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Rowing at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's coxed four

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Women's coxed four
at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Date19–24 September
Competitors55 from 10 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Martina Walther
Gerlinde Doberschütz
Carola Hornig
Birte Siech
Sylvia Rose
 East Germany
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Zhang Xianghua
Hu Yadong
Yang Xiao
Zhou Shouying
Li Ronghua
 China
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Marioara Trașcă
Veronica Necula
Herta Anitaș
Doina Șnep-Bălan
Ecaterina Oancia
 Romania
← 1984

The women's coxed four competition at the 1988 Summer Olympics took place at took place at Han River Regatta Course, South Korea.[1]

Competition format

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The competition consisted of two main rounds (heats and finals) as well as a repechage. The 10 boats were divided into two heats for the first round, with 5 boats in each heat. The winner of each heat (2 boats total) advanced directly to the "A" final (for 1st through 6th place). The remaining 8 boats were placed in the repechage. The repechage featured two heats, with 4 boats in each heat. The top two boats in each repechage heat (4 boats total) advanced to the "A" final. The remaining 4 boats (3rd and 4th placers in the repechage heats) were eliminated from medal contention and competed in the "B" final for 7th through 10th place.[2]

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

Results

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Heats

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Heat 1

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Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time Notes
1 Sylvia Rose  East Germany 7:11.01 QA
2 Greta Georgieva[3]  Bulgaria 7:11.59 R
3 Li Ronghua  China 7:17.15 R
4 Lesley Thompson-Willie  Canada 7:31.02 R
5 Nam Sang-ran  South Korea 8:09.58 R

Heat 2

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Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time Notes
1 Ecaterina Oancia  Romania 7:21.43 QA
2 Valentina Khokhlova  Soviet Union 7:28.73 R
3 Grażyna Błąd  Poland 7:29.72 R
4 Kim Santiago  United States 7:33.42 R
5 Alison Norrish  Great Britain 7:38.01 R

Repechage

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Repechage heat 1

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Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time Notes
1 Greta Georgieva  Bulgaria 7:20.78 QA
2 Alison Norrish  Great Britain 7:25.63 QA
3 Lesley Thompson-Willie  Canada 7:29.71 QB
4 Grażyna Błąd  Poland 7:32.55 QB

Repechage heat 2

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Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time Notes
1 Li Ronghua  China 7:23.80 QA
2 Kim Santiago  United States 7:28.01 QA
3 Valentina Khokhlova  Soviet Union 7:35.22 QB
4 Nam Sang-ran  South Korea 8:13.07 QB

Finals

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Final B

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Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time
7 Lesley Thompson-Willie  Canada 7:19.86
8 Grażyna Błąd  Poland 7:22.59
9 Valentina Khokhlova  Soviet Union 7:27.20
10 Nam Sang-ran  South Korea 8:07.71

Final A

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Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Sylvia Rose  East Germany 6:56.00 OB
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Li Ronghua  China 6:58.78
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Ecaterina Oancia  Romania 7:01.13
4 Greta Georgieva  Bulgaria 7:02.27
5 Kim Santiago  United States 7:09.12
6 Alison Norrish  Great Britain 7:10.80

Final classification

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Rank Rowers Nation
1st place, gold medalist(s) Martina Walther
Gerlinde Doberschütz
Carola Hornig
Birte Siech
Sylvia Rose
 East Germany
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Zhang Xianghua
Hu Yadong
Yang Xiao
Zhou Shouying
Li Ronghua
 China
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Marioara Trașcă
Veronica Necula
Herta Anitaș
Doina Șnep-Bălan
Ecaterina Oancia
Mihaela Armasescu (heats)
Adriana Bazon (heats)
 Romania
4 Teodora Zareva
Violeta Zareva
Miglena Mikhaleva
Svetla Durchova
Greta Georgieva
Olya Stoichkova (heats)
Mariana Stoyanova (heats)
Katia Todorova (heats)
 Bulgaria
5 Jennifer Corbet
Sarah Gengler
Elizabeth Bradley
Cynthia Eckert
Kim Santiago
 United States
6 Fiona Johnston
Kate Grose
Joanne Gough
Susan Smith
Alison Norrish
 Great Britain
7 Heather Clarke
Tricia Smith
Lesley Thompson-Willie
Jane Tregunno
Jennifer Walinga
 Canada
8 Grażyna Błąd
Elżbieta Jankowska
Zyta Jarka
Elwira Lorenz
Czesława Kościańska-Szczepińska
 Poland
9 Valentina Khokhlova
Reda Ribinskaitė
Elena Tereshina
Irina Teterina
Marina Suprun
 Soviet Union
10 Gang Min-heung
Guk In-suk
Lee Gwang-sun
Nam Sang-ran
Park Mi-jeong
 South Korea

References

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  1. ^ "Rowing at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games: Women's Coxed Fours". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
  2. ^ Official Report, vol. 2, pp. 532–33.
  3. ^ The Official Report does not identify coxswains. For Bulgaria in the heats, the Official Report lists five rowers (the Zareva sisters, Stoichkova, Stoyanova, and Katia Todorova—who may be the same person as Rita Todorova or may be her twin [1]), but none appear to be coxswains. Georgieva was the coxswain for later rounds.[2]