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.

Competition format

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).Official Report, vol. 2, pp. 533–34.

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

Results

Heats

Heat 1

Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time Notes 1 Ecaterina Oancia 6:15.65 2 Daniela Neunast 6:16.29 3 Kerstin Peters 6:38.31 4 Greta Georgieva 6:47.99

Heat 2

Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time Notes 1 Aušra Gudeliūnaitė 6:20.90 2 Li Ronghua 6:23.33 3 Betsy Beard 6:24.55

Repechage

Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time Notes 1 Daniela Neunast 6:05.50 2 Greta Georgieva 6:08.26 3 Li Ronghua 6:08.64 4 Betsy Beard 6:10.82 5 Kerstin Peters 6:12.70

Final

Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time Daniela Neunast 6:15.17 Ecaterina Oancia 6:17.44 Li Ronghua 6:21.83 4 Aušra Gudeliūnaitė 6:22.35 5 Greta Georgieva 6:25.02 6 Betsy Beard 6:26.66

Final classification

RankRowersNation Annegret StrauchJudith ZeidlerKathrin HaackerUte WildAnja KlugeBeatrix SchröerRamona BalthasarUte StangeDaniela Neunast Doina Șnep-BălanVeronica NeculaHerta AnitașMarioara TrașcăAdriana BazonMihaela ArmășescuRodica ArbaOlga HomeghiEcaterina Oancia Zhou XiuhuaZhang YaliHe YanwenHan YaqinZhang XianghuaZhou ShouyingYang XiaoHu YadongLi Ronghua 4 Margarita TeselkoMarina ZnakNadezhda SugakoSandra BrazauskaitėOlena PukhaievaSariya ZakyrovaNataliya FedorenkoLidiya AveryanovaAušra Gudeliūnaitė 5 Teodora ZarevaVioleta ZarevaNevyana IvanovaOlya StoichkovaTodorka VasilevaRita TodorovaMariana StoyanovaDaniela OronovaGreta Georgieva 6 Juliet ThompsonChristine CampbellAbby PeckPeg MallerySusan BroomeStephanie Maxwell-PiersonAnna SeatonAlison TownleyBetsy Beard 7 Inge Althoff-SchwerzmannMeike HolländerElke MarkwortGabriele MehlKerstin PetersCerstin PetersmannKatrin PetersmannKerstin RehdersAnja Schäfer

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