The men's lightweight coxless pair competition at the 2016 World Rowing Championships in Rotterdam took place at the Willem-Alexander Baan.

Schedule The schedule was as follows: Date Time Round Monday 22 August 2016 17:20 Heats Tuesday 23 August 2016 11:25 Repechages Thursday 25 August 2016 15:45 Semifinals A/BSaturday 27 August 2016 11:05 Final C 11:25 Final B 12:55 Final A All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

Results Heats The two fastest boats in each heat advanced directly to the A/B semifinals. The remaining boats were sent to the repechages.

Heat 1 RankRowersCountryTimeNotes 1Emil EspensenJens Vilhelmsen 6:39.71 SA/B 2Xavier VelaWillian Giaretton 6:41.86 SA/B 3Nuno Goncalves CoelhoJorge Correia Carvalho 6:43.41 R 4Andrew WeilandPeter Gibson 6:46.27 R 5Roland SzigetiDavid Forrai 6:52.27 R 6Masato KobayashiKazuki Nara 6:54.97 R

Heat 2 RankRowersCountryTimeNotes 1Joel CassellsSam Scrimgeour 6:37.05 SA/B 2Mark O'DonovanShane O'Driscoll 6:38.84 SA/B 3Sergei CherepkovAleksei Kiiashko 6:44.40 R 4Sergio Pérez MorenoJesus Gonzalez 6:45.08 R 5Li LeiLi Zhongwei 6:59.44 R

Heat 3 RankRowersCountryTimeNotes 1Augustin MouterdeAlexis Guérinot 6:40.77 SA/B 2Julius PeschelSven Keßler 6:42.89 SA/B 3Lorenzo TedescoGiorgio Tuccinardi 6:47.13 R 4Jan HájekMichael Humpolec 6:52.37 R 5Markus ChristensenOla Larsson 6:53.18 R

Repechages The three fastest boats in each repechage advanced to the A/B semifinals. The remaining boats were sent to the C final.

Repechage 1 RankRowersCountryTimeNotes 1Sergio Pérez MorenoJesus Gonzalez 6:39.20 SA/B 2Masato KobayashiKazuki Nara 6:39.30 SA/B 3Lorenzo TedescoGiorgio Tuccinardi 6:39.81 SA/B 4Nuno Goncalves CoelhoJorge Correia Carvalho 6:40.68 FC 5Markus ChristensenOla Larsson 6:49.84 FC

Repechage 2 RankRowersCountryTimeNotes 1Li LeiLi Zhongwei 6:36.85 SA/B 2Andrew WeilandPeter Gibson 6:37.22 SA/B 3Sergei CherepkovAleksei Kiiashko 6:38.33 SA/B 4Jan HájekMichael Humpolec 6:46.45 FC 5Roland SzigetiDavid Forrai 6:42.86 FC

Semifinals The three fastest boats in each semi advanced to the A final. The remaining boats were sent to the B final.

Semifinal 1 RankRowersCountryTimeNotes 1Joel CassellsSam Scrimgeour 6:29.63 FA 2Emil EspensenJens Vilhelmsen 6:30.12 FA 3Li LeiLi Zhongwei 6:32.81 FA 4Masato KobayashiKazuki Nara 6:33.38 FB 5Julius PeschelSven Keßler 6:36.39 FB 6Sergei CherepkovAleksei Kiiashko 6:38.24 FB

Semifinal 2 RankRowersCountryTimeNotes 1Augustin MouterdeAlexis Guérinot 6:30.56 FA 2Mark O'DonovanShane O'Driscoll 6:32.18 FA 3Andrew WeilandPeter Gibson 6:33.19 FA 4Xavier VelaWillian Giaretton 6:35.07 FB 5Lorenzo TedescoGiorgio Tuccinardi 6:37.34 FB 6Sergio Pérez MorenoJesus Gonzalez 6:40.82 FB

Finals The A final determined the rankings for places 1 to 6. Additional rankings were determined in the other finals.

Final C RankRowersCountryTime 1Nuno Goncalves CoelhoJorge Correia Carvalho 7:29.49 2Jan HájekMichael Humpolec 7:33.88 3Roland SzigetiDavid Forrai 7:36.03 4Markus ChristensenOla Larsson 7:44.61

Final B RankRowersCountryTime 1Masato KobayashiKazuki Nara 7:28.22 2Julius PeschelSven Keßler 7:33.77 3Xavier VelaWillian Giaretton 7:34.17 4Sergei CherepkovAleksei Kiiashko 7:35.24 5Lorenzo TedescoGiorgio Tuccinardi 7:38.36 6Sergio Pérez MorenoJesus Gonzalez 7:49.33

Final A RankRowersCountryTime Augustin MouterdeAlexis Guérinot 7:14.18 Emil EspensenJens Vilhelmsen 7:15.30 Joel CassellsSam Scrimgeour 7:16.49 4Mark O'DonovanShane O'Driscoll 7:24.60 5Li LeiLi Zhongwei 7:32.48 6Andrew WeilandPeter Gibson 7:36.91

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