The men's eight competition at the 2026 World Rowing Championships will take place at Bosbaan, in Amsterdam.
Schedule The schedule was as follows: Date Time Round Saturday, 29 August 2026 16:46 HeatsSunday, 30 August 2026 11:05 Semifinals 14:05 Final B 14:38 Final A All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)
Results Heats The two fastest boats in each heat and the six fastest times advanced to the semifinals. Remaining crew eliminated.
Heat 1 RankRowerCountryTimeNotes 1William StewartMatthew RoweGabriel ObholzerSam NunnDavid Bewicke-CopleyHarry GeffenMiles BeesonArchie DrummondTom Bryce (c) 5:29.90 SF 2Claudiu NeamtuMateus-Simion CozminciucMugurel SemciucAndrei MândrilăConstantin AdamSergiu BejanFlorin ArteniFabrizio-Alexandru ScripcariuRucsandra-Ioana Bucsa (F) (c) 5:32.10 SF 3Nunzio di ColandreaAlfonso ScalzoneGiovanni AbagnaleMatteo SartoriLeonardo Pietra CaprinaGiuseppe VicinoMatteo LodoGiovanni CodatoAlessandra Faella (F) (c) 5:32.46 SF 4Dzianis KucharauUladzislau LokunAliaksei BandziukAliaksandr DaroshchankaDzianis KlimiatoAnton KupalauDzmitry FurmanSiarhei ValadzkoValeryia Tseliak (F) (c)Individual Neutral Athletes 5:41.39 SF 5Wangjia WangjiaSun JiahuiYin JunjieSun SimiaoZhang YuanzeZhang SonghuJi GaoxingSu FuxiangLiang Xiaotong (c) 5:43.32
Heat 2 RankRowerCountryTimeNotes 1Ralf RienksFinn FlorijnWibout RustenburgJorn SalverdaSander de GraafPieter van VeenJan van der BijMick MakkerJonna de Vries (F) (c) 5:30.53 SF 2Soenke KruseTobias StrangemannOlaf RoggensackMattes SchönherrMax JohnJulius ChristPaul KlapperichFrederik BreuerJonas Wiesen (c) 5:31.70 SF 3Szymon TomiakKazmir Ziven KujdaCezary LitkaMichał SzpakowskiJerzy KaczmarekMateusz WilangowskiEmilian JackowiakOskar StreichJulia Wisniewska (F) (c) 5:39.35 SF 4Maksym SemenovOleh KravchenkoArtem VerestiukYuriy IvanovMykola MazurIvan DovhodkoMaksym BoklazhenkoOleksii SelivanovAnastasiia Kozyr (F) (c) 5:43.26 SF
Heat 3 RankRowerCountryTimeNotes 1Michael HermanCharles FargoWilson MortonBilly BenderMadison MolitorSamuel SullivanNathan PhelpsJosh DiggonsRachel Rane (F) (c) 5:29.99 SF 2Rohan LaveryAustin ReinehrAlex NicholJack RobertsonHarry MantonFergus HamiltonPatrick LongMitch SalisburyNicholas Dunlop (c) 5:30.19 SF 3Campbell CrouchFred VavasourHarry FitzpatrickJoshua VodanovichOllie MacleanMatt MacdonaldOliver WelchBenjamin TaylorOliver Duncan (c) 5:34.30 SF 4Saulius AušbikavičiusArnedas KelmelisPovilas JuškevičiusJonas ŠaparavičiusDovydas StankūnasMantas JuškevičiusPovilas StankūnasDomantas StankūnasEdgaras Savickis (c) 5:37.10 SF
Semifinals The three fastest boats in each heat advance to the Final A. The remaining boats were sent to the Final B. Semifinal 1 RankRowerCountryTimeNotes 1Ralf RienksFinn FlorijnWibout RustenburgJorn SalverdaSander de GraafPieter van VeenJan van der BijMick MakkerJonna de Vries (F) (c) 5:20.77 FA 2William StewartMatthew RoweGabriel ObholzerSam NunnDavid Bewicke-CopleyHarry GeffenMiles BeesonArchie DrummondTom Bryce (c) 5:21.08 FA 3 Soenke KruseTheis HagemeisterOlaf RoggensackMattes SchönherrTassilo Von MuellerJulius ChristPaul KlapperichFrederik BreuerJonas Wiesen (c) 5:25.88 FA 4Campbell CrouchFred VavasourHarry FitzpatrickJoshua VodanovichOllie MacleanMatt MacdonaldOliver WelchBenjamin TaylorOliver Duncan (c) 5:28.36 FB 5Szymon TomiakKazmir Ziven KujdaCezary LitkaMichał SzpakowskiJerzy KaczmarekMateusz WilangowskiEmilian JackowiakOskar StreichJulia Wisniewska (F) (c) 5:41.16 FB 6 Maksym SemenovOleh KravchenkoArtem VerestiukYuriy IvanovMykola MazurIvan DovhodkoMaksym BoklazhenkoOleksii SelivanovAnastasiia Kozyr (F) (c) 6:13.92 FB
Semifinal 2 RankRowerCountryTimeNotes 1Rohan LaveryAustin ReinehrAlex NicholJack RobertsonHarry MantonFergus HamiltonPatrick LongMitch SalisburyNicholas Dunlop (c) 5:23.71 FA 2Michael HermanCharles FargoWilson MortonBilly BenderMadison MolitorSamuel SullivanNathan PhelpsJosh DiggonsRachel Rane (F) (c) 5:25.04 FA 3Nunzio di ColandreaAlfonso ScalzoneGiovanni AbagnaleMatteo SartoriLeonardo Pietra CaprinaGiuseppe VicinoMatteo LodoGiovanni CodatoAlessandra Faella (F) (c) 5:25.49 FA 4Claudiu NeamtuMateus-Simion CozminciucMugurel SemciucAndrei MândrilăConstantin AdamSergiu BejanFlorin ArteniFabrizio-Alexandru ScripcariuRucsandra-Ioana Bucsa (F) (c) 5:25.82 FB 5Saulius AušbikavičiusArnedas KelmelisPovilas JuškevičiusJonas ŠaparavičiusDovydas StankūnasMantas JuškevičiusPovilas StankūnasDomantas StankūnasEdgaras Savickis (c) 5:50.45 FB 6Dzianis KucharauUladzislau LokunAliaksei BandziukAliaksandr DaroshchankaDzianis KlimiatoAnton KupalauDzmitry FurmanSiarhei ValadzkoValeryia Tseliak (F) (c)Individual Neutral Athletes 6:01.98 FB
Finals The A final determined the rankings for places 1 to 6. Additional rankings were determined in the other finals.
Final B RankRowerCountryTimeTotal rank 1Claudiu NeamtuMateus-Simion CozminciucMugurel SemciucAndrei MândrilăConstantin AdamSergiu BejanFlorin ArteniFabrizio-Alexandru ScripcariuRucsandra-Ioana Bucsa (F) (c) 5:22.77 7 2Campbell CrouchFred VavasourHarry FitzpatrickJoshua VodanovichOllie MacleanMatt MacdonaldOliver WelchBenjamin TaylorOliver Duncan (c) 5:23.58 8 3Saulius AušbikavičiusArnedas KelmelisPovilas JuškevičiusJonas ŠaparavičiusDovydas StankūnasMantas JuškevičiusPovilas StankūnasDomantas StankūnasEdgaras Savickis (c) 5:24.99 9 4Dzianis KucharauUladzislau LokunAliaksei BandziukAliaksandr DaroshchankaDzianis KlimiatoAnton KupalauDzmitry FurmanSiarhei ValadzkoValeryia Tseliak (F) (c)Individual Neutral Athletes 5:30.79 10 5Szymon TomiakKazmir Ziven KujdaCezary LitkaMichał SzpakowskiJerzy KaczmarekMateusz WilangowskiEmilian JackowiakOskar StreichJulia Wisniewska (F) (c) 5:31.25 11 6 Maksym SemenovOleh KravchenkoArtem VerestiukYuriy IvanovMykola MazurIvan DovhodkoMaksym BoklazhenkoOleksii SelivanovAnastasiia Kozyr (F) (c) 5:42.54 12
Final A RankRowerCountryTime Ralf RienksFinn FlorijnWibout RustenburgJorn SalverdaSander de GraafPieter van VeenJan van der BijMick MakkerJonna de Vries (F) (c) 5:17.75 William StewartMatthew RoweGabriel ObholzerSam NunnDavid Bewicke-CopleyHarry GeffenMiles BeesonArchie DrummondTom Bryce (c) 5:17.81 Rohan LaveryAustin ReinehrAlex NicholJack RobertsonHarry MantonFergus HamiltonPatrick LongMitch SalisburyNicholas Dunlop (c) 5:18.28 4Soenke KruseTheis HagemeisterOlaf RoggensackMattes SchönherrTassilo Von MuellerJulius ChristPaul KlapperichFrederik BreuerJonas Wiesen (c) 5:20.71 5Michael HermanCharles FargoWilson MortonBilly BenderMadison MolitorSamuel SullivanNathan PhelpsJosh DiggonsRachel Rane (F) (c) 5:22.32 6 Nunzio di ColandreaAlfonso ScalzoneGiovanni AbagnaleMatteo SartoriLeonardo Pietra CaprinaGiuseppe VicinoMatteo LodoGiovanni CodatoAlessandra Faella (F) (c) 5:32.14
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