Rowing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's eight

Rowing at the 2008 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

Women's eight competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing was held on August 11 (heats), 13 (Repechage) and 17 (Final A), at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park.

This rowing event is a sweep rowing event, meaning that each rower has one oar and rows on only one side. Eight rowers and one coxswain crew each boat. The seven teams competing are placed into two heats, of four and three boats each. The fastest boat in each of those heats moves directly on to the final, while the rest of the boats are sent to the repechage. The repechage is a single heat, with the top four of the five boats advancing to the final. The repechage loser is given an overall rank of 7th place, last in the event. The other six boats, competing in the final, are ranked according to their finish in the final.

Schedule

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8)

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
United States Erin Cafaro Lindsay Shoop Anna Goodale Elle Logan Anna Cummins Susan Francia Caroline Lind Caryn Davies Mary Whipple	Netherlands Femke Dekker Marlies Smulders Nienke Kingma Roline Repelaer van Driel Annemarieke van Rumpt Helen Tanger Sarah Siegelaar Annemiek de Haan Ester Workel	Romania Constanţa Burcică Viorica Susanu Rodica Şerban Enikő Barabás Simona Muşat Ioana Papuc Georgeta Andrunache Doina Ignat Elena Georgescu

Results

Heats

Qualification Rules: 1->FA, 2..->R

Heat 1

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Cafaro, Shoop, Goodale, Logan, Cummins, Francia, Lind, Davies, Whipple	United States	6:06.53	FA
2	Ashford, Rodford, Page, Howard, Eddie, Winckless, Knowles, Greves, O'Connor	Great Britain	6:08.68	R
3	Mandoli, Morin, Bonikowsky, Brzozowicz, Stefancic, Williams, Marquardt, Rumball, Thompson-Willie	Canada	6:12.68	R
4	Hennings, Reinert, Wengert, Schmutzler, Wech, Derlien, Zimmermann, Hipler, Ruppel	Germany	6:14.42	R

Heat 2

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Burcică, Susanu, Şerban, Barabas, Musat, Papuc, Andrunache, Ignat, Georgescu	Romania	6:05.77	FA
2	Dekker, Smulders, Kingma, Repelaer van Driel, van Rumpt, Tanger, Siegelaar, de Haan, Workel	Netherlands	6:07.41	R
3	Frasca, Pratley, Kehoe, Bale, Kell, Hornsey, Tait, Heard, Patrick	Australia	6:07.93	R

Repechage

Qualification Rules: 1-4 ->FA

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Mandoli, Morin, Bonikowsky, Brzozowicz, Stefancic, Williams, Marquardt, Rumball, Thompson-Willie	Canada	6:10.50	FA
2	Dekker, Smulders, Kingma, Repelaer van Driel, van Rumpt, Tanger, Siegelaar, de Haan, Workel	Netherlands	6:11.58	FA
3	Ashford, Rodford, Page, Howard, Eddie, Winckless, Knowles, Greves, O'Connor	Great Britain	6:12.10	FA
4	Frasca, Pratley, Kehoe, Bale, Kell, Hornsey, Tait, Heard, Patrick	Australia	6:12.52	FA
5	Hennings, Reinert, Wengert, Schmutzler, Wech, Derlien, Zimmermann, Hipler, Ruppel	Germany	6:14.45

Final A

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
	Cafaro, Shoop, Goodale, Logan, Cummins, Francia, Lind, Davies, Whipple	United States	6:05.34
	Dekker, Smulders, Kingma, Repelaer van Driel, van Rumpt, Tanger, Siegelaar, de Haan, Workel	Netherlands	6:07.22
	Burcică, Susanu, Şerban, Barabás, Muşat, Papuc, Andrunache, Ignat, Georgescu	Romania	6:07.25
4	Mandoli, Morin, Bonikowsky, Brzozowicz, Stefancic, Williams, Marquardt, Rumball, Thompson-Willie	Canada	6:08.04
5	Ashford, Rodford, Page, Howard, Eddie, Winckless, Knowles, Greves, O'Connor (substitutes to be named)	Great Britain	6:13.74
6	Frasca, Pratley, Kehoe, Bale, Kell, Hornsey, Tait, Heard, Patrick	Australia	6:14:22

References

• NYT Olympic Report