Rowing at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's double sculls

The women's double sculls competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro was held on 6–11 August at the Lagoon Rodrigo de Freitas.

Women's double sculls at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Venue	Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon
Date	6–11 August 2016
Competitors	26 from 13 nations
Winning time	7:40.10
Medalists
Magdalena Fularczyk-Kozłowska Natalia Madaj  Poland Victoria Thornley Katherine Grainger  Great Britain Donata Vištartaitė Milda Valčiukaitė  Lithuania

The medals for the competition were presented by Nenad Lalović, Serbia, member of the International Olympic Committee, and the gifts were presented by Lenka Dientsbach-Wech, Germany, Member of the Executive Committee of the International Rowing Federation.

Results

Heats

First three of each heat qualify to the semifinals, remainder goes to the repechage.

Heat 1

Rank	Rower	Country	Time	Notes
1	Donata Vištartaitė Milda Valčiukaitė	Lithuania	7:04.82	SF
2	Victoria Thornley Katherine Grainger	Great Britain	7:05.32	SF
3	Hélène Lefebvre Elodie Ravera-Scaramozzino	France	7:05.65	SF
4	Marie-Cathérine Arnold Mareike Adams	Germany	7:13.49	R
5	Lisbet Jakobsen Nina Hollensen	Denmark	7:18.92	R

Heat 2

Rank	Rower	Country	Time	Notes
1	Magdalena Fularczyk-Kozłowska Natalia Madaj	Poland	7:16.16	SF
2	Lü Yang Zhu Weiwei	China	7:25.19	SF
3	Yuliya Bichyk Tatsiana Kukhta	Belarus	7:27.22	SF
4	Meghan O'Leary Ellen Tomek	United States	7:46.92	R

Heat 3

Rank	Rower	Country	Time	Notes
1	Eve MacFarlane Zoe Stevenson	New Zealand	7:14.31	SF
2	Sally Kehoe Genevieve Horton	Australia	7:17.34	SF
3	Aikaterini Nikolaidou Sofia Asoumanaki	Greece	7:20.64	SF
4	Kristýna Fleissnerová Lenka Antošová	Czech Republic	7:35.85	R

Repechage

First three of heat qualify to the semifinals.

Heat 1

Rank	Rower	Country	Time	Notes
1	Marie-Cathérine Arnold Mareike Adams	Germany	7:00.54	SF
2	Meghan O'Leary Ellen Tomek	United States	7:00.60	SF
3	Kristýna Fleissnerová Lenka Antošová	Czech Republic	7:03.68	SF
4	Lisbet Jakobsen Nina Hollensen	Denmark	7:04.35

Semifinals

First three of each heat qualify to the Final A, remainder goes to the Final B.

Semifinal 1

Rank	Rower	Country	Time	Notes
1	Aikaterini Nikolaidou Sofia Asoumanaki	Greece	6:51.99	FA
2	Donata Vištartaitė Milda Valčiukaitė	Lithuania	6:52.46	FA
3	Meghan O'Leary Ellen Tomek	United States	6:52.92	FA
4	Eve MacFarlane Zoe Stevenson	New Zealand	6:52.97	FB
5	Marie-Cathérine Arnold Mareike Adams	Germany	6:58.70	FB
6	Lü Yang Zhu Weiwei	China	7:05.31	FB

Semifinal 2

Rank	Rower	Country	Time	Notes
1	Magdalena Fularczyk-Kozłowska Natalia Madaj	Poland	6:50.63	FA
2	Victoria Thornley Katherine Grainger	Great Britain	6:52.47	FA
3	Hélène Lefebvre Elodie Ravera-Scaramozzino	France	6:54.34	FA
4	Sally Kehoe Genevieve Horton	Australia	6:55.37	FB
5	Yuliya Bichyk Tatsiana Kukhta	Belarus	6:57.64	FB
6	Kristýna Fleissnerová Lenka Antošová	Czech Republic	7:03.79	FB

Final

Final B

Rank	Rower	Country	Time	Notes
1	Marie-Cathérine Arnold Mareike Adams	Germany	7:39.82
2	Yuliya Bichyk Tatsiana Kukhta	Belarus	7:40.48
3	Sally Kehoe Genevieve Horton	Australia	7:42.30
4	Kristýna Fleissnerová Lenka Antošová	Czech Republic	7:43.77
5	Lü Yang Zhu Weiwei	China	7:45.68
6	Eve MacFarlane Zoe Stevenson	New Zealand	7:50.74

Final A

Rank	Rower	Country	Time	Notes
	Magdalena Fularczyk-Kozłowska Natalia Madaj	Poland	7:40.10
	Victoria Thornley Katherine Grainger	Great Britain	7:41.05
	Donata Vištartaitė Milda Valčiukaitė	Lithuania	7:43.76
4	Aikaterini Nikolaidou Sofia Asoumanaki	Greece	7:48.62
5	Hélène Lefebvre Elodie Ravera-Scaramozzino	France	7:52.03
6	Meghan O'Leary Ellen Tomek	United States	8:06.18