Rowing 2020/Women's lightweight double sculls

Women's lightweight double sculls
General information
Sport	Rowing 2020
Date	24-29 July 2021
Competitors	18 pairs
Venue	Sea Forest Waterway
Previous medalists
Gold	Maaike Head Ilse Paulis
Silver	Lindsay Jennerich Patricia Obee
Bronze	Huang Wenyi Pan Feihong
Conditions
Length	2000 metres
Medalists
	Federica Cesarini Valentina Rodini
	Claire Bove Laura Tarantola
	Marieke Keijser Ilse Paulis

The women's lightweight double sculls of Rowing 2020 during the 2020 Summer Olympics was held on 24-29 July 2021 in the Sea Forest Waterway. With 18 pairs competing, the event was won by Federica Cesarini and Valentina Rodini from Italy, with Claire Bove and Laura Tarantola from France taking the silver medal and Marieke Keijser and Ilse Paulis from Netherlands taking bronze.

Format

The competition exists out of three rounds, each with races of up to eight boats. In each round, the top few with the fastest time advance to the next round, together with a number of fastest non-qualifiers. The fastest team in the final is the winner of the event.

Preview

Eighteen pairs qualified for the event with plenty of medal contenders, in absence of the world champions. Netherlands and Great Britain won medals at the most recent world championships, but both were defeated by Italy at the most recent European championships. Romania and France had proven to be very strong outsiders, with boats such as Ireland and Switzerland as outsiders.

Summary

Heats

Heat 1 Results
Rank	Team	Time	Info
1	France	7:03.47	Q
2	Italy	7:04.66	Q
3	United States	7:05.30
4	Switzerland	7:08.66
5	Ireland	7:17.67
6	Indonesia	7:52.57

Heat 2 Results
Rank	Team	Time	Info
1	Netherlands	7:07.73	Q
2	Canada	7:11.30	Q
3	Japan	7:22.47
4	Vietnam	7:36.21
5	Tunisia	7:39.61
6	Guatemala	7:53.35

Heat 3 Results
Rank	Team	Time	Info
1	Romania	7:01.74	Q
2	Great Britain	7:03.29	Q
3	ROC	7:07.67
4	Belarus	7:10.15
5	Austria	7:26.22
6	Argentina	7:29.27

Repechages

Repechage 1 Results
Rank	Team	Time	Info
1	United States	7:21.25	Q
2	Belarus	7:26.99	Q
3	Japan	7:34.45	Q
4	Argentina	7:39.53
5	Tunisia	7:54.95
6	Indonesia	8:03.19

Repechage 2 Results
Rank	Team	Time	Info
1	Switzerland	7:22.02	Q
2	ROC	7:22.72	Q
3	Ireland	7:23.46	Q
4	Austria	7:42.31
5	Vietnam	7:53.69
6	Guatemala	8:13.27

Semifinals

Semifinal 1 Results
Rank	Team	Time	Info
1	Great Britain	6:41.99	Q
2	France	6:42.92	Q
3	Netherlands	6:43.85	Q
4	Switzerland	6:48.92
5	Ireland	6:49.24
6	Belarus	6:54.78

Semifinal 2 Results
Rank	Team	Time	Info
1	Italy	6:41.36	Q
2	United States	6:41.54	Q
3	Romania	6:42.08	Q
4	ROC	6:45.23
5	Japan	6:56.52
6	Canada	7:00.82

Finals

A Final Results
Rank	Team	Time	Info
1	Italy	6:47.54
2	France	6:47.68
3	Netherlands	6:48.03
4	Great Britain	6:48.04
5	United States	6:48.54
6	Romania	6:49.40

B Final Results
Rank	Team	Time	Info
1	Switzerland	6:49.16
2	Ireland	6:49.90
3	ROC	6:51.65
4	Japan	6:54.94
5	Belarus	6:57.84
6	Canada	6:59.72

C Final Results
Rank	Team	Time	Info
1	Argentina	7:05.82
2	Austria	7:15.25
3	Vietnam	7:19.05
4	Tunisia	7:22.25
5	Indonesia	7:25.06
6	Guatemala	7:27.51

Results

Result	Nation
	Italy
	France
	Netherlands
4	Great Britain
5	United States
6	Romania
7	Switzerland
8	Ireland
9	ROC
10	Japan
11	Belarus
12	Canada
13	Argentina
14	Austria
15	Vietnam
16	Tunisia
17	Indonesia
18	Guatemala