Rowing at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
# Rowing at the 2012 Summer Paralympics

Rowing competitions at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London were held from 31 August to 2 September 2012, at Dorney Lake which, for the purposes of the Games venue, is officially termed Eton Dorney.

## Classification

Rowers are given a classification depending on the type and extent of their disability. The classification system allows rowers to compete against others with a similar level of function.

The three rowing classes are:

* LTA (Legs, Trunk and Arms) - Mixed coxed fours
* TA (Trunk and Arms) - Mixed double sculls
* AS (Arms and shoulders) - Men's and women's singles

## Events

Four rowing events are scheduled to be held, each over a course of 1000 metres:

* Men's single sculls AS
* Women's single sculls AS
* Mixed double sculls TA
* Mixed four coxed LTA

## Participating nations

96 rowers (48 male, 48 female) from 23 nations including 12 coxswains (5 male, 7 female) from 12 nations took part in this sport.

* Argentina (1)
* Australia (3)
* Belarus (8)
* Brazil (9)
* Canada (6)
* China (8)
* France (8)
* Germany (6)
* Great Britain (8)
* Hungary (1)
* Ireland (5)
* Israel (3)
* Italy (7)
* Japan (1)
* New Zealand (1)
* Poland (3)
* Portugal (1)
* Russia (8)
* South Africa (1)
* South Korea (2)
* Spain (1)
* Ukraine (9)
* United States (8)

## Medalists

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - |
| Men's single sculls details | Cheng Huang China | Erik Horrie Australia | Aleksey Chuvashev Russia |
| Women's single sculls details | Alla Lysenko Ukraine | Nathalie Benoit France | Liudmila Vauchok Belarus |
| Mixed double sculls details | China (CHN) Lou Xiaoxian Fei Tianming | France (FRA) Perle Bouge Stephane Tardieu | United States (USA) Oksana Masters Rob Jones |
| Mixed coxed four details | Great Britain (GBR) Pam Relph Naomi Riches David Smith James Roe Lily van den Broecke (Cox) | Germany (GER) Anke Molkenthin Astrid Hengsbach Tino Kolitscher Kai Kruse Katrin Splitt (Cox) | Ukraine (UKR) Andrii Stelmakh Kateryna Morozova Olena Pukhaieva Denys Sobol Volodymyr Kozlov (Cox) |
