Rowing at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's eight

The women's eight competition at the 1988 Summer Olympics took place at took place at Han River Regatta Course, South Korea.[1]

Women's eight
at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Date20–25 September
Competitors63 from 7 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Annegret Strauch
Judith Zeidler
Kathrin Haacker
Ute Wild
Anja Kluge
Beatrix Schröer
Ramona Balthasar
Ute Stange
Daniela Neunast
 East Germany
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Doina Șnep-Bălan
Veronica Necula
Herta Anitaș
Marioara Trașcă
Adriana Bazon
Mihaela Armășescu
Rodica Arba
Olga Homeghi
Ecaterina Oancia
 Romania
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Zhou Xiuhua
Zhang Yali
He Yanwen
Han Yaqin
Zhang Xianghua
Zhou Shouying
Yang Xiao
Hu Yadong
Li Ronghua
 China
← 1984
1992 →

Competition format

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The competition consisted of two main rounds (heats and a final) as well as a repechage. The 7 boats were divided into two heats for the first round, with 4 boats in one heat and 3 boats in the other. The winner of each heat (2 boats total) advanced directly to the final (for 1st through 6th place). The remaining 5 boats were placed in the repechage. The repechage featured a single heat. The top four boats advanced to the final; only the last-place boat in the repechage was eliminated (and took 7th place overall, with no need for a "B" final because only one boat did not reach the "A" final).[2]

All races were over a 2000 metre course, unlike previous Games in which women used a 1000 metre course.

Results

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Heats

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Heat 1

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Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time Notes
1 Ecaterina Oancia   Romania 6:15.65 Q
2 Daniela Neunast   East Germany 6:16.29 R
3 Kerstin Peters   West Germany 6:38.31 R
4 Greta Georgieva   Bulgaria 6:47.99 R

Heat 2

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Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time Notes
1 Aušra Gudeliūnaitė   Soviet Union 6:20.90 Q
2 Li Ronghua   China 6:23.33 R
3 Betsy Beard   United States 6:24.55 R

Repechage

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Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time Notes
1 Daniela Neunast   East Germany 6:05.50 Q
2 Greta Georgieva   Bulgaria 6:08.26 Q
3 Li Ronghua   China 6:08.64 Q
4 Betsy Beard   United States 6:10.82 Q
5 Kerstin Peters   West Germany 6:12.70

Final

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Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time
  Daniela Neunast   East Germany 6:15.17
  Ecaterina Oancia   Romania 6:17.44
  Li Ronghua   China 6:21.83
4 Aušra Gudeliūnaitė   Soviet Union 6:22.35
5 Greta Georgieva   Bulgaria 6:25.02
6 Betsy Beard   United States 6:26.66

Final classification

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Rank Rowers Nation
  Annegret Strauch
Judith Zeidler
Kathrin Haacker
Ute Wild
Anja Kluge
Beatrix Schröer
Ramona Balthasar
Ute Stange
Daniela Neunast
  East Germany
  Doina Șnep-Bălan
Veronica Necula
Herta Anitaș
Marioara Trașcă
Adriana Bazon
Mihaela Armășescu
Rodica Arba
Olga Homeghi
Ecaterina Oancia
  Romania
  Zhou Xiuhua
Zhang Yali
He Yanwen
Han Yaqin
Zhang Xianghua
Zhou Shouying
Yang Xiao
Hu Yadong
Li Ronghua
  China
4 Margarita Teselko
Marina Znak
Nadezhda Sugako
Sandra Brazauskaitė
Olena Pukhaieva
Sariya Zakyrova
Nataliya Fedorenko
Lidiya Averyanova
Aušra Gudeliūnaitė
  Soviet Union
5 Teodora Zareva
Violeta Zareva
Nevyana Ivanova
Olya Stoichkova
Todorka Vasileva
Rita Todorova
Mariana Stoyanova
Daniela Oronova
Greta Georgieva
  Bulgaria
6 Juliet Thompson
Christine Campbell
Abby Peck
Peg Mallery
Susan Broome
Stephanie Maxwell-Pierson
Anna Seaton
Alison Townley
Betsy Beard
  United States
7 Inge Althoff-Schwerzmann
Meike Holländer
Elke Markwort
Gabriele Mehl
Kerstin Peters
Cerstin Petersmann
Katrin Petersmann
Kerstin Rehders
Anja Schäfer
  West Germany

References

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  1. ^ "Rowing at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games: Women's Coxed Eights". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
  2. ^ Official Report, vol. 2, pp. 533–34.