Rowing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Qualification rules

Main article: Rowing at the 2008 Summer Olympics

A nation may earn up to 1 boat in each of the 14 Rowing events.

Note that though crew members' names are given below, for boats which qualified at the 2007 World Championships the crew racing at the Olympics is not required to include the same crew members as the crew which qualified.

Summary

Nation Men Women Crews Rowers
M1X M2- M2X M4- M4X M8+ LM2X LM4- W1X W2- W2X W4X W8+ LW2X
 Algeria X X 2 3
 Argentina X X 2 2
 Australia X X X X X X X X X X X X X X 14 48
 Belarus X X X X X 5 13
 Belgium X X 2 3
 Brazil X X X X 4 6
 Bulgaria X X 2 3
 Cameroon X 1 1
 Canada X X X X X X X X 8 34
 Chile X X 2 2
 China X X X X X X X X X X X 11 32
 Chinese Taipei X 1 1
 Colombia X 1 1
 Croatia X X 2 4
 Cuba X X X X 4 9
 Czech Republic X X X X X X 6 14
 Denmark X X X X 4 10
 Egypt X X X 3 6
 El Salvador X 1 1
 Estonia X X X 3 7
 Finland X 1 2
 France X X X X X X X X 8 21
 Germany X X X X X X X X X X X X X 13 45
 Great Britain X X X X X X X X X X X X 12 43
 Greece X X X 3 5
 Honduras X 1 1
 Hong Kong X X X 3 4
 Hungary X 1 2
 India X X 2 3
 Iran X X 2 2
 Iraq X 1 2
 Ireland X X 2 8
 Italy X X X X X X X 7 19
 Japan X X 2 4
 Kazakhstan X X 2 3
 Kenya X 1 1
 Lithuania X 1 1
 Mexico X X 2 3
 Monaco X 1 1
 Myanmar X 1 1
 Netherlands X X X X X X 6 29
 New Zealand X X X X X X X X 8 16
 Norway X 1 1
 Poland X X X X X 5 20
 Portugal X 1 2
 Romania X X X 3 11
 Russia X X X 3 10
 Serbia X X 2 3
 Slovenia X X X 3 10
 South Africa X X X 3 5
 South Korea X X X 3 5
 Spain X 1 1
 Sweden X X 2 2
 Switzerland X 1 1
 Ukraine X X X 3 10
 United States X X X X X X X X X X X X X 13 45
 Uruguay X X 2 3
 Uzbekistan X 1 1
 Venezuela X 1 1
 Zimbabwe X 1 1
Total: 60 NOCs 33 14 15 13 13 8 20 13 26 10 10 8 7 17 207 548

Qualification timeline

Event Date Venue
2007 World Rowing Championships Aug 26 - Sep 2, 2007 Germany Munich
2007 All-Africa Games July 19–21, 2007 Algeria Algiers
Latin America Qualification Regatta * November 16–18, 2007 Brazil Rio de Janeiro
Asian Qualification Regatta April 25–27, 2008 China Shanghai
Final Qualification Regatta ** June 15–18, 2008 Poland Poznań

* Open to NOCs that are members of Organización Deportiva Panamericana, with the exception of USA and Canada.

** Open to all NOCs except in the M1x, LM2x, W1x and LW2x events where the NOCs from Africa, Asia and Latin America are excluded.

Single Sculls Men

# Nation Qualification Tournament Place in QT Rower
1  New Zealand 2007 Worlds 1 Mahé Drysdale
2  Czech Republic 2007 Worlds 2 Ondřej Synek
3  Norway 2007 Worlds 3 Olaf Tufte
4  Great Britain 2007 Worlds 4 Alan Campbell
5  Germany 2007 Worlds 5 Marcel Hacker
6  Sweden 2007 Worlds 6 Lassi Karonen
7  Belgium 2007 Worlds 7 Tim Maeyens
8  Argentina 2007 Worlds 8 Santiago Fernández
9  Switzerland 2007 Worlds 9 André Vonarburg
10  Netherlands 2007 Worlds 10 Sjoerd Hamburger
11  Australia 2007 Worlds 11 Peter Hardcastle
12  China Asian Regatta 1 Zhang Liang
13  India Asian Regatta 2 Bajrang Lal Takhar
14  Iran Asian Regatta 3 Mohsen Shadi
15  Hong Kong Asian Regatta 4 Law Hiu Fung
16  Uzbekistan Asian Regatta 5 Ruslan Naurzaliev
17  Chinese Taipei Asian Regatta 6 Wang Ming-Hui
18  Egypt African Games 1 Ali Ibrahim
19  Algeria African Games 3 Chaouki Dries
20  Cameroon African Games 5 Paul Etia Ndoumbe
21  Kenya African Games 6 Mathew Minanga Lidaywa
22  Brazil Latin America Regatta 1 Anderson Nocetti
23  Mexico Latin America Regatta 2 Patrick Loliger Salas
24  Chile Latin America Regatta 3 Oscar Vasquez Ochoa
25  Venezuela Latin America Regatta 4 Dhiso Hernandez Echezuria
26  Uruguay Latin America Regatta 5 Leandro Salvagno Rattaro
27  Colombia Latin America Regatta 6 Rodrigo Ideus
28  United States Final Continental 1 Kenneth Jurkowski
29  Lithuania Final Continental 2 Mindaugas Griskonis
30  Estonia Final Continental 3 Andrei Jämsä
31  Greece* Final Continental 4 Ioannis Christou
32  Honduras Invitational
33  Monaco Invitational

Pairs Men

# Nation Qualification Tournament Place in QT Rowers
1  Australia 2007 Worlds 1 Drew Ginn, Duncan Free
2  New Zealand 2007 Worlds 2 Nathan Twaddle, George Bridgewater
3  Great Britain 2007 Worlds 3 Colin Smith, Matt Langridge
4  France 2007 Worlds 4 Erwan Peron, Laurent Cadot
5  South Africa 2007 Worlds 5 Ramon di Clemente, Donovan Cech
6  Serbia 2007 Worlds 6 Goran Jagar, Nikola Stojić
7  Poland 2007 Worlds 7 Piotr Hojka, Jarosław Godek
8  United States 2007 Worlds 8 Jason Read, Kyle Larson
9  Germany 2007 Worlds 9 Andreas Penkner, Jochen Urban
10  Croatia 2007 Worlds 10 Siniša Skelin, Nikša Skelin
11  Denmark 2007 Worlds 11 Morten Nielsen, Thomas Larsen
12  Canada Final Continental 1 Dave Calder, Scott Frandsen
13  Italy Final Continental 2 Giuseppe De Vita, Raffaello Leonardo
14  Czech Republic* Final Continental 3 Jakub Makovicka, Václav Chalupa

Double Sculls Men

# Nation Qualification Tournament Place in QT Rowers
1  Slovenia 2007 Worlds 1 Luka Špik, Iztok Čop
2  France 2007 Worlds 2 Jean-Baptiste Macquet, Adrien Hardy
3  Estonia 2007 Worlds 3 Jüri Jaanson, Tõnu Endrekson
4  Great Britain 2007 Worlds 4 Matthew Wells, Stephen Rowbotham
5  Belarus 2007 Worlds 5 Dzianis Mihal, Stanislau Shcharbachenia
6  New Zealand 2007 Worlds 6 Nathan Cohen, Matthew Trott
7  Croatia 2007 Worlds 7 Mario Vekic, Ante Kusurin
8  Australia 2007 Worlds 8 Scott Brennan, David Crawshay
9  United States 2007 Worlds 9 Samuel Stitt, Matthew Hughes
10  Germany 2007 Worlds 10 Christian Schreiber, Rene Burmeister
11  Belgium 2007 Worlds 11 Stijn Smulders, Christophe Raes
12  China Final Continental 1 Su Hui, Zhang Liang
13  Russia Final Continental 2 Aleksandr Kornilov, Aleksey Svirin
14  Bulgaria* Final Continental 3 Ivo Yanakiev, Martin Yanakiev
15  Iraq Invitational

Fours Men

# Nation Qualification Tournament Place in QT Rowers
1  New Zealand 2007 Worlds 1 Meyer, Dallinger, Murray, Bond
2  Italy 2007 Worlds 2 Mornati, Sartori, Mornati, Carboncini
3  Netherlands 2007 Worlds 3 Cirkel, Vellenga, Gabriels, Vermeulen
4  Great Britain 2007 Worlds 4 Williams, Reed, Partridge, Triggs-Hodge
5  Slovenia 2007 Worlds 5 Pirih, Rozman, Kolander, Pirih
6  France 2007 Worlds 6 Desprès, Rondeau, Chardin, Mortelette
7  Czech Republic 2007 Worlds 7 Horvath, Gruber, Bruncvik, Neffe
8  United States 2007 Worlds 8 Hoopman, Schnobrich, Lanzone, Volpenhein
9  Germany 2007 Worlds 9 Hauffe, Seifert, Kaeufer, Adamski
10  Ireland 2007 Worlds 10 O'Neill, Folan, Casey, Martin
11  Belarus 2007 Worlds 11 Lialin, Dzemyanenka, Nosau, Kazubouski
12  Australia Final Continental 1 Alfred, Marburg, McKenzie, Hegerty
13  China Final Continental 2 Zhang, Zhao, Guo, Song

Quadruple Sculls Men

# Nation Qualification Tournament Place in QT Rowers
1  Poland 2007 Worlds 1 Wasielewski, Kolbowicz, Jelinski, Korol
2  France 2007 Worlds 2 Bernard, Berrest, Coeffic, Bahain
3  Germany 2007 Worlds 3 Bertram, Brodowski, Gruhne, Sens
4  Italy 2007 Worlds 4 Ghezzi, Gattinoni, Galtarossa, Raineri
5  Czech Republic 2007 Worlds 5 Vitásek, Karas, Hanák, Jirka
6  Ukraine 2007 Worlds 6 Pavlovskyi, Prokopenko, Biloushchenko, Gryn
7  Russia 2007 Worlds 7 Morgachyov, Svirin, Kornilov, Bikua-Mfantse
8  Estonia 2007 Worlds 8 Taimsoo, Latin, Kuzmin, Raja
9  United States 2007 Worlds 9 Du Ross, McEachern, Schroeder, Flickinger
10  Australia 2007 Worlds 10 Morgan, Gatti, McRae, Kelly
11  Cuba 2007 Worlds 11 Cascaret, Fournier, Concepción, Hernández
12  Belarus Final Continental 1 Lemiashkevich, Novikau, Shurmei, Radzevich
13  Slovenia Final Continental 2 Zupanc, Jurse, Jurse, Fistravec

Eights Men

# Nation Qualification Tournament Place in QT
1  Canada 2007 Worlds 1
2  Germany 2007 Worlds 2
3  Great Britain 2007 Worlds 3
4  United States 2007 Worlds 4
5  Poland 2007 Worlds 5
6  China 2007 Worlds 6
7  Australia 2007 Worlds 7
8  Netherlands Final Continental 1

Double Sculls Lightweight Men

# Nation Qualification Tournament Place in QT Rowers
1  Denmark 2007 Worlds 1 Mads Rasmussen, Rasmus Quist Hansen
2  Greece 2007 Worlds 2 Dimitrios Mougios, Vasileios Polymeros
3  Great Britain 2007 Worlds 3 Zac Purchase, Mark Hunter
4  Australia 2007 Worlds 4 Samuel Beltz, Thomas Gibson
5  Italy 2007 Worlds 5 Marcello Miani, Elia Luini
6  Japan 2007 Worlds 6 Kazushige Ura, Daisaku Takeda
7  Hungary 2007 Worlds 7 Zsolt Hirling, Tamás Varga
8  Germany 2007 Worlds 8 Joerg Lehnigk, Manuel Brehmer
9  China 2007 Worlds 9 Zhang Guolin, Sun Jie
10  France 2007 Worlds 10 Fabrice Moreau, Frédéric Dufour
—  Austria 2007 Worlds 11 Juliusz Madecki, Sebastian Sageder
11  Hong Kong Asian Regatta 1 So Sau Wah, Chow Kwong Wing
12  India Asian Regatta 2 Devender Kumar, Manjeet Singh
13  South Korea Asian Regatta 3 Park Tae-Hwan, Jang Kang-Eun
14  Algeria African Games 1 Kamel Ait Daoud, Mohamed Garidi
15  Cuba Latin America Regatta 1 Eyder Batista Vargas, Yunior Perez Aguilera
16  Brazil Latin America Regatta 2 Thiago Gomes, Thiago Almeida
17  Uruguay Latin America Regatta 3 Rodolfo Collazo Tourn, Angel García
18  New Zealand Final Continental 1 Storm Uru, Peter Taylor
19  Portugal Final Continental 2 Pedro Fraga, Nuno Mendes
20  Canada* Final Continental 3 Douglas Vandor, Cameron Sylvester

Fours Lightweight Men

# Nation Qualification Tournament Place in QT Rowers
1  Great Britain 2007 Worlds 1 Chambers, Lindsay-Fynn, Mattick, Clarke
2  France 2007 Worlds 2 Solforosi, Pouge, Bette, Tilliet
3  Italy 2007 Worlds 3 Vlcek, Amarante, Amitrano, Mascarenhas
4  Canada 2007 Worlds 4 Brambell, Beare, Lewis, Parsons
5  China 2007 Worlds 5 Huang, Wu, Zhang, Tian
6  Denmark 2007 Worlds 6 Helleberg, Ebbesen, Jørgensen, Andersen
7  Australia 2007 Worlds 7 Chisholm, Edwards, Cureton, Skipworth
8  Poland 2007 Worlds 8 Rańda, Pawełczak, Bernatajtys, Pawlowski
9  Egypt 2007 Worlds 9 Ibrahim, Azouz, Gad, Ramadan
10  Netherlands 2007 Worlds 10 van der Linden, Snijders, Lievens, Drewes
11  United States 2007 Worlds 11 Bolton, Farrell, Todd, Paradiso
12  Germany Final Continental 1 Seibt, Schoemann-Finck, J. Kühner, M. Kühner
13  Ireland Final Continental 2 Moynihan, Towey, Archibald, Griffin

Single sculls women

# Nation Qualification Tournament Place in QT Rower
1  Belarus 2007 Worlds 1 Ekaterina Karsten-Khodotovitch
2  Bulgaria 2007 Worlds 2 Rumyana Neykova
3  United States 2007 Worlds 3 Michelle Guerette
4  Czech Republic 2007 Worlds 4 Miroslava Knapková
5  China 2007 Worlds 5 Zhang Xiuyun
6  New Zealand 2007 Worlds 6 Emma Twigg
7  France 2007 Worlds 7 Sophie Balmary
8  Poland 2007 Worlds 8 Julia Michalska
9  Sweden 2007 Worlds 9 Frida Svensson
10  South Korea Asian Regatta 1 Shin Yeong-Eun
11  Kazakhstan Asian Regatta 2 Inga Dudchenko
12  Hong Kong Asian Regatta 3 Lee Ka Man
13  Iran Asian Regatta 4 Homa Hosseini
14  Myanmar Asian Regatta 5 Latt Shwe Zin
15  South Africa African Games 1 Hendrika Geyser
16  Egypt African Games 3 Imen Mustapha
17  Zimbabwe African Games 4 Elana Hill
18  Chile Latin America Regatta 1 Soraya Jadue Arriaza
19  Brazil Latin America Regatta 2 Fabiana Beltrame
20  Cuba Latin America Regatta 3 Maira Gonzalez Borroto
21  Argentina Latin America Regatta 4 Gabriela Best
22  El Salvador Latin America Regatta 5 Camila Vargas Palomo
23  Australia Final Continental 1 Phillipa Savage
24  Italy Final Continental 2 Gabriella Bascelli
25  Serbia Final Continental 3 Iva Obradovic
26  Spain* Final Continental 4 Nuria Domínguez

Pairs Women

# Nation Qualification Tournament Place in QT Rowers
1  Belarus 2007 Worlds 1 Yuliya Bichyk, Natallia Helakh
2  Germany 2007 Worlds 2 Nicole Zimmermann, Elke Hipler
3  Romania 2007 Worlds 3 Georgeta Damian, Viorica Susanu
4  Australia 2007 Worlds 4 Kim Crow, Sara Cook
5  New Zealand 2007 Worlds 5 Juliette Haigh, Nicky Coles
6  China 2007 Worlds 6 Zhang Yage, Gao Yulan
7  United States 2007 Worlds 7 Portia McGee, Anna Mickelson
8  Canada 2007 Worlds 8 Darcy Marquardt, Jane Thornton
9  France Final Continental 1 Inene Pascal-Pretre, Stephanie Dechand
10  Great Britain Final Continental 2 Olivia Whitlam, Louisa Reeve

Double Sculls Women

# Nation Qualification Tournament Place in QT Rowers
5  China 2007 Worlds 1 Li Qin, Tian Liang
4  New Zealand 2007 Worlds 2 Georgina Evers-Swindell, Caroline Evers-Swindell
1  Great Britain 2007 Worlds 3 Elise Laverick, Anna Bebington
2  Romania 2007 Worlds 4 Ioana Papuc, Simona Muşat
3  Czech Republic 2007 Worlds 5 Gabriela Varekova, Jitka Antosova
6  Germany 2007 Worlds 6 Peggy Waleska, Christiane Huth
7  Italy 2007 Worlds 7 Laura Schiavone, Elisabetta Sancassani
8  United States 2007 Worlds 8 Jennifer Kaido, Ala Piotrowski
9  Ukraine Final Continental 1 Kateryna Tarasenko, Yana Dementyeva
10  Australia Final Continental 2 Sonia Mills, Catriona Sens

Quadruple Sculls Women

# Nation Qualification Tournament Place in QT Rowers
1  Great Britain 2007 Worlds 1 Vernon, Flood, Houghton, Grainger
2  Germany 2007 Worlds 2 Boron, Lutze, Oppelt, Schiller
3  China 2007 Worlds 3 Tang, Xi, Jin, Feng
4  Ukraine 2007 Worlds 4 Kolesnikova, Huba, Olefirenko, Dementieva
5  Canada 2007 Worlds 5 de Jong, Hanson, Guloien, de Zwager
6  United States 2007 Worlds 6 Pernell, Malcos, Brown, Tomek
7  Australia 2007 Worlds 7 Ives, Mills, Sens, Pratley
8  Russia Final Continental 1 Merk, Fedotova, Dorodnova, Kalinovskaya

Eights Women

# Nation Qualification Tournament Place in QT
1  United States 2007 Worlds 1
2  Romania 2007 Worlds 2
3  Great Britain 2007 Worlds 3
4  Australia 2007 Worlds 4
5  Germany 2007 Worlds 5
6  Canada Final Continental 1
7  Netherlands Final Continental 2

Double Sculls Lightweight Women

# Nation Qualification Tournament Place in QT Rowers
1  Australia 2007 Worlds 1 Amber Halliday, Marguerite Houston
2  Finland 2007 Worlds 2 Sanna Stén, Minna Nieminen
3  Denmark 2007 Worlds 3 Katrin Olsen, Juliane Rasmussen
4  Germany 2007 Worlds 3 Berit Carow, Marie-Louise Dräger
5  Greece 2007 Worlds 5 Chrysi Biskitzi, Alexandra Tsiavou
6  China 2007 Worlds 6 Xu Dongxiang, Chen Haixia
7  Canada 2007 Worlds 7 Lindsay Jennerich, Tracy Cameron
8  Great Britain 2007 Worlds 8 Helen Casey, Hester Goodsell
9  Japan Asian Regatta 1 Akiko Iwamoto, Misaki Kumakura
10  Kazakhstan Asian Regatta 2 Natalya Voronova, Alexandra Opachanova
11  South Korea Asian Regatta 3 Ko Young-Eun, Ji Yoo-Jin
12  South Africa African Games 1 Alexandra White, Catherine Shaw
13  Cuba Latin America Regatta 1 Ismaray Marrero Aria, Yaima Velazquez
14  Mexico Latin America Regatta 2 Gabriela Huerta Trillo, Lila Perezrul
15  Brazil Latin America Regatta 3 Camila Carvalho, Luciana Granato
16  Netherlands Final Continental 1 Kirsten van der Kolk, Marit van Eupen
17  United States Final Continental 2 Renee Hykel, Jennifer Goldsack

* Nation invited via Unused Quota Places.

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