Rowing at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's eight

Men's eight at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Venue	Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon
Date	8–10 August 2016
Competitors	56 from 7 nations
Winning time	5:29.63
Medalists
Scott Durant Tom Ransley Andrew Triggs Hodge Matt Gotrel Pete Reed Paul Bennett Matt Langridge William Satch Phelan Hill   Great Britain   Maximilian Munski Malte Jakschik Andreas Kuffner Eric Johannesen Maximilian Reinelt Felix Drahotta Richard Schmidt Hannes Ocik Martin Sauer   Germany   Kaj Hendriks Robert Lücken Boaz Meylink Boudewijn Röell Olivier Siegelaar Dirk Uittenboogaard Mechiel Versluis Tone Wieten Peter Wiersum   Netherlands

Rowing at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Qualification
Events
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

The Men's eight competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro took place at the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon.^[1]

Schedule

All times are Brasília Time (UTC−3).

Results

Heats

The winners of each heat qualified to the finals, remainder goes to the repechage.

Heat 1

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Durant, Ransley, Triggs Hodge, Gotrel, Reed, Bennett, Langridge, Satch, Hill	Great Britain	5:34.23	Q
2	Hendriks, Lücken, Meylink, Röell, Siegelaar, Uittenboogaard, Versluis, Wieten, Wiersum	Netherlands	5:36.16	R
3	Brake, Grainger, Jones, Kennedy, Kirkham, Murray, Robertson, Wright, Shepherd	New Zealand	5:36.28	R
4	Agamennoni, Capelli, Frattini, Infimo, Liuzzi, Paonessa, Stefanini, Venier, D'Aniello	Italy	5:52.83	R

Heat 2

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Munski, Jakschik, Kuffner, Johannesen, Reinelt, Drahotta, Schmidt, Ocik, Sauer	Germany	5:38.22	Q
2	Dommer, Struzyna, Karwowski, Ochal, Kasprzyk, Di Santo, Munn, Hack, Ojserkis	United States	5:40.16	R
3	Schodowski, Fuchs, Aranowski, Wilangowski, Burda, Szpakowski, Brzeziński, Juszczak, Trojanowski	Poland	5:42.32	R

Repechage

First four of heat qualify to Final A.

Heat 1

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Dommer, Struzyna, Karwowski, Ochal, Kasprzyk, Di Santo, Munn, Hack, Ojserkis	United States	5:51,13	Q
2	Hendriks, Lücken, Meylink, Röell, Siegelaar, Uittenboogaard, Versluis, Wieten, Wiersum	Netherlands	5:52,95	Q
3	Brake, Grainger, Jones, Kennedy, Kirkham, Murray, Robertson, Wright, Shepherd	New Zealand	5:56,94	Q
4	Schodowski, Fuchs, Aranowski, Wilangowski, Burda, Szpakowski, Brzeziński, Juszczak, Trojanowski	Poland	5:59,22	Q
5	Agamennoni, Capelli, Frattini, Infimo, Liuzzi, Paonessa, Stefanini, Venier, D'Aniello	Italy	6:05,12

Final

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time
01 !	Durant, Ransley, Triggs Hodge, Gotrel, Reed, Bennett, Langridge, Satch, Hill	Great Britain	5:29.63
02 !	Munski, Jakschik, Kuffner, Johannesen, Reinelt, Drahotta, Schmidt, Ocik, Sauer	Germany	5:30.96
03 !	Hendriks, Lücken, Meylink, Röell, Siegelaar, Uittenboogaard, Versluis, Wieten, Wiersum	Netherlands	5:31.59
4	Dommer, Struzyna, Karwowski, Ochal, Kasprzyk, Di Santo, Munn, Hack, Ojserkis	United States	5:34.23
5	Schodowski, Fuchs, Aranowski, Wilangowski, Burda, Szpakowski, Brzeziński, Juszczak, Trojanowski	Poland	5:34.62
6	Brake, Grainger, Jones, Kennedy, Kirkham, Murray, Robertson, Wright, Shepherd	New Zealand	5:36.64

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