Rowing at the 2012 Summer Paralympics

Rowing; at the XIV Paralympic Games
Venue	Dorney Lake
Dates	31 August – 2 September 2012
Competitors	96 from 23 nations

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)

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's single sculls	Cheng Huang China	Erik Horrie Australia	Aleksey Chuvashev Russia
Women's single sculls	Alla Lysenko Ukraine	Nathalie Benoit France	Liudmila Vauchok Belarus
Mixed double sculls	China (CHN) Lou Xiaoxian Fei Tianming	France (FRA) Perle Bouge Stephane Tardieu	United States (USA) Oksana Masters Rob Jones
Mixed coxed four	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 Yelena Pukhayeva Denys Sobol Volodymyr Kozlov (Cox)

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References

"Rowing - About". The London Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXX Olympiad. Archived from the original on 22 July 2012. Retrieved 8 August 2012.

External links

Official Site of the 2012 Summer Paralympics

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