Rowing at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's coxless four

The men's coxless four competition at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place at took place at Lake of Banyoles, Spain.[1]

Men's coxless four
at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Date28 July – 2 August
Competitors56 from 14 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Andrew Cooper
Nick Green
Mike McKay
James Tomkins
 Australia
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Jeffrey McLaughlin
William Burden
Thomas Bohrer
Patrick Manning
 United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Milan Janša
Sadik Mujkič
Sašo Mirjanič
Janez Klemenčič
 Slovenia
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Competition format edit

The competition consisted of three main rounds (heats, semifinals, and finals) as well as a repechage. The 14 boats were divided into three heats for the first round, with 4 or 5 boats in each heat. The top three boats in each heat (9 boats total) advanced directly to the semifinals. The remaining 5 boats were placed in the repechage. The repechage featured a single heat. The top three boats in the repechage advanced to the semifinals. The remaining two boats (4th and 5th place in the repechage) were placed in the "C" final to compete for 13th and 14th places.

The 12 semifinalist boats were divided into two heats of 6 boats each. The top three boats in each semifinal (6 boats total) advanced to the "A" final to compete for medals and 4th through 6th place; the bottom three boats in each semifinal were sent to the "B" final for 7th through 12th.[2]

All races were over a 2000 metre course.

Results edit

Heats edit

Heat 1 edit

Rank Rowers Nation Time Notes
1   United States 6:00.93 Q
2   New Zealand 6:03.10 Q
3   Slovenia 6:04.91 Q
4   France 6:15.23 R
5   Romania 6:24.63 R

Heat 2 edit

Rank Rowers Nation Time Notes
1   Australia 5:59.18 Q
2   Netherlands 6:01.19 Q
3   Germany 6:09.07 Q
4   Great Britain 6:23.73 R
5   Estonia 6:27.97 R

Heat 3 edit

Rank Rowers Nation Time Notes
1   Spain 6:01.51 Q
2   Italy 6:02.26 Q
3   Unified Team 6:02.84 Q
4   Canada 6:03.91 R

Repechage edit

Rank Rowers Nation Time Notes
1   Great Britain 6:12.68 Q
2   Canada 6:12.71 Q
3   France 6:13.37 Q
4   Romania 6:16.13 QC
5   Estonia 6:30.63 QC

Semifinals edit

Semifinal 1 edit

Rank Rowers Nation Time Notes
1   United States 5:58.87 QA
2   Slovenia 5:59.52 QA
3   Netherlands 6:00.55 QA
4   Spain 6:04.59 QB
5   Unified Team 6:05.29 QB
6   Canada 6:09.20 QB

Semifinal 2 edit

Rank Rowers Nation Time Notes
1   Australia 5:58.26 QA
2   Germany 5:59.38 QA
3   New Zealand 6:01.19 QA
4   Great Britain 6:02.87 QB
5   Italy 6:09.72 QB
6   France 6:12.57 QB

Finals edit

Final C edit

Rank Rowers Nation Time
13   Romania 6:34.85
14   Estonia 6:38.76

Final B edit

Rank Rowers Nation Time
7   Great Britain 6:05.00
8   Italy 6:06.21
9   Spain 6:06.66
10   Unified Team 6:10.62
11   Canada 6:13.01
12   France 6:17.69

Final A edit

Rank Rowers Nation Time
    Australia 5:55.04
    United States 5:56.68
    Slovenia 5:58.24
4   Germany 5:58.39
5   Netherlands 5:59.14
6   New Zealand 6:02.13

Final classification edit

The following rowers took part:[1]

Rank Rowers Country
  Andrew Cooper
Nick Green
Mike McKay
James Tomkins
  Australia
  Jeffrey McLaughlin
William Burden
Thomas Bohrer
Patrick Manning
  United States
  Milan Janša
Sadik Mujkič
Sašo Mirjanič
Janez Klemenčič
  Slovenia
Armin Weyrauch
Matthias Ungemach
Dirk Balster
Markus Vogt
  Germany
Bart Peters
Niels van der Zwan
Jaap Krijtenburg
Sven Schwarz
  Netherlands
Scott Brownlee
Chris White
Pat Peoples
Campbell Clayton-Greene
  New Zealand
Salih Hassan
John Garrett
Gavin Stewart
Richard Stanhope
  Great Britain
Luca Sartori
Rocco Pecoraro
Roby La Mura
Riccardo Dei Rossi
  Italy
Fernando Climent
José María de Marco
Juan Aguirre
Fernando Molina
  Spain
Viktor Pitirimov
Roman Monchenko
Vladimir Sokolov
Vadim Yunash
  Unified Team
Don Telfer
Brian Saunderson
Cedric Burgers
Greg Stevenson
  Canada
Jean-Pierre Le Lain
Patrick Vibert-Vichet
Bruno Dumay
Dominique Lecointe
  France
Vasile Hanuseac
Nicolae Spîrcu
Florin Ene
Ioan Snep
  Romania
Vjatšeslav Divonin
Toomas Vilpart
Tarmo Virkus
Marek Avamere
  Estonia

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Rowing at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games: Men's Coxless Fours". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  2. ^ Official Report, vol. 5, pp. 327–28.