Rowing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's coxless pair

Women's coxless pair at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Venue	Eton Dorney
Date	28 July – 1 August
Competitors	20 from 10 nations
Winning time	7:27.13
Medalists
Helen Glover Heather Stanning   Great Britain   Kate Hornsey Sarah Tait   Australia   Juliette Haigh Rebecca Scown   New Zealand

Rowing at the 2012 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

The Women's coxless pair competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London took place at Dorney Lake which, for the purposes of the Games venue, is officially termed Eton Dorney.^[1]

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

Results

Heats

First two of each heat qualify to the final, remainder goes to the repechage.

Heat 1

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Helen Glover Heather Stanning	Great Britain	6:57.29	Q Olympic record
2	Sara Hendershot Sarah Zelenka	United States	6:59.29	Q
3	Georgeta Damian Viorica Susanu	Romania	7:05.39	R
4	Kerstin Hartmann Marlene Sinnig	Germany	7:10.28	R
5	Maria Laura Abalo Gabriela Best	Argentina	7:12.17	R

Heat 2

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Kate Hornsey Sarah Tait	Australia	7:01.60	Q
2	Juliette Haigh Rebecca Scown	New Zealand	7:06.93	Q
3	Zhang Yage Gao Yulan	China	7:13.38	R
4	Naydene Smith Lee-Ann Persse	South Africa	7:14.31	R
5	Claudia Wurzel Sara Bertolasi	Italy	7:21.44	R

Repechage

First two qualify to the final.

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Georgeta Damian Viorica Susanu	Romania	7:08.42	Q
2	Kerstin Hartmann Marlene Sinnig	Germany	7:10.42	Q
3	Zhang Yage Gao Yulan	China	7:15.18
4	Claudia Wurzel Sara Bertolasi	Italy	7:18.14
5	Naydene Smith Lee-Ann Persse	South Africa	7:18.96
6	Maria Laura Abalo Gabriela Best	Argentina	7:20.94

Finals

Note: Strong headwinds

Final B

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Zhang Yage Gao Yulan	China	7:55.18
2	Naydene Smith Lee-Ann Persse	South Africa	7:56.40
3	Maria Laura Abalo Gabriela Best	Argentina	8:03.53
4	Claudia Wurzel Sara Bertolasi	Italy	8:06.14

Final A

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
01 !	Helen Glover Heather Stanning	Great Britain	7:27.13
02 !	Kate Hornsey Sarah Tait	Australia	7:29.86
03 !	Juliette Haigh Rebecca Scown	New Zealand	7:30.19
4	Sara Hendershot Sarah Zelenka	United States	7:30.39
5	Georgeta Damian Viorica Susanu	Romania	7:37.67
6	Kerstin Hartmann Marlene Sinnig	Germany	7:42.06

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