2001 World Rowing Championships

2001 World Rowing Championships
Venue	Rotsee
Location	Lucerne, Switzerland
Dates	19 to 26 August

The 2001 World Rowing Championships were held from 19 to 26 August 2001 at Rotsee in Lucerne, Switzerland.

Medal summary

Men

  Non-Olympic classes

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
M1x	Norway Olaf Tufte	6:43.04	Slovenia Iztok Čop	6:43.36	Czech Republic Václav Chalupa	6:43.62
M2x	Hungary Ákos Haller (b) Tibor Pető (s)	6:14.16	France Adrien Hardy (b) Sébastien Vieilledent (s)	6:14.29	Italy Rossano Galtarossa (b) Alessio Sartori (s)	6:14.43
M4x	Germany Christian Schreiber (b) André Willms (2) Marco Geisler (3) Andreas Hajek (s)	5:40.89	Netherlands Geert Cirkel (b) Dirk Lippits (2) Diederik Simon (3) Michiel Bartman (s)	5:42.64	Italy Nicola Sartori (b) Mattia Righetti (2) Franco Berra (3) Simone Raineri (s)	5:42.87
M2+	Great Britain James Cracknell (b) Matthew Pinsent (s) Neil Chugani (c)	6:49.33	Italy Mattia Trombetta (b) Lorenzo Carboncini (s) Andrea Monizza (c)	6:49.75	Romania Cornel Nemțoc (b) Ioan Florariu (s) Marin Gheorghe (c)	6:54.45
M2-	Great Britain James Cracknell (b) Matthew Pinsent (s)	6:27.57	Yugoslavia Đorđe Višacki (b) Nikola Stojić (s)	6:27.59	South Africa Ramon di Clemente (b) Donovan Cech (s)	6:29.31
M4+	France Gilles Bosquet (b) Vincent Gazan (2) Vincent Millot (3) Sidney Chouraqui (s) Christophe Lattaignant (c)	6:08.25	Italy Luca Agamennoni (b) Edoardo Verzotti (2) Massimo Cascone (3) Luca Ghezzi (s) Gianluca Barattolo (c)	6:09.71	Great Britain Chris Martin (b) Henry Adams (2) Alex Partridge (3) Dan Ouseley (s) Peter Rudge (c)	6:11.62
M4-	Great Britain Toby Garbett (b) Steve Williams (2) Ed Coode (3) Rick Dunn (s)	5:48.98	Germany Sebastian Thormann (b) Paul Dienstbach (2) Philipp Stüer (3) Bernd Heidicker (s)	5:50.56	Slovenia Jani Klemenčič (b) Milan Janša (2) Rok Kolander (3) Matej Prelog (s)	5:52.23
M8+	Romania Daniel Măstăcan (b) Florin Corbeanu (2) Cornel Nemțoc (3) Ioan Florariu (4) Ovidiu Cornea (5) Andrei Bănică (6) Gheorghe Pîrvan (7) Vasile Măstăcan (s) Marin Gheorghe (c)	5:27.48	Croatia Oliver Martinov (b) Damir Vučičić (2) Tomislav Smoljanović (3) Nikša Skelin (4) Siniša Skelin (5) Krešimir Čuljak (6) Igor Boraska (7) Branimir Vujević (s) Silvijo Petriško (c)	5:28.47	Germany Sebastian Schulte (b) Thorsten Engelmann (2) Johannes Dobershütz (3) Stephan Koltzk (4) Jörg Dießner (5) Enrico Schnabel (6) Ulf Siems (7) Michael Ruhe (s) Peter Thiede (c)	5:29.41
Men's lightweight events
LM1x	Ireland Sam Lynch	6:49.38	Italy Stefano Basalini	6:51.71	Czech Republic Michal Vabroušek	6:53.02
LM2x	Italy Elia Luini (b) Leonardo Pettinari (s)	6:16.75	Poland Tomasz Kucharski (b) Robert Sycz (s)	6:19.45	France Fabrice Moreau (b) Thibaud Chapelle (s)	6:20.30
LM4x	Italy Daniele Gilardoni (b) Luca Moncada (2) Mauro Baccelli (3) Filippo Mannucci (s)	5:50.76	Greece Nikolaos Skiathitis (b) Ioannis Korkouritis (2) Vasileios Polymeros (3) Panagiotis Miliotis (s)	5:52.87	Japan Akio Yano (b) Hitoshi Hase (2) Atsushi Obata (3) Kazuaki Mimoto (s)	5:54.19
LM2-	Ireland Gearoid Towey (b) Tony O'Connor (s)	6:34.72	Netherlands Simon Kolkman (b) Robert van der Vooren (s)	6:36.40	Italy Massimo Guglielmi (b) Giuseppe Del Gaudio (s)	6:36.99
LM4-	Austria Sebastian Sageder (b) Bernd Wakolbinger (2) Wolfgang Sigl (3) Martin Kobau (s)	5:53.55	Denmark Thomas Ebert (b) Thor Kristensen (2) Søren Madsen (3) Eskild Ebbesen (s)	5:54.36	France Laurent Porchier (b) Jean-Christophe Bette (2) Yves Hocdé (3) Xavier Dorfman (s)	5:55.55
LM8+	France Jean-Baptiste Dupy (b) Erwan Péron (2) Laurent Porchier (3) Franck Bussière (4) Pascal Touron (5) Jean-Christophe Bette (6) Yves Hocdé (7) Xavier Dorfman (s) Christophe Lattaignant (c)	5:37.21	Denmark Morten Riis (b) Stephan Mølvig (2) Thomas Croft Buck (3) Kenneth Bülow (4) Rasmus Hjortshøj (5) Svend Pedersen (6) Jesper Krogh (7) Morten Hansen (s) Sebastian Claus (c)	5:37.99	United States Erik Miller (b) Eric Feins (2) Gavin Blackmore (3) Tom Paradiso (4) John Cashman (5) Ben Cotting-Gagne (6) John Wall (7) Eric Kratochvil (s) Bill McManus (c)	5:38.80

Women

  Non-Olympic classes

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
W1x	Germany Katrin Rutschow-Stomporowski	7:19.25	Russia Yuliya Levina	7:23.28	Belarus Ekaterina Karsten-Khodotovitch	7:25.18
W2x	Germany Kathrin Boron (b) Kerstin Kowalski	6:50.20	New Zealand Georgina Evers-Swindell (b) Caroline Evers-Swindell (s)	6:51.73	Belarus Ekaterina Karsten-Khodotovitch (b) Volna Berazniova (s)	6:52.72
W4x	Germany Peggy Waleska (b) Marita Scholz (2) Manuela Lutze (3) Manja Kowalski (s)	6:12.95	New Zealand Sonia Waddell (b) Paula Twining (2) Caroline Evers-Swindell (3) Georgina Evers-Swindell (s)	6:15.35	United States Sarah Jones (b) Carol Skricki (2) Hilary Gehman (3) Laura Rauchfuss (s)	6:18.30
W2-	Romania Georgeta Damian (b) Viorica Susanu (s)	7:01.27	Belarus Olga Tratsevskaya (b) Yuliya Bichyk (s)	7:03.51	Canada Jacqui Cook (b) Karen Clark (s)	7:05.52
W4-	Australia Jane Robinson (b) Julia Wilson (2) Jo Lutz (3) Victoria Roberts (s)	6:27.23	New Zealand Jackie Abraham-Lawrie (b) Kate Robinson (2) Rochelle Saunders (3) Nicky Coles (s)	6:28.58	Netherlands Christine Vink (b) Carin ter Beek (2) Anneke Venema (3) Femke Dekker (s)	6:30.81
W8+	Australia Jodi Winter (b) Jo Lutz (2) Julia Wilson (3) Jane Robinson (4) Emily Martin (5) Rebecca Sattin (6) Victoria Roberts (7) Kristina Larsen (s) Carly Bilson (c)	6:03.66	Romania Elena Pirvan (b) Aurica Bărăscu (2) Natalita Berteanu-Pelin (3) Elena Gavrilescu (4) Mihaela Nastasa (5) Doina Spircu-Craciun (6) Georgeta Damian-Andrunache (7) Viorica Susanu (s) Rodica Anghel (c)	6:04.96	Germany Silke Günther (b) Anja Pyritz (2) Dana Pyritz (3) Britta Holthaus (4) Susanne Schmidt (5) Sandra Goldbach (6) Maja Tucholke (7) Lenka Wech (s) Annina Ruppel (c)	6:05.32
Women's lightweight events
LW1x	Ireland Sinéad Jennings	7:33.20	Netherlands Mirjam ter Beek	7:34.43	Switzerland Pia Vogel	7:36.26
LW2x	Germany Janet Radünzel (b) Claudia Blasberg (s)	6:55.55	Poland Katarzyna Demianiuk (b) Ilona Mokronowska (s)	6:58.02	Romania Monica Eremia-Stan (b) Irina Acsinte (s)	6:58.97
LW4x	Australia Catriona Roach (b) Sally Causby (2) Amber Halliday (3) Josephine Lips (s)	6:29.68	United States Marny Jaastad (b) Abigail Cromwell (2) Jennifer Edwards (3) Stacey Borgman (s)	6:32.64	Netherlands Mariel Pikkemaat (b) Maud Klinkers (2) Aukje Zuidema (3) Hedi Poot (s)	6:33.70
LW2-	Great Britain Sarah Birch (b) Jo Nitsch (s)	7:23.00	United States Suzanne Walther (b) Michelle Borkhuis (s)	7:25.37	Argentina Patricia Conte(b) Ana Urbano (s)	7:26.02

Medal table

Place	Nation				Total
1	Germany	5	1	2	9
2	Great Britain	4	0	1	5
3	Australia	3	0	0	3
	Ireland	3	0	0	3
5	Italy	2	3	3	8
6	France	2	1	2	5
	Romania	2	1	2	5
8	Austria	1	0	0	1
	Hungary	1	0	0	1
	Norway	1	0	0	1
11	Netherlands	0	3	2	5
12	Denmark	0	3	0	3
	New Zealand	0	3	0	3
14	Poland	0	2	0	2
15	Belarus	0	1	2	3
	United States	0	1	2	3
17	Slovenia	0	1	1	2
18	Croatia	0	1	0	1
	Greece	0	1	0	1
	Russia	0	1	0	1
	Yugoslavia	0	1	0	1
22	Czech Republic	0	0	2	2
23	Argentina	0	0	1	1
	Canada	0	0	1	1
	Japan	0	0	1	1
	South Africa	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
Total		24	24	24	72