Rowing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's lightweight double sculls

Women's lightweight double sculls
at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Women's lightweight double sculls; at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
	Olympic rowing
Venue	Stade nautique de Vaires-sur-Marne, National Olympic Nautical Stadium of Île-de-France, Vaires-sur-Marne
Dates	28 July – 2 August 2024
Medalists
	← 2020

The women's lightweight double sculls event at the 2024 Summer Olympics took place from 28 July to 2 August 2024 at the Stade nautique de Vaires-sur-Marne, National Olympic Nautical Stadium of Île-de-France in Vaires-sur-Marne. 32 rowers from 16 nations competed.^[1] This event is not planned to return at the 2028 Summer Olympics, where it will instead be replaced by coastal rowing, in the form of the beach sprint rowing events.^[2]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:^[3]

World Best
World record	Great Britain	6:40.47	Varese, Italy	2023
Olympic record	Italy	6:41.36	Tokyo, Japan	2021

Results

Heats

The first two of each heat qualified for the semifinals, while the remainder went to the repechage.

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Rower	Nation	Time	Notes
1	5	Emily Craig Imogen Grant	Great Britain	7:04.20	Q
2	6	Dimitra Kontou Zoi Fitsiou	Greece	7:08.51	Q
3	1	Aoife Casey Margaret Cremen	Ireland	7:12.89	R
4	3	Louisa Altenhuber Lara Tiefenthaler	Austria	7:24.14	R
5	2	Khadija Krimi Selma Dhaouadi	Tunisia	7:31.19	R
6	4	Sonia Baluzzo Chiaruzzo Evelyn Silvestro	Argentina	7:36.43	R

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Rower	Nation	Time	Notes
1	4	Gianina Beleagă Ionela Cozmiuc	Romania	7:03.83	Q
2	5	Molly Reckford Michelle Sechser	United States	7:12.65	Q
3	2	Alessia Palacios Valeria Palacios	Peru	7:32.68	R
4	3	Mahsa Javer Zeinab Norouzi	Iran	7:35.97	R
5	1	Emi Hirouchi Ayami Oishi	Japan	7:39.17	R

Heat 3

Rank	Lane	Rower	Nation	Time	Notes
1	4	Shannon Cox Jackie Kiddle	New Zealand	7:02.25	Q
2	3	Claire Bové Laura Tarantola	France	7:03.22	Q
3	2	Jennifer Casson Jill Moffatt	Canada	7:09.45	R
4	5	Martyna Radosz Katarzyna Wełna	Poland	7:11.14	R
5	1	Zou Jiaqi Qiu Xiuping	China	7:39.17	R

Repechages

The first three of each heat qualified for the semifinals, while the remainder went to Final C.

Repechage 1

Rank	Lane	Rower	Nation	Time	Notes
1	4	Aoife Casey Margaret Cremen	Ireland	7:11.38	Q
2	3	Jennifer Casson Jill Moffatt	Canada	7:16.81	Q
3	1	Sonia Baluzzo Chiaruzzo Evelyn Silvestro	Argentina	7:29.76	Q
4	2	Mahsa Javer Zeinab Norouzi	Iran	7:35.56	FC
5	5	Zou Jiaqi Qiu Xiuping	China	7:42.66	FC

Repechage 2

Rank	Lane	Rower	Nation	Time	Notes
1	2	Martyna Radosz Katarzyna Wełna	Poland	7:16.26	Q
2	4	Louisa Altenhuber Lara Tiefenthaler	Austria	7:17.77	Q
3	1	Khadija Krimi Selma Dhaouadi	Tunisia	7:25.21	Q
4	3	Alessia Palacios Valeria Palacios	Peru	7:28.58	FC
5	5	Emi Hirouchi Ayami Oishi	Japan	7:31.14	FC

Semifinals

Semifinal A/B 1

Rank	Lane	Rower	Nation	Time	Notes
1	3	Emily Craig Imogen Grant	Great Britain	6:59.79	FA
2	4	Shannon Cox Jackie Kiddle	New Zealand	7:02.86	FA
3	2	Molly Reckford Michelle Sechser	United States	7:05.03	FA
4	5	Martyna Radosz Katarzyna Wełna	Poland	7:06.69	FB
5	1	Jennifer Casson Jill Moffatt	Canada	7:13.36	FB
6	6	Sonia Baluzzo Chiaruzzo Evelyn Silvestro	Argentina	7:33.41	FB

Semifinal A/B 2

Rank	Lane	Rower	Nation	Time	Notes
1	3	Gianina Beleagă Ionela Cozmiuc	Romania	6:56.65	FA
2	2	Dimitra Kontou Zoi Fitsiou	Greece	6:57.90	FA
3	5	Aoife Casey Margaret Cremen	Ireland	6:59.72	FA
4	4	Claire Bové Laura Tarantola	France	7:03.22	FB
5	1	Louisa Altenhuber Lara Tiefenthaler	Austria	7:19.70	FB
6	6	Khadija Krimi Selma Dhaouadi	Tunisia	7:26.39	FB

Finals

Final C

Rank	Lane	Rower	Nation	Time
13	1	Zou Jiaqi Qiu Xiuping	China	7:07.55
14	2	Alessia Palacios Valeria Palacios	Peru	7:12.27
15	4	Emi Hirouchi Ayami Oishi	Japan	7:14.00
16	3	Mahsa Javer Zeinab Norouzi	Iran	7:14.32

Final B

Rank	Lane	Rower	Nation	Time
7	3	Claire Bové Laura Tarantola	France	7:03.24
8	2	Jennifer Casson Jill Moffatt	Canada	7:04.82
9	4	Martyna Radosz Katarzyna Wełna	Poland	7:08.47
10	5	Louisa Altenhuber Lara Tiefenthaler	Austria	7:10.02
11	1	Khadija Krimi Selma Dhaouadi	Tunisia	7:21.65
12	6	Sonia Baluzzo Chiaruzzo Evelyn Silvestro	Argentina	7:25.86

Final A

Rank	Lane	Rower	Nation	Time
	3	Emily Craig Imogen Grant	Great Britain	6:47.06
	4	Gianina Beleagă Ionela Cozmiuc	Romania	6:48.78
	2	Dimitra Kontou Zoi Fitsiou	Greece	6:49.28
4	5	Shannon Cox Jackie Kiddle	New Zealand	6:51.65
5	1	Aoife Casey Margaret Cremen	Ireland	6:54.57
6	6	Molly Reckford Michelle Sechser	United States	6:55.60

References

^ "Qualification System – Games of the XXXII Olympiad – Rowing" (PDF). World Rowing Federation. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
^ "Rowing makes Olympic history with the inclusion of 'Beach Sprints' at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games". World Rowing. 13 October 2021. Retrieved 3 August 2024.
^ "Records". Paris 2024. Retrieved 28 July 2024.

[Qualifying-1] "Qualification System – Games of the XXXII Olympiad – Rowing" (PDF). World Rowing Federation. Retrieved 6 May 2021.

[2] "Rowing makes Olympic history with the inclusion of 'Beach Sprints' at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games". World Rowing. 13 October 2021. Retrieved 3 August 2024.

[3] "Records". Paris 2024. Retrieved 28 July 2024.

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Rowing at the 2024 Summer Olympics

Qualification
Single sculls	men	women
Coxless pair	men	women
Double sculls	men	women
Lwt double sculls	men	women
Coxless four	men	women
Quadruple sculls	men	women
Eight	men	women
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