniaGeorgeta Damian-Andrunache Viorica Susanu | 7:17.53 | Russia Vera Pochitaeva Alevtina Podvyazkina | 7:19.05 | Belarus Volha Shcharbachenia TatsianaKukhta | 7:21.35 |
| LW2x | Greece Chrysi Biskitzi Alexandra Tsiavou | 7:02.71 | Poland Weronika Deresz Ilona Mokronowska | 7:04.98 | Hungary Zsófia Novák Zsuzsanna Hajdú | 7:08.80 |
| W4x | Ukraine Svitlana Spiryukhova Olena Olefirenko Nataliya Lialchuk Tetiana Kolesnikova | 6:26.54 | Russia Olga Samulenkova Larisa Merk Oxana Dorodnova Julia Kalinovskaya | 6:28.20 | Romania Ionelia Neacşu Cristina Ilie Adelina Cojocariu Roxana Cogianu | 6:30.64 |
| W8+ | Romania Constanţa Burcică Ana Maria Apachiţei Rodica Şerban-Florea Enikő Barabás Camelia Lupaşcu Ioana Papuc Simona Muşat-Strimbeschi Doina Ignat Teodora Stoica | 6:10.22 |  Great BritainJo Cook Vicky Myers Georgina Menheneott Emily Taylor Rachael Loveridge Kirsty Myles Lindsey Maguire Hannah Elsy Rebecca Dowbiggin | 6:12.46 | Belarus Volha Maroz Aliza Klimovich Hanna Nakhayeva Katsiaryna Yarmolich Natallia Helakh Volha Shcharbachenia Tatsiana Kukhta Yuliya Bichyk Anastasiya Katsiashova | 6:22.79 |
Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Greece | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 2 | Ukraine | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 3 | France | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Romania | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | |
| 5 | Italy | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 6 | Estonia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | Czech Republic | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | Russia | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 9 | Poland | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 10 | Serbia | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | Germany | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Belgium | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Great Britain | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Slovakia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 15 | Belarus | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 16 | Hungary | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 17 | Switzerland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| TOTAL | 14 | 14 | 14 | 42 | |