Watching the Olympic Games 2012: Rowing

Published On: Wed, Feb 1st, 2012

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How it works

Fourteen medal events, ranging from single sculls to the eights, will be contested by 550 athletes over the 2,000m course. All events start with heats and boats that do not progress automatically get a second chance through the repechage round

Who’s hot

British double sculls pair Anna Watkins and Katherine Grainger capped an unbeaten 2010 with world championship gold at Lake Karapiro in New Zealand. It was a fifth world title for Grainger, below left, who will now aim to go one better than the three Olympic silvers she has amassed

Home hopes

The 11 medals Great Britain claimed in November’s World Championships in New Zealand, five of which were gold, saw them top the medal table. With Britons ranked in the top four of 11 of the Olympic events, there are potential champions everywhere

The road to London

May-July 2011 World Cup series, Munich, Hamburg, Lucerne
28 August-4 September 2011 World Championships, Slovenia
16-18 September 2011 European Championships, Bulgaria

The stage

Eton Dorney Rowing Centre, a 2.2km, eight-lane course set in a 400-acre park with a nature conservation area

What they say

“We talk a lot about home advantage but there is also a home disadvantage, with all the pressure and expectation that can build on athletes?”

Sir Steve Redgrave

Did you know?

Dr Benjamin Spock, the renowned child development expert, was one of the USA’s gold-medal-winning men’s eight in the 1924 Paris Olympic Games

Competition dates

28 July–4 August 2012

Ticket prices

Non-medal sessions £20-£95, medal sessions £30-£150

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tony - London 2012’s ambition is to create a Games for everyone, where everyone is invited to take part, join in and enjoy the most exciting event in the world. London 2012 will create the most accessible and participative Games. It will touch people as it has never done before, stimulating people to do more and to try new things and reassess what we are all capable of. London 2012 has sport at its heart and London at the centre, but it is more than London and more than sport. It is a Games for London, the UK and the rest of the world, for sport and culture, for volunteers and business.