Rowing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's eight
# Rowing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's eight

The Women's eight competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London took place are at Dorney Lake which, for the purposes of the Games venue, is officially termed Eton Dorney.

## Schedule

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

| Date | Time | Round |
| - | - | - |
| Sunday, 29 July 2012 | 11:50 | Heats |
| Tuesday, 31 July 2012 | 10:50 | Repechage |
| Thursday, 2 August 2012 | 12:30 | Final |

## Results

### Heats

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

**Heat 1**

| Rank | Rowers | Country | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Cafaro, Francia, Lofgren, Ritzel, Musnicki, Logan, Lind, Davies, Whipple | United States | 6:14.68 | Q |
| 2 | Vermeersch, Chatterton, Selby Smith, Cook, Gerrand, Hagan, Kehoe, Stanley, Patrick | Australia | 6:20.89 | R |
| 3 | Whitlam, Reeve, Eddie, Maguire, Page, Vernon, Greves, Thornley, O'Connor | Great Britain | 6:23.51 | R |
| 4 | Schütte, Lepke, Schulze, Thiem, Sennewald, Drygalla, Marchand, Siering, Schwensen | Germany | 6:34.32 | R |

**Heat 2**

| Rank | Rowers | Country | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Hanson, Viinberg, Guloien, Wilkinson, Mastracci, Brzozowicz, Marquardt, Morin, Thompson-Willie | Canada | 6:13.91 | Q |
| 2 | Cogianu, Albu, Grigoraș, Dorneanu, Lupașcu, Mironcic, Cojocariu, Rotaru, Gîdoiu | Romania | 6:16.61 | R |
| 3 | Veenhoven, Kingma, Achterberg, de Groot, Repelaer van Driel, Belderbos, Bouw, de Haan, Schellekens | Netherlands | 6:18.98 | R |

### Repechage

First four qualify to the final.

| Rank | Rower | Country | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Veenhoven, Kingma, Achterberg, de Groot, Repelaer van Driel, Belderbos, Bouw, de Haan, Schellekens | Netherlands | 6:15.36 | Q |
| 2 | Cogianu, Albu, Grigoraș, Dorneanu, Lupașcu, Mironcic, Cojocariu, Rotaru, Gîdoiu | Romania | 6:16.16 | Q |
| 3 | Vermeersch, Chatterton, Selby Smith, Cook, Gerrand, Hagan, Kehoe, Stanley, Patrick | Australia | 6:18.63 | Q |
| 4 | Whitlam, Reeve, Eddie, Maguire, Page, Vernon, Greves, Thornley, O'Connor | Great Britain | 6:21.58 | Q |
| 5 | Schütte, Lepke, Schulze, Thiem, Sennewald, Drygalla, Marchand, Siering, Schwensen | Germany | 6:27.69 | |

### Final

| Rank | Rowers | Country | Time |
| - | - | - | - |
| | Cafaro, Francia, Lofgren, Ritzel, Musnicki, Logan, Lind, Davies, Whipple | United States | 6:10.59 |
| | Hanson, Viinberg, Guloien, Wilkinson, Mastracci, Brzozowicz, Marquardt, Morin, Thompson-Willie | Canada | 6:12.06 |
| | Veenhoven, Kingma, Achterberg, de Groot, Repelaer van Driel, Belderbos, Bouw, de Haan, Schellekens | Netherlands | 6:13.12 |
| 4 | Cogianu, Albu, Grigoraș, Dorneanu, Lupașcu, Mironcic, Cojocariu, Rotaru, Gîdoiu | Romania | 6:17.64 |
| 5 | Whitlam, Reeve, Eddie, Maguire, Page, Vernon, Greves, Thornley, O'Connor | Great Britain | 6:18.77 |
| 6 | Vermeersch, Chatterton, Selby Smith, Cook, Gerrand, Hagan, Kehoe, Stanley, Patrick | Australia | 6:18.86 |
