The women's eight event at the 2024 Summer Olympics took place from 29 July to 3 August 2024 at the Stade nautique de Vaires-sur-Marne, the National Olympic Nautical Stadium of Île-de-France in Vaires-sur-Marne. Seven nations were represented with one boat each; 56 rowers and 7 coxswains competed.
Background Women first competed in Olympic rowing at the 1976 Montreal Olympics and the eight was competed all Olympics since then, such that this was the thirteenth appearance of the event.
Qualification
Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) is limited to a single boat in the event. There were seven qualifying places in the women's eight:
5 from the 2023 World Championship (Romania, Australia, the United States, Canada, and Great Britain) 2 from the final qualification regatta (Italy and Denmark)
Schedule The competition is scheduled over six days. Times given are session start times; multiple rowing events might have races during a session.
All times are Central European Time (UTC+2)
Date Time Round Monday, 29 July 2024 12:00 Heats Thursday, 1 August 2024 10:10 Repechage Saturday, 3 August 2024 10:50 Final
Rowers per team NumberRowersNation1Katrina WerryLucy StephanJacqueline SwickGeorgina RoweSarah HaweGiorgia PattenBronwyn CoxPaige BarrHayley Verbunt 2Abigail DentCaileigh FilmerKasia Gruchalla-WesierskiMaya MeschkuleitSydney PayneJessica SevickKristina WalkerAvalon WasteneysKristen Kit (cox)3Veronica BumbacaAlice CodatoLinda De FilippisAlice GnattaElisa MondelliGiorgia PelacchiAisha RocekSilvia TerrazziEmanuele Capponi (cox)4Annie Campbell-OrdeHolly DunfordEmily FordLauren IrwinHeidi LongRowan McKellarEve StewartHarriet TaylorHenry Fieldman (cox)5Magdalena RusuRoxana AnghelAmalia BereșAncuța BodnarMaria LehaciAdriana AdamIoana VrînceanuSimona RadișVictoria-Ștefania Petreanu (cox)6Frida Werner FoldagerClara HornnaessSara JohansenNikoline LaidlawKaren MortensenCaroline MunchNanna VigildSofie VikkelsoeeSophie Østergaard (cox)7Charlotte BuckMolly BruggemanOlivia CoffeyClaire CollinsMargaret HedemanMeghan MusnickiRegina SalmonsMadeleine WanamakerNina Castagna (cox)
Results Heats Heat 1 Rank Lane Nation Time Notes12 6:16.2024 6:18.6131 6:21.3143 6:39.30
Heat 2 Rank Lane Nation Time Notes11 6:12.3123 6:19.00 32 6:28.47
Repechage Rank Lane Nation Time Notes12 6:03.9324 6:04.81336:06.09 416:09.65 55 6:22.21
Final Rank Lane Nation Time Notes3 5:54.39 2 5:58.84 45:59.51 466:00.73 556:01.73616:07.51
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