Rowing at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's coxless pair

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Rowing at the
2004 Summer Olympics
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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

These are the results of the Women's coxless pair competition, one of six events for female competitors in Rowing at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.

Women's Pair

Gold: Silver: Bronze:
Flag of Romania.svg Romania
Georgeta Damian
Viorica Susanu
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain
Katherine Grainger
Cath Bishop
Flag of Belarus.svg Belarus
Yuliya Bichyk
Natallia Helakh

Heats

August 14
Heat 1 10:10

  1. Yuliya Bichyk and Natallia Helakh,  Belarus 7:27.73
  2. Katherine Grainger and Cath Bishop, Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain, 7:34.66
  3. Maren Derlien and Sandra Goldbach,  Germany 7:44.00
  4. Sophie Balmary and Virginie Chauvel,  France 7:49.70
  5. Sarah Jones and Kate Mackenzie,  United States 7:53.78

Heat 2 10:20

  1. Georgeta Damian and Viorica Susanu,  Romania 7:29.74
  2. Darcy Marquardt and Buffy-Lynne Williams,  Canada 7:42.36
  3. Milka Tancheva and Anna Chuk,  Bulgaria 7:52.45
  4. Cong Huanling and Feng Xueling,  China 7:53.30
  5. Juliette Haigh and Nicky Coles,  New Zealand 9:37.53

Final

  1. Georgeta Damian and Viorica Susanu,  Romania, 7:06.56
  2. Katherine Grainger and Cath Bishop, Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain, 7:08.66
  3. Yuliya Bichyk and Natallia Helakh,  Belarus, 7:09.36
  4. Darcy Marquardt and Buffy-Lynne Williams,  Canada, 7:13.33
  5. Maren Derlien and Sandra Goldbach,  Germany, 7:20.20
  6. Juliette Haigh and Nicky Coles,  New Zealand, 7:23.52

The Romanians never looked likely to lose as they led throughout. At 1,000 metres they were nearly two seconds clear of the Canadians who were half a second ahead of Belarus with world champions Great Britain a further second back. By 1,500 m. they had extended their lead with no change in positions in the trailing pack. Just after this mark Belarus and Great Britain both made a move to push past Canada who could not respond. The British kept their push going and passed the Belarusians and by the finishing line had just about overlapped the dominant Romanians. Belarus were two thirds of length back with a very tired looking Canada a further one and a half lengths away.

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