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{{short description|Olympic rowing event}}
{{Infobox Olympic event
|event = Men's eight
|games = 1996 Summer
|image = ROM 1995 MiNr5151 pm B002.jpg
|caption = Romania stamp depicting men's eight at the 1996 Olympics
|venue = [[Lake Lanier]]
|dates = 21–28 July 1996
|competitors = 90
|nations = 10
|win_value = 5:42.74
|gold = {{flagIOC|NED|1996 Summer}}<br>{{hlist|[[Koos Maasdijk]]|[[Ronald Florijn]]|[[Jeroen Duyster]]|[[Michiel Bartman]]|[[Henk-Jan Zwolle]]|[[Niels van der Zwan]]|[[Niels van Steenis]]|[[Diederik Simon]]|[[Nico Rienks]]}}
|silver = {{flagIOC|GER|1996 Summer}}<br>{{hlist|[[Mark Kleinschmidt (rower)|Mark Kleinschmidt]]|[[Detlef Kirchhoff]]|[[Wolfram Huhn]]|[[Roland Baar]]|[[Marc Weber (rower, born 1972)|Marc Weber]]|[[Ulrich Viefers]]|[[Peter Thiede]]|[[Thorsten Streppelhoff]]|[[Frank Richter (rower)|Frank Richter]]}}
|bronze = {{flagIOC|RUS|1996 Summer}}<br>{{hlist|[[Pavel Melnikov (rower)|Pavel Melnikov]]|[[Andrey Glukhov]]|[[Anton Chermashentsev]]|[[Aleksandr Lukyanov]]|[[Nikolay Aksyonov]]|[[Dmitry Rozinkevich]]|[[Sergey Matveyev]]|[[Roman Monchenko]]|[[Vladimir Volodenkov]]|[[Vladimir Sokolov (rower)|Vladimir Sokolov]]}}
|prev = [[Rowing at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's eight|1992]]
|next = [[Rowing at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's eight|2000]]
}}
{{Rowing at the 1996 Summer Olympics}}
The men's [[eight (rowing)|eight]] competition at the [[1996 Summer Olympics]] in [[Atlanta, Georgia]] took place at [[Lake Lanier]].<ref name="SR">{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1996/ROW/mens-coxed-eights.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418001611/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1996/ROW/mens-coxed-eights.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Rowing at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games: Men's Coxed Eights |work=Sports Reference |access-date=18 September 2018}}</ref> It was held from 21 to 27 July.<ref name=Olympedia/> There were 10 boats (90 competitors) from 10 nations, with each nation limited to a single boat in the event.<ref name=Olympedia/> The event was won by the Netherlands, the nation's first victory in the men's eight and first medal of any color in the event since 1900. Germany took silver; it was the 9th time in the past 10 Games that a German team (Germany, United Team of Germany, East Germany, or West Germany) was on the podium, with the only exception being 1984 when no German boats competed. Russia earned bronze in its independent debut.
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==Background==
This was the 22nd appearance of the event. Rowing had been on the programme in 1896 but was cancelled due to bad weather. The men's eight has been held every time that rowing has been contested, beginning in 1900.<ref name=Olympedia>{{cite web |url=http://www.olympedia.org/results/159427 |title=Eight, Men |work=Olympedia |access-date=9 June 2021}}</ref>
Of the 10 nations competing, five had won medals in top-level competition in the last four years. Canada was the reigning Olympic champion, though it had not been on a World Championship podium since. Germany, the 1992 Olympic bronze winners, had taken gold at the 1993 and 1995 World Championships. The 1994 World Champion was the United States, which had also earned bronze in 1993 and 1995. Dutch crews had been runners-up in 1994 and 1995. Romania had taken silver at the 1992 Olympics and 1993 World Championship, as well as bronze in 1994.<ref name=Olympedia/>
Russia and Ukraine each made their debut in the event. The United States made its 19th appearance, most among nations to that point.
==Competition format==
The "eight" event featured nine-person boats, with eight rowers and a coxswain. It was a sweep rowing event, with the rowers each having one oar (and thus each rowing on one side). The course used the 2000 metres distance that became the Olympic standard in 1912 (with the exception of 1948).<ref name=WorldRowingHistory>{{cite web |url=https://worldrowing.com/2017/05/01/why-race-2000m-the-history-behind-the-distance/ |title=Why Do We Race 2000m? The History Behind the Distance |publisher=World Rowing |date=1 May 2017 |access-date=19 April 2021}}</ref> Races were held in up to six lanes.
The competition consisted of two main rounds (semifinals and finals) as well as a repechage.
* Semifinals: Two heats of five boats each. The top boat in each heat (2 boats total) advanced directly to the "A" final, while all other boats (8 total) went to the repechage.
* Repechage: Two heats of four boats each. The top two boats in each heat (4 boats total) rejoined the semifinal winners in the "A" final, with the 3rd and 4th place boats in each heat (4 boats total) eliminated from medal contention and competing in the "B" final.
* Finals: The "A" final consisted of the top six boats, awarding medals and 4th through 6th place. The "B" final featured the next four boats, ranking them 7th through 10th.
==Schedule==
<small>All times are [[Eastern Time Zone|Eastern Daylight Time]] ([[UTC-4]])</small>
{| class="wikitable"
! Date
! Time
! Round
|-
| Monday, 22 July 1996 || '''11:50''' || '''Semifinals'''
|-
| Wednesday, 24 July 1996 || '''11:20''' || '''Repechage'''
|- style=background:lemonchiffon
| Sunday, 28 July 1996 || '''9:42'''<br>'''12:00''' || '''Final B'''<br>'''Final A'''
|}
==Results==
===Semifinals===
====Semifinal 1====
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"
! Rank || Rowers || Coxswain || Nation || Time || Notes
|- bgcolor=bbf3bb
|1
| {{hlist|[[Koos Maasdijk]]|[[Ronald Florijn]]|[[Nico Rienks]]|[[Michiel Bartman]]|[[Henk-Jan Zwolle]]|[[Niels van der Zwan]]|[[Niels van Steenis]]|[[Diederik Simon]]}} ||align=left| [[Jeroen Duyster]]
|align=left| {{flagIOC|NED|1996 Summer}}
|5:41.41 || {{abbr|QA|Qualified for Final A}}
|- bgcolor=bbf9ff
|2
| {{hlist|[[Greg Stevenson]]|[[Phil Graham (rower)|Phil Graham]]|[[Henry Hering (rower)|Henry Hering]]|[[Mark Platt (rower)|Mark Platt]]|[[Darren Barber]]|[[Andrew Crosby]]|[[Scott Brodie]]|[[Adam Parfitt]]}} ||align=left| [[Pat Newman (rowing)|Pat Newman]]
|align=left| {{flagIOC|CAN|1996 Summer}}
|5:44.00 || {{abbr|R|Repechage}}
|- bgcolor=bbf9ff
|3
| {{hlist|[[James Stewart (rower)|James Stewart]]|[[Geoff Stewart]]|[[Rob Jahrling]]|[[Nick Porzig]]|[[Jaime Fernandez (rower)|Jaime Fernandez]]|[[Ben Dodwell]]|[[Robert Walker (rower)|Robert Walker]]|[[Richard Wearne]]}} ||align=left| [[Brett Hayman]]
|align=left| {{flagIOC|AUS|1996 Summer}}
|5:46.83 || {{abbr|R|Repechage}}
|- bgcolor=bbf9ff
|4
| {{hlist|[[Matthew Parish (rower)|Matthew Parish]]|[[Jim Walker (rower)|Jim Walker]]|[[Alex Story (politician)|Alex Story]]|[[Richard Hamilton (rower)|Richard Hamilton]]|[[Roger Brown (rower)|Roger Brown]]|[[Peter Bridge]]|[[Ben Hunt-Davis]]|[[Graham Smith (rower)|Graham Smith]]}} ||align=left| [[Garry Herbert]]
|align=left| {{flagIOC|GBR|1996 Summer}}
|5:49.37 || {{abbr|R|Repechage}}
|- bgcolor=bbf9ff
|5
| {{hlist|[[Yevhen Sharonin]]|[[Roman Hrynevych]]|[[Vitaliy Raievskiy]]|[[Valeriy Samara]]|[[Oleh Lykov]]|[[Ihor Martynenko]]|[[Ihor Mohylniy]]|[[Oleksandr Kapustin]]}} ||align=left| [[Hryhoriy Dmytrenko]]
|align=left| {{flagIOC|UKR|1996 Summer}}
|5:55.32 || {{abbr|R|Repechage}}
|}
====Semifinal 2====
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"
! Rank || Rowers || Coxswain || Nation || Time || Notes
|- bgcolor=bbf3bb
|1
| {{hlist|[[Doug Burden]]|[[Bob Kaehler]]|[[Porter Collins]]|[[Edward Murphy (rower)|Ted Murphy]]|[[Jamie Koven]]|[[Jon Brown (rower)|Jon Brown]]|[[Don Smith (rower)|Don Smith]]|[[Fred Honebein]]}} ||align=left| [[Steven Segaloff]]
|align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1996 Summer}}
|5:44.87 || {{abbr|QA|Qualified for Final A}}
|- bgcolor=bbf9ff
|2
| {{hlist|[[Mark Kleinschmidt (rower)|Mark Kleinschmidt]]|[[Detlef Kirchhoff]]|[[Wolfram Huhn]]|[[Roland Baar]]|[[Marc Weber (rower, born 1972)|Marc Weber]]|[[Ulrich Viefers]]|[[Peter Thiede]]|[[Thorsten Streppelhoff]]}} ||align=left| [[Frank Richter (rower)|Frank Richter]]
|align=left| {{flagIOC|GER|1996 Summer}}
|5:46.04 || {{abbr|R|Repechage}}
|- bgcolor=bbf9ff
|3
| {{hlist|[[Sergey Matveyev]]|[[Andrey Glukhov]]|[[Dmitry Rozinkevich]]|[[Vladimir Sokolov (rower)|Vladimir Sokolov]]|[[Nikolay Aksyonov]]|[[Roman Monchenko]]|[[Pavel Melnikov (rower)|Pavel Melnikov]]|[[Anton Chermashentsev]]}}|| align="left" | [[Aleksandr Lukyanov]]
|align=left| {{flagIOC|RUS|1996 Summer}}
|5:48.63 || {{abbr|R|Repechage}}
|- bgcolor=bbf9ff
|4
| {{hlist|[[Gabriel Marin]]|[[Andrei Bănică]]|[[Cornel Nemțoc]]|[[Dorin Alupei]]|[[Viorel Talapan]]|[[Nicolae Țaga]]|[[Valentin Robu]]|[[Iulică Ruican]]}} ||align=left| [[Marin Gheorghe]]
|align=left| {{flagIOC|ROU|1996 Summer}}
|5:54.34 || {{abbr|R|Repechage}}
|- bgcolor=bbf9ff
|5
| {{hlist|[[Carmine Abbagnale]]|[[Patrick Casanova]]|[[Francesco Mattei]]|[[Roberto Blanda]]|[[Lorenzo Carboncini]]|[[Mattia Trombetta]]|[[Roby La Mura]]|[[Franco Zucchi (rower)|Franco Zucchi]]}} ||align=left| [[Vincenzo Di Palma]]
|align=left| {{flagIOC|ITA|1996 Summer}}
|5:54.59 || {{abbr|R|Repechage}}
|}
===Repechage===
====Repechage heat 1====
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"
! Rank || Rowers || Coxswain || Nation || Time || Notes
|- bgcolor=bbf3bb
|1
| {{hlist|[[Greg Stevenson]]|[[Phil Graham (rower)|Phil Graham]]|[[Henry Hering (rower)|Henry Hering]]|[[Mark Platt (rower)|Mark Platt]]|[[Darren Barber]]|[[Andrew Crosby]]|[[Scott Brodie]]|[[Adam Parfitt]]}} ||align=left| [[Pat Newman (rowing)|Pat Newman]]
|align=left| {{flagIOC|CAN|1996 Summer}}
|5:30.76 || {{abbr|QA|Qualified for Final A}}
|- bgcolor=bbf3bb
|2
| {{hlist|[[Sergey Matveyev]]|[[Andrey Glukhov]]|[[Dmitry Rozinkevich]]|[[Anton Chermashentsev]]|[[Nikolay Aksyonov]]|[[Roman Monchenko]]|[[Pavel Melnikov (rower)|Pavel Melnikov]]|[[Vladimir Volodenkov]]}}|| align="left" | [[Vladimir Sokolov (rower)|Aleksandr Lukyanov]]
|align=left| {{flagIOC|RUS|1996 Summer}}
|5:32.98 || {{abbr|QA|Qualified for Final A}}
|- bgcolor=bbf9ff
|3
| {{hlist|[[Matthew Parish (rower)|Matthew Parish]]|[[Jim Walker (rower)|Jim Walker]]|[[Alex Story (politician)|Alex Story]]|[[Richard Hamilton (rower)|Richard Hamilton]]|[[Roger Brown (rower)|Roger Brown]]|[[Peter Bridge]]|[[Ben Hunt-Davis]]|[[Graham Smith (rower)|Graham Smith]]}} ||align=left| [[Garry Herbert]]
|align=left| {{flagIOC|GBR|1996 Summer}}
|5:33.22 || {{abbr|QB|Qualified for Final B}}
|- bgcolor=bbf9ff
|4
| {{hlist|[[Carmine Abbagnale]]|[[Patrick Casanova]]|[[Francesco Mattei]]|[[Roberto Blanda]]|[[Lorenzo Carboncini]]|[[Mattia Trombetta]]|[[Roby La Mura]]|[[Franco Zucchi (rower)|Franco Zucchi]]}} ||align=left| [[Vincenzo Di Palma]]
|align=left| {{flagIOC|ITA|1996 Summer}}
|5:34.40 || {{abbr|QB|Qualified for Final B}}
|}
====Repechage heat 2====
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"
! Rank || Rowers || Coxswain || Nation || Time || Notes
|- bgcolor=bbf3bb
|1
| {{hlist|[[Mark Kleinschmidt (rower)|Mark Kleinschmidt]]|[[Detlef Kirchhoff]]|[[Wolfram Huhn]]|[[Roland Baar]]|[[Marc Weber (rower, born 1972)|Marc Weber]]|[[Ulrich Viefers]]|[[Peter Thiede]]|[[Thorsten Streppelhoff]]}} ||align=left| [[Frank Richter (rower)|Frank Richter]]
|align=left| {{flagIOC|GER|1996 Summer}}
|5:30.61 || {{abbr|QA|Qualified for Final A}}
|- bgcolor=bbf3bb
|2
| {{hlist|[[James Stewart (rower)|James Stewart]]|[[Geoff Stewart]]|[[Rob Jahrling]]|[[Nick Porzig]]|[[Jaime Fernandez (rower)|Jaime Fernandez]]|[[Ben Dodwell]]|[[Robert Walker (rower)|Robert Walker]]|[[Richard Wearne]]}} ||align=left| [[Brett Hayman]]
|align=left| {{flagIOC|AUS|1996 Summer}}
|5:31.33 || {{abbr|QA|Qualified for Final A}}
|- bgcolor=bbf9ff
|3
| {{hlist|[[Gabriel Marin]]|[[Andrei Bănică]]|[[Cornel Nemțoc]]|[[Dorin Alupei]]|[[Viorel Talapan]]|[[Nicolae Țaga]]|[[Valentin Robu]]|[[Iulică Ruican]]}} ||align=left| [[Marin Gheorghe]]
|align=left| {{flagIOC|ROU|1996 Summer}}
|5:31.88 || {{abbr|QB|Qualified for Final B}}
|- bgcolor=bbf9ff
|4
| {{hlist|[[Yevhen Sharonin]]|[[Roman Hrynevych]]|[[Vitaliy Raievskiy]]|[[Valeriy Samara]]|[[Oleh Lykov]]|[[Ihor Martynenko]]|[[Ihor Mohylniy]]|[[Oleksandr Kapustin]]}} ||align=left| [[Hryhoriy Dmytrenko]]
|align=left| {{flagIOC|UKR|1996 Summer}}
|5:42.43 || {{abbr|QB|Qualified for Final B}}
|}
===Finals===
====Final B====
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"
! Rank || Rowers || Coxswain || Nation || Time
|-
| 7
| {{hlist|[[Gabriel Marin]]|[[Andrei Bănică]]|[[Cornel Nemțoc]]|[[Dorin Alupei]]|[[Viorel Talapan]]|[[Nicolae Țaga]]|[[Valentin Robu]]|[[Iulică Ruican]]}} ||align=left| [[Marin Gheorghe]]
|align=left| {{flagIOC|ROU|1996 Summer}}
|5:37.65
|-
| 8
| {{hlist|[[Matthew Parish (rower)|Matthew Parish]]|[[Jim Walker (rower)|Jim Walker]]|[[Alex Story (politician)|Alex Story]]|[[Richard Hamilton (rower)|Richard Hamilton]]|[[Roger Brown (rower)|Roger Brown]]|[[Peter Bridge]]|[[Ben Hunt-Davis]]|[[Graham Smith (rower)|Graham Smith]]}} ||align=left| [[Garry Herbert]]
|align=left| {{flagIOC|GBR|1996 Summer}}
|5:40.23
|-
| 9
| {{hlist|[[Carmine Abbagnale]]|[[Patrick Casanova]]|[[Francesco Mattei]]|[[Roberto Blanda]]|[[Lorenzo Carboncini]]|[[Mattia Trombetta]]|[[Roby La Mura]]|[[Franco Zucchi (rower)|Franco Zucchi]]}} ||align=left| [[Vincenzo Di Palma]]
|align=left| {{flagIOC|ITA|1996 Summer}}
|5:41.95
|-
| 10
| {{hlist|[[Yevhen Sharonin]]|[[Roman Hrynevych]]|[[Vitaliy Raievskiy]]|[[Valeriy Samara]]|[[Oleh Lykov]]|[[Ihor Martynenko]]|[[Ihor Mohylniy]]|[[Oleksandr Kapustin]]}} ||align=left| [[Hryhoriy Dmytrenko]]
|align=left| {{flagIOC|UKR|1996 Summer}}
|5:44.89
|}
====Final A====
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"
! Rank || Rowers || Coxswain || Nation || Time
|-
| {{gold1}}
| {{hlist|[[Koos Maasdijk]]|[[Ronald Florijn]]|[[Nico Rienks]]|[[Michiel Bartman]]|[[Henk-Jan Zwolle]]|[[Niels van der Zwan]]|[[Niels van Steenis]]|[[Diederik Simon]]}} ||align=left| [[Jeroen Duyster]]
|align=left| {{flagIOC|NED|1996 Summer}}
|5:42.74
|-
| {{silver2}}
| {{hlist|[[Mark Kleinschmidt (rower)|Mark Kleinschmidt]]|[[Detlef Kirchhoff]]|[[Wolfram Huhn]]|[[Roland Baar]]|[[Marc Weber (rower, born 1972)|Marc Weber]]|[[Ulrich Viefers]]|[[Peter Thiede]]|[[Thorsten Streppelhoff]]}} ||align=left| [[Frank Richter (rower)|Frank Richter]]
|align=left| {{flagIOC|GER|1996 Summer}}
|5:44.58
|-
| {{bronze3}}
| {{hlist|[[Anton Chermashentsev]]|[[Andrey Glukhov]]|[[Dmitry Rozinkevich]]|[[Vladimir Volodenkov]]|[[Nikolay Aksyonov]]|[[Roman Monchenko]]|[[Pavel Melnikov (rower)|Pavel Melnikov]]|[[Sergey Matveyev]]}}|| align="left" | [[Vladimir Sokolov (rower)|Aleksandr Lukyanov]]
|align=left| {{flagIOC|RUS|1996 Summer}}
|5:45.77
|-
|4
| {{hlist|[[Greg Stevenson]]|[[Phil Graham (rower)|Phil Graham]]|[[Henry Hering (rower)|Henry Hering]]|[[Mark Platt (rower)|Mark Platt]]|[[Darren Barber]]|[[Andrew Crosby]]|[[Scott Brodie]]|[[Adam Parfitt]]}} ||align=left| [[Pat Newman (rowing)|Pat Newman]]
|align=left| {{flagIOC|CAN|1996 Summer}}
|5:46.54
|-
|5
| {{hlist|[[Doug Burden]]|[[Bob Kaehler]]|[[Porter Collins]]|[[Edward Murphy (rower)|Ted Murphy]]|[[Jamie Koven]]|[[Jon Brown (rower)|Jon Brown]]|[[Don Smith (rower)|Don Smith]]|[[Fred Honebein]]}} ||align=left| [[Steven Segaloff]]
|align=left| {{flagIOC|USA|1996 Summer}}
|5:48.45
|-
|6
| {{hlist|[[James Stewart (rower)|James Stewart]]|[[Geoff Stewart]]|[[Rob Jahrling]]|[[Nick Porzig]]|[[Jaime Fernandez (rower)|Jaime Fernandez]]|[[Ben Dodwell]]|[[Robert Walker (rower)|Robert Walker]]|[[Richard Wearne]]}} ||align=left| [[Brett Hayman]]
|align=left| {{flagIOC|AUS|1996 Summer}}
|5:58.82
|}
==References==
{{reflist}}
==Sources==
* {{cite web | title=Official Olympic Report | publisher=[[International Olympic Committee]] |url=http://www.la84foundation.org/5va/reports_frmst.htm | access-date=2008-04-18 }}
{{Olympic champions – Men's eight}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rowing at the 1996 Summer Olympics - Men's eight}}
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