Rowing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's double sculls
# Rowing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's double sculls

The men's double sculls 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 |
| - | - | - |
| Saturday, 28 July 2012 | 10:30 | Heats |
| Sunday, 29 July 2012 | 09:30 | Repechage |
| Tuesday, 31 July 2012 | 12:20 | Semifinals |
| Thursday, 2 August 2012 | 09:50 | Final B |
| Thursday, 2 August 2012 | 11:50 | Final |

## Results

### Heats

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

**Heat 1**

| Rank | Rowers | Country | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Eric Knittel Stephan Krüger | Germany | 6:17.74 | Q |
| =2 | Rolandas Maščinskas Saulius Ritter | Lithuania | 6:17.78 | Q |
| =2 | Luka Špik Iztok Čop | Slovenia | 6:17.78 | Q |
| 4 | David Crawshay Scott Brennan | Australia | 6:21.25 | R |
| 5 | Michael Braithwaite Kevin Kowalyk | Canada | 6:34.11 | R |

**Heat 2**

| Rank | Rowers | Country | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Nils Jakob Hoff Kjetil Borch | Norway | 6:16.31 | Q |
| 2 | Alessio Sartori Romano Battisti | Italy | 6:18.50 | Q |
| 3 | Julien Bahain Cédric Berrest | France | 6:19.61 | Q |
| 4 | Dmytro Mikhay Artem Morozov | Ukraine | 6:49.70 | R |

**Heat 3**

| Rank | Rowers | Country | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Nathan Cohen Joseph Sullivan | New Zealand | 6:11.30 | Q (OR) |
| 2 | Bill Lucas Sam Townsend | Great Britain | 6:11.94 | Q |
| 3 | Ariel Suárez Cristian Rosso | Argentina | 6:13.68 | Q |
| 4 | Jüri-Mikk Udam Geir Suursild | Estonia | 6:33.88 | R |

### Repechage

First three qualify to the semifinals.

| Rank | Rowers | Country | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | David Crawshay Scott Brennan | Australia | 6.25.36 | Q |
| 2 | Dmytro Mikhay Artem Morozov | Ukraine | 6:30.19 | Q |
| 3 | Michael Braithwaite Kevin Kowalyk | Canada | 6:30.74 | Q |
| 4 | Jüri-Mikk Udam Geir Suursild | Estonia | 6:38.50 | |

### Semifinals

First three qualify to the final.

**Semifinal 1**

| Rank | Rower | Country | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Ariel Suárez Cristian Rosso | Argentina | 6:19.40 | Q |
| 2 | Nathan Cohen Joseph Sullivan | New Zealand | 6:19.79 | Q |
| 3 | Alessio Sartori Romano Battisti | Italy | 6:20.68 | Q |
| 4 | Eric Knittel Stephan Krüger | Germany | 6:22.54 | |
| 5 | David Crawshay Scott Brennan | Australia | 6:23.47 | |
| 6 | Dmytro Mikhay Artem Morozov | Ukraine | 6:36.52 | |

**Semifinal 2**

| Rank | Rower | Country | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Luka Špik Iztok Čop | Slovenia | 6:19.97 | Q |
| 2 | Rolandas Maščinskas Saulius Ritter | Lithuania | 6:21.62 | Q |
| 3 | Bill Lucas Sam Townsend | Great Britain | 6:22.47 | Q |
| 4 | Nils Jakob Hoff Kjetil Borch | Norway | 6:22.88 | |
| 5 | Julien Bahain Cédric Berrest | France | 6:29.61 | |
| 6 | Michael Braithwaite Kevin Kowalyk | Canada | 6:38.94 | |

### Finals

**Final B**

| Rank | Rowers | Country | Time |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Nils Jakob Hoff Kjetil Borch | Norway | 6:20.82 |
| 2 | David Crawshay Scott Brennan | Australia | 6:22.19 |
| 3 | Eric Knittel Stephan Krüger | Germany | 6:23.36 |
| 4 | Julien Bahain Cédric Berrest | France | 6:26.44 |
| 5 | Dmytro Mikhay Artem Morozov | Ukraine | 6:31.51 |
| 6 | Michael Braithwaite Kevin Kowalyk | Canada | 6:32.61 |

**Final A**

New Zealand rower Hamish Bond watched fellow team members Nathan Cohen and Joseph Sullivan in their final, and with 500 m to go, they were 3.5 sec down on the leaders and in fourth place; whilst they were the reigning world champions and had dominated the qualifying races, Bond was convinced that they had no chance of winning their final. But they had the most impressive sprint and won by half a length.

| Rank | Rowers | Country | Time |
| - | - | - | - |
| | Nathan Cohen Joseph Sullivan | New Zealand | 6:31.67 |
| | Alessio Sartori Romano Battisti | Italy | 6:32.80 |
| | Luka Špik Iztok Čop | Slovenia | 6:34.35 |
| 4 | Ariel Suárez Cristian Rosso | Argentina | 6:36.36 |
| 5 | Bill Lucas Sam Townsend | Great Britain | 6:40.54 |
| 6 | Rolandas Maščinskas Saulius Ritter | Lithuania | 6:42.69 |
