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. 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.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
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 Notes15 Emily CraigImogen Grant 7:04.20 26 Dimitra KontouZoi Fitsiou 7:08.51 3 1 Aoife CaseyMargaret Cremen 7:12.89 43 Louisa AltenhuberLara Tiefenthaler 7:24.14 52 Khadija KrimiSelma Dhaouadi 7:31.19 64 Sonia Baluzzo ChiaruzzoEvelyn Silvestro 7:36.43
Heat 2 Rank Lane Rower Nation Time Notes14 Gianina BeleagăIonela Cozmiuc 7:03.83 25 Molly ReckfordMichelle Sechser 7:12.65 3 2 Alessia PalaciosValeria Palacios 7:32.68 43 Mahsa JaverZeinab Norouzi 7:35.97 51 Emi HirouchiAyami Oishi 7:39.17
Heat 3 Rank Lane Rower Nation Time Notes14 Shannon CoxJackie Kiddle 7:02.25 23 Claire BovéLaura Tarantola 7:03.22 3 2 Jennifer CassonJill Moffatt 7:09.45 45 Martyna RadoszKatarzyna Wełna 7:11.14 51 Zou JiaqiQiu Xiuping 7:39.17
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 Notes1 4 Aoife CaseyMargaret Cremen 7:11.38 2 3 Jennifer CassonJill Moffatt 7:16.81 31 Sonia Baluzzo ChiaruzzoEvelyn Silvestro 7:29.76 42 Mahsa JaverZeinab Norouzi 7:35.56 55 Zou JiaqiQiu Xiuping 7:42.66
Repechage 2 Rank Lane Rower Nation Time Notes12 Martyna RadoszKatarzyna Wełna 7:16.26 24 Louisa AltenhuberLara Tiefenthaler 7:17.77 31 Khadija KrimiSelma Dhaouadi 7:25.21 4 3 Alessia PalaciosValeria Palacios 7:28.58 55 Emi HirouchiAyami Oishi 7:31.14
Semifinals Semifinal A/B 1 Rank Lane Rower Nation Time Notes13 Emily CraigImogen Grant 6:59.7924 Shannon CoxJackie Kiddle 7:02.8632 Molly ReckfordMichelle Sechser 7:05.0345 Martyna RadoszKatarzyna Wełna 7:06.6951 Jennifer CassonJill Moffatt 7:13.3666 Sonia Baluzzo ChiaruzzoEvelyn Silvestro 7:33.41
Semifinal A/B 2 Rank Lane Rower Nation Time Notes13 Gianina BeleagăIonela Cozmiuc 6:56.65 22 Dimitra KontouZoi Fitsiou 6:57.9035 Aoife CaseyMargaret Cremen 6:59.7244 Claire BovéLaura Tarantola 7:03.2251 Louisa AltenhuberLara Tiefenthaler 7:19.7066 Khadija KrimiSelma Dhaouadi 7:26.39
Finals
Final C Rank Lane Rower Nation Time Notes131 Zou JiaqiQiu Xiuping 7:07.55142 Alessia PalaciosValeria Palacios 7:12.27154 Emi HirouchiAyami Oishi 7:14.00 163 Mahsa JaverZeinab Norouzi 7:14.32
Final B
Rank Lane Rower Nation Time Notes73 Claire BovéLaura Tarantola 7:03.24 82 Jennifer CassonJill Moffatt 7:04.8294 Martyna RadoszKatarzyna Wełna 7:08.47105 Louisa AltenhuberLara Tiefenthaler 7:10.02111 Khadija KrimiSelma Dhaouadi 7:21.65126 Sonia Baluzzo ChiaruzzoEvelyn Silvestro 7:25.86
Final A Rank Lane Rower Nation Time Notes3 Emily CraigImogen Grant 6:47.064 Gianina BeleagăIonela Cozmiuc 6:48.782 Dimitra KontouZoi Fitsiou 6:49.2845 Shannon CoxJackie Kiddle 6:51.65 51 Aoife CaseyMargaret Cremen 6:54.5766 Molly ReckfordMichelle Sechser 6:55.60
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