2023 World Rowing Championships – Men's lightweight double sculls

The men's lightweight double sculls competition at the 2023 World Rowing Championships took place at Lake Sava, in Belgrade.[1]

Men's lightweight double sculls
at the 2023 World Rowing Championships
VenueLake Sava
LocationBelgrade, Serbia
Dates3 September – 9 September
Competitors50 from 25 nations
Winning time6:32.09
Medalists
gold medal    Ireland
silver medal     Switzerland
bronze medal    Italy
← 2022

Schedule

The schedule was as follows:[1]

DateTimeRound
Sunday 3 September 202312:19Heats
Monday 4 September 202313:10Repechages
Wednesday 6 September 202312:50Quarterfinals
Thursday 7 September 202310:35Semifinals A/B
16:15Semifinals C/D
Saturday 9 September 202309:51Final D
10:19Final C
11:40Final B
14:23Final A

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

Results

Heats

The four fastest boats in each heat advanced directly to the quarterfinals. The remaining boats were sent to the repechages.[2]

Heat 1

RankRowerCountryTimeNotes
1Fintan McCarthy
Paul O'Donovan
 Ireland6:15.40QAD
2Matthew Dunham
Christopher Stockley
 New Zealand6:19.65QAD
3Ihor Khmara
Stanislav Kovalov
 Ukraine6:27.67QAD
4Elar Loot
Ander Koppel
 Estonia6:30.98QAD
5Ibrahim Elserougy
Ahmed Abdelaal
 Egypt6:39.25R

Heat 2

RankRowerCountryTimeNotes
1Stefano Oppo
Gabriel Soares
 Italy6:17.14QAD
2Zachary Heese
James McCullough
 United States6:18.48QAD
3Enes Gök
Halil Kaan Köroğlu
 Turkey6:20.50QAD
4Petros Gkaidatzis
Antonios Papakonstantinou
 Greece6:21.47QAD
5Paul Ruttmann
Julian Schöberl
 Austria6:25.64R

Heat 3

RankRowerCountryTimeNotes
1Dennis Carracedo
Caetano Horta
 Spain6:16.98QAD
2Miguel Carballo
Alexis López
 Mexico6:18.78QAD
3Afonso Costa
Dinis Costa
 Portugal6:22.65QAD
4Mauricio Lopez Berocay
Felipe Klüver
 Uruguay6:22.85QAD
5Cal Gorvy
Daniel Dubitsky
 Israel7:06.40R

Heat 4

RankRowerCountryTimeNotes
1Paul Leerkamp
Jonathan Rommelmann
 Germany6:17.61QAD
2Hugo Beurey
Ferdinand Ludwig
 France6:20.54QAD
3Niels Van Zandweghe
Tibo Vyvey
 Belgium6:21.00QAD
4Shakhzod Nurmatov
Sobirjon Safaroliev
 Uzbekistan6:21.65QAD
5Fan Junjie
Sun Man
 China6:26.02R

Heat 5

RankRowerCountryTimeNotes
1Jan Schäuble
Raphaël Ahumada
 Switzerland6:11.93QAD
2Lars Benske
Ask Jarl Tjoem
 Norway6:13.94QAD
3Jiří Šimánek
Miroslav Vraštil
 Czech Republic6:14.76QAD
4Sean Murphy
Oscar McGuinness
 Australia6:20.63QAD
5Jerzy Kowalski
Daniel Galeza
 Poland6:27.19R

Repechage

The four fastest boats advanced to the quarterfinals. The remaining boat are eliminated.[3]

RankRowerCountryTimeNotes
1Jerzy Kowalski
Daniel Galeza
 Poland6:47.93QAD
2Fan Junjie
Sun Man
 China6:50.33QAD
3Paul Ruttmann
Julian Schöberl
 Austria7:03.30QAD
4Ibrahim Elserougy
Ahmed Abdelaal
 Egypt7:15.01QAD
5Cal Gorvy
Daniel Dubitsky
 Israel7:24.06

Quarterfinals

The three fastest boats in Quarterfinal advanced to the AB semifinals. The remaining boats were sent to the CD semifinals.[4]

Quarterfinal 1

RankRowerCountryTimeNotes
1Fintan McCarthy
Paul O'Donovan
 Ireland6:46.53SA/B
2Stefano Oppo
Gabriel Soares
 Italy6:49.83SA/B
3Niels Van Zandweghe
Tibo Vyvey
 Belgium6:52.82SA/B
4Sean Murphy
Oscar McGuinness
 Australia6:53.65SC/D
5Afonso Costa
Dinis Costa
 Portugal6:56.88SC/D
6Ahmed Abdelaal
Ibrahim Elserougy
 Egypt7:32.58SC/D

Quarterfinal 2

RankRowerCountryTimeNotes
1Dennis Carracedo
Caetano Horta
 Spain6:48.68SA/B
2Jiří Šimánek
Miroslav Vraštil
 Czech Republic6:48.87SA/B
3Fan Junjie
Sun Man
 China6:49.17SA/B
4Petros Gkaidatzis
Antonios Papakonstantinou
 Greece6:49.30SC/D
5Hugo Beurey
Ferdinand Ludwig
 France7:01.78SC/D
6Ihor Khmara
Stanislav Kovalov
 Ukraine7:05.38SC/D

Quarterfinal 3

RankRowerCountryTimeNotes
1Lars Benske
Ask Jarl Tjoem
 Norway6:51.36SA/B
2Paul Leerkamp
Jonathan Rommelmann
 Germany6:53.23SA/B
3Matthew Dunham
Christopher Stockley
 New Zealand6:54.92SA/B
4Mauricio Lopez Berocay
Felipe Klüver
 Uruguay6:57.10SC/D
5Enes Gök
Halil Kaan Köroğlu
 Turkey7:01.47SC/D
6Paul Ruttmann
Julian Schöberl
 Austria7:14.78SC/D

Quarterfinal 4

RankRowerCountryTimeNotes
1Jan Schäuble
Raphaël Ahumada
 Switzerland6:52.35SA/B
2Jerzy Kowalski
Daniel Galeza
 Poland6:58.92SA/B
3Miguel Carballo
Alexis López
 Mexico7:00.76SA/B
4Zachary Heese
James McCullough
 United States7:03.24SC/D
5Elar Loot
Ander Koppel
 Estonia7:06.84SC/D
6Shakhzod Nurmatov
Sobirjon Safaroliev
 Uzbekistan7:17.99SC/D

Semifinals C/D

The fastest three boats in each Semifinal advanced to the C final. The remaining boats were sent to the D final.[5]

Semifinal 1

RankRowerCountryTimeNotes
1Sean Murphy
Oscar McGuinness
 Australia6:55.92FC
2Mauricio Lopez Berocay
Felipe Klüver
 Uruguay6:56.00FC
3Elar Loot
Ander Koppel
 Estonia7:04.12FC
4Shakhzod Nurmatov
Sobirjon Safaroliev
 Uzbekistan7:09.34FD
5Ahmed Abdelaal
Ibrahim Elserougy
 Egypt7:34.79FD
Hugo Beurey
Ferdinand Ludwig
 FranceDNS

Semifinal 2

RankRowerCountryTimeNotes
1Petros Gkaidatzis
Antonios Papakonstantinou
 Greece6:53.81FC
2Enes Gök
Halil Kaan Köroğlu
 Turkey6:55.92FC
3Afonso Costa
Dinis Costa
 Portugal6:57.31FC
4Zachary Heese
James McCullough
 United States6:58.03FD
5Ihor Khmara
Stanislav Kovalov
 Ukraine7:02.79FD
6Paul Ruttmann
Julian Schöberl
 Austria7:08.94FD

Semifinals A/B

The fastest three boats in each Semifinal advanced to the A final. The remaining boats were sent to the B final.[6]

Semifinal 1

RankRowerCountryTimeNotes
1Fintan McCarthy
Paul O'Donovan
 Ireland6:41.83FA
2Jiří Šimánek
Miroslav Vraštil
 Czech Republic6:47.98FA
3Lars Benske
Ask Jarl Tjoem
 Norway6:48.85FA
4Miguel Carballo
Alexis López
 Mexico6:53.89FB
5Niels Van Zandweghe
Tibo Vyvey
 Belgium6:55.95FB
6Jerzy Kowalski
Daniel Galeza
 Poland7:00.79FB

Semifinal 2

RankRowerCountryTimeNotes
1Jan Schäuble
Raphaël Ahumada
 Switzerland6:42.73FA
3Dennis Carracedo
Caetano Horta
 Spain6:48.50FA
2Stefano Oppo
Gabriel Soares
 Italy6:47.23FA
4Fan Junjie
Sun Man
 China6:53.56FB
5Matthew Dunham
Christopher Stockley
 New Zealand6:55.64FB
6Paul Leerkamp
Jonathan Rommelmann
 Germany9:54.74FB

Finals

The A final determined the rankings for places 1 to 6. Additional rankings were determined in the other finals.[7]

Final D

RankRowerCountryTimeTotal rank
1Zachary Heese
James McCullough
 United States6:20.6619
2Paul Ruttmann
Julian Schöberl
 Austria6:26.2720
3Shakhzod Nurmatov
Sobirjon Safaroliev
 Uzbekistan6:32.0221
4Ahmed Abdelaal
Ibrahim Elserougy
 Egypt6:47.1522
Ihor Khmara
Stanislav Kovalov
 UkraineDNS

Final C

RankRowerCountryTimeTotal rank
1Petros Gkaidatzis
Antonios Papakonstantinou
 Greece6:17.7913
2Enes Gök
Halil Kaan Köroğlu
 Turkey6:19.7414
3Mauricio Lopez Berocay
Felipe Klüver
 Uruguay6:20.3815
4Sean Murphy
Oscar McGuinness
 Australia6:20.7916
5Afonso Costa
Dinis Costa
 Portugal6:21.2117
6Elar Loot
Ander Koppel
 Estonia6:33.0518

Final B

RankRowerCountryTimeTotal rank
1Miguel Carballo
Alexis López
 Mexico6:26.497
2Niels Van Zandweghe
Tibo Vyvey
 Belgium6:28.498
3Matthew Dunham
Christopher Stockley
 New Zealand6:28.669
4Paul Leerkamp
Jonathan Rommelmann
 Germany6:31.0810
5Jerzy Kowalski
Daniel Galeza
 Poland6:32.5611
6Fan Junjie
Sun Man
 China6:32.8212

Final A

RankRowerCountryTime
Fintan McCarthy
Paul O'Donovan
 Ireland6:32.09
Jan Schäuble
Raphaël Ahumada
 Switzerland6:34.38
Stefano Oppo
Gabriel Soares
 Italy6:34.77
4Jiří Šimánek
Miroslav Vraštil
 Czech Republic6:38.01
5Dennis Carracedo
Caetano Horta
 Spain6:40.65
6Lars Benske
Ask Jarl Tjoem
 Norway6:42.23

References